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by Warren Buffett and filter seven years of desert combat
Bill and Melinda Gates for American soldiers, President
with the intention of Barack Obama declares that
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in people of all income
and all but 50,000 troops return
home.
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for the longest human occupation of space.
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occupied the space station continuously since
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their space shuttle program, tipped for 69 days 2,300 feet underground,a group of 33
designed to carry astronauts Chilean miners is finally rescued from the collapsed San Jose
and cargo to and from Earth's coppergold mine in the fltacama Desert near Copiapo,Chile.
orbit.
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