By Nico Colombant Dakar 31 December 2007 Another difficult year is coming to a close in Ivory Coast. The world's leading cocoa producer remains tense and divided between a government-run south and rebel-held north. Slowly, though, the main question

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What Happens When You Lose Neurons? When you were born, almost all of the one trillion neurons, or nerve cells, in your brain had already formed. But those neurons still had a lot of growing to do. As kids grow, neurons in the brain branch out and ma

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The writer Junot Diaz wanted to publish a children's book for more than 20 years. In the meantime, he stayed busy. He wrote several grown-up books, including The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao, which won a Pulitzer Prize. He al

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They are close now, but it's taken the best part of three years for Rachael Dobson to recover from postnatal depression that was so severe it might have ended in tragedy. She wanted little to do with Andreas when he was born. The smiles were for the

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By Zulima Palacio Washington, DC 04 August 2006 watch Education report This doctor from Africa is practicing in the U.S. When an immigrant leaves one country for another, he or she takes along abilities, education and experience. The phenomenon of b

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