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People view the flight deck aboard the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy in Boston. Tours are available Sunday as the aircraft carrier returned to the 35th president's home state for a five-day farewell visit. It goes out of service later this month. (Photo by Lisa Poole / AP)

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European anarchists join Denmark rioters

Anarchists from across northern Europe flocked to join protesters after two nights of riots sparked by the eviction of squatters from an abandoned building used by young leftists and punk rockers.

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Houston Chronicle

North Korean starve as diplomats bicker

More than a million North Koreans have been cut off from international food aid while diplomats argue over the details of the regime’s agreement to shut down its nuclear weapons plant.

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Times Online

Military faces growing ranks of bereaved

One of the first sights visitors to Fort Hood see is a daycare center's playground, evidence of the Army's commitment to be family friendly.

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CBS News

U.S. attacks suspected al Qaeda hideout

U.S. and NATO forces have been conducting a major attack against a compound in Eastern Afghanistan where Osama bin Laden or another senior al Qaeda leader may be hiding.

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ABC News

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U.S. forces strike insurgents targeting helicopters

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Reuters

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Iraq PM to chase police killers

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BBC

Ohio college mourns crash victims

At a university smaller than some high schools, where many athletes live in the same dormitory, the deaths of four baseball players in a bus crash left the campus feeling a profound sense of loss.

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Yahoo! News

Snowstorms sock upper Midwest

Fierce wind blew snow across roads and stranded hundreds of drivers on Midwestern highways, as thousands shivered without power and airlines were forced to call off hundreds of flights.

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USA Today

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Early flurry of killer tornadoes linked to cold winter

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NATION

Tourist kidnap blamed on Eritrea

Ethiopia has accused Eritrean forces of kidnapping five Britons and 13 Ethiopians and taking them to Eritrea. The five tourists include diplomats from the British embassy in Addis Ababa.

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Landslides kill at least 40 in Indonesia

Landslides triggered by days of heavy rain killed at least 40 people in eastern Indonesia, and nearly 30 more were believed to be buried under the mud, officials said.

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Forbes

Argentina contemplates shared custody of its top job

Will Argentina's President Néstor Kirchner run for a second term or will he, as seems increasingly likely, step aside and let his wife, Senator Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, become a candidate?

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International Herald Tribune

POLITICS

Romney first choice in conservative poll

Mitt Romney won the most support for the Republican presidential nomination in a straw poll of GOP activists attending an annual conference.

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Yahoo! News

Clinton contributor wanted by FBI

A Pakistani immigrant is being sought by the FBI on allegations that he funneled illegal contributions to Hillary Clinton's political action committee.

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Bush intervenes in army scandal

President Bush intervened in a scandal over the way wounded American soldiers were treated after they returned home from Iraq or Afghanistan.

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BBC

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Walter Reed care spawns probes

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Bloomberg

SPORTS

Devil's Janssen suspended for late hit

The NHL announced that New Jersey forward Cam Janssen has been suspended for three games without pay for a late hit on Toronto defenseman Tomas Kaberle.

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Federer beats Youzhny for fourth Dubai Open title

Roger Federer won the Dubai Open for the fourth time in five years, beating Mikhail Youzhny of Russia 6-4, 6-3 in the final.

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Sports Illustrated

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Galaxy ripped to shreds

Astronomers are watching a galaxy rip to shreds, a finding that could help reveal how galaxies go from stellar riches to rags.

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Space.com

Rain and snow: Scientists don't know how much falls

With constant weather forecasts on TV and the Internet and all the precise storm totals that are reported, you might think scientists had a firm grasp of how much rain and snow falls around the planet.

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Live Science

HEALTH

Warnings sought on kids' cold medicine

Government health officials are reviewing whether popular medicines like Tylenol Plus Cold & Cough and Infant Triaminic Thin Strips are safe and effective in treating children's colds and coughs.

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Forbes

FDA links plant to salmonella strain

Federal inspectors found the strain of salmonella behind a recent food-poisoning outbreak at the ConAgra Foods Inc. plant that made the tainted peanut butter, the Food and Drug Administration said.

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Forbes

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Whitaker, Hudson win NAACP awards

Oscar winners Forest Whitaker and Jennifer Hudson kept their winning streaks alive, while "Grey's Anatomy" star Isaiah Washington claimed a best actor prize at the 38th annual NAACP Image Awards.

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Forbes

Hurley marries in secret ceremony

Elizabeth Hurley secretly married Indian businessman Arun Nayar and the couple were preparing to host a lavish wedding party at an English castle.

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Reuters

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GOOD NEWS

Is it Blackbeard's ship? Archaeological booty says aye

A shipwreck off the North Carolina coast believed to be that of notorious pirate Blackbeard could be fully excavated in three years, officials working on the project said.

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CNN

Man buried for 8 hours in snow survives

A man buried by an avalanche for almost eight hours emerged with little more than scratches after a relative found him using a probe. Ryan Roberts said he was astonished he survived the avalanche.

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Yahoo! News

NATION

Tribe votes on freed slaves' membership

Cherokee Nation citizenship was at stake in an election to determine whether descendants of people the Cherokee once owned as slaves should be counted as members of the tribe.

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AOL News

Ammo, weapons, tunnel found in California home

More than 1 million rounds of ammunition, a cache of weapons and a tunnel were found in a house after a fire that forced a neighborhood evacuation, authorities said.

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CNN

BUSINESS

EMI spurns $4.1 billion bid proposal from Warner Music

Britain's EMI Group rejected a $4.1 billion cash takeover proposal from Warner Music Group saying the price was inadequate and not in the best interests of its shareholders.

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CNBC

Dow posts worst week in more than 4 years

The Dow Jones industrials logged their worst weekly performance in more than four years as stocks stumbled in the final session Friday.

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USA Today

Beauty and the Geek

A number of studies have found that "ugly" people earn less in many walks of life. The beauty premium seems to apply even in professions where there is no reason to expect that beauty counts.

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Slate

ENVIRONMENT

U.S., Brazil plan ethanol partnership

U.S. and Brazilian officials are negotiating details of an ethanol partnership in advance of President Bush's scheduled visit to Brazil next week.

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USA Today

Can you be traveling green?

Buy an airline ticket online, and you're increasingly likely to see this pitch: Add a payment of a few dollars, and finance save-the-Earth activities.

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USA Today

EDUCATION

Critics denounce Pizza Hut reading program

Pizza Hut's Book It, an incentive program used by schools to reward students with free pizzas, is under attack by experts who say it promotes bad eating habits and turns teachers into corporate promoters.

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CNN

'Cat in the Hat' birthday parties celebrate Seuss, reading

Pajama-clad preschoolers didn't think twice about devouring green eggs and ham in honor of "The Cat in the Hat." Fifty years after the book hit the bookshelves, readers of all ages are still mesmerized.

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Springfield News-Leader

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Christian school loses lawsuit over religious discrimination

Alameda County did not commit religious discrimination when officials rejected a Christian school's plan to build a campus on county land near Castro Valley, a federal jury ruled.

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San Jose Mercury News

Experts debate what drives Islamic terrorists

More than five years after 9/11, experts continue to debate what motivated the attacks on the United States and other violent actions by Islamic extremists against the West.

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Crosswalk

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Rarely seen King papers go on display

The words of Martin Luther King Jr. are as inspiring today for Shirley Franklin as they were when she saw him deliver his "I Have A Dream" speech from the steps of the Lincoln Monument in Washington in 1963.

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Kashmiri women pray outside the shrine of Hazrat Sheikh Hamza Makhdoomi on his death anniversary in Srinagar, India. Hundreds of Muslim devotees thronged to the shrine during the thirteen day festival. (Photo by Mukhtar Khan / AP)

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