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Continental airlines
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 Canada Dot Com 
Continental charges $15 a bag
| NEW YORK -- Continental Airlines Inc. said Friday it will charge a $15 US service fee for a first checked bag for certain customers who buy economy-class tickets. The fee applies immediately to tick... (photo: GFDL / Ozark)
 Deadly flooding blamed on poverty, Haiti
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 Star Tribune 
Authorities say 61 people have died in floods across Haiti caused by Tropical Storm Hanna
| GONAIVES, Haiti - Authorities say 61 people have died in floods across Haiti caused by Tropical Storm Hanna.   Comment on this story  |    |   | in to co... (photo: WN)
2008-0705-MPLStour-StAnthonyFalls-PAN  Business Journal 
Geology experts to start drilling for new Mississippi River bridge
> | Nearby businesses and residents may notice generator noise from equipment and may see lights on the Mississippi River next week. | Geology experts plan to drill in the river starting Monday to gai... (photo: GNU Free Documentation / Bobak)
Businesses   Generator   Mississippi   Photos   River  
Banana Tree                            The Miami Herald 
Storm forces Jamaica banana company to halt exports
KINGSTON, Jamaica -- Jamaica's biggest banana company says it will be forced to temporarily halt all exports of the staple fruit after Gustav flattened entire plantations as it raked the island last w... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc)
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N.C. prepares for tropical storm
> | N.C. officials are preparing for Tropical Storm Hanna, whatever track the storm takes in the coming days. | Hanna has been downgraded to a tropical storm as it moves ... (photo: Public Domain / Good kitty)
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 An undated picture shows a Qatari Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) tanker ship being loaded up with LNG at Raslaffans Sea Port, northern Qatar. Under the sandy bottom of the turquoise Gulf lies a giant bubble of natural gas - the world´s largest gas field Energy Current
Challenges hit U.S. LNG market transformation
9/1/2008 | Liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports into the U.S. remain low as high-demand, premium-price markets in Asia and Spain continue to draw the majority of LNG suppl... (photo: AP Photo)
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Trucks head out for the day's deliveries of gas at the Shell Oil terminal in Portland, The Press Democrat
Oil rises in Asia as Gustav poised to hit US
| Light, sweet crude for October delivery was up $1.39 at $116.85 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange by midafternoon in Singapore. The con... (photo: AP / Don Ryan)
Asia   Hurricane   Oil   Photos   US  
Drugs - Pain killer /aaeh The Press Democrat
Venezuela: No anti-drugs pact with US
| In the latest barb-trading over the issue, Venezuela dismissed U.S. attempts to renew talks on drugs as "useless and inopportune," saying U.S. officials should focus on... (photo: Creative commons / Calvero )
Drugs   Photos   Trade   US   Venezuela  
 A man buys fuel on the black market in the city of Lagos, Nigeria, Wednesday, June 7, 2006. Nigeria is Africa´s leading oil exporter and the United States´ fifth-largest supplier, usually exporting 2.5 million barrels daily. Militant attacks Gulf News
Escaping Africa's oil curse?
| The world needs Africa's oil, but the stuff has a habit of ruining the places that produce it. From the civil war battlefields of southern Sudan to the slums of Angola ... (photo: AP /Sunday Alamba)
Africa   Civil   Photos   Produce   World  
Organics Food - Organics Product - Food. (ps1) Globe and Mail
REGULY No organic for me, please It's like filling your SUV with ethanol--a misguided fix ...
| I lost the household battle over organic foods years ago. I had argued that organic foods were outrageously expensive, that some of the fertilizers used on them--animal... (photo: WN / patricia)
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Bonded child labour in Delhi (READ DESC BEFORE PUBLISHING) Delhi, India, September 2007, 09/2007 Turkish Press
Enforcement of child labor laws weak: US study
| An Indian child labourer pushes a lemon water cart through a street of Kolkata, on August 25. Enforcement of child labor laws is weak across the globe due to lack of re... (photo: WN / Guillaume Poulet-Mathis)
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Children carry material in order to repair the roofs of some houses damaged by Hurricane Gustav in Batabano, in the outskirts of Havana, Monday, Sept. 1, 2008. No deaths and only 19 injuries were reported after Hurricane Gustav hit the western part of Cuba last Satu
US government trying to aid Cuba hurricane victims
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- Continental to charge $15 for first checked bag
- Hanna roars ashore near North-South Carolina line
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- Continental charges $15 a bag
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Continental to charge $15 for first checked bag
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- Deadly storms circle Caribbean, US coast
- Storms line up to blast Caribbean as death toll rises
- Already battered Caribbean islands brace for Hurricane Ike&#
This image provided by NOAA was taken at 6:45 a.m. EDT Friday Sept. 5, 2008. Tropical Storm Hanna can be seen chugging just east of the Bahamas headed toward the Atlantic coast, where it is expected to bring high winds and rain from South Carolina to Maine. Further east in the Atlantic is Hurricane Ike with maximum sustained winds of 125 mph and the storm system to the right in the image Tropical Storm Josephine with 50 mph winds can be s
Deadly storms circle Caribbean, US coast
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- Storm Hanna hits U.S., Ike menaces Cuba, Gulf
- Receding waters reveal flooding victims in Haiti
- Tropical Storm Hanna heads inland in U.S. Carolinas
- Tropical Storm Hanna heads inland
- Tropical Storm Hanna makes U.S. landfall
- Hanna nears Carolinas before run up East Coast
Flood Victims Receive Food and Water Supplies in Gonaives, Haiti
Peacekeepers, aid workers race to feed Haitians
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- U.S. visit gives boost to soccer in Cuba
- Already battered Caribbean islands brace for Hurricane Ike&#
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- Storms complicate flight arrangements for Jamaica, Grenada
- Zoom passengers still stranded in Caribbean
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Zoomers wait out hurricanes
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- Rangel's mortgage at resort cost little
- Storm Hanna hits U.S., Ike menaces Cuba, Gulf
- Rangel spared most interest on villa mortgage, lawyer says
- Lawyer: Rep. Rangel did not know of $75,000 condo income
- Rangel paid no interest on beach villa mortgage
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Children carry material in order to repair the roofs of some houses damaged by Hurricane Gustav in Batabano, in the outskirts of Havana, Monday, Sept. 1, 2008. No deaths and only 19 injuries were reported after Hurricane Gustav hit the western part of Cuba last Satu
US government trying to aid Cuba hurricane victims
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