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| Should Obama Play Rougher? |
23 Apr 08, 23:40 ET |
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| Time.com - After a bruising loss in Pennsylvania, Barack Obama faces more questions about his willingness to play politics the old-fashioned way |
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| Chicago's violent spring continues, with 5 found dead |
23 Apr 08, 22:43 ET |
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| AP - Authorities found the bodies of five young people Wednesday inside a ransacked house on Chicago's South Side, raising the body count in an already violent spring, police said. |
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| Judge orders La. school district to stop Bible giveaways |
23 Apr 08, 22:31 ET |
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| AP - A federal judge ordered a public school system Tuesday to stop allowing in-school Bible giveaways, saying the practice violates the First Amendment separation of church and state. |
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| Hundreds riot at LA detention center for illegal immigrants |
23 Apr 08, 22:26 ET |
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| AP - Hundreds of illegal immigrants awaiting deportation rioted at a county-run detention center and had to be subdued with tear gas, authorities said Wednesday. |
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| Hawaii volcano forces park evacuation for 2nd time in month |
23 Apr 08, 20:27 ET |
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| AP - Elevated levels of sulfur dioxide pouring from Kilauea volcano Wednesday forced the evacuation of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park for the second time this month. |
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| Seller of viagra chocolate faces stiff sentence for mail fraud |
23 Apr 08, 18:22 ET |
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| AFP - A businessman who sold Viagra-laced chocolate as a food supplement called "Boom" was indicted Wednesday for mail fraud by a federal judge, and faces 20 years in jail if found guilty. |
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| Plaintiffs: Gas firm to pay for R.I. 'blue soil' cleanup |
23 Apr 08, 17:22 ET |
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| AP - An energy company has agreed to pay residents of a polluted waterfront neighborhood and to clean up the massive contamination that turned the soil under their homes blue, lawyers for the neighbors said Wednesday, though the company said a deal had not been reached. |
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| All eyes turn to Indiana in bitter Democratic race |
23 Apr 08, 16:50 ET |
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| AFP - The longest nomination race in US presidential history has moved on to a new and unlikely key battleground -- the oft-ignored midwestern state of Indiana. |
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| A Primary with No End |
23 Apr 08, 16:50 ET |
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| Time.com - Clinton wins just big enough in Pennsylvania to ensure that the race will go on - and keep John McCain smiling |
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| Experts say sex abstinence program doesn't work |
23 Apr 08, 16:33 ET |
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| Reuters - Programs teaching U.S.
schoolchildren to abstain from sex have not cut teen
pregnancies or sexually transmitted diseases or delayed the age
at which sex begins, health groups told Congress on Wednesday. |
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| High-pitched device drives teens from loitering spots |
23 Apr 08, 15:48 ET |
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| AP - As 15-year-old Eddie Holder sprinted from his apartment for school one recent morning, he held his hand to one ear to block out a shrill, piercing noise. |
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| Ohio woman pleads guilty in fire that killed her children |
23 Apr 08, 15:12 ET |
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| AP - A woman pleaded guilty Wednesday to killing her two young children by setting fire to the family's suburban home. |
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| Fraud costs military health program $100 million-plus |
23 Apr 08, 14:41 ET |
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| AP - The U.S. military's health insurance program has been swindled out of more than $100 million over the past decade in the Philippines, where doctors, hospitals and clinics have conspired with American veterans to submit bogus claims, according to prosecutors and court records. |
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| Exposure to ozone in smog linked to premature death: study |
23 Apr 08, 14:05 ET |
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| AFP - Even short-term exposure to common levels of ozone in smog is likely to contribute to premature deaths, a new National Research Council report warned Wednesday. |
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| Hospital incidence of one disease soars: study |
23 Apr 08, 13:13 ET |
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| Reuters - Federal government figures show a
steep spike in U.S. cases of a common but serious infection
that gives hospital patients sometimes deadly diarrhea and
blood poisoning. |
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| Experts fear nation's waterways need rescuing - from us |
23 Apr 08, 07:59 ET |
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| AP - Rosemary Lowe scoops up a shovel of dirt and dumps it into a hole around the base of a slender cottonwood tree. |
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| Thick layers of snow poised to refresh parched West |
23 Apr 08, 07:28 ET |
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| AP - Hydrologist Joe Messina pushes an aluminum tube straight down into the spongy springtime snow in a mountainside forest, crouches to read the markings on the side and calls out the depth: 28 inches. |
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| Bear gave off no reasons for concern before trainer's death |
23 Apr 08, 06:49 ET |
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| AP - The grizzly bear that wrestled Will Ferrell's character in the recent film "Semi-Pro" seemed to obediently follow cues - which made its killing of its trainer with a bite to the neck all the more stunning. |
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