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Tibetan government in exile, Prime Minister Samdhong Rinpoche, speaks in front of the backdrop of the Tibetan flag and a portrait of Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, top, at a press conference in Dharamsala, India. (Photo by Gurinder Osan / AP)

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UN forces clash with protestors

United Nations police and security forces clashed with Serb demonstrators in Kosovo in the worst violence since Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence.

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Spiegel International

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Mitrovica rioting

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BBC

Police to Atlantans: If you can, 'stay out of the city'

Atlanta, Ga., was scrambling back to normalcy, but city officials warned it could take time to clear the devastation left by a tornado that swept through the city's downtown.

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CNN

China says using restraint to quell Tibet unrest

China said it had shown great restraint in the face of violent protests by Tibetans, which it said were orchestrated by followers of the Dalai Lama seeking to wreck the Beijing Olympics.

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Reuters

Special section:

Protests against Chinese rule

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Guardian

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Dalai Lama attacks China over Tibet

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Al Jazeera

Brackets may fall in Tar Heels' favor

If any team has an edge, it's top-ranked North Carolina. The Tar Heels received the No. 1 overall seed from the NCAA tournament selection committee.

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USA Today

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N.C., Memphis, UCLA, Kansas top NCAA picks

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NPR

Amid loan worries, a silver lining for college students

The credit crisis has caused many students to worry that they won't get loans for college. But the sky isn't falling, say student aid administrators.

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Christian Science Monitor

NATION

Paulson: Government will stabilize markets

The Bush administration will "do what it takes" to stabilize chaotic markets and minimize economic damage, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said.

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MSNBC

Veterans recall war in live broadcast

Many eyes were fixed on a screen showing a live broadcast of anguished testimonies by Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans describing what they had seen and done during their combat tours.

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Boston Globe

POLITICS

California GOP turns to voters for change

California conservatives, stifled by the Democratic majority in the Capitol, are turning to the people in hopes of advancing their stalled agenda in 2008.

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Pelosi says superdelegates shouldn't overrule voters

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the Democratic Party might be hurt if leaders fail to nominate the U.S. presidential candidate preferred by voters in primaries and caucuses.

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Bloomberg

Obama picks up 14 more delegates

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BUSINESS

Shell oil, gas reserves stagnate after Sakhalin loss

Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Europe's largest oil company, said reserves were little changed after it was forced to cede a stake in a Russian venture to state-controlled OAO Gazprom.

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Bloomberg

JPMorgan acquires troubled Bear

JPMorgan Chase & Co. said that it would acquire troubled Wall Street firm Bear Stearns amid deepening fears that Bear's demise could have sent shockwaves across the already shaky financial markets.

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CNNMoney

A red flag for bank liquidity

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BusinessWeek

SPORTS

Selig: 'This is where it started'

On the return drive from a pregame trek to the Great Wall, Commissioner Bud Selig passed a local university where he saw Chinese students playing baseball and softball.

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MLB.com

Woods clinches fifth straight triumph with dramatic putt at end

Tiger Woods made a 25-foot birdie putt on the final hole to win the Arnold Palmer Invitational by one shot, extending his PGA Tour winning streak to five and keeping intact a perfect season in golf.

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ESPN

HEALTH

Seasonal allergies could spark depression, fatigue

Allergists have begun working with psychologists to better understand why the "allergy blues" occur, and the answer is still up for debate.

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USA Today

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How to survive spring allergy season

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WebMD

Sinus bug antibiotics 'no good'

Doctors should cut down on antibiotic prescriptions for a common infection because the drugs do not work, researchers say.

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BBC

EDUCATION

Militants torch Afghan school in attack on education system

Afghan officials say suspected Taliban militants have burned down a primary school, in the latest attack on the country's burgeoning education system.

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Voice of America

Forum: Classical music needs education

During the past decade, reports about the impending death of classical music have arrived with such regularity that doom-saying is practically a full-time activity for several arts journalists.

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Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Alan Greenspan):

We will never have a perfect model of risk

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Financial Times

Good, bad and ugly online

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Belated attempt at oversight

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San Francisco Chronicle

Column (Herbert L. Abrams):

A president's age should concern Americans

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San Francisco Chronicle

Column (John K. Cooley):

What the Middle East needs most

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Christian Science Monitor

Column (Bob Deans):

How Iraq war reality will complicate plans of Bush's successor

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Belated attempt at oversight

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San Francisco Chronicle

Trust is at stake with Southwest

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Newsday

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GOOD NEWS

Buddies build home for fallen firefighter's widow and sons

Firefighters from the Macon-Bibb County and Atlanta, Ga., fire departments have been volunteering their time and energy building the two-story log cabin for what they say is an extension of their family.

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Macon Telegraph

Seattle barista gives gift of life

A Seattle barista gave one customer more than a cup of java — a life-saving organ.

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ABC News

The Louvre allows treasures to travel

An extraordinary and compelling taste of that vast collection, titled "Roman Art From the Louvre," will open at the Seattle Art Museum.

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Good News Daily

WORLD

Jail for 3 Ukrainian killers of journalist

A court in Kiev handed long sentences to three former police officers for the 2000 murder of Ukrainian journalist Georgy Gongadze, which contributed to the Orange Revolution four years later.

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Google News

Conservatives win Iran election

Conservative candidates in Iran's general election have kept control of parliament, in line with expectations. However, many conservative winners are critics of hard-line President Ahmadinejad.

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BBC

ENVIRONMENT

G20 backs climate fight, argues over industry caps

A grouping of the world's top greenhouse gas emitters backed U.N.-led efforts to forge a global pact to fight climate change, but disagreed on a sectoral approach to curb emissions from industry.

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Reuters

CEOs see green energy policies preserving US jobs

It's not often you hear executives from the biggest U.S. industries and a Republican governor clamoring for stronger regulations on climate change. But that's exactly what they want.

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Environmental News Network

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Space station robot Is up and moving

Robot "Mr. Dextre," as the astronauts on the space shuttle and the space station have started calling him, is doing just fine.

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ABC News

3.14 and the rest

It was Pi Day, a celebration of the mathematical ratio that man has been trying to unlock for millennia. But why are we driven to find the answers behind it?

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BBC

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Reported $50 million settlement in Paul McCartney-Heather Mills divorce

Sir Paul McCartney looks to have agreed to a $50 million settlement to end his bitter divorce battle with his soon-to-be ex-wife.

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McCartney-Mills judgment in full

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Guardian

Bob Barker bursts a bubble

The ex-"Price is Right" host wrote a letter to the Discovery Science Center in Santa Ana, Calif., opposing an educational stunt in which an Asian elephant would be enclosed inside a soapy bubble.

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TMZ

RELIGION

Mixing politics and religion a tricky issue for churches, synagogues

Religious constituencies can put a candidate over the top in a close race. But the stakes in mixing religion and politics can be steep for religious institutions.

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Cleveland Plain Dealer

Film spotlights black Mormons' story

Elijah Abel, Jane Manning James and Green Flake hold a unique, but rather obscure place in Mormon history: All three joined the church in its infancy and all three were black people.

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San Francisco Chronicle

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Warming could wipe out half of all plant and animal species

Rising global temperatures caused by climate change could trigger a huge extinction of plants and animals, according to a study.

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Guardian

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Elephants are fed with various kinds of fruit during the round table feeding ceremony at the ground in the ancient city of Ayutthaya, Thailand. (Photo by Apichart Weerawong / AP)

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