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The world within Vanessa Williams
Most of us are curious about our family lineage. For Vanessa Williams, who recently took part in the show "Who Do You Think You Are" and explored her family's history, the task was both surprising and informative. Here, she talks about what she learned...
Tags: Senegal, Italy, Cameroon, Biotechnology Industry, Finland
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Projects Abroad gives teens a chance to lend a hand
From childcare to medical internships, Projects Abroad offers high school students an opportunity to travel and help nurture a community in another country. This year about 1,000 students from around the world will volunteer through Projects Abroad's...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Travel, High Schools, India, Argentina
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Man convicted of embezzling $100,000 from O.C. Girl Scouts
L.A. NOWA former foreign exchange student from Ghana has been convicted in Orange County of embezzling more than $100,000 from the Girl Scouts while he worked for the non-profit, prosecutors said Thursday.... -
Argentina is cautionary tale as U.S. debates debt limit
You know all those warnings about how America's addiction to deficit spending is going to make us look like Greece? Stop worrying. The bigger concern should be that America will look like Argentina. That could happen, theoretically, if the...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Credit and Debt, Government, Justice System
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Meat cutters of Kabul hack at carcasses and praise Obama
World NowThe late Illinois poet Carl Sandburg once called President Obama’s town, Chicago, the “hog butcher of the world.” Here in Kabul, the former Midwest capital of slaughterhouses has a kindred spirit in Butcher Street, a small road lined... -
Dozens trapped in Ghana shopping center collapse
World NowDozens of people were trapped and at least three people died when a multi-story shopping mall in the capital of Ghana collapsed shortly before opening Wednesday, according to Ghanaian authorities.... -
John Atta Mills dies at 68; president of Ghana
JOHANNESBURG — Ghanaian President John Atta Mills, who vowed that the nation's oil reserves would be used for the good of the people, died Tuesday shortly after becoming ill, officials said. Mills, who turned 68 on Saturday, had planned to run...
Tags: Politics, Western Africa, Africa, Elections
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Ghanaian President John Atta Mills dies suddenly at 68
World NowGhana president, John Atta Mills, died suddenly Tuesday shortly after becoming ill, according to a statement by his office.... -
Irvine couple detained in Ghana after adopting children
L.A. NOWU.S. officials Tuesday were trying to assist an Irvine couple who were detained by police in Ghana after adopting four children in the African nation.... -
Liberia's Leymah Gbowee: The power of the powerless
Friday morning, Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee — along with her country's president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, and Yemeni activist Tawakul Karman — was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. A decade ago, this moment would have seemed unthinkable....Tags: Nobel Prize Awards, Awards and Prizes, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Heads of State, Government
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Graduate Study Abroad
Evelyn Robertson was consulting in Canada and the Caribbean for Xerox when she decided to enroll in Pepperdine University’s Organization Change Program at the Graduate School of Education and Psychology to broaden her career internationally. The...Tags: China, Czech Republic, Science and Technology, Colleges and Universities, Italy
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Climate change could shrink chocolate production: report
Money & CompanyScientists say climate change will eventually claim many victims -– including, according to a new report, chocolate. As temperatures increase and weather trends change, the main growing regions for cocoa could shrink drastically, according to new...
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