So can we quit talking about Arizona now? (Oh, by the way, in case you were wondering about one of the actual victims, instead of snipping at people of different politics than your own or making conjecture about the shooter,
Rep. Giffords is on the right track to recovery.)
over 500 have died in flooding in Brazil,
a large portion of Australia is still under water, and
to say there is civil unrest in Tunisia would be an understatement. Also,
a hundred people died in a stampede in India.
Oh, and
did anyone notice that Sudan is in the process of becoming two countries?Here.
China is going to install 10 million electric vehicle recharging parking spots by 2020,
a potential breakthrough in preventing death from lung inflammation, and
a piece of news about the ongoing work in developing a vaccine against HIV.
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