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A British Airways plane lands at Terminal 4 of London's Heathrow Airport. The open skies agreement, inked last May to end rules under which U.S. and European governments had to negotiate airlines' access to new markets, takes effect Sunday, March 30, 2008. (Photo by Matt Dunham / AP)

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Delta, US rivals target Heathrow amid 'Open Skies'

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Bloomberg

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'Open Skies' heralds new era in air travel

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CNN

Second Texas Democratic caucuses bring more chaos

Traffic jams, long lines, crowds, confusion and chaos marked Texas Democratic regional conventions as an unprecedented number of political activists turned out to help elect presidential nominating delegates.

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Houston Chronicle

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El Paso superdelegates pledge their support

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Iraqi cleric calls off militias

Iraqi Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has ordered his fighters off the streets of Basra and other cities in an effort to end clashes with security forces.

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BBC

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Maliki's Basra crackdown poses risk for US

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Reuters

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British forces fire in Basra

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BBC

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In photos: 'Iraq Basra Conflict'

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Monsters & Critics

Plane crashes into homes in England

UK police have confirmed that a private aircraft has crashed into a residential area in the town of Farnborough in Kent, southeast of London.

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CNN

Lebanese students demonstrate against Syrian president

Around 250 Lebanese university students demonstrated against Syria in Beirut, tearing up pictures of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and calling him an "assassin."

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Monsters and Critics

Countrywide CEO gets $10 million

Countrywide Financial's chief executive and president will receive a combined $19 million in stock as part of the company's pending takeover by Bank of America.

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TIME

NATION

Struggling homeowners find little hope in federal program

Since Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson challenged mortgage lenders to modify distressed home loans voluntarily to ease record numbers of foreclosures, it remains difficult to gauge the program's success.

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McClatchy Newspapers

DA: Spitzer behind plot to smear rival

Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer ordered an aide to release travel records to discredit a political rival despite the ex-governor's public denials, a criminal prosecutor said.

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Google News

Is Pentagon using Guantanamo trials to influence election?

The Navy lawyer for Osama bin Laden's driver argues in a Guantánamo military commissions motion that senior Pentagon officials are orchestrating war crimes prosecutions for the 2008 campaign.

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McClatchy Newspapers

POLITICS

McCain touts war hero image as Clinton and Obama bicker

With Democrats locked in a bloody primary battle, Sen. John McCain set his sights on the general election, releasing his first ad since sewing up the GOP nomination.

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Hillary vows to stay in race 100 years

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Huffington Post

Questions surface about Obama claim Kennedy family helped dad

Sen. Barack Obama traced his "very existence" to the generosity of the Kennedy family, which he said paid for his Kenyan father to travel to America and thus meet his Kansan mother.

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Houston Chronicle

Gallup: second straight 'statistically significant' lead for Obama

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USA Today

Pelosi: eye 'must be on the prize'

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told Democrats gathered in San Jose that they must not allow the competitive presidential primary to sidetrack them from their goal of taking back the White House in November.

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San Jose Mercury News

BUSINESS

Scope for dollar selling, investors still overweight

The dollar has dropped sharply this year but many investors still hold overweight positions and could force the greenback to new depths against the euro as they scramble to sell.

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Reuters

Bush may expand help for struggling homeowners

President George W. Bush said he is looking to expand U.S. efforts to help struggling homeowners reduce their mortgage payments, as Democrats pressed for a more substantial federal role.

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Reuters

Markets worry: will US plant enough corn?

With food prices racing higher, strong demand for corn from food companies, and ethanol makers, U.S. corn production is considered a critical.

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Reuters

SPORTS

Red Sox beat Dodgers before record 115,300 fans at LA Coliseum

The Red Sox beat the Dodgers 7-4 before an announced crowd of 115,300 — the largest ever to watch a baseball game.

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Sports Illustrated

Hansbrough, Carolina hold off Rick Pitino's Cardinals, 83-73

Tyler Hansbrough, the leading candidate for national player of the year honors, did everything except change his clothes in a telephone booth to help his team stay alive.

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More than an exhibition: Mets beat White Sox in Civil Rights game

Chicago White Sox general manager Ken Williams views the annual Civil Rights game as more than a spring-ending exhibition with a reflection on historical significance. He see it as an opportunity to strive for equality.

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HEALTH

How dangerous is boxing for the brain?

Boxing is possibly less dangerous for the brain than previously feared — at least for amateurs. However, conclusive statements on the level of danger are not yet possible.

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Brain scan technique spots Alzheimer’s

A computer-assisted imaging technique that measures sugar metabolism within a critical area of the brain could hold the key to the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias.

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WebMD

FDA will investigate a possible link between the drug Singulair and suicide

The Food and Drug Administration announced an investigation examining a link between suicide and Merck's popular allergy and asthma drug, Singulair.

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ABC News

RELIGION

Obama inspires racial dialogue in churches

Sen. Barack Obama's historic speech earlier this month in Philadelphia on race relations has elevated the discussion about the issue to the point where it has worked itself into churches.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Muslim convert defends baptism by pope

A Muslim whose baptism by Pope Benedict over Easter sparked criticism from Muslim scholars has defended his conversion and accused critics of trying to manipulate the event to attack the pontiff.

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MSNBC

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Robert Reich):

The mortgage bailout's moral hazard

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American Prospect

Give the flying public relief from interminable tarmac delays

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Houston Chronicle

Column (Tom Hayden):

Iraq crisis threatens Bush-Petraeus 'surge' strategy as bankrupt

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Yahoo! News

After Bush: America and the world

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Economist

Column (Martin Kettle):

A Euro-army is fantasy land. We need our American ally

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Guardian

Column (Daniel Gardner):

Where have all the manhole covers gone?

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International Herald Tribune

Texas' 10 percent admission could teach colleges a thing or two

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USA Today

Column (Shelly Palmer):

US digital deficiency jeopardizes 'super power' status

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Yahoo! News

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GOOD NEWS

Mich. teen finds fossilized shark tooth

David Wentz was snorkeling in the St. Clair River last August when what he thought was an odd-looking rock caught his eye.

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Heroes in school shooting and bridge collapse receive prestigious medals

Two years ago, a Nevada teacher confronted a student gunman who had already wounded others. With compassion she convinced him to put down his weapon embracing him until authorities arrived.

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Good News Network

Early 'Leaf' photo could fetch fortune

A N.Y. auction house is selling a primitive photograph that could be a much earlier work than originally believed. If so, it says, it would be one of the most important discoveries in the history of photography.

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CBS News

WORLD

North Korea threatens to cut off dialogue with South

North Korea threatened to suspend dialogue with the South over comments made by a South Korean military official and said it was ready to attack its wealthy neighbor.

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Reuters

Amid small protests, Beijing Olympic torch reaches Acropolis

The Beijing Olympics torch relay reached the ancient Acropolis amid heavy police security and brief demonstrations by small groups of protesters.

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Vote count under way in Zimbabwe

Vote counting is under way in Zimbabwe, with the main opposition MDC claiming it is winning the battle to oust President Robert Mugabe.

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BBC

ENVIRONMENT

Air Force seeks jets powered by liquefied coal

Squeezed by the soaring cost of oil-based jet fuel, the Air Force is converting its gas-guzzling fleet of aircraft to synthetic fuels and encouraging the creation of a liquefied coal industry.

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McClatchy Newspapers

California lowers auto emissions rule

California regulators have cut the number of zero-emission vehicles required to be sold in the state by the year 2014, a decision that frustrated environmentalists but came as a relief to auto manufacturers.

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LiveScience

Wildlife park official arrested in gorilla killings

Congolese authorities have arrested a senior park official in connection to the recent execution-style killings of several mountain gorillas.

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National Geographic

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

From busy to business: exploring 'semantic antics'

In his new book, Sol Steinmetz traces the origin of words using historical, cultural and literary anecdotes.

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NPR

Stem cells from hair follicles may help 'grow' new blood vessels

For a rich source of stem cells to be engineered into new blood vessels or skin tissue, clinicians may one day look no further than the hair on their patients' heads, according to new research.

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Try this headline: black hole eats earth

A lawsuit contents that a giant particle accelerator outside Geneva might produce a black hole that will spell the end of the Earth — and maybe the universe.

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International Herald Tribune

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Images: the cosmos on your computer

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MSNBC

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

State of Tracey Ullman's 'Union' is strong

Be warned: Because Tracy Ullman can do so much, initially she's doing too much on her new show. Though fun, the opener's skits are too short, and the characters too numerous, for any one joke to register.

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USA Today

A Hispanic hit at the cineplex

"Under the Same Moon" connected with both Hispanic and indie film audiences, earning $2.6 million, the highest opening weekend ever for a Spanish-language film in the U.S.

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TIME

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Do pirated films fund terrorism?

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CBS News

Robert Fagles, translator of classics, dies

Robert Fagles, the renowned translator of Latin and Greek whose versions of Homer and Virgil were unlikely best-sellers and became fixtures on classroom reading lists, died at his home in Princeton, New Jersey.

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International Herald Tribune

EDUCATION

Boosting GI Bill benefits could hit military roadblock

For Sen. Jim Webb, it's a question of fairness: Why don't veterans of today's armed services get the same benefits the GI Bill provided "the greatest generation" after World War II?

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USA Today

Soaring tuition costs

The cost of a higher education is increasing rapidly across the country. What can next year's freshmen expect.

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NBC News

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

The next wave of cancer drugs

There's a buzz among doctors and researchers about new inhibitor drugs that target a tumor's resistance to primary cancer treatments.

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Alden Spoonhunter (left) and Stan Aschenbernner dance during the Keepers of the Fire 28th Biennial Spring Pow-Wow at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, Wyo. (Photo by Ben Wolosszyn / Laramie Boomerang / AP)

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