Topic: Jorge Luis Borges

Last week, over 7 million Venezuelans at home and abroad voted against President Nicolas Maduro's proposed Constituent Assembly, which would have empowered his administration to rewrite the country's constitution.

On Aug. 24, 2006, Pluto, the small, distant astronomic body that has discovered in 1930, was demoted to "dwarf planet" status when the International Astronomical Union adopted a new definition of "planet."

The literary leavings of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez will be joining those of other major writers at the University of Texas.

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Bush may have been consistent in telling his Egyptian hosts they needed more democracy, but he was neither realistic nor even relevant.

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Today is Thursday, Aug. 24, the 236th day of 2006 with 129 to follow.