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Reno rescue team members search a neighborhood in Fernley, Nev., after a canal levee ruptured from heavy rainfall, pouring more than 3 feet of near-freezing water into hundreds of homes and stranding some 3,500 people. (Photo by Brad Horn / Nevada Appeal / AP)

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Levee breaks in Nevada after storm, 3,500 stranded

A canal levee ruptured about 33 miles east of Reno after heavy rainfall, pouring more than three feet of near-freezing water into about 800 homes and stranding about 3,500 people, authorities said.

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Guardian

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California's perfect storm

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ABC News

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California's storm

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San Francisco Chronicle

Iraqi soldier kills 2 US troops

The U.S. military said that an Iraqi soldier apparently shot dead two American service members for "reasons that are as yet unknown" while they were on a joint patrol north of the capital.

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ABC News

Al-Qaida uses women as suicide attackers

It goes against religious taboos in Iraq to involve women in fighting, but three recent suicide bombings carried out by women could indicate insurgents are growing increasingly desperate.

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Denver Post

Focus turns to a changing New Hampshire

This is not your father's New Hampshire, as presidential candidates of both parties are about to learn, when the state holds the first primary of the 2008 campaign.

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McClatchy Newspapers

Did Huckabee's 'Fair Tax' win in Iowa too?

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TIME

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Iowa's caucus results get N.H. voters' attention

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NPR

Missing Ga. hiker believed dead

Authorities said they believe Meredith Emerson, a hiker who disappeared from the northern Georgia woods on New Year's Day, is dead, and have charged the man last seen with her with kidnapping.

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Yahoo! News

Romney wins Wyoming caucuses

Mitt Romney captured his first win of the Republican presidential race, gaining most of Wyoming's delegates at stake in GOP caucuses.

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Detroit Free Press

Inquiry into CIA interrogation tapes seen as payback for FBI

The Justice Department's criminal inquiry into the destruction of CIA interrogation tapes will be carried out largely by agents from the FBI, which has been at odds with the CIA over the agency's practices.

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International Herald Tribune

NATION

Ex-fugitive fundraiser gets 3 years in glove scam from 1990s

Disgraced Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu was sentenced to three years in state prison in a San Mateo County, Calif., grand theft case that dates from the early 1990s.

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San Francisco Chronicle

FDA set to give OK for cloned milk, meat

Having completed a years-long scientific review, the Food and Drug Administration is set to announce that meat and milk from cloned farm animals and their offspring can start appearing at supermarkets.

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Houston Chronicle

Key factor in murder trends across the nation: youth, gang violence

Cities' are successfully attacking crime and gun violence, but there is also an alarm about rising gang-related and youth violence, particularly within the African-American community.

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Christian Science Monitor

POLITICS

Reconciling the realist with the rhetorician

Barack Obama's run for the Democratic presidential nomination illustrates the limits of novelty in talking about, as he does, a new leadership role for the United States in the world.

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International Herald Tribune

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Independents aligning with Dems

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MSNBC

Democrats seize on poor jobs data

Top congressional Democrats accused President Bush of poor stewardship of the economy after a government report showed there were only 18,000 jobs added in December.

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The Hill

BUSINESS

OPEC producing adequate oil, President Khelil says

OPEC, the producer of more than 40 percent of the world's oil, is supplying the international market with enough crude and can't be blamed for record prices, the group's new President Chakib Khelil said.

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Bloomberg

America's bull run

Since 1982, the economy has suffered two recessions, in 1990-91 and in 2001, for a total of 16 months. In the previous 25 years, the economy suffered six economic downturns for a painful total of 67 months.

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U.S. News & World Report

SPORTS

Buckeyes take motivation home on DVD

The Ohio State coaching staff sent every player home for holiday break with a DVD of about 10 minutes of players, broadcasters, analysts and radio personalities trashing the team.

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Russia beats US for bronze at junior hockey championship

Nikita Filatov scored twice to help Russia defeat the United States 4-2 for the bronze medal at the under-20 World Ice Hockey Championship.

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USA Today

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Canada and US to renew world junior hockey rivalry in semifinal

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The Canadian Press

Congress asks Clemens, Pettitte, their ex-trainer to testify in hearing

Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte were asked to testify before a congressional committee on Jan. 16, along with their former trainer, Brian McNamee.

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ESPN

HEALTH

Advice for treating child pneumonia

Treating severe pneumonia in children at home with oral antibiotics works just as well as treating them with intravenous drugs at a hospital, scientists said.

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Reuters

A familiar fiend: painkiller addiction

According to statistics compiled by the Partnership for a Drug Free America, nearly one in five teens, or 4.5 million kids age 12 to 19, reportedly abused prescription medications to get high last year.

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ABC News

RELIGION

Afghan clerics warn Karzai against Christian missionaries

Afghanistan's Islamic council has told President Hamid Karzai to stop foreign aid groups from converting locals to Christianity, and also demanded the reintroduction of public executions.

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Reuters

Dallas judge rules silence is secular

A mandatory moment of silence for Texas schoolchildren has a secular purpose of encouraging thoughtful contemplation and does not advance or inhibit religion, a federal judge said this week.

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Houston Chronicle

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GOOD NEWS

TV star offers dance lessons for charity

Cameron Mathison is putting himself up for auction. It's to raise money for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, an industry-based HIV/AIDS fundraising organization.

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Associated Press

Bill Gates donates $30 million to education campaign

Bill Gates is spending $30 million on the U.S. presidential campaign for a cause, not a candidate. The world's richest man plans to make education the No. 1 domestic priority with voters.

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Bloomberg

WORLD

Kibaki hints at unity government

Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki says he is ready to form a government of national unity, an official statement said.

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BBC

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Tutu urges end to Kenya violence

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Reuters

Libya denies talks in Washington broached issue of human rights

Libya denied that discussions in Washington between its foreign minister and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice broached the topic of human rights.

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International Herald Tribune

Economy, not democracy, dominates vote in Georgia

President Mikheil Saakashvili was leading in polls before a vote that was initially seen as an effort to restore his mandate after baton-wielding police officers dispersed street demonstrators.

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International Herald Tribune

ENVIRONMENT

Low-energy bulb disposal warning

The Environment Agency has called for more information to be made available on the health and environmental risks posed by low-energy light bulbs.

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BBC

Study: Carbon dioxide pollution kills hundreds a year

Climate-warming carbon dioxide spewed by coal-fired power plants and fossil-fueled vehicles has been causing hundreds of premature U.S. deaths each year, a new study reported.

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Environmental News Network

Crustacean 'swarm' destroying small Hiroshima island

Millions of crustaceans, tiny relatives of crabs and shrimp, are causing a small island in southern Japan to disappear at an alarming rate, according to a local expert.

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National Geographic

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

2008 CES: more tech than you can handle

Las Vegas this week becomes the tech capital of the world as the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show and an estimated 140,000 conventioneers take over Sin City.

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PC World

Asteroid hitting Mars: now 1-in-28

The chance that asteroid 2007 WD5 will hit the planet Mars has been slightly reduced from 1-in-25 to 1-in-28 based on studies at the Magdalena Ridge Observatory, in Socorro County, N.M.

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iTWire

Growing artificial skin from hair roots

There is new hope for patients with chronic wounds: Medical researchers have been granted approval to produce artificial skin from patients’ own cells.

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LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Forget Tupperware; it's Taser party time

Dana Shafman is an independent weapons dealer who's been selling Tasers the way her mother's generation sold plastic food storage containers -- in her home where her guests get to try-before-they-buy.

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MSNBC

Dollar be damned, visit Paris now

The French Government Tourist Office's Patrice Doyon says "the depressed dollar" has slowed growth, but Americans are still visiting -- they're just spending less.

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MSNBC

Actors refuse to cross picket line for Golden Globe

The Screen Actors Guild announced that, to maintain solidarity with striking Hollywood writers, none of this year's 72 acting nominees will attend the 65th Annual Golden Globe Awards.

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E! Online

EDUCATION

US advisors pit evolution against intelligent design

Scientific advisors to the U.S. government have released the third edition of the book “Science, Evolution, and Creationism,” which emphasizes the importance of teaching evolution in public schools.

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iTWire

An argument for preschool

The states are spending more and more money to educate children before they start kindergarten. But one expert warns that not all programs are created equal.

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Newsweek

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Forbes sees big business in women's lifestyle

Forbes has spent a century covering businessmen in Brooks Brothers shirts. Now the magazine empire is aiming at executives who prefer Prada skirt suits and Balenciaga pumps.

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Reuters

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Arizona's Chase Budinger, left, and Oregon's Bryce Taylor (4) battle for the ball in the first half of a college basketball game at McKale Center in Tucson, Ariz. (Photo by Wily Low / AP)

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