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Keika Albarado holds an Obama T-shirt at his store butigroove, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2008 in Honolulu. Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961 to a white mother and a black father who had met in Russian class at the University of Hawaii. He was an island boy most of his first 18 years. His mother's charitable work, his multiethnic friends and the economic gap between his family and his classmates at the island's most prestigious private school _ he attended on scholarship _ helped forge Obama before he left for college on the mainland. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)

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ISLAND LIFE IN MULTIRACIAL HAWAII SHAPED OBAMA

By Marco Garcia (AP)

The diverse culture of the nation's 50th state _ and the island nature of Hawaii itself _ shaped Barack Obama's view of the world and the politics he would practice.

Those who knew him as a child say that view and those politics click with the themes of his Democratic presidential campaign. For Obama, though, Hawaii is even more personal, the place where he picked up basketball and formed his racial identity.

"If you grow up here, where we have no majority and there's a complete ethnic mix, people have learned how to get along with others who look different and are from differen...

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Osama bin Laden released a new message on Sunday that accused Arab leaders of sacrificing the Palestinians and called on Muslim militants in Egypt to help break the blockade of Gaza.

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