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Could It Be? Some Actual Good News for Airline Passengers
Here are five examples of actual good news for flyers.
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Olympic flag arrives in Rio de Janeiro
The official flag of the Olympics has arrived in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, the host city of the next Games.
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Brazil announces $60bn stimulus package
Brazil’s government has unveiled the first phase of a major economic stimulus package designed to boost growth in the flagging economy.
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The Secret of Africa’s Banking Boom: Mobility
While the continent is not rich, even its population can pool together billions in new deposits — which are now on tap thanks to mobile technology Read more: http://techland.time.com/2012/08/16/the-secret-of-africas-banking-boom-mobility/#ixzz23izIhrZo
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Gates Foundation: Funding the Toilets of the Future
The competition is a big deal, the foundation says. According to its website, 2.6 billion people lack access to sanitary facilities, and sanitation problems contribute to the deaths of 1.5 million of children under the [...]
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Natural heritage sites get protection
The Environment Ministry will set up a panel of experts before the end of the year to study ways to protect the ecosystems of Japan’s World Natural Heritage sites amid increasing tourism to the areas.
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U.S. woman’s altruism starts chain of five kidney swaps
The chain started with Brittman, who donated a kidney to a 39-year-old television producer whose fiancée and partner of more than 10 years donated to a businessman from upstate New York.
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Sky-high thinking for African internet
Not in hope of divine intervention, but as an opportunity: satellite-powered broadband could be the answer to Africa’s connectivity conundrum.
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