AP IMPACT: Obama's travels carry a touch of blue

Bill Gates Making Big Education Reform Impact

By: WisdomMountain

US Billionaire Bill Gates is making big education reform  impact.   He has actively made big money available in concerted drive to help overhaul the failing American education system.   For starters,his charity arm. the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is reported by The Business Insider,to have splashed US$250 million a ...

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President Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize

By: dustgeer

President Obama, who has pledged to place diplomacy ahead of confrontation and reached out to a skeptical world with offers of mutual understanding, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize today for what the committee called "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."Obama is only the ...

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Travel Promotion Act: Who's paying?

By: villagesolutions

If the Travel Promotion Act works as planned, the federal government will put up $100 million per year, the travel industry will kick in $100 million per year, and a new nonprofit corporation will spend it on the world’s biggest international tourism marketing and information campaign.The objective is to vastly improve the image of the U.S. ...

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Destructive landslide of ancient origin stikes again damaging roads ...

By: DelilahStarling

 October 11, rain or possible movement under the Earth awakened an ancient land slide off State Route 410 near Naches and caused massive damage as tons of mud snaked its way down the hillside, snapping trees, buckling asphault, burying homes, and diverting Naches river water around the mess and across homeowner’s land. F

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