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  • People in white T-shirts fill streets (AP Images)

    Young Internet Users Spurring Social Change

    Young people worldwide are using Internet-based social networks to foment changes in their societies. For example, Colombian Oscar Morales used Facebook.com to organize 12 million people in international protests against the terrorist group FARC last February.

  • Cheering people (AP Images)

    Young America Affirms Civic Values in Historic Election

    The 2008 presidential election may be a transformational event for many young Americans who worked, rallied and voted for their candidates in unprecedented numbers. Young America looks at civic values and how the young view the world in which they are coming of age.

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    Obama Names Richardson as Commerce Secretary

    President-elect Barack Obama (left) has chosen New Mexico Governor Bill
    Richardson to head the Commerce Department, a job Obama describes as "a
    leading economic diplomat for America." Richardson would facilitate trade internationally and among the states.

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  • Bringing Terrorists to Justice

    Secretary Rice goes to India to urge close cooperation with neighboring Pakistan’s new civilian government to bring the perpetrators of terrorist attacks in Mumbai to justice.

  • National Security Team Named

    President-elect Obama announces his choices for his national security team, calling for “a new dawn of American leadership.” Hillary Clinton was nominated as secretary of state.
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