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BELENE, Bulgaria, Nov 8 — In the dense forests of the idyllic Danube island of Persin, home to the endangered sea eagle and the pygmy cormorant, ...
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SINGAPORE, Nov 8 — The tough economic times — and more generous maternity benefits — appear to be prompting increasing numbers of firms to fire pregnant women or deny them their full entitlements.
There were 119 ‘pregnancy- related’ complaints lodged with the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) in the first nine months of the year — up from 72 for the whole of 2007, and 95 last year.
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ICA, Peru, Nov 8 — A small grove of huarango, the storied Peruvian tree that can live over a millennium, rests like a mirage amid the sand dunes on this city’s edge. The tree has provided the inhabitants of this desert with food and timber since before the Nazca civilization etched geoglyphs into the empty plain south of here about 2,000 years ago.
The huarango, a giant relative of the ...
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