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Ghana's President, John Evans Atta Mills, Is Dead

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President John Atta Mills at a campaign event in 2004.

By Eyder Peralta

The president of Ghana, John Evans Atta Mills, has died at age 68, the Ghana News Agency reports.

As the AP reports, Mills ran three times for president and finally emerged the victor in 2009, promising to reform the West African country.

The AP adds:

12:43 pm

Tue July 24, 2012

Hold The Ice: Rhetoric Gets Hot Over New York's Big Soda Ban

By editor

Originally published on Tue July 24, 2012 1:11 pm

Ever since New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that he plans to ban big sodas from the streets of New York City to address the city's obesity problem, drink companies, soda fans, and libertarians have been wanting to treat him like a Glee kid and give him a big Slushee in the face.

12:34 pm

Tue July 24, 2012

The Colorful Days Of Life On The Border

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Credit Bruce Berman

Hearts and Flowers, 1992. Deep in the heart of Juarez. Summer. It's hot and its alive in Juarez. In those days. Now, a city that has just lived through a war. What remains is yet to be determined.

Credit Bruce Berman

Dignified Man, 2006. This "viejo" (old one) walks on this street every evening. 6th and El Paso St. This is the first street in the U.S. after crossing from Juarez into downtown El Paso. In essence, this is the first block of America (or the last, depending on which direction you're going).

Credit Bruce Berman

Candyman in El Panteon. The Panteon of Juarez (the municipal cemetery) on the Day of the Dead, 1994. The celebration is still honored, but there have been so many funerals in Juarez during the cartel war years that people are closer to death than is comfortable.

Credit Bruce Berman

Segundo Barrio, El Paso, Texas, 2005. Many stores have come and gone in this building through the years. The residents of the Segundo Barrio community have maintained it on their own initiative, for decades, as far back as anyone can remember.

Credit Bruce Berman

Martin at his home in Lomas de Poleo (northwest Juarez). Martin is one of the last residents of a little agriculture community, which has gone from 200 families to 12.

Credit Bruce Berman

Sisters at the Border, 2007. Nuns meet at the border of Anapra, N.M. (left), and Barrio Anapra, Juarez. The nuns in Mexico cannot cross for various reasons — except on the day of a Mass for immigrants, held every November in the U.S.

Credit Bruce Berman

River Jump in the River with Two Names, 1989. Kids cool off in the river with two names — Rio Grande on the U.S. side, and Rio Bravo in Mexico.

Credit Bruce Berman

Santa Claus and his reindeer in the Plaza de Juarez, Christmas Eve, 2003

Credit Bruce Berman

Las Sierras de Juarez, 2006. A mother and daughter in the Plaza de Juarez in front of a photographer's backdrop.

Credit Bruce Berman

A man and his family in northeast Juarez, 2008

Credit Bruce Berman

The Virgin's Car Wash, 2005. The Virgin de Guadalupe on an unfinished car wash in El Paso.

Credit Bruce Berman

Wary girl in a GMC truck, downtown El Paso, 1980

Credit Bruce Berman

Wedding Day in El Segundo Barrio, 1984. This is the oldest neighborhood of El Paso, sitting right on the border with Mexico, traditionally a first step for immigrants to the U.S. In effect, it has acted for Mexican residents as New York City's Lower East Side did for generations of migrants who had landed at Ellis Island.

Credit Bruce Berman

Woman in an assembly plant in Juarez (known as a maquila), 1999.

By Claire O'Neill

Originally published on Tue July 24, 2012 2:28 pm

Editor's note: This is another one of those stories that came to me fortuitously by email. Bruce Berman teaches photography in Las Cruces, N.M., and, like many photography instructors, he has a huge archive of his own. This is just a small selection of his color photographs documenting life in the border town of El Paso, Texas.

12:26 pm

Tue July 24, 2012

Feel-Good Photo: Gabrielle Giffords Atop A Mountain In France

Credit Denis Balibouse / Reuters /Landov

Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (center) and her husband Mark Kelly (right), at the peak of Aiguille du Midi in the French Alps on Monday. Behind them is mountain guide Vincent Lameyre.

By Mark Memmott

After four days of sadly serious news about what happened in Aurora, Colo., here's a photo that may lift your heart.

Reuters explains that former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., rode a two-stage cable car on Monday to the peak of Aiguille du Midi in the French Alps. That's 12,605-feet above sea level.

12:24 pm

Tue July 24, 2012

Peg Perego Recalls 223,000 Strollers Due To Strangulation Risk

Credit Peg Perego

The models of strollers being recalled.

By editor

Originally published on Tue July 24, 2012 1:16 pm

One child strangled to death and another nearly strangled when their heads were caught between the tray and the seat bottom of their Peg Perego strollers. The Italian company is now issuing a recall for 223,000 strollers that were sold in the United States from Jan. of 2004 and Sept. 2007 and

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission says:

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