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The Toba are one of the few remaining indigenous groups in Argentina. They live in The Impenetrable Forest, the poorest area in the poorest province of the country. The early Spanish settlers wrote about the Tobas saying they were a fierce people, hardened by an inhospitable terrain.They killed those who dared stray into what [...]

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 It is hard to believe that there are nomadic tribes deep in most remote corners of the world. This is our living history and must be treated with the most respect.This link I found is a great starting point for those interested in the plight of these ancient tribes.
LIMA (Reuters) - Ecologists have photographed a [...]

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Since his election 21 months ago, Morales’ program has met fierce though almost exclusively peaceful resistance from the elite of Santa Cruz, a once isolated cow town that remains the richest city in South America’s poorest country.
SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia - Miguel Roda fires four shots into the palm trees and imagines a civil war.”We will [...]

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Dengue fever is spreading across Latin America and the Caribbean in one of the worst outbreaks in decades, causing agonizing joint pain for hundreds of thousands of people and killing nearly 200 so far this year.
The mosquitoes that carry dengue are thriving in expanded urban slums scattered with water-collecting trash [...]

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In Brazil, Rich or Poor, We’re All Prisoners

An old adage stated, “Brazilian, profession hope.” Today, it would be more correct to say, “Brazilian, profession prisoner.” Prisoner of transit, in cars that are ambulatory cells in slow march, wasting their passengers’ precious time. Some in armored cars, the darkened windows closed, impeded from [...]

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An NYPD cop returning from work was shot dead in her new Long Island home yesterday, and her police-officer fiancé was later led out of the house in handcuffs and grilled by police, authorities said. Sonia Garcia, 28, was found dead, having taken a gunshot wound to the chest, by Suffolk County Police just before [...]

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Mexico’s highest-profile female suspected drug trafficker and her Colombian drug boss lover were arrested Friday by federal agents in Mexico City, the government said.
Sandra Avila Beltran, dubbed the Queen of the Pacific and reputed to play a key role in shipping cocaine from Colombia to Mexico for the Sinaloa cartel, was arrested outside a restaurant [...]

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As air travelers’ summer of hell draws to a close, stories of canceled flights, lost luggage and late arrivals abound. But while it might seem that the whole system is a mess, which carriers are actually the biggest culprits?
1. Atlantic Southeast Airlines On-time performance: 63.3% (worst)
Baggage mishandling: 16.9 per 1,000 passengers (worst)
Cancellations: 4.4% (second [...]

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HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba and Spain on Saturday took a big step toward mending relations by signing a broad agreement that re-establishes cooperation halted in 2003 after Havana jailed 75 dissidents.
Spanish International Cooperation Minister Leire Pajin said the deal includes support for small business, the environment, food security and joint efforts in other countries [...]

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Brazilian ethanol production will jump 22 percent in 2007
from a year earlier, to a record 5.6 billion gallons (21.3
billion liters), the Agriculture Ministry predicts.
Brazil will sell at least 818 million gallons of ethanol
this year to Japan, the Netherlands and the U.S., according to
Uniao [...]

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Kyle Wright returned from an injury to throw a game-sealing touchdown pass to DajLeon Farr with 2:15 left, and Miami escaped an upset bid by Duke for the second straight year by beating the Blue Devils 24-14 on Saturday.Wright was 19-of-23 for 230 yards and two touchdowns for the Hurricanes (4-1, 1-0), who won their [...]

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A Phoenix man who was expected to plead guilty for trying to extort more than $1 million from actor Tom Cruise for stolen wedding photos, was found dead in his home from an apparent suicide, police said on Saturday.David Hans Schmidt, dubbed the “Sultan of Sleaze” for peddling celebrity porn, was discovered by officers responding [...]

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A never-ending tail with a twist: The Hip-Hop Cops follow their man but lose him in the end.
The Hip Hop Cops are a poorly kept secret; the NYPD continues to deny its existence. “No such thing,” spokesman Paul Browne tells the Voice.
The Game’s arrest last November 16 after a traffic stop puts the [...]

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little-known isolated Indian tribe has been sighted deep in Peru’s Amazon jungle.
Ecologists photographed the group at the Alto Purus national park near the Brazilian border as they were looking for illegal loggers.
Flying over the jungle, the forest ecologists saw about 21 Indians, mostly children, women and young people, living in palm-leaf huts on the banks [...]

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Spanish customs officers have seized 3,200 kg of cocaine from a Venezuelan fishing boat in international waters,officials said Friday.
Customs officials found 92 35-kg cocaine packages in the boat. Its seven crew members were also arrested, officials said.
It is Spain’s fourth drug confiscation of over three tons in 2007, officials said.
The Venezuela-flagged boat Zeus X was [...]

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Washington, Sept 29 : Pop star Shakira is contributing 40 million dollars to help reconstruct areas in South America hit by recent natural disasters.
The pop star will contribute the amount from the foundation Latin America for Solidarity Foundation (ALAS), which she co-founded with Nobel Prize winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
The amount donated by the Columbian [...]

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CARROLLTON, Texas — A 19-year-old man was arrested Thursday on suspicion of tampering with evidence, as authorities continued their manhunt for a suspect in the death and subsequent burning of a University of North Texas sophomore.
Donovan R. Young was arrested Thursday night, according to Carrollton, Tex, police Sgt. John Singleton. “They do not believe [...]

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Without bodies or more evidence than they’ve revealed so far, federal prosecutors and the FBI might have to depend on a confession to solve the disappearance of four crew members of a fishing charter boat.Two men are jailed in connection with the case: 35-year-old Kirby Logan Archer because he’s a fugitive from the robbery of [...]

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- One of the suspects involved in alleged hate crime says he is innocent and the victims agree with him. Officials say there is still a sixth suspect at large.Police have charged four teenagers with a hate crime and one adult with attempted murder after they allegedly beat and attempted to drown a black Florida International [...]

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Initial sales for Master Chief’s latest incarnation are coming in, and the Xbox 360 exclusive title has sold through 1.8 million copies during the first 8 hours of release. The break down is 1.5 million sold through pre-orders, with an additional 300,000 copies pre-order. sold without Estimations predict that a total of 950,000 units will [...]

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Implants have enhanced Sommers’s baseline strength: She shoves people across entire rooms with one arm, leap from building to building and run alongside a speeding car. Prosthetics, while far along, still have to catch up to the functionality and feeling of normal limbs before they can venture into the realm of enhancing strength and agility.
y [...]

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Photos from the first night of the band’s reunion tour in Charlotte, NC, September 28

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Net Worth $1.8 billion
 
Source Real Estate, Self made

Argentinean-born son of Cuban parents started out as urban planner; moved into low-income housing development. Met partner, Stephen Ross ; cofounded Related Group of Florida 1979. Built affordable housing 1980s, later switched to high-end condo construction. Has constructed 55,000 apartments in Florida since 1982. Recently smacked by [...]

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September 29, 2007 — A fat wad of cash is not the type of item that one would normally leave behind when moving.
But a Sanford, Fla., man who found $100,000 hidden in the attic of his house is fighting with the widow of the former owner who apparently left it behind.
Cops found similar cash [...]

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Call it Hillary’s baby boom. Buying Votes? On the campaign trail yesterday, Sen. Clinton dropped a bombshell chicken-in-every-pot proposal to give each American newborn a $5,000 “baby bond” - a scheme that could cost taxpayers $20 billion annually.
“I like the idea of giving every baby born in America a $5,000 account that would [...]

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TAMPA, Fla. –
No. 18 South Florida is not only basking in the national spotlight, the Bulls are thriving in it. Matt Grothe upstaged West Virginia stars Pat White and Steve Slaton for the second straight year, leading rapidly rising USF to a 21-13 victory over the mistake-prone, fifth-ranked Mountaineers on Friday night.Grothe scrambled to avoid [...]

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Edwards: ‘Pretty Soon We’re Not Going to Have a Young African-American Male Population in America.’
Asked about what he could do about “inner-city kids partaking in violence” at the MTV/MySpace Forum yesterday, Democratic candidate John Edwards offered an apocalyptic prediction for young black males:

“We cannot build enough prisons to solve this problem. And the idea that [...]

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Six of the world’s sexiest supermodels — Adriana Lima, Karolina Kurkova, Selita Ebanks, Izabel Goulart, Alessandra Ambrosio and the “New Gisele” Australian Miranda Kerr — have found some new “wings.”
World-famous lingerie label Victoria’s Secret and airline Virgin America officially announced their alliance this week, with the new “Airline of the Angels” set to transport 27 [...]

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The dollar index, which measures the greenback against six major currencies, fell 0.8 per cent to a record low of 77.66 on Friday. The index has fallen 5 per cent since mid-August.
For the seventh straight day, the euro set a record high against the dollar, rising to $1.4278. Alan Ruskin, chief international strategist at RBS [...]

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VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - A ground-based missile successfully intercepted a target missile Friday in a test of the nation’s defense system, the Missile Defense Agency said.
An intercontinental ballistic missile interceptor blasted out of an underground silo at Vandenberg Air Force Base shortly after 1:15 p.m., and tracked a target missile that had lifted [...]

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MIAMI — More than halfway through the Atlantic hurricane season, we are now up to tropical storm No. 13. It’s called Melissa and it formed in the open Atlantic early Saturday. As of 5 a.m. EST Saturday, the in Miami said the storm was several hundred miles off the coast [...]

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A 157-year-old whisky was sold for more than 29,000 pounds (41,500 euros/59,200 dollars) Friday, setting what is thought to be a world record auction price for a bottle of Scotch The Bowmore single malt, which was bottled in 1850, was sold at McTear’s auctioneers in Glasgow for 29,400 pounds to an anonymous telephone [...]

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NEW YORK  — What’s the difference between living in Beverly Hills, Calif., and Killeen, Texas? About $2 million, according to a new survey.
Beverly Hills topped Coldwell Banker’s annual Home Price Comparison Index (HPCI), as the nation’s most expensive housing market for the second year in a row with an [...]

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MIAMI — A mortgage fraud initiative that includes local, state and federal agencies will crack down on violators in light of the rising number of mortgage fraud cases in South Florida, said the United States attorney for the southern district of Florida Thursday.”The American dream of home ownership is under attack by mortgage fraudsters. Mortgage [...]

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Family Members Of Crew Member Wants Custody Of Children
MIAMI — A bail hearing was delayed until next week for two men jailed in connection with the mysterious disappearance of four crew members from a fishing boat that the men hired for what was supposedly a pleasure trip to the Bahamas. Defense attorneys and prosecutors [...]

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