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Thousands in Guatemala facing evacuation as Pacaya volcano erupts Pacaya volcano, Guatemala
A volcano has erupted in Guatemala, prompting the authorities to consider the evacuation of some 3,000 people living in the area. The Pacaya volcano began spewing ash and lava after a powerful explosion on Saturday afternoon. New explosions were seen on Sunday, with ash clouds reaching a height or at least 4km (3 miles).
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Huge canal in Nicaragua will do more harm than good
By the end of this year, if a Chinese entrepreneur gets his way, digging will begin on a waterway that would stretch roughly 180 miles across Nicaragua to unite the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Giant container ships capable of carrying consumer electronics by the millions (or T-shirts by the billions) could begin making the passage by 2019, according to the most optimistic projections.
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Welcome to Googletown
Some days it feels like Google is taking over the world. For the residents of Mountain View, California, that feeling is personal. Two weeks ago, Google signed a deal for its very own airport just...
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Scientists Fear Ecological Disaster In Nicaragua's Planned Canal
Scientists are raising the alarm about the possible environmental consequences of a huge shipping canal that could cut across Nicaragua, from the Pacific to the Atlantic. The government of this Central American nation has signed a deal with a Chinese company that is planning to build a maritime shortcut that would compete with the Panama Canal. Construction could begin next year — yet there's no official route for the canal and no assessment of its potential impacts on the environment.
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Alex Honnold's latest free solo
On January 15, 2014, Alex Honnold free-soloed El Sendero Luminoso (The Shining Path) in El Portrero Chico, Mexico in a little over 3 hours. The climb rises 2,500 feet to the summit of El Toro. It could be the most difficult rope-less climb in history. Music: Matthew Morgan "Sun Through The Clouds" Philip Sheppard "Chronograph" PhilipSheppard.com
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Calling All Writers: Move to Detroit, And Get A Free House
In hopes of building a literary scene in the downtrodden city, a new nonprofit aims to rebuild vacant homes and just give them away. Can't get better...
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Tim Cook Admits Apple Has Stopped Growing In North America
On Friday, the Wall Street Journal published an excellent Q&A with Tim Cook, CEO of Apple. Cook was coming off his fiscal Q1 2014 earnings call, on which was savaged by investors. The stock fell immediately by 8% after Wall Street analysts began asking whether there was any growth left at Apple.
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Economy and Crime Spur New Puerto Rican Exodus
Puerto Rico’s slow-motion economic crisis skidded to a new low last week when both Standard & Poor’s and Moody’s downgraded its debt to junk status, brushing aside a series of austerity measures taken by the new governor, including increasing taxes and rebalancing pensions. But that is only the latest in a sharp decline leading to widespread fears about Puerto Rico’s future.
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Left for dead: the mysterious disease killing thousands in Central America
A sugarcane worker receives treatment for chronic kidney disease at his home in Nicaragua. Ed Kashi arrived in Nicaragua last January to shoot some photos for a local nonprofit organization. At the time, it seemed like just another two-week commission — no different from the countless others he's completed during his career as a far-flung photojournalist — but what he saw there stuck with him for much longer.
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Four Years After Earthquake, Many In Haiti Remain Displaced
Four years ago Sunday, a 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti, destroying its capital of Port-au-Prince and killing more than 200,000 people. Today, much of Port-au-Prince looks like it did before the quake. Most of the tent camps in the city itself are gone, and streets are loaded with overcrowded buses and women selling vegetables.
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CONFIRMED: The DEA Struck A Deal With Mexico's Most Notorious Drug Cartel
Court documents detail arrangement between the U.S. government and the Sinaloa cartel.
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The forgotten streams of New York
An underground explorer discovers his city's lost lifeblood
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Uruguay to make marijuana legal in trailblazing gamble
Uruguay is to give a green light Tuesday to making marijuana legal, in a social experiment that countries plagued by drug-related crime worldwide will watch. The legal change in this largely rural and well-educated South American nation of just 3.3 million, looms large with a vote in the Senate.
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The Manhunt for Christopher Dorner
The bullet-riddled bodies of a young Irvine couple were found on a parking garage roof, and nobody had heard a sound. The next day, an auto shop worker found a police uniform in a garbage bin 100 miles away. It led to a terrifying discovery. Christopher Dorner, a disgraced ex-LAPD officer, had sworn revenge on those he blamed for his firing. He had vowed to kill them all … and their families.
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WikiLeaks Haiti: Let Them Live on $3 a Day
Contractors for Fruit of the Loom, Hanes and Levi’s worked in close concert with the US Embassy when they aggressively moved to block a minimum wage increase for Haitian assembly zone workers, the lowest-paid in the hemisphere, according to secret State Department cables.
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Floating City
Back in the nineties, a team of visionaries...
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Lab tech who spread hepatitis C gets 39 years
34-year-old David Kwiatkowski tied to 46 cases of hepatitis C; he traveled from job to job despite being fired at least four times for drug use
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Epidemics of America {infographic}
Epidemics of America
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Best Backpackers Bars In The United States
When it comes to hostel culture in the United States don’t expect to find the same atmosphere that you may experience in other places, say like European Backpackers Bars, or even Canadian Backpackers Bars.
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“Blood Avocados”: The Dark Side of Your Guacamole
A drug cartel known as the Knights Templar has brought kidnappings, murders, money laundering and fear to Mexico's prized avocado business
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