Weather in The United States  Chicago17°C, humidity 44%; overcast sky  Dallas21°C, humidity 47%; mostly cloudy sky  Miami22°C, humidity 39%; partly cloudy sky Sattle14°C, humidity 37%; mostly cloudy sky
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The US has the largest and most technologically powerful economy in the world, with a per capita GDP of $46,000.
Puerto Rico has one of the most dynamic economies in the Caribbean region.
All of the following US Pacific island territories except Midway Atoll constitute the Pacific Remote Islands National Wildlife Refuge Complex...
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The U.S. Defense Department says it is reviewing media reports that a Pentagon official hired private contractors in Afghanistan and Pakistan to track and kill suspected insurgents. The CIA and the military regularly conduct secret intelligence operations, but it is generally considered illegal for the military to use private contractors as covert spies.
 Forty years ago, a pioneering research team from Ohio State made history as the first US women in Antarctica.
 This adventure took about three hours, from inflating the balloon to landing. We flew over rural areas North of Baltimore, being aloft for about an hour at around 300 feet (100 meters).
Places
 Los Angeles is the most populous city in the state of California, the second most populous city in the United States (after New York City) and the largest city on the West Coast.
The Los Angeles–Long Beach–Santa Ana metropolitan area, or Greater Los Angeles, is home to nearly 13 million people who hail from all over the globe and speak over a hundred different languages.
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 Construction to begin on thousands of charging stations for 'clean' cars. Urban planners are deciding where to locate more than 11,000 charging stations in 11 major cities. They want those stations up and running when the first mass-market electric cars from Nissan and General Motors go on sale at the end of this year.
 After more than three decades of service to researchers and staff stationed at the bottom of the world, the dome at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station was deconstructed this austral summer.
Puerto Rico in Pictures
 El Morro is Puerto Rico's best known fortress. Spanish fortified this 'morro'. which means 'promontory', after Sir Francis Drake put San Juan through the baptism of fire when he attacked a small fleet of Spanish frigates anchored in the harbor on the night of November 23, 1595.
 The day we took the trip to El Yunque was unusually dry and clear. From the top we had a magnificent view of the North-East coast all the way from San Juan to the islands of Vieque and Culebra.
 This year we started our annual photosynthesis trip in the oldest US city: San Juan, Puerto Rico.
 There are fifteen lighthouses around Puerto Rico. One of them is located in the Maunabo municipio, Guayama district, on the South East side of the island.
 Florida Keys is an archipelago of over 1,700 islands located in the South-East of the United States.
 Maui is the second largest island of the Hawaii archipelago. The first European to set foot on the island was a French, although the first to discover it, was.... you guessed right, Captain Cook.
 Niagara Falls consists of two waterfalls: the Horseshoe Falls on the Canadian side and the American Falls. The Horseshoe falls drop about 53m, being 792 meters wide, while the American falls drop about 20 meters and are 323 meter wide.
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English Edition. March 19, 2010
