U.S. News | Business/Science News Here are the key events in world news for the month of January, 2009. Mills Elected Ghana's President in Runoff (Jan. 2): In a very tight…
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This Top Ten list was compiled by the Technical Advisory Board of the Blacksmith Institute, an environmental NGO based in New York. The criteria used in ranking the include the size of the affected…
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