Terms: puerto rico
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1. -05-01-06 Puerto Rico Out of Cash (MSNBC News)
   "The government of Puerto Rico ran out of money Monday, forcing the U.S. commonwealth to close public schools and shut down government offices, putting almost 100,000 people out of work." 05-06

2. -06-02-08 Clinton Wins Puerto Rico by a Large Margin (CBS News)
   "Hillary Rodham Clinton won a lopsided, but largely symbolic victory Sunday in Puerto Rico's presidential primary, the final act in a weekend of tumult that brought Barack Obama tantalizingly close to the Democratic presidential nomination." 06-08

3. Puerto Rico

4. Puerto Rico (MRS)

5. Puerto Rico is in "Caribbean"

6. Puerto Rico (Weber Publications)
   Includes a great deal of basic information, such as geography, legislature, flag, motto, bird, flower, motto, nickname, and so forth. Also has a link to the capital, San Juan. 10-00

7. -09-25-05 FBI Kills Puerto Rico Independence Leader (DemocracyNow.org)
   "We continue our look at the FBI killing of Puerto Rican independence leader Filiberto Ojeda Rios. Nearly a week has passed since FBI agents surrounded his house, resulting in a shootout that left Ojeda Rios dead and an FBI agent wounded."
   
   "Puerto Rican officials and Amnesty International are calling for an independent probe into his death. Amnesty said that the killing should be considered an extra-judicial execution if the FBI deliberately killed Ojeda Ríos or deliberately left him to die, when they could have arrested him." 9-05

8. Puerto Rico (CountryReports.org)
   Provides information on the government, people, economy, culture, and geography. Includes a map. 01-06

9. Indigenous Puerto Ricans Still Alive (CNN News)
   "Despite diminished numbers -- the Taíno population decreased from 8 million in 1492 to 20,000 in 1520 to 200 in 1560 -- the Taíno culture has survived and is still present in the language today, said Jose Barreiro, assistant director for research at the National Museum of the American Indian." 08-11

10. Giant Blue Jets in the Sky Filmed (Nature.com - Clarke)
    "Video images captured in Puerto Rico suggest that blue flashes of light, much like lightning, feed energy from thunderstorms up into the Earth's ionosphere - a blanket of electrically charged air some 70 kilometres above the ground." 3-02

11. History of Halloween (Wikipedia.org)
    "Halloween is a tradition celebrated on the night of October 31, most notably by children dressing in costumes and going door-to-door collecting sweets, fruit, and other treats. It is celebrated in parts of the Western world, most commonly in the United States, Canada, the UK, Ireland and Puerto Rico, and with increasing popularity in Australia and New Zealand, as well as the Philippines."