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“It's an honor for Cuba and I feel satisfied to do it for Cuba”

With music, dancing and rum, Cubans celebrated on Friday the likely return of a record they consider rightfully theirs -- the world's longest cigar. via XtraMSN Real Estate

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“Unlimited industrialisation is the drug of planet Earth, and capitalism is synonymous with death”

The presidential summit on "Food for Life", held in Nicaragua, has ended with 16 Latin American countries agreeing to produce more food and sell it at low prices through strategic alliances, amid criticisms of ... via Inter Press Service

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“When you come to meet people you show that you care, because you can't win an election sitting behind a desk or just through television.”

Florida's Republicans are gathering Saturday in Orlando to shore up support among Hispanics as the presidential election nears - part of a long-term strategy to earn the community's votes for good. via South Florida Sun-Sentinel

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“You climb into an inner tube and wear a helmet with a light attached as you float in the pitch black cave”

THE GIRL IS wearing an ugly brown Egyptian abaya. It is so large that her body appears as a lump underneath. via Contra Costa Times

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“If we politicians can't agree, it's best that the population decide our destiny”

Bolivia President Evo Morales attends a Food for Life Summit in Managua, Wednesday, May 7, 2008. via The Boston Globe

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The chief of the United Nations food agency said Wednesday that governments should boost investment in farm infrastructure and technology to fight a growing global food crisis. via South Florida Sun-Sentinel

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Endangered scarlet macaws born in captivity are reproducing in the wild for the first time on Costa Rica's southern Pacific coast.

The ZooAve Center for the Rescue of Endangered Species has released 100 of the birds into the wild in the last decade. But biologists didn't spot offspring until last year, said biologist Laura Fournier.

Since then, they have recorded 22 chicks born in the wild, and four more scarlet macaw couples have laid eggs, Fournier said.

The parrots once occupied all of Costa Rica. But hunting and poaching dramatically cut their population, and they are now found only in two national parks along the coast. Read more

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“Since hurricanes are relatively infrequent occurrences, it was surprising how important they were. These events are having a long-term impact, the frequency of hurricanes is expected to increase with global warming”

A pair of Puerto Rican parrots at their nest on the island's Luquillo National Forest. via PhysOrg Weblog

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MANAGUA, Nicaragua : Venezuela has offered allies US$100 million to fight rising food costs for Latin America's poor. via International Herald Tribune

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“People are constantly looking for ways to jilt the system”

When the Pentagon announced an obscure California company had won a lucrative military contract, no one mentioned any plans for a Caribbean outpost - a tropical shell the company quickly created that allowed it ... via MSNBC

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