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Indian filmmaker unveils her own minuscule Parsi Minority
PARIS (AFP) - Men in PLO T-shirts march through noisy, chaotic streets; their leader, all in white, stands before the wrought iron gate of a Zoroastrian fire temple urging followers to pledge purity and denounce outsiders.
Nations:India France People:Freddie Mercury Source:(AFP)
2009-11-05
Stigma part of breast cancer's grip on poor
WASHINGTON - Nurses were training women in rural Mexico to examine their breasts for cancer when one raised her hand to object. If she lost her breast, Harvard public health specialist Felicia Knaul recalls the woman saying, "My man would leave me" - and with him, the family's income.
Nations:Mexico Malawi Rwanda Source:(AP)
2009-11-02
His tiny agency has big role in energy debate
WASHINGTON -- As energy increasingly dominates the economy, a quiet little agency in Washington holds the responsibility for tracking the particles that conduct, fuse, blow, heat, combust and convert the earth, wind and water into the energy that makes our society run.
Nations:U.S. People:George W. Bush Barack Obama
2009-11-01
Healthcare system wastes up to $800 billion a year
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. healthcare system is just as wasteful as President Barack Obama says it is, and proposed reforms could be paid for by fixing some of the most obvious inefficiencies, preventing mistakes and fighting fraud, according to a Thomson Reuters report released on Monday.
Nations:Canada People:Barack Obama Charles Schumer Activities:2009 US Health Reform Source:(Reuters)
2009-10-26
Victim: Harvard coffee poisoning not an accident
BOSTON - One of six Harvard Medical School researchers sickened after drinking coffee laced with a toxic chemical said Monday he does not see how the poisoning could have been accidental, but has no idea who might be responsible.
Source:(AP)
2009-10-26
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