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Bestselling books the week of 5/10/12, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
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Five hotbeds of biodiversity
Here are five flora- and fauna-rich ecologies that Conservation International, a nonprofit organization in Arlington, Va., says are more than 70 percent intact.
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Quadrantid meteors and 11 other big skywatching events of 2012
What lies ahead sky-wise for 2012? Joe Rao, SPACE.com Skywatching Columnist, selected what he considers to be the top 12 "skylights" for this coming year,
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Top 10 real-life adventure stories
What’s the best way to enjoy the summer: A cookout in the backyard? A trip to the beach? These are nice, but look no further than reading a non-fiction adventure book. It’s by far the best way to immerse yourself in another world. Check out this list to see some of the best titles in this excellent genre.
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Top 10 books of 2011, according to Amazon's editors
Amazon's editors pick their top 10 books of 2011 so far.
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The World Until Yesterday
Relying on his vast knowledge of New Guinea, Jared Diamond asks what moderns like us can learn from traditional societies.
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Powerball winners: Cautionary tales, lessons from past lottery winners
Past winners of mega-lottery drawings and financial planners offer advice to Powerball winners on how to manage a $500 million windfall. How to avoid the pitfalls of instant Powerball wealth.
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Amelia Earhart search to continue despite lack of hard evidence (+video)
Amelia Earhart, whose 115th birthday is celebrated on Google's home page Tuesday, disappeared with her navigator over the Pacific Ocean in 1937. A new search for her remains has returned nothing definitive.
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Search for missing Amelia Earhart's plane wreckage begins in Honolulu
On the 75th anniversary of the aviator's disappearance somewhere over the Pacific, a team of scientists and historians hope to find out what really happened to Amelia Earhart.
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75 years after her disappearance, Amelia Earhart attracts interest in her hometown (+video)
Amelia Earhart anniversary: Atchison, Kan., sees interest spike in Amelia Earhart, who was born there, as a search begins for her plane 75 years after her disappearance over the Pacific.
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Opinion: My final phone call with warlord Charles Taylor
Former president of Liberia Charles Taylor called me regularly in the early 1990s when I was the director of Voice of America's English-to-Africa broadcasts. I'll never forget one strange phone call from him. Unfortunately, my hunch about Taylor's connection to Sierra Leone would prove correct.
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Bestselling books the week of 5/10/12, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
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Keep Calm
Drill for oil in Somalia? Why not, says Australian firmAustralia-based Jacka Resources plans to start oil exploration in Somaliland, a region of Somalia that declared itself independent in 1991. Nice work if you can get it.
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Bishop Tutu urges peace in upcoming Lesotho elections
Political violence has flared ahead of May 26 Lesotho elections, but Archbishop Desmond Tutu urges candidates to keep the peace and respect election results.
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New coal giant Mozambique faces rising public anger
Mozambique is one of the world’s 10 fastest-growing economies, but its Department of Mineral Resources in Tete province still only has 15 employees, reflecting its struggle to manage resources properly.
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Keep Calm
Charles Taylor, former Liberian president, found guilty of war crimes (+video)Charles Taylor: A guilty verdict against the former Liberian president – including charges of murder, rape, use of child soldiers – sets precedent for holding sitting heads of state to account.
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Backchannels
Coup predictions: Africa doesn't look as volatile as you might thinkRecent coups in Mali and Guinea-Bissau don't amount to a big continental shift, according to a new statistical analysis.
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Keep Calm
Senegal's president concedes defeat, a welcome step in region of coupsAfter winning court permission to run for a third term, overriding a constitutional ban, President Abdoulaye Wade steps aside – breaking a pattern of Senegalese leaders overstaying their welcome.
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Hillary Clinton wades into mystery of Amelia Earhart
New photographic evidence shows parts of a plane on a Pacific Island. Hillary Clinton meets Tuesday with a group investigating the disappearance of American aviator Amelia Earhart.
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Five hotbeds of biodiversity
Here are five flora- and fauna-rich ecologies that Conservation International, a nonprofit organization in Arlington, Va., says are more than 70 percent intact.
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Quadrantid meteors and 11 other big skywatching events of 2012
What lies ahead sky-wise for 2012? Joe Rao, SPACE.com Skywatching Columnist, selected what he considers to be the top 12 "skylights" for this coming year,
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State of the world: Mideast boosts global democratic progress
Part 3 of the surprisingly upbeat state of the world: Mideast change boosts striking global democratic progress.
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Penny-sized frogs are world's smallest
The frogs are so small they seem to have hit the lower limit of body size for frogs and toads, so it's unlikely that researchers will find anything much smaller.
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Africa Monitor
Africa Rising: Carbon credits save Sierra Leone's Gola RainforestTurning down mining offers, Sierra Leone has set aside the Gola Rainforest as a new national park in the hopes of collecting carbon credits from abroad.
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Pearl Harbor Day: A survivor recalls the Day of Infamy (video)
Pearl Harbor Day: Navy vet Lou Gore recalls what he saw Dec. 7, 1941 on the deck of the USS Phoenix. Today is the 70th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor day attack.
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Chinese yuan's new global challenge to the dollar
Chinese yuan, pegged to the dollar until not long ago, is turning into a global reserve currency.
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Toronto International Film Festival: the buzz this year
George Clooney film captures attention, along with a new Neil Young documentary.
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Africa Monitor
Africa Rising: Guinea reworks its deal with mining companiesDevelopment experts say Guinea's new mining code may be its best chance to ensure the world's largest supplier of aluminum ore gets a fair share of the profits. The question: will the new law be enforced?
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Africa Monitor
West Africa Rising: Nigeria shifting currency reserves from dollars to Chinese yuanAfrica's top oil exporter will convert as much as 10 percent of its foreign cash reserves to the Chinese yuan as China's importance as a trade partner grows.
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Africa Monitor
West Africa Rising: Guinea to sign $5.8 billion mining deal with Chinese firmChina Power Investment would finance the construction of a coal power plant, a deep water port, and a refinery in exchange for digging rights.
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