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Dancers scale the wall of a New York City building to promote the launch of Microsoft's long-awaited Vista operating system. Microsoft hosted a series of events around the country to celebrate as the software went on sale. (Photo by Mark Lennihan / AP)

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Microsoft gets Vista off the ground

Microsoft Corp. rolled out its new Windows Vista software in 70 countries, delivering a PC-operating system that aims to better manage the explosion of digital media while protecting users from dangers.

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Reuters

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Hackers poised to pounce on Microsoft Vista

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International Herald Tribune

Lawyer: Libby said he wasn't CIA leaker

Amid the furor over the 2003 leak of a CIA operative’s identity, Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, bluntly told a White House lawyer, “I didn’t do it,” the lawyer testified.

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Miller testimony contradicts Libby story

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CBS News

Cease-fire holding in Gaza, more or less

Gaza's warring factions began to hold their fire as a truce took effect across the volatile territory and brought hopes for an end to the infighting that has left 36 people dead in five days.

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Houston Chronicle

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Gaza factions swap hostages under truce

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Reuters

Bombs kill dozens in Iraq on Shiite holy day

Assailants struck Shiite worshippers in three Iraqi cities, killing at least 36 people in bombings and ambushes during the climax of ceremonies marking Ashoura, the holiest day on the Shiite calendar.

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U.S. News & World Report

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Bush Nominee: New actions needed in Iraq

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CBS News

Chairman: Bush officials misled public on global warming

The Democratic chairman of a House panel said there is evidence that senior Bush administration officials sought repeatedly "to mislead the public by injecting doubt into the science of global warming."

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CNN

FAA to propose raising pilot retirement age

Airline pilots will be allowed to fly until they turn 65, raising the current mandatory retirement age of 60, under a proposal being announced by Federal Aviation Administrator Marion Blakey.

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CNN

Ancient Stonehenge yields new surprise

Archaeologists have uncovered what may have been a village for workers or festival-goers near the mysterious stone circle Stonehenge in England.

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TIME

Sixteen states see decline in traffic deaths

Traffic deaths dropped substantially in 16 states last year, in many cases reflecting stepped-up enforcement and education campaigns.

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USA Today

NATION

Cuban TV shows Castro meeting with Chavez

Cuban state television showed a video of Fidel Castro meeting with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the first images of the ailing leader shown in three months.

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ABC News

U.S., North Korea set for second day of financial talks

A U.S. Treasury official was set for a second day of negotiations in Beijing with North Korea over its alleged illicit financial dealings.

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International Herald Tribune

Iran, Saudi Arabia mediate in Lebanon crisis

In an unusual collaboration that could complicate American policy in the region, Iran and Saudi Arabia have been mediating an agreement to end Lebanon's violent political crisis.

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International Herald Tribune

POLITICS

Politics still going strong on YouTube

One of the more interesting intersections between the Internet and politics has been the ascendancy of political videos on YouTube.

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Center for Media and Democracy

Does Congress have power to stop war?

A panel of constitutional scholars said that Congress clearly has the power, if it chooses to use it, to stop the war in Iraq.

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Army Times

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Democrats' budget ups student aid, cuts foreign aid

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CNN

SPORTS

Super Bowl: Show me the money

Like the Olympic Games and World Cup, the U.S. football championship is a big-money game, the apex of ostentatious wealth, held this year in one of America's poorest cities.

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Reuters

Kobe suspended vs. Knicks

Kobe Bryant was so angered by his one-game suspension, he asked NBA commissioner David Stern to convene an immediate appeal hearing, but his request was quickly denied by the league.

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ESPN

HEALTH

France takes step toward smoking ban

Part one of a French ban on smoking in public places takes effect this week, setting the clock ticking for smoke-filled cafes and bars that have until next January to kick the habit.

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Yahoo! News

One in four natural births causes brain hemorrhage

Giving birth naturally increases the risk of minor brain hemorrhages in newborn babies, according to a study.

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MSNBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Sweden opens virtual embassy in Second Life

Sweden is to be the first country to open up diplomatic relations with the online community by setting up a virtual embassy in Second Life.

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Spiegel

Hubble telescope loses its most popular camera

NASA announced Monday that its key instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope, the Advanced Camera for Surveys, has become unusable because of an electrical short circuit.

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International Herald Tribune

EDUCATION

Spitzer plan would tie education funds to school performance

Gov. Eliot Spitzer introduced a series of what he called "Contracts for Excellence" as a way to improve public schools in New York state and the education they are providing students.

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Business Review

School to test for students' weekend drinking

Teens who drink alcohol could be caught three days later under a high school's new testing policy for students.

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Columns And Op-Ed

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A victory, of sorts

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Economist

Global economy: Uneasy statistics

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Hysteria at Herzliya

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Rea Clear Politics

Coverage should be priority for Bush

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San Jose Mercury News

President Bush was unqualified to run the country, just as Obama is now

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Chicago Tribune

See no dissent, call it science

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San Francisco Chronicle

This is Miami, Senor Tancredo

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Denver Post

Celebrity 'rehab' clinics are a joke

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Michigan Journal

Greed doesn't explain high salaries of CEOs

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Pasadena Star-News

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GOOD NEWS

Paris to roll out free bicycles

Paris City Hall announced it has selected French outdoor advertising firm JCDecaux SA to operate a new free bicycle service in the capital.

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Happy News

Babies born along the highway

Chad Williams was just trying to catch up on a little paperwork while parked on a freeway offramp near Boeing Field, when a man leapt from his sport utility vehicle and flagged him for help.

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NATION

Gas station explosion kills four in W.Va.

A fuel tank exploded at a gas station near a ski resort, shattering the building into a pile of debris and killing at least four people, authorities said.

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Houston Chronicle

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Boy killed when car hits Illinois school

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San Francisco Chronicle

Jury favors WTO protesters who sued city of Seattle

A federal jury found that the city of Seattle violated the constitutional rights of 200 protesters who were arrested during a demonstration during the World Trade Organization meeting in 1999.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Wife found guilty in poisoning death of Marine husband

A California woman was convicted of poisoning her Marine husband with arsenic to cash in his $250,000 life insurance policy and pay for breast implants and a party lifestyle.

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San Diego Union-Tribune

BUSINESS

Icahn gives Motorola a call

Billionaire corporate raider Carl Icahn told Motorola, which makes the popular RAZR phone, that he controls a chunk of its stock and wants to be elected to the company’s board of directors.

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Forbes

Oil rises most in 16 months on cold weather, economic growth

Crude oil surged to its biggest gain in 16 months on speculation that colder weather and an improving economy will spur U.S. fuel consumption.

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Bloomberg

PlayStation 3 losses weigh down Sony

Sony has suffered a 5 percent fall in quarterly net profit as PlayStation 3 losses outweighed a pre-Christmas recovery in its struggling consumer electronics and mobile phone operations.

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Times Online

ENVIRONMENT

Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe bares all for 'Equus'

If Daniel Radcliffe needed a way to distinguish himself from his unfathomably popular character, the loveable wizard named Harry Potter, he may have found exactly what he needed.

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Actress Archives

Black leaders cry foul on Brandy manslaughter charges

Black civil rights leaders in Los Angeles are laying claim that the California Highway Patrol has made Brandy "a political trophy," and is unfairly targeting her.

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Monsters and Critics

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Feds to take wolves off endangered list

Once hunted to near extinction, gray wolves in the western Great Lakes region and the northern Rocky Mountains have rebounded so successfully they no longer need federal protection, officials said.

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Boston Globe

Algae may fuel our future

U.S. biochemistry scientists at Utah State University are using an innovative approach that takes oil from algae and converts it to biodiesel fuel.

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Monsters and Critics

USDA seeks land reserve of 6,250 acres in Arkansas

Officials will spend $9.4 million to enroll up to 6,250 acres of land in northeast Arkansas into a program to restore hardwood forests, boost animal populations and improve the environment.

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Reuters

SPIRITUALITY AND RELIGION

He calls himself God

A Puerto Rican minister says Christ 'integrated' with him. Others call him a cult leader and a charlatan.

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Newsweek

Rabbi's legacy of spirituality and activism is guiding light

This year at the centennial of Rabbi Heschel's birth, Jews and gentiles alike are remembering him as one of the most influential theologians of the 20th century, and also as an enduring role model.

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USA Today

IN DEPTH

Islam and the West: What's the real difference

Gudrun Krämer examines current and historical causes behind conflicts and misunderstandings between the West and Islam.

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Spiegel International

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Boy gets rare shot of California condor

A 5-year-old boy has taken a photograph of what experts say may be the first California condor to fly in Topanga Canyon's skies in more than a century.

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CBS News

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A boy rows his boat through River Ganges polluted with offerings of flowers and food cast into the water by pilgrims during the Ardh Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, India. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh / AP)

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