US is laid low by Puerto Rico
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ATHENS -- Seeing was admiring. &quot;Puerto Rico played as a team,&quot; said US coach Larry Brown. &quot;They were well-prepared and the coaching was incredible. They played so much harder than we did, and so the result was not a surprise. I think anybody watching this, who enjoys basketball, got a thrill out of that.&quot;
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The United States has received official requests for help from five of the 11 countries hit by the tsunami in the Indian Ocean. The State Department said so far the governments of Indonesia, Maldives, Somalia
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The Bush administrationâs de facto weak-dollar policyâits preferred âcureâ for the American trade deficitâis not working.
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By Andrew O Selsky Associated Press  VIEQUES NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Puerto Rico - One misstep on this former U.S. Navy bombing range can be fatal.
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By ANDREW O. SELSKY  VIEQUES NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Puerto Rico - One misstep on this former U.S. Navy bombing range can be fatal.
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The U.S. has halted payments to clinics that treat AIDS patients in Puerto Rico, forcing hundreds of poor people to go without free medicine in a U.S. territory with an AIDS rate nearly double that of the mainland.
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Tropical Storm Jeanne slammed into Puerto Rico on Wednesday, flooding neighborhoods, knocking out power and stranding thousands of tourists in the U.S. territory where hundreds fled low-lying areas. At least two people were killed.
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LAS VEGAS - The reclamation project is still a work-in-progress - there's this Olympic gold medal thing next summer - and minefields aplenty await. But the United States did all it could do here in what has become its own quadrennial showcase, crushing Puerto Rico, 135-91, yesterday to qualify for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
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The US is in an exceptionally difficult situation, with the economy on the brink of recession and limited scope for policymakers to ride to the rescue.
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Britain pledged emergency aid to Cuba as Hurricane Ivan, which has killed at least 71 people in the Caribbean, left part of the island battered and hurtled on towards the United States coast.
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The United States lost their first  basketball match at the Olympics since 1988 on Sunday when  Puerto Rico gave them a shock 92-73 trouncing.
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The number of hurricanes churning through   the Caribbean toward the United States this year is likely to   be less than once feared and may even be less than normal, a   noted U.S. hurricane research team said on Friday.
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ARECIBO, Puerto Rico -- In the tangled forests of Puerto Rico's steamy interior, suspended by steel cables strung from 300-foot towers, an array of antennas hangs above an aluminum bowl 1,000 feet in diameter that gazes into space.
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Secretary of State Colin L. Powell indignantly rejected any suggestion today that the United States&#39; response to the Asian earthquake and tsunami catastrophe had been insufficient
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ATHENS, Greece -- I didn&#39;t need to see Puerto Rico rout the United States to know that the world is playing great basketball, didn&#39;t need to see the United States shoot 35 percent to know that the youngest team we&#39;ve ever sent to the Olympics has no ...
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Gains among blacks and Puerto Ricans drove infant mortality rates to a record low in New York City last year, city officials reported Thursday.
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Puerto Rico upsets the United States, 92-73, at the men's basketball preliminaries on Sunday, the first loss at the Games for the three-time defending gold medalists since 1988.