Stock Market Plunges, Americans Graduate Cuban Med School
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The Baltimore Sun: Dow, Nasdaq, S&P Plummet Amid Unease Over Lenders -- "Wall Street suffered one of its worst losses of 2007 yesterday, leading a global stock market plunge as investors succumbed to months of worry about the mortgage and corporate lending markets."
USA Today: Legacies Linked, Bonds and Selig Are Warily Apart -- "Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig and San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds spent all but one day this week in the same cities, at the same ballparks, even talking to many of the same people. They could be celebrating Bonds' final approach to Hank Aaron's hallowed career record of 755 home runs. Instead, they have not spoken, maintaining an icy silence."
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The Associated Press: Eight Americans Graduate From Free Cuban Medical School -- "Four New Yorkers, three Californians and a Minnesotan, all from minority backgrounds, have studied in Havana since April 2001, forming the first class of American graduates from the Latin American School of Medicine. [They] say they will put the education paid for by Fidel Castro's communist government to use in hospitals back home."
The New York Times: Making a Hard-Life Story Open a Door to College -- "Antoine, who is African-American, will begin his senior year in September at his large, predominantly black and low-income high school just outside Washington. He had come to Howard for an intense four-day workshop in the complex process he will have to master if he is to fulfill his aspirations of upward mobility: applying to college."
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