Posts Tagged ‘years’
9 years gone, everyone’s a ground zero stakeholder (AP)
AP – It is a place of sacrifice. A place of mourning. A place people pass by on their way to grab lunch. It’s a place where tourists crane their necks to snatch a glimpse around barriers walling off an enormous construction site — which is also what it is.
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Memories of chaos, rebirth 5 years after Katrina (AP)
AP – Two strangers shared an umbrella and a somber embrace Sunday as they scanned 163 names on a marble wall honoring those who died in Louisiana’s coastal St. Bernard Parish when Hurricane Katrina wracked the region.
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Volcano quiet for 400 years erupts in Indonesia (AP)
AP – A volcano in western Indonesia spewed hot lava and sand high into the sky early Sunday in its first eruption in 400 years.
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Victims of Afghan massacre gave years of service (AP)
AP – One gave up a lucrative practice to give free dental care to children who had never seen a toothbrush. Others had devoted whole decades of their lives to helping the Afghan people through war and deprivation.
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Al-Qaida’s new leader lived in U.S. for 15 years (AP)
AP – A suspected al-Qaida operative who lived for more than 15 years in the U.S. has become chief of the terror network’s global operations, the FBI says, marking the first time a leader so intimately familiar with American society has been placed in charge of planning attacks.
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Medicare fund will last extra 12 years – maybe (AP)
AP – Medicare is in better shape because of President Barack Obama’s sweeping health care overhaul and will stay afloat a dozen years longer than earlier projected, trustees forecast Thursday. But that depends on cuts in care that the system’s top analyst says are highly doubtful.
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Medicare fund will last extra 12 years maybe (AP)
AP – Medicare is in better shape because of President Barack Obama’s sweeping health care overhaul, and the hospital fund for elderly Americans will stay afloat a dozen years longer than earlier forecast, the government said Thursday. But that depends on the program achieving big cost-cutting savings that even a top Medicare expert calls highly doubtful.
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