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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Geneva (dpa) - A combination of three deadly diseases - HIV/AIDS,
tuberculosis and malaria - is leaving Africans facing the world's
biggest public health challenge, the Worl...
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Geneva (dpa) - A combination of three deadly diseases - HIV/AIDS,
tuberculosis and malaria - is leaving Africans facing the world's
biggest public health challenge, the Worl...
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Chad Hurley, co-founder of YouTube, said Saturday that his wildly successful site will start sharing revenue with its millions of users.Hurley said one of the major proposed innovations is a way to...
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The father of one of the six men charged with plotting to massacre soldiers at Fort Dix says the business near the base that he's nurtured for years is all but ruined since his son's arrest.Muslim ...
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Belgrade (dpa) - Serbian tennis players Ana Ivanovic and Novak
Djokovic remained in close contention for the French Open title and
on the front pages of the Friday editions ...
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The 60th anniversary of independence from Great Britain is on
August 14 for Pakistan and on August 15 for India.
Sixty years after it won independence from Great Bri...
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New Delhi (dpa) - A group of tribal chieftains in India's
north-eastern Meghalaya state have decided to honour former US vice
president Al Gore with a "global award" for his...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the Japanese press:
GLOBAL WARMING (IHT/Asahi as translated from the
Japanese-language Asahi Shimbun's editorial published Nov. 24)
Have scientists ever ...
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Facing the World
Horatio Alger
Horatio Alger, Jr.
WHO: Better health systems the key to better African health
