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June 16, 2011
2011 Masters: Charl Schwartzel (South Africa) 2010 PGA: Martin Kaymer (Germany) British Open: Louis Oosthuizen (South Africa) U.S. Open: Graeme McDowell (Northern Ireland) Masters: Phil Mickelson (U.S.) 2009 PGA: Y.E. Yang (South Korea) British Open: Stewart Cink (U.S.) U.S. Open: Lucas Glover (U.S.) Masters: Angel Cabrera (Argentina) 2008 PGA: Padraig Harrington (Ireland)
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July 22, 2010
Nearly a generation after researchers isolated the HIV virus that causes AIDS, there is still no cure for the disease nor a vaccine to protect people from infection. But a new White House strategy to curb the spread of AIDS, and reports this week of an experimental gel that helps reduce the chances of transmitting the virus in women, offer hope that millions of lives can be saved over the next 20 years both in the U.S. and abroad. The president's plan builds on efforts begun during the Bush administration to encourage people to get tested for the virus and to seek treatment before symptoms appear.
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By Bill Dwyre, Tribune Newspapers | July 19, 2010
ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — At 6:30 Sunday night, a little guy named Louie waved his white cap, smiled his gap-tooth smile and walked up the most famous fairway in the world and into golfing lore. Louis Oosthuizen, 27, of South Africa had won the British Open. Four days ago, those words would have brought everything from laughter to disbelief. He was on nobody's radar. Now, he was in everybody's heart. In 1981, no more than 300 yards away on the West Sands of St. Andrews Bay, they had filmed the movie "Chariots of Fire."
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By Brent Jones, The Baltimore Sun | July 13, 2010
As Emily Kerstetter and her fellow church mission members enjoyed a meal at an Ethiopian restaurant in Uganda, the 16-year-old Ellicott City resident told her new friends that she wanted to stay and work through the rest of the summer. She had already extended her trip once, opting out of her original flight that departed five days earlier. She was ready for more. Minutes later, a suicide bomber struck outside the restaurant, one of two attacks in the Ugandan capital of Kampala that killed at least 74 people and wounded 85 others, including Emily, her grandmother and three other members of her group.
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By Brent Jones, The Baltimore Sun | July 12, 2010
As Emily Kerstetter and her fellow church mission members enjoyed a meal at an Ethiopian restaurant in Uganda, the 16-year-old Ellicott City resident told her new friends that she wanted to stay and work through the rest of the summer. She had already extended her trip once, opting out of her original flight that departed five days earlier. She was ready for more. Minutes later, a suicide bomber struck outside the restaurant, one of two attacks in the Ugandan capital of Kampala that killed at least 74 people and wounded 85 others, including Emily, her grandmother and three other members of her group.
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By Julie Scharper, The Baltimore Sun | July 11, 2010
Sandeep Rao watched this year's World Cup matches in a raucous stadium in Cape Town, late at night in front of a relative's television set in India and on Sunday on a grassy park at the Inner Harbor. "This is actually what they do in South Africa," said the 32-year-old, gesturing at the families sprawled on blankets and young couples sipping beer in front of an oversized screen. "If you don't have a ticket, you watch it in a place like this. In Cape Town there was a waterfront TV set up just like this."