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KHARTOUM: A US aid worker was released in Darfur on http://playitagaingod.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=2838&action=edit&message=6#titledivMonday after being held by her kidnappers for 105 days, the latest in a series of abductions of foreigners for ransom in Sudan’s west.

A day earlier, three members of a Russian aircrew working for the private Sudanese Badr Airlines were kidnapped in Darfur’s largest town, Nyala, and Sudan’s army said it was searching for the men.

Flavia Wagner, 35, was working for US charity Samaritan’s Purse in Darfur. She arrived in Khartoum on Monday looking thin but smiling as she emerged from the plane.
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The Crop Research Institute (CRI) of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) would release four new drought-tolerant maize varieties early 2010 to support farmers cope with unexpected changes in the weather.

Director of the Institute, Dr. Hans Adu-Dapaah says a holistic approach to mitigate the effects of climate change should include accurate access to weather information and other technologies to help farmers.
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2-Year-Old Tot Found Face-Down in Family’s Backyard Pool; Brother Took Over Doing CPR When Mom’s Efforts Were Failing

(CBS) When two-year-old Brendan Hearn was discovered face-down in the family pool in Joliet, Ill., last Thursday, his mother, Tabitha, feared the worst and placed a frantic call to 911.

She then started CPR, but after just a few chest compressions, her nine-year-old, Logan Hearn, intervened.

“My son,” Tabitha recalls, “said, ‘You’re doing that wrong,’” and kind of told me just to move out of the way, and did the procedure like it should be done, and it was working!”

Paramedics arrived quickly, Tabitha says.

Logan learned CPR while taking lifeguard lessons.
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By Glenn Kahl

A three-year-old Manteca girl is being called a “hero” after she ran some two blocks to get firemen to help her dad who, she said, was “frozen” and wouldn’t wake up.

“She didn’t just walk up and knock on our door,” one firefighter said. “She is quite the little trooper – very poised and totally in control.”

The Friday noon trauma began in the 1100 block of Crestwood Avenue, some two blocks north of Manteca Fire Station 243 located on the corner of Louise Avenue, when she became frightened because her daddy wouldn’t talk to her or open his eyes.

Little Alesaundra Tafoya had been a passenger in the family car many times as it passed the north central Manteca fire station. Her mother said she had repeatedly told her daughter that the firemen are her friends and they are there to help if she ever needs them.
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After a decades-long cooperative conservation effort under the Endangered Species Act, today the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed removing the Tennessee purple coneflower from the list of threatened and endangered species.

“More than 30 years of protecting and expanding Tennessee purple coneflower colonies finally brought success to the Service and its conservation partners,” said Cindy Dohner, the Service’s Southeast Regional Director. “Thanks to the efforts of many people, adequate regulations exist to protect the plant’s populations, and these populations have stabilized to the point that the species has recovered and no longer needs the protection of the Endangered Species Act.”
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Two years ago, residents of Kamich village in Shahrak district of Ghor province tried to get the government to build a road so they can reach neighboring Herat province easier and faster. According to them, the government wasn’t able to meet their needs and so they took matters into their own hands and build the 14-kilometer road themselves. The road, which passes through a long valley, was officially inaugurated last Sunday.
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