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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert speaks at a press conference at his Jerusalem office. Olmert announced that he has prostate cancer but that the disease is not life threatening and he will continue to perform his duties. (Photo by Menahem Kahana,Pool / AP)

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Israel PM Olmert to have prostate surgery

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced he has prostate cancer that requires minor surgery in the coming months but said he was fit to govern.

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Reuters

Clash between Turkish troops and Kurds

Turkish troops killed 15 Kurdish guerrillas in fighting far from the increasingly tense Iraq border region where some of the separatists have sought refuge, a news report said.

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CBS News

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A mountain meeting with the PKK

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BBC

Boston celebrates World Series

The Boston Red Sox beat the Colorado Rockies 4-3 for their second World Series sweep in four seasons.

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MSNBC

Suicide bomber kills 27 recruits in Iraq

A suicide bomber on a bicycle blew himself up among recruits gathered outside a police camp in Baqouba, northeast of Baghdad, killing at least 27, police and hospital officials said.

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International Herald Tribune

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Bomber hits Baqouba

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Yahoo! News

Weather gives firefighters upper hand

Drizzling rain and cool air helped firefighters make significant progress in quelling the disastrous wildfires that first struck Southern California one week ago.

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North County Times

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FACTBOX: So. California wildfires in numbers

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Reuters

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Pollution warning over U.S. fires

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BBC

Iowa Democrats set earlier caucus date

Feeling pressure from other states rushing to the beginning of the primary calendar, Iowa Democrats voted to move their leadoff precinct caucuses to Jan. 3.

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ABC News

Tropical Storm Noel nears Haiti

Officials in Haiti feared flash floods would hit impoverished areas, as Tropical Storm Noel lashed the country.

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Guardian

NATION

N.C. beach house fire kills 7 students

An intense fire ravaged a beach house packed with college students, killing seven and leaving little left of the structure but its charred frame and the stilts on which it stood.

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USA Today

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7 college students killed in beach house blaze

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Yahoo! News

Wilson's sentence overturned

High school homecoming king Genarlow Wilson walked out of prison a free man, thanks to an extraordinary intervention by the Georgia Supreme Court.

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TIME

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FEMA apologizes for fake 'reporters'

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Reuters

POLITICS

Republican senator urges AG nominee to answer torture question

A Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee said he might consider opposing Michael Mukasey's nomination for U.S. attorney general if the former judge says waterboarding is not torture.

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International Herald Tribune

Clinton's gender poses challenge in Iowa

Iowa remains the only state besides Mississippi never to have elected a woman to the governor's office or to Congress. A bedeviling question is how that legacy will play for Hillary Rodham Clinton.

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Christian Science Monitor

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Democratic star candidates skip party's Florida convention

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Reuters

BUSINESS

Crude oil rises to record above $93 as Mexico idles production

Crude oil climbed above $93 a barrel for the first time, extending this month's gain to 16 percent, after Mexico shut a fifth of its production and the dollar fell to a record low.

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Bloomberg

Reports: Merrill Lynch CEO close to exit

Stan O'Neal, the beleaguered chief executive of Merrill Lynch & Co., was reportedly close to resigning amid broad criticism for leading the brokerage firm to its biggest quarterly loss.

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BusinessWeek

Clothing company severs ties with child sweatshop

A British newspaper reported that it found children as young as 10 making clothes in a sweatshop in New Delhi, India, that the Gap fashion chain planned to sell in the West.

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ABC News

HEALTH

Health sector puts its money on Dems

Democratic candidates for president are outpacing Republicans in donations from the health care industry.

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Ledger

Group urges autism screenings

The country's leading group of pediatricians is making its strongest push yet to have all children screened for autism twice by age 2.

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SPORTS

Red Sox stand alone atop baseball world

The Boston Red Sox World Series quest ended in victory with a four-game sweep of the Colorado Rockies, behind the strong pitching of Jon Lester.

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Brees-Colston connection pays off big for Saints vs. 49ers

Drew Brees passed for 336 yards and hit Marques Colston with three of his four touchdown throws in the Saints 31-10 win over the 49ers.

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ESPN

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Sports Illustrated

RELIGION

Vatican beatification stirs war memories

The Vatican held the biggest mass beatification in history, putting nearly 500 Catholics killed during the Spanish Civil War on the path to possible sainthood.

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Reuters

Vatican beatifies 498 Spanish martyrs

The Vatican took on Spain's Socialist government, criticizing its social policies as the church beatified nearly 500 victims of leftist persecution during the country's civil war era.

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Guardian

Challenge oppression, Desmond Tutu tells U.S. Jews

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who won a Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the struggle against apartheid, has appealed to Jews to challenge what he described as the Israel's oppression of Palestinians.

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Columns And Op-Ed

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I'm dressing up as a melting polar ice cap

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Salon.com

Japan: still a team player

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Christian Science Monitor

Gore will cast shadow on next president

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Bloomberg

Column (Tilman Ruff):

Let's ban all nuclear weapons — now

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The Age

Column (Gareth Porter):

Explosive charge blows up in U.S.'s face

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Asia Times

Ross dead wrong on how to leave Iraq

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Veto power makes lame duck relevant

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

If a dog answers, don't hang up

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Women will get abortions, legal or not, so keep it safe

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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GOOD NEWS

Plane crashes in bay, the 2 lucky men on board ok

Two lucky men emerged with only what appeared to be minor injuries after their single-engine plane crashed into San Francisco Bay, Coast Guard and fire officials said.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Armstrong speaks at Purdue ceremony

Although he typically shuns attention, former astronaut Neil Armstrong addressed a crowd at the dedication of a new engineering building named for him at Purdue University, his alma mater.

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WORLD

Saudi King Abdullah says U.K. didn't act to prevent terrorism

Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, arriving in London to meet Prime Minister Gordon Brown, said British officials failed to act on information that could have prevented the July 2005 London attacks.

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Bloomberg

Major rebels' absence puts Darfur talks on hold

Darfur peace talks will most likely grind to a halt in the coming days, officials said, until higher-level rebel leaders agree to attend and decide on how they will negotiate with the Sudanese government.

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USA Today

Argentine first lady wins presidency

First lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner swept to victory in Argentina's presidential vote, the first woman elected to lead the country.

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Reuters

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South American election

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San Francisco Chronicle

ENVIRONMENT

U.S. Air Force turns to alternative fuel, slashing CO2

The world's most powerful air force is seeking to wean itself from foreign oil and nearly zero out its carbon dioxide output as part of a sweeping alternative energy drive, a senior Pentagon official said.

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Environmental News Network

Beijing pollution an Olympic concern

Visibility was reduced to less than 50 yards, flights were delayed, major roads into the city closed and, most importantly, the smog was so serious that children and the elderly were told to stay indoors.

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Telegraph.co.uk

U.S. water supply in jeopardy

Across America, the picture is critically clear: The nation's fresh-water supplies can no longer quench its thirst.

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LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Fourth 'Saw' dominates weekend

Gory horror sequel "Saw IV" took the top spot at the box office in its debut weekend, according to estimates.

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MarketWatch

A twist in time

Spreading like wildfire from the tiny dance floor of New York's Peppermint Lounge, a Harlem teen craze set the era's most glamorous hips gyrating. Then, almost as suddenly, the Twist was over.

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Vanity Fair

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Growing pains: Can Web 2.0 evolve into an enterprise technology?

Forget outsourcing. The real threat to IT pros could be Web 2.0. While there's a lot of hype and hubris surrounding wikis, mashups and social networking, there's also a lot of real innovation.

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InformationWeek

The science of yummy

Researchers are teasing out the ways we perceive flavor, from our tongue to our nose to the genes that dictate how we taste food.

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Popular Science

Major archaeological find in Puerto Rico

U.S. and Puerto Rican archaeologists say they have found the best-preserved pre-Columbian site in the Caribbean, which could shed light on virtually every aspect of Indian life in the region.

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Yahoo! News

EDUCATION

Conservative author speaks at Columbia

Conservative author David Horowitz spoke at Columbia University amid tightened security - the latest in a string of political lightning rods to appear at the Ivy League school.

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Guardian

University, company become partners in tire-recycling business

Northwest Missouri State University has entered into a partnership with a Missouri firm that uses shredded tires to create a substance for making rubber and plastics.

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Kansas City Star

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Cows that burp less could help climate

Using modern plant-breeding methods to find new diets for cows that make them belch less is a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, scientists reported this week.

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Mexican rider Mariana Moreno, of the 'Altenas Escaramuza' team, competes for the 'escaramuza' category final competition at the National Charro Championship in Morelia, central Mexico. (Photo by Guillermo Arias / AP)

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