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Out of Tragedy, Some Good News

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (July 13) -- Since January, news reports about the progress of earthquake recovery in Haiti have been largely negative. It is impossible to ignore 1.5 million Haitians living in the streets. But often, the bad news rises to the top because good news is harder to define. The earthquake in Haiti is an...

Amazonian Indians More Advanced Than We Knew

(June 25) -- For decades, archaeologists thought of the Amazonian Indians as lowly hunter-gatherers who inhabited widely scattered villages and barely eked out a living in the harsh landscape. Now that image is collapsing. In a study to be published later this summer, scientists detail an ancient system of monumental...

Background on public works

Public works (or internal improvements historically in the United States) are a broad category of projects, financed and constructed by the government, for recreational, employment, and health and safety uses in the greater community.

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