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U.S.-Russian Arms Reduction Deal Expected
U.S. and Russian negotiators are reporting "substantial progress" on a new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty that would reduce the number of nuclear warheads in both countries by about one-quarter, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says, predicting a final agreement will be reached "soon."
In the Headlines
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Climate Change Impact on Water Already Felt
People worldwide are already feeling the rise in global average temperature through their water supplies, as a warming planet begins to alter the land-sea-atmosphere cycle of water that makes life on Earth possible, experts say.
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U.S. Government to Launch Online Discussion of Key Issues
Global Pulse 2010, a three-day virtual event sponsored by several U.S. agencies and aimed at bringing together thousands of people from around the globe to discuss the world's most pressing challenges, will launch March 29, 2010. The U.S. Government hopes motivated individuals will join this global conversation, and online ideas are turned into real world action.
Special Feature
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The Smithsonian’s Extraordinary Russian Coin Collection
In the vaults of the National Museum of American History in Washington is a collection of some 14,000 Russian coins and medals dating back nearly 1,000 years. It is rivaled only by the coin collection in the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia.