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 Houston Chronicle Mon 8 Feb 2010
Beverage industry douses tax on soft drinks
WASHINGTON - Employing a broad-based lobbying effort, the soft drink industry has smothered a plan to tax sugared beverages - a plan advocates said would have reduced obesity and helped finance health... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc)
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 Rollingstone Mon 8 Feb 2010
Joan Baez Joins White House's Celebration of Civil Rights Music
Photo: Gallup/Getty Joan Baez has been added to “In Performance at the White House: A Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement,” a PBS special airing this Thursday, February... (photo: Creative Commons / Thomas Good)
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 The Daily Mail Mon 8 Feb 2010
Controversial French MP praises 'courage' of migrants illegally headed for Britain
Controversial: Jack Lang has demanded urgent humanitarian aid for migrants in Calais The French MP for Calais has praised the 'courage' of migrants who trek thousands of... (photo: AP / Jacques Brinon)
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 USA Today Mon 8 Feb 2010
Cost-cutting won't save British Airways from record loss
Posted | Comment | Recommend | | | By Robert Barr, Associated Press Writer LONDON — said Friday that its cost-cutting drive has put the airline... (photo: Public Domain / Dbx54)
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 KDVR Mon 8 Feb 2010
On Feb. 8, 2007, model, actress and tabloid sensation Anna Nicole Smith died
Today is Monday, Feb. 8, the 39th day of 2010. There are 326 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 8, 1910, the Boy Scouts of America was... (photo: AP / Playboy)
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 The Daily Tribune Mon 8 Feb 2010
Campaign starts at Plaza Miranda
MR. EXPOSE 02/09/2010 The official campaign period for national candidates starts today with the traditional proclamation rally. The venues are: Joseph Erap... (photo: WN / Renzelle Mae Abasolo)
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 Chicago Sun-Times Mon 8 Feb 2010
'Don't ask' was built on fear, bigotry
Hats off to Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mike Mullen for initiating the move to restore full rights to gays and lesbians in the... (photo: US DoD / Cherie Cullen)
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 Business Report Mon 8 Feb 2010
20 years after Mandela's release, social divide endures
Submit your comment Nelson Mandela's release from prison 20 years ago Thursday ushered in South Africa's democracy, but an intractable social divide has dimmed the... (photo: PIB)
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![Conakry (Sosso: Kɔnakiri) is the capital and largest city of Guinea. Conakry is a port city on the Atlantic Ocean and serves as the economic, financial and cultural center of Guinea with a population of 1,931,184.[1] Originally situated on Tombo Island, one of the Îles de Los, it has since spread up the neighboring Kaloum Peninsula. The population of Conakry is difficult to ascertain, although the U.S. Bureau of African Affairs has estimated it at 2 million.[2] Even given this uncertainty, Conakry makes up almost a quarter of the population of Guinea.](http://cdn6.wn.com/vp/i/c0/cbc3f069f62ee5.jpg "Conakry (Sosso: Kɔnakiri) is the capital and largest city of Guinea. Conakry is a port city on the Atlantic Ocean and serves as the economic, financial and cultural center of Guinea with a population of 1,931,184.[1] Originally situated on Tombo Island, one of the Îles de Los, it has since spread up the neighboring Kaloum Peninsula. The population of Conakry is difficult to ascertain, although the U.S. Bureau of African Affairs has estimated it at 2 million.[2] Even given this uncertainty, Conakry makes up almost a quarter of the population of Guinea.")
