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St. Anthony Foundation provides hope

• Posted on July 25, 2018
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Friday, September 23, 2005 On the corner of Golden Gate Ave. and Jones St. in the Tenderloin, San Francisco, right next to the Civic Center you can see a throng of low-income and homeless people lining up outside of St. Anthony’s Dining Room hall which opens up it’s doors everyday at 11:30 a.m. Volunteers dressed

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Bush authorizes oil release from Strategic Petroleum Reserve

• Posted on July 24, 2018
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Thursday, September 1, 2005 Yesterday, President George W. Bush authorized the release of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve due to Hurricane Katrina’s effects on oil refineries in the Gulf Coast. The decision was made late Tuesday and announcement was made Wednesday. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve consists of 700 million barrels of oil located in

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Afghan women’s rights official shot dead

• Posted on July 24, 2018
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Tuesday, September 26, 2006 Safia Ahmed-jan, the director of the Afghan Ministry of Women’s Affairs for the Khandahar province and an advocate of women’s rights and a strong critic of the Taliban‘s repression of those rights, was shot dead by unidentified gunmen outside her home in Khandahar city in southern Afghanistan on Monday. Safia Ama-jan,

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Mars orbiter finds widespread evidence of water-bearing minerals

• Posted on July 22, 2018
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008 The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has found evidence of hydrated silica or opal, a form of mineral, over large areas in the Martian surface, including in the large martian canyon called Valles Marineris. The discovery was made by the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer (CRISM) instrument on the orbiter. The findings are published

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STS-122 astronauts perform third spacewalk

• Posted on July 22, 2018
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Friday, February 15, 2008 Two astronauts have performed the third and final spacewalk, or Extra-vehicular activity (EVA), of the STS- 122 mission. Rex Walheim and Stan Love began the spacewalk at 13:07 GMT, departing the Quest airlock of the International Space Station (ISS). The EVA ended with their return to the airlock, seven hours and

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Thousands of Australian workers set to rally against IR reform

• Posted on July 17, 2018
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Tuesday, November 15, 2005 Police and union leaders across the country expect big crowds during today’s National Community Day of protest against the Federal Government’s WorkChoices proposed changes to industrial relations laws. The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) predicts hundreds of thousands of people will demonstrate in Sydney and Melbourne. Protest meetings in other

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Two killed, 47 injured in coach crash in Cornwall, England

• Posted on July 17, 2018
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Thursday, December 24, 2009 Two people have been killed and 47 people have been injured as the result of a coach crash in Cornwall, England. The vehicle, which was carrying 48 passengers as well as the driver, were travelling back from a journey to the village of Mousehole to see Christmas lights. The accident occurred

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News briefs:July 14, 2010

• Posted on July 16, 2018
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Building collapses in Manhattan

• Posted on July 16, 2018
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Monday, July 10, 2006 New York City —A four-story building on 62nd Street in Manhattan collapsed after an explosion Monday. Both the White House and New York Fire Department have said the explosion was not caused by a terrorist attack. The New York Fire Department said that the owner of the building, Dr. Nicholas Bartha,