The primary complaint driving this move: construction of a border fence would cut off cross-border populations of the same endangered jaguar and ocelot species from breeding with one another.

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For the past four years, the Yao Foundation has been funding the construction of 14 schools through the Hope Primary Schools program that will eventually benefit some 9, 000 rural students in China.

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Moreover, horse drawn carts are still a primary means of freighting trash, furniture, food, and construction supplies across the city.

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Housing construction was crackling before 2004 because of Congress' virtual elimination of the capital gains tax on primary residences in 1997.

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