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'Rosie the Riveters' honored with visit to Washington
2016-03-22 21:14:23| Automakers - Topix.net
Seven decades after their "we can do it" attitude proved invaluable to the Allied victory in World War II, about 30 "Rosie the Riveters" were honored Tuesday with a visit to Washington. Wearing honor flight red cardigans, the women - now in their 80s and 90s - who had jobs helping the war effort traveled from the Detroit area to the nation's capital.
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Entrepreneurship's Big Role in President Obama's Cuba Visit
2016-03-22 16:51:15| Agriculture - Topix.net
Entrepreneurship has played a big role in President Barack Obama's historic visit to Cuba. On Monday, the President joined Cuban contrapuestos , or entrepreneurs, for a meeting with their American counterparts including Stripe co-founder Patrick Collision, Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky, and Julie Hanna, executive chair of micro-loans startup Kiva.
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Al Gore in surprise visit to Haiyan ground zero in the Philippines
2016-03-12 20:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Climate change activist and former US vice president Al Gore made a surprise visit on Saturday to an impoverished Philippine city ravaged by one of the strongest storms on record. The Nobel Peace Prize winner lit candles at a mass grave in Tacloban for thousands killed by Super Typhoon Haiyan in 2013, a picture tweeted by Climate Reality showed. The US non-governmental organisation is holding a seminar on adapting to climate change in Manila next week, where Gore is scheduled to speak. "We...
Australian foreign minister to visit storm-hit Fiji
2016-03-12 05:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Australia's foreign minister, Julie Bishop, will travel to Fiji on Sunday to meet Fijian prime minister Frank Bainimarama and survey the damage wrought by cyclone Winston, her office said. The cyclone, which was the worst storm ever recorded in the southern hemisphere, hit the South Pacific archipelago last month, killing 43 people and leaving tens of thousands homeless. Three weeks later, more than 25,000 Fijians remain in evacuation centers, according to the latest report from Fiji's National...
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Scouts visit the Fish team
2016-03-11 20:39:48| PortlandOnline
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