Virginia’s universities are warming to the fight against climate change. Presidents of 15 state schools have signed a pledge to end emissions linked to global warming, and other schools are investigating ways to tackle the problem.
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AFP - World oil prices rebounded sharply from five-month lows in Asian trade Monday on worries that Hurricane Ike will threaten production facilities in the US Gulf Coast, analysts said.
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AP - As a ferocious Hurricane Ike ripped across Cuba, residents from Key West to the Gulf Coast watched the storm’s unpredictable path, worrying it could hit anywhere in the U.S. from Texas to Florida.
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AFP - Chinese authorities have reported receiving little response after putting 88 children orphaned in the devastating May earthquake up for adoption, state press said Monday.
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AP - Hurricane Ike’s torrential rains swelled rivers across Haiti and sent floodwaters gushing into homes in the dead of night in one eastern town, killing at least 58 people.
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Reuters - Hurricane Ike pounded northeastern Cuba
with 120 mile per hour (195 kph) winds, torrential rains and
massive waves that rolled through coastal towns on Monday on a
path toward the Gulf of Mexico oil fields and possibly New
Orleans.
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AFP - Hurricane Ike raged over Cuba early Monday, pummeling the island with gale force winds and torrential rain after killing dozens in beleaguered Haiti and worsening its growing humanitarian disaster.
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AFP - China has raised or allocated just one quarter of the 245 billion dollars needed to rebuild areas devastated by this year’s devastating earthquake, state press said Monday.
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AP - Hurricane Ike’s winds and massive storm surge ripped apart houses and toppled trees Monday as the deadly storm roared across Cuba toward Havana and its historic but decaying old buildings.
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AP - A strong earthquake has rocked the sea floor off the coast of the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu, but there are no immediate reports of injury or damage.
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