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• Possible trade rep pick linked to pardon uproar
... authority in 2002 and led opposition to the 2005 Central American Free Trade Agreement, citing what he called subpar labor standards. A member of the House Democratic leadership as vice chairman of the Democratic Caucus, Becerra supported the Peru ...
• Becerra meets with Obama
He also supported China's World Trade Organization membership in 2000, and last year he pushed for passage of the trade deal with Peru, after labor protections were added. In the past, he also has opposed trade deals -- like the Central American ...
• Ew! Bad teeth reveal what ancients ate
WASHINGTON - Thanks to poor dental hygiene, researchers are getting a more detailed understanding of what people ate thousands of years ago in what is now Peru. Dental plaque scraped from the teeth of people who lived as much as 9,200 years ago ...
• Thai PM orders protesters ousted from airports
Somchai has been in the pro-government stronghold since he returned from a summit in Peru on Wednesday. "It will take years before we can restore confidence," he said. The protests, which gathered pace three months ago when demonstrators overran the ...
• Get high on the world’s top aerial tours
An aerial tour is the only way to fully appreciate Peru’s mysterious geoglyphs, known as the Nazca lines; the 2,000-year-old depictions of animals and geometric figures can be miles long—much too immense to be seen from the ground. But though ...