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Joel Brinkley: Food security still a major issue in Southeast Asia
American VoicesLUANG PRABANG, Laos -- Travel through Southeast Asia, and wherever you go you'll find statues of Buddha -- meditating, cogitating, calling for peace or for rain. The multiple poses are varied, and each one has its own meaning. But only one pose shows the...Tags: Obesity, Southeast Asia, Renewable Energy, The New York Times, Entertainment Events
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Why can't we share?
As the season of gift gluttony, parking lot insanity and checkout line lunacy fades to a distant memory, it's worth contemplating a nagging and perennial question: Why are we so bad at sharing? We fret and fuss at our kids for fighting over the new...
Tags: Peace Corps, Abraham Lincoln, Gaming, Syracuse University, Education
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Russian ban on U.S. adoptions meant to cast Americans as abusers
Anyone unfamiliar with the hyperbole of post-Cold War politics might be perplexed by Moscow’s move to outlaw American adoption of Russian orphans. More than 60,000 Russian children once condemned to a hellish institutional life have been brought...
Tags: Russia, Politics, Media Industry, Family, Abusive Behavior
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L.A. County Holiday Celebration surveys local music and dance
The 53rd L.A. County Holiday Celebration, which played out Monday at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, will be rebroadcast Christmas Day at noon and 3 p.m. for anyone who missed the live telecast on KCET Channel 28. The three-hour program surveys the...
Tags: Judy Collins, Holidays, Music, Christmas, Jose Hernandez
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North Korea's rocket expenditures could have helped the hungry
Impoverished and isolated North Korea has long invested heavily in its defense programs, even as its people suffer hunger and deprivation. North Korea's rocket launch Wednesday cost about $480 million, South Korean officials estimated before the launch....Tags: North Korea
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U.S. diplomats evacuate Central African Republic as rebels advance
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — U.S. diplomats evacuated from the capital of the Central African Republic on Friday, the State Department reported, after a coalition of rebel groups swept across the country in recent days, seizing towns and diamond...
Tags: U.S. Military, Francois Hollande, Francois Bozize, France, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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'Dire' conditions for displaced in western Myanmar, U.N. warns
In Myanmar, thousands of people ejected from their homes as violence flared this year between Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims are living in “dire” conditions without jobs, schooling or the freedom to leave, the United Nations...
Tags: Immigration, Illegal Immigrants, Burma, Barack Obama, Career and Workplace
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U.N. seeks $1.5 billion to help Syria residents and refugees
The United Nations and its partners are seeking donations of more than $1.5 billion to aid Syrians inside and outside the battered country over the next six months as the chill of winter descends, the biggest appeal it has ever launched for such a crisis....
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Interior Policy, Politics, South Korea, Gun Control
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Go away with Lang Lang
Born in China, classical pianist Lang Lang splits his time between New York City and Beijing — when he's not touring, that is. The 30-year-old musician travels about nine months each year for his concerts, his work with the United Nations Children's...
Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Music Industry, The New York Times, China, Classical Music (genre)
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U.N.: Over 435,000 displaced, children forced to fight in Mali
World NowMali crisis: As Mali remains wracked by infighting and has failed to reverse a takeover of the north, the number of people pushed out of their homes has soared and more children are being recruited as fighters, United Nations agencies warn.... -
North Korea is willing to accept aid from South Korea, officials say
World NowNorth Korea is willing to accept aid from South Korea after devastating floods left scores dead and tens of thousands homeless, South Korean officials said Monday. But exactly what the country will get and how has yet to be decided. If the two countries... -
Somali lawmakers elect academic and civic activist as president
World NowLawmakers overwhelmingly elected an academic and civic activist as president of Somalia on Monday, in a United Nations-backed effort to put the country's lawless past behind it and forge the first stable central government in more than two decades....
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