Nicknamed the Little Red Schoolhouse and perched on dry land in the French Quarter, comfortably above sea level, the school now brims with energy, ambition and rising test scores among its 420 students, more than 90% of them from low-income African-American families.

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The first quarter of 2011 has seen piracy-at-sea hit an all time high with 142 attacks worldwide and 97 of the East coast of Somalia, up from 35 a year ago, a report by the IMB Piracy Reporting Center says.

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The big uncertainty in Talisman's third quarter results comes from the Yme platform in the Norwegian North Sea, which was evacuated in July for safety reasons.

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The vineyard is on a quarter-square-mile of leased land 4, 300 feet above sea level, east of the Rio Grande near Truth or Consequences, a two-and-a-half-hour drive south from Albuquerque.

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According to WWF researchers, sea ice cover has declined by about 40% over the last quarter century.

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