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1. WCSO recruits youth for Explorer program (The Hillsboro Argus)
Fri, 09 May 2008 20:13:15 GMT: How does rappelling down a mountainside to rescue an injured hiker sound? How about searching for a missing person or riding in a police car with a deputy?

2. U.N. says it will resume aid flights to Burma (USA Today)
Fri, 09 May 2008 20:10:50 GMT: The United Nations says it will resume food aid flights to Myanmar on Saturday.

3. Thai PM heads for Myanmar to urge junta to accept aid (Daily News)
Fri, 09 May 2008 19:48:21 GMT: THAILAND: Thailand’s prime minister said Friday he would fly to Myanmar this weekend, where he is expected to urge the generals to allow foreign aid workers into the country after Cyclone Nargis.

4. Myanmar approves US aid cargo flight, forecast calls for heavy rain in cyclone-hit areas (AP via Yahoo! Philippines News)
Fri, 09 May 2008 19:31:00 GMT: Myanmar's junta _ under fire for failing cyclone survivors after seizing shipments of international food aid _ agreed Friday to let a U.S. cargo plane bring in supplies. American relief workers, however, were still being barred entry. Heavy rain forecast in the next week was certain to exacerbate the misery of an estimated 1 million survivors awaiting food, clean water, shelter and ...

5. Myanmar is still keeping U.S. aid out (The World)
Fri, 09 May 2008 19:11:43 GMT: YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar’s military leaders seized aid shipments headed for cyclone survivors and told the top U.S. diplomat there today that they’re not ready to let in American aid workers despite warnings the country is on the verge of a medical catastrophe.

6. Search for missing student returns to Otter Creek (Las Cruces Sun-News)
Fri, 09 May 2008 18:52:44 GMT: MIDDLEBURY, Vt.—The search for a missing Middlebury College student zeroed in Thursday on Otter Creek, with two teams of firefighters returning to the river with probes, inflatable boats and underwater video cameras in hopes of finding an "item of interest" spotted in aerial photography.

7. UN halts aid to Myanmar after junta seizes supplies (Park Hills Daily Journal)
Fri, 09 May 2008 18:40:23 GMT: YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar’s junta seized U.N. aid shipments headed for hungry and homeless survivors of last week’s devastating cyclone, prompting the world body to suspend further help on Friday.

8. Myanmar Allows 1 Shipment Of U.S. Aid (CBS News)
Fri, 09 May 2008 18:30:03 GMT: The governing military junta in Myanmar has agreed to allow a single U.S. cargo aircraft to bring in relief supplies for victims of a devastating cyclone, Bush administration officials said.

9. Living, after losing their daughter (Bakercityherald.com)
Fri, 09 May 2008 18:02:42 GMT: Rhiannon Borisoff's childhood writings reflect a girl who always accentuated the positive.

10. Myanmar seizes UN aid material (KRGV-TV Texas)
Fri, 09 May 2008 17:52:21 GMT: YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - U.N. officials say Myanmar's military government has confiscated all cyclone relief supplies, including food, that the U.N. has sent to the country.

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