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Bolivia's government has made one of the country's largest tin mines a state-run enterprise. Some workers in the mining town of Huanuni say their lives have improved, but many decry the loss of free-market opportunities.

Activists are holding a new round of immigration marches, starting this Labor Day weekend. The largest marches are planned for Los Angeles, Chicago, Phoenix and Washington, D.C. The message they hope to send: immigrants are voters, too.

African governments have long complained that U.S. and European agricultural subsidies are undercutting African farmers. Western farm-support programs and cheap cotton dumped on the world market are impeding efforts to end Africa's cycle of poverty.

The route to board certification involves a rigorous exam process. Many teachers say it's the best thing they've ever done. But it's not at all clear that it helps raise students' test scores.

The U.S., EU, Russia and the U.N. have agreed on a deal to create a trust fund for the Palestinian Authority. The authority is in the midst of a deepening financial crisis created when Hamas was voted into power, prompting Western donors to end their support for the government. The four powers now hope to get aid directly to the Palestinian people.

Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe are not related by blood and are definitely not physically joined at the hip. But they are that filmmaking oddity of a directing couple. Hollywood'and the Directors Guild of America'seems fine with brothers such the Wachowski's or Farrelly's sharing screen credit at the helm as if the sibling relationship justifies their close collaboration. But unrelated co-directors'especially maverick types like Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller teaming up for

Iraq's Anbar province is the heart of the Sunni insurgency, and has proven to be the most difficult for U.S. troops to control. A U.S. Marine commander for the region explains what he thinks it will take to turn security over to Iraqi forces.

Curse of the Golden Flower

Voters in Afghanistan and Ukraine embraced democracy. Iraqi insurgents call it an "evil principle." Almost everyone agrees it's a work in progress. We examine what it means when a nation moves toward democracy.

RJ (voiced by Bruce Willis) is a savvy raccoon with a seemingly bottomless golf bag full of goodies. He may be a wild critter but he seems to have learned a lot about the materialistic consumerism of humans. As the film opens, he attempts to get junk food from the local park's vending machine. When he fails to satisfy his hunger, he turns to the goodies lying in the cave of a hibernating grizzly. But burly old Vincent (Nick Nolte) wakes just in time to witness the accidental destruction on all his winter goods'as well as his favorite red wagon and blue ice chest. RJ is naturally to blame and Vincent holds the rascally raccoon responsible for restocking the den. This prompts RJ to head towards a new housing complex that's just sprouted up on the edge of a tiny forest. Here RJ finds just the 'foragers' he'll need if he's to fill grizzly's order for junk food within the week timeframe he's been given. But Verne (the cautious turtle voiced by Gary Shandling) is suspicious both of RJ and of the ominous world of suburbia that lies just over the hedge.