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This is so bad… We will lose this source of health services. These were good people who had left their families and had come all
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Not my favorite Earth Day present. Life becomes harder for those who can’t afford a car. Much more work to do if we will ever
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A Royal Australian Air Force AP-3C Orion flies past Australian Defence Vessel Ocean Shield on a mission to drop sonar buoys to assist in the acoustic search in support of Operation Southern Indian Ocean. (Photo: LSIS Bradley Darvill/Commonwealth of Australia)
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