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Childhood obesity
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 The New York Times 
City's Efforts Fail to Dent Child Obesity
New York City schoolchildren are as heavy, or perhaps even heavier, than the national average, despite the Bloomberg administration’s dogged efforts to improve the health of city residents,... (photo: WN / Yolanda Leyba)
Empty Farm - Soil - Farming - Agriculture
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 Newstrack India 
Most new farmland comes from cutting tropical forest
Washington, Sep 4 (ANI): A new study has revealed that more than 80 percent of the farmlands created in the tropics between 1980 and 2000 came into existence after cutting forests.  As a result... (photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag)
President Barack Obama speaks at Solyndra, Inc., a solar panel manufacturing facility, in Fremont, Calif. Wednesday, May 26, 2010.  The New York Times 
Obama's Post-Iraq World
LONDONEurope adjusted long ago, but not without pain, to its diminished place in world affairs. After Suez for the British, after Algeria for the French, even the most stubborn post-World War... (photo: AP / Alex Brandon)
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Withe the help of a Marine, center, and a Navy medic, right, U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Audrey Ramos, left, of San Antonio, Texas, a Flight Medic with Task Force Shadow, oversees the evacuation of an Afghan child with multiple gunshot wounds, west of Lashkar Gah, in southern Afghanistan  Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010.  The New York Times 
Accounts Differ on Fatal NATO Strike on Afghans
KABUL, Afghanistan — Airstrikes by NATO forces that killed 12 people on Thursday in northern Afghanistan have produced sharply conflicting accounts as to whether the attacks hit a team of... (photo: AP / Brennan Linsley)
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U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, right, is greeted by top NATO commander Gen. David Petraeus as he arrives in Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. The New York Times
Gates Lands in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates arrived here on an unannounced visit Thursday for meetings with American military commanders and President... (photo: AP / Jim Watson, Pool)
Afghanistan   Defense   Photos   US   Wikipedia: War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
Gen. Ray Odierno, center, speaks during the United States Forces-Iraq change of command ceremony in Baghdad on Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010, as a new US military mission in Iraq was launched ending seven years of combat. U.S Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday he's confident the various factions in Iraq will form a workable coalition and bring stability to the country, now that the U.S. combat role there has ended. The New York Times
U.S. Formally Begins a New Era in Iraq
BAGHDAD — The United States began a fragile new era in its turbulent history with Iraq on Wednesday as American political and military leaders marked the official... (photo: AP / Hadi Mizban)
Iraq   Military   Photos   US   Wikipedia: Iraq War
Israeli soldiers detain a Palestinian during a military operation in the West Bank city of Hebron, a day after a Palestinian attack left four Israelis dead, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. The New York Times
Palestinians Hunt the Killers of 4 Israelis
JERUSALEMIsraeli soldiers carried out house-to-house searches in villages near the West Bank city of Hebron on Wednesday, and Palestinian troops rounded up... (photo: AP / Nasser Shiyoukhi)
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President Barack Obama meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. The New York Times
Israeli Peace Effort Rests on Netanyahu's Shoulders
JERUSALEM — David Rubinger, one of Israel’s best-known photojournalists and a man firmly on the political left, cast his ballot last year for Benjamin... (photo: AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Israel   Palestine   Peace   Photos   Wikipedia: Peace process in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
In this Feb. 8, 2008 file photo, a for sale sign stands in front of a bank-owned home in Las Vegas. Las Vegas was second to Stockton, Calif., which was first, with 9.5 percent of all housing units receiving a foreclosure filing in 2008. The New York Times
Foreclosures Pose Potential Trouble on Election Day
Home foreclosures, the epidemic spawned by the crash of the real estate market, are once again a potential election-year bugaboo. Related As Homes Are Lost, Fears That... (photo: AP / Jae C. Hong, File)
Economy   Elections   Photos   US   Wikipedia: United States elections, 2010
Tourists look at some of the memorabilia at the Harriet Dean House in the Lincoln Home National Historic Site in Springfield, Illinois, USA as seen on this August 11, 2010 file photo. The New York Times
At New Lincoln Center, Information Is Part of the Architecture
Elizabeth Diller would seem to have her hands full. Even as work winds down on its redesign of Lincoln Center, the architecture firm in which she is a partner, Diller... (photo: WN / Janice Sabnal)
Architecture   Lincoln   Museum   Photos   Wikipedia: Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
President, Alaska Ship and Drydock, Randy Johnson, left, and Chief of Naval Research, Rear Admiral William E. Landay, watch as U.S. Senator from Alaska, the Honorable Lisa Murkowski, offers remarks during keel laying ceremony . Herald Tribune
Sen. Murkowski's defeat marks major tea party win
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Backed by the Tea Party Express and Sarah Palin, a little-known conservative lawyer from Alaska became the latest newcomer to the national political... (photo: US Navy / Mr. John F. Williams)
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