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<title>Chavez plays oil card in Nicaragua</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Hugo Chavez has been providing oil at cheap rates for a while to local mayors in Nicaragua, to the dismay of the Managua based elite and the U.S. government. Now he has promised to provide oil to a country that is gripped by high prices and shortages as the local bully looks on and claims that its 


programs designed to improve health, education, trade and development, as well as democracy and the rule of law,


 are much more important than Nicaraguans keeping warm.

With Nicaragua experiencing a long running medical strike in response to low public sector wages, in itself a result of IMF mandated structural reforms, the election could well send Ortega back to power after sixteen years.]]></description>
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<title>Fruits, vegetables not as nutritious as 50 years ago</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Donald Davis, a biochemist at the University of Texas, said that of 13 major nutrients in fruits and vegetables tracked by the Agriculture Department from 1950 to 1999, six showed noticeable declines -- protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, riboflavin and vitamin C. The declines ranged from 6 percent for protein, 15 percent for iron, 20 percent for vitamin C, and 38 percent for riboflavin.]]></description>
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<title>Ability to Wage 'Long War' Is Key To Pentagon Plan</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Pentagon yesterday laid out a new 20-year defense strategy that envisions U.S. troops deployed, often clandestinely, in dozens of countries at once to fight terrorism and other nontraditional threats.]]></description>
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<title>AP Newsbreak: GOP group to give up $500,000 in Abramoff-related donations donations</title>
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<description><![CDATA[                &amp;#8220;We can't give back the dirty money all at once because, frankly, we don't have anything else to spend.&amp;#8221;&amp;#8211; Eschaton            
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<title>Many Meth Users Turn to Identity Theft</title>
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<description><![CDATA[AP - Stealing mail. Digging through trash. Days spent in front of a computer trying to unlock financial information. All to score methamphetamine.]]></description>
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