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Former President Jimmy Carter met with religious leaders in Cuba on Monday as he began a trip to discuss economic policies and ways to improve Washington-Havana relations, which are even more tense than usual over the imprisonment of a U.S. contractor on the island.

Carter met in the afternoon with leaders of Cuba's Jewish community but did not say whether he mentioned the case of Alan Gross, who was arrested in December 2009 while working on a USAID-backed democracy-building project he said was meant to help improve internet access for that community.

As a company that relies on clean, quality water to brew our beers, protecting our local watersheds is a top priority for MillerCoors," said Kim Marotta, vice president of corporate social responsibility at MillerCoors. "We're proud to provide grants to organizations across the country whose mission aligns with our beliefs and our responsibilities."

Drawing the second most votes, Johnson Creek Watershed Council of Milwaukie, Oregon,will receive $10,000 and the third place vote-recipient, River Revitalization Foundation of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, will receive $5,000. The three remaining finalists will each receive $3,000.

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residents have had a choice of their electric supplier for over a decade and recently rates have become competitive for electric companies to pass on more value and savings to Maryland residents.

Clearview Electric’s President Frank McGovern says, “Maryland residents have the right to choose an electric supplier. Be assured if they choose to enroll with Clearview Electric, they will be provided the value with no interruption of service and can count on the highest level of customer service.”

Vol. 17: 4019-4036, demonstrated that the RTVue fourier/spectral domain OCT was less affected by variability in scan quality, especially low scan quality. Low scan quality can result from patient factors such as cornea opacities, partial cataracts, cloudy vitreous or other factors that diminish the scanning beam signal from and back to the OCT device.

The study authors, Madhusudhanan Balasubramanian, Christopher Bowd, Gianmarco Vizzeri, Robert N. Weinreb, and Linda M. Zangwill, stated: “For RTVue, RNFL thickness measurements in most eyes remained stable across the range of SSQ (changes in RNFL thickness of < 3 microns, however see results from participant H3). These results suggest that, changes in SSQ from best to lowest quality images resulted in minimal, clinically irrelevant, changes in measured RNFL thickness.”

China and other emerging nations such as Brazil and India are becoming leaders in science to rival traditional "scientific superpowers" like the United States, Europe and Japan, a top British academy said on Monday.

A report by the Royal Society science academy also found some rapidly emerging scientific nations not usually associated with a strong science base, including Iran, Tunisia and Turkey.

Amnesty International on Wednesday condemned the "shocking" treatment of women protesters in Egypt after serious allegations that the army subjected them to torture and forced "virginity tests".

The London-based rights group said that army officers violently cleared Cairo's Tahrir Square, the focus of the uprising that forced Hosni Mubarak to resign last month, and held at least 18 women in military detention.

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More than 20 people are believed dead after a strong earthquake in northeastern Myanmar. The magnitude-6.8 quake shook buildings as far away as the Thai capital Bangkok on Thursday night.

A Myanmar state-run newspaper reported two people dead, but an official said Friday that at least 20 more were killed in a village where more than a dozen houses collapsed. He said the toll could rise. Rural Myanmar is underdeveloped, with poor communications facilities and little rescue and relief capacity.

A Tennessee man who was stranded for six days on a remote Utah canyon ledge after his brother fell off the side of the cliff they were trying to rappel down has been rescued, authorities said Monday.

Searchers began looking for the men in No Man's Canyon in southeast Utah on Friday after family members reported them missing following what was to have been a weeklong trip, Wayne County sheriff's officials told the Salt Lake Tribune.