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Voting Continues in Egypt’s Historic Presidential Election
Across Egypt, polls opened for the second and final day of voting in the country's groundbreaking presidential election. At least 50 million people were eligible to choose from a field of 13 candidates in the country's first free presidential election.
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Calling All Gamers: U.S. Navy Wants You!
Flickr via Inspire Kelly (Vita Bella) The U.S. military is turning to the video-gaming public to to develop new energy use strategies for both the Navy and Marine Corps.
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How Apple Avoids Paying Billions in Taxes
NewsHour Apple, the technology giant known for the innovative iPad and the fun iPhone, takes advantage of tax codes written before the digital age to avoid paying high taxes by locating parts of its business to states and countries with the lowest tax rates.
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Lady Gaga’s Asia Tour and the Global Economy?
Getty Lady Gaga recently kicked off her "Born This Way" tour in Seoul, the capitol of South Korea, and will travel to Hong Kong, Taiwan’s Taipei, Jakarta in Indonesia, Singapore, and Bangkok in Thailand.
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President Announces Support for Same-Sex Marriage
NewsHour President Obama clearly stated his support for same-sex marriage for the first time as president in a recent interview with ABC News.
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Nintendo Reports First Annual Losses in Decades
Flickr Creative Commons Nintendo, the Japanese video game company, reported in April that it lost more than $400 million, its first annual loss in revenue since 1981.
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Chinese Activist at Center of Diplomatic Crisis
NewsHour The dramatic escape of a blind Chinese activist from a well-guarded house in the countryside is now at the center of a delicate diplomatic situation between China and the U.S. as they try to figure out their respective roles in the global economy of the future.
Attacks Mark Pivotal Moment for Afghan Women
Getty More than 170 girls and women became ill at a school in northern Afghanistan after opponents to women’s education allegedly poisoned the school’s water supply, according to local health officials.

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MaKenzie Jones
Rising from the Ashes: A Joplin Teen Reflects
Joplin was able to rise from the ashes because of help from everyone. And I am eternally grateful to anyone who made that possible.
MaKenzie, Joplin, Mo.

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