SHOWS MRS. THESIGER IN HER HOME
The Geneva express jerked itself out of the Gare de
Lyons. For a few minutes the lights of outer
Paris twinkled past its windows and then with a spring
it reached...
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A. E. W. Mason was one of the best and most popular storytellers in the first half of the twentieth century. He was remembered by his contemporaries for his genial and companionable nature and his hea...
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Several times a day, Roger Thacker hauls 5-gallon buckets of water about 50 yards uphill to his mobile home so his family can bathe and do laundry.It's a grueling daily chore that keeps local famil...
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Nineteen people have contracted cholera in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, in the first outbreak of the often-deadly disease in the city in a year, Zimbabwe state radio reported Friday.The 19 are f...
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Stockholm (dpa) - Swedish home appliance maker Electrolux wants
"political support" to introduce incentives aimed at replacing old
refrigerators and dishwashers as a means t...
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When it comes to motivating people to wash their produce before eating it, visuals seem to help.Potatoes, for instance. No food safety argument is needed when dirt is that easy to see and feel. But...
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Around 2,600 people were still staying in shelters as of
Saturday after a magnitude-6.8 quake hit a large area of Niigata
Prefecture on Monday, with many evacuees showing increased signs of
...
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London (dpa) - The ongoing floods in Britain claimed two lives
Thursday as meteorologists confirmed that this summer has been the
wettest on record in the British Isles.
...
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An eight-day heat wave killed as many as 28 people in Southern California before the temperatures finally began to ebb, coroners in four counties said Wednesday.Temperatures have soared past 110 de...
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China has announced a multibillion-dollar plan to clean up a severely polluted lake where an algae bloom forced the suspension of water supplies to millions of people this summer.The $14.5 billion ...
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Ruth Botsio recalls with misty-eyed wonder the jubilation and triumphant cries of "Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!" that greeted the birth of sub-Saharan Africa's first nation to win independence from E...
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More than 80,000 people gathered for an annual anti-capitalist conference in Kenya's capital on Saturday, hoping to network with other activists and protest global policies they say hurt the poor.T...
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