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Looks as if JENNA BUSH may shed her label as the naughty twin. The President's blond daughter, perhaps best known for taking creative license with her driver's license, is writing Ana's Story: A Journey of Hope, a nonfiction book due this fall about a 17-year-old single mother who is HIV-positive. Bush, 25, who has been interning in Latin America for UNICEF (which will get a portion of the proceeds), says she hopes to "motivate young Americans to increase their awareness of other young people around the world." If only she had connections, the book...
...research performed at Harvard and the University of Reading has shed light on one of biology’s longest-standing secrets...
...demons of corruption, drug dealing and murder there that have long been kept under wraps, either by official complicity or negligence, are beginning to attract public scrutiny. Eight brazen and grisly murders -three Salvadoran congressmen and their driver, and four Guatemalan policemen -have shaken the two countries' governments and shed light on the criminal underworld operating with impunity from inside police forces...
...nine-goal run put them up, 10-2, and four unanswered goals to close the period, including three in the final minute, pushed their halftime lead to 14-3. UMass was able to control the ball on offense and utilized strong off-the-ball movement to shed defenders on switches and create open cutters, who found themselves alone on the Harvard crease. The Crimson’s lone goal during this stretch came when Martin drew a foul with the Minutewomen’s keeper out of the cage. The play was restarted with both the keeper and Martin?...
...assumed when we had the right to vote, people would actually vote. People here shed blood for that right," said Obama. At the breakfast, Dallas County Commissioner, Kim Ballard presented Obama with a key to the city, joking that in 1965 he might have "needed it to get out of jail," citing the troubled time for African-Americans...