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- Teen sells 17,328 boxes of Girl Scout cookies
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AP - A Girl Scout has financed her trip to Europe with Thin Mints, Samoas and Do-Si-Dos, possibly breaking a national record in the process. Jennifer Sharpe, a 15-year-old from Dearborn, sold 17,328 boxes of Girl Scout cookies this year, which shatters her troop's old record and is believed to be a national record, though Girl Scouts of the USA doesn't track individual sales.
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- Wrong turn puts illegal immigrant family on tragic path in U.S.
0 KEESEVILLE, N.Y. - A simple wrong turn led to the destruction of Elvia Salgado Martinez' family. It was about 2 a.m. when she and her husband, Santiago Tapia, left the motel on Route 9 in Keeseville, nestled between the Adirondack Mountains and Lake
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- Anti-black poster in Germany ruled legal
Ghanaian-born Gerald Asamoah, a star of the German national football team, had complained to police about the rightists' ugly riposte to a 'We're All Germany' publicity campaign during the 2006 World Cup. Neuruppin, Germany -- An overtly anti-black
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New Zealand occupied the German protectorate of Western Samoa at the outbreak of World War I in 1914. It continued to administer the islands as a mandate and then as a trust territory until 1962, when the islands became the first Polynesian nation to reestablish independence in the 20th century. The country dropped the "Western" from its name in 1997.
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Reuters - An election-year push in the U.S.
Congress to clamp down on illegal immigration has stalled as
concerns grow about the cost of verifying the status of
millions of workers, a leading congressional Democrat said on
Thursday.
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