SAN FRANCISCO, April 12 /PRNewswire/ -- In 1948, shortly after the establishment of the United Nations, all member states were asked to sign a Universal Declaration of Human Rights, celebrating president Franklin Roosevelt's four freedoms--freedom of speech; freedom of religion; freedom from want; and freedom from fear.

Paul G. Rogers Distinguished Organization Advocacy Award WASHINGTON, March 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- March of Dimes will receive Research!America's 2010 Paul G. Rogers Distinguished Organization Advocacy Award.

George Washington Middle School has been named a 2008 West Virginia School of Excellence by the West Virginia Department of Education. Like the mythical phoenix, the school in Eleanor has risen from the ashes to become one of the top schools in the state of West Virginia.

By RICHARD PYLE NEW YORK - George Washington, a Virginian, has his statue on Wall Street, Ohio-born Ulysses S. Grant has his tomb overlooking the Hudson. But for reasons nobody can easily explain, New York native son Franklin Delano Roosevelt has no official memorial in this city.

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