Horatio Alger (1832-1899) was the American author of prodigiously popular and influential juvenile novels and biographies.Horatio Alger was born in Revere, Mass., the son of a Unitarian minister. The ...
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Perhaps the quality which has been most closely identified with the American spirit is success. Success--upward mobility, material prosperity acquired through hard work and shrewd ability--has been fo...
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Sydney (dpa) - Aid agencies scrambled Tuesday to get emergency
supplies to the South Pacific's Solomon Islands, where local
authorities admitted they were helpless in dealin...
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Sydney (dpa) - Emergency supplies began arriving Tuesday in the
tsunami-hit western region of the South Pacific's Solomon Islands.
Supply-packed patrol boats were st...
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Sydney (dpa) - Emergency supplies began arriving Tuesday in the
tsunami-hit western region of the South Pacific's Solomon Islands as
officials braced for more reports of dea...
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Energy: Canada's first carbon tax took effect Monday in Quebec. The stated goal is to reduce greenhouse emissions that supposedly cause global warming. The reality will turn out to be quite a bit d...
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Maxine Bryant received an ad in her mailbox last year for undeveloped land in West Texas and bought, sight unseen, 20 acres of sorry-looking desert in the middle of nowhere.The Florida woman said t...
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Tripoli, Lebanon (dpa) - Lebanese tanks renewed heavy shelling
Monday on a Palestinian refugee camp, raising fears that more
casualties will be inflicted among the civilians...
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Beirut (dpa) - The Lebanese army is ready to impose a ceasefire if
Fatah al-Islam militants with links to al-Qaeda halt attacks against
its troops in northern Lebanon, a Leb...
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Out on Phoenix's suburban fringes, where cement mixers are fast colonizing what's left of the hay and cotton fields, the day is winding to a close. The home hour has arrived. But sundown gives away...
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Bound to Rise
Horatio Alger
Horatio Alger, Jr.
1ST LEAD: Agencies scramble to help tsunami-hit Solomon Islanders
