Camels Deliver Books to Kids in North Kenya
In Bulla Iftin Kenya the Mobile Camel Library brings 200 books in four wooden boxes carried by camels to two dozen Somali schoolchildren. Librarian Joseph Otieno reads aloud in Swahili as third to seventh graders borrow novels and educational texts for home study.
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Kenya
Sahara
Bulla Iftin
Joseph Otieno
Otieno
Wycliffe S.O. Oluoch
Kenya National Library Service
Garissa
Nairobi
Cluoch
Oluoch
Texas inmate who escaped death row drowns in creek
Autopsy confirms Martin Gurule died by drowning a week after breaking out of Texas death row near the Ellis Unit. A gunshot wound to his back was deemed superficial. Gurule, 29, fled Thanksgiving night, the first Texas death row escape since 1934, and was found in a creek about a mile from the prison.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Vienna
Austria
George Washington
Joan Adams
Polk
California
Walt Disney
Chicago
Albert Einstein
United States
Utah
American Federation of Labor
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Venus
Mountain View
Calif
Huntsville
Texas
Martin Gurule
Gurule
Harris County
Joy Carter
Towers
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
Ellis Unit
Death Row
Paula Ginkens
Bonnie and Clyde
Harmon Creek
NASA launches crew to begin space station assembly
The shuttle Endeavour lifts off from Cape Canaveral with five Americans and one Russian aboard, starting the mega project to assemble the international space station. Crew members plan to capture the Zarya module and connect it to Unity, with 43 more launches and 162 spacewalks anticipated over five years. Madeleine Albright attends and hails the milestone.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Endeavour
International Space Station
Earth
Unity
U.S
Hoffa leads Teamsters race in early ballots
James P. Hoffa tops initial count for Teamsters president with 43 215 votes to 35 487 for Leedham and 5 338 for Metz. With 85 101 votes counted regionally Hoffa holds 51 percent as counting continues through the weekend and 75 percent of ballots remain. Hoffa is son of Jimmy Hoffa, former union president.
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Washington
James P. Hoffa
Teamsters Union
Hoffa
Tom Leedham
John Metz
St. Louis
Leedham
Ken Paff
anti-Hoffa Teamsters For A Democratic Union
Paff
Jimmy Hoffa
Ead
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America
College of William and Mary
Williamsburg
Martin van Buren
Kinderhook
N.Y
Newt Gingrich
Associated Press
Larry Fitzgerald
NASA
Robert Cabana
Space Station
Cabana
Madeleine Albright
Teamsters
Oak Finish
Cale
Santa
Lane
Collins Road
Sun
First Federal Community Credit Union
First Federal
Cedar Rapids, Marion
Hiawatha Area
Communit Credit Union
First Ave
Cedar Rapids
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