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Travelers stop to look at a currency exchange price list in New York's Grand Central Terminal. The dollar edged down against most major currencies after President Bush and U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said they supported an economic stimulus package to avert recession. (Photo by Mark Lennihan / AP)

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McCain, Huckabee neck and neck in S.C.; Obama leads Clinton

John McCain and Mike Huckabee are neck and neck heading into the Republican primary in South Carolina, where the outcome could hinge on undecided evangelical voters.

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McClatchy Newspapers

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Black voters generations apart

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U.S. News & World Report

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On the front row of history

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Christian Science Monitor

Osama bin Laden's son plans horse race for peace

Omar Osama bin Laden said in an interview there's a better way to defend Islam than militancy. The 26-year-old said he wants to be an "ambassador for peace" between Muslims and the West.

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CBC

President Bush to lay out economic stimulus ideas

President Bush is putting together his first public call for an emergency fiscal stimulus bill while negotiations on Capitol Hill focus on rebates for taxpayers and other steps to jump-start the sagging economy.

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ABC News

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Will tax rebates rescue the US?

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TIME

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Economy needs rescuing

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CBS News

Israel closes crossings with Gaza

Israel has temporarily shut its crossings with Gaza, after a series of rocket attacks on nearby Israeli towns from the Hamas-run territory. The UN relief agency said it was unable to deliver humanitarian aid.

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BBC

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Israel tests missile, Iran defiant

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Reuters

CIA: al-Qaida assassinated Bhutto

The CIA has concluded that members of al-Qaida and allies of Pakistani tribal leader Baitullah Mehsud were responsible for last month's assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

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MSNBC

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Frontier insurgency spills into a Pakistani city

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International Herald Tribune

NATION

US abortion rate lowest in nearly 30 years

The number of abortions performed in the United States dropped to 1.2 million in 2005 — the lowest level since 1976, according to a new report.

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Denver Post

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Against the trend, US births way up

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Associated Press

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Abortion and birth control

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'Grow up,' Chertoff tells critics

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said that new border crossing rules will mean longer lines for those entering the United States. Critics of the effort need to "grow up," he told the Associated Press.

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Houston Chronicle

Businesses fight states' plans to ensure health care

State and local lawmakers are crafting their own health plans in the absence of federal action. But, can states require employers to help cover the uninsured if they don't offer health coverage to their employees?

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USA Today

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POLITICS

Bush drilling plan could threaten polar bears, panel chairman says

A House committee chairman denounced the Bush administration's planned sale of oil drilling rights in a prime polar bear habitat in Alaska, saying its impact on the bear population is unknown.

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CNN

Politics of race ensnare Democrats

As America pauses to mark the anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, Clinton and Obama declare a truce in war of words, but the Democratic presidential contest has been altered nonetheless.

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Christian Science Monitor

Clinton-Obama battle moves to courtroom

A federal judge is to hear arguments in a lawsuit aimed at closing several workplace caucuses in the Las Vegas casino district. The lawsuit represents a move by the Nevada teachers' union.

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Guardian

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Caucus 101

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BUSINESS

New home construction falls 25 percent, lowest in 15 years

Construction on new homes fell 14 percent in December to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.01 million, the slowest building pace in more than 16 years, the Commerce Department reported.

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MarketWatch

Merrill posts record loss of $15 billion

Merrill Lynch & Co. reported a record loss after writing down at least $15 billion of failed investments, ousting its chief executive officer and losing almost half of its market value in 2007.

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Bloomberg

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Economic woes grow

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SPORTS

Misfortune leads to opportunity

In the midst of a busy stretch of seven games in 12 days prior to the NHL All-Star break, the Capitals had a chance to catch their breath and get used to life without center Michael Nylander.

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Examiner

Cowboys make Garrett highest-paid assistant in NFL

After looking into two coaching jobs, Jason Garrett decided to remain offensive coordinator of the Cowboys after Dallas made him the highest-paid assistant coach in the NFL.

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ESPN

HEALTH

FDA: Cold medicines too risky for tots

Parents may be left with only love and lots of liquid to give their sniffling babies and toddlers now that the government is declaring over-the-counter cough and cold medicines too risky for tots.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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Campaign against cold meds abuse

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ABC News

Vytorin: 'very serious' allegations

Did Vytorin's makers intentionally suppress unfavorable trial results? Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., will hold hearings to try to find out.

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Newsweek

Prostate cancer gene test coming soon

Scientists at Wake Forest University in North Carolina plan to start offering a new gene test for prostate cancer risk within months.

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WebMD

RELIGION

Episcopal Church cracks down on conservative dissidents

Leaders of the U.S. Episcopal Church have stepped up a crackdown on conservative dissidents, ordering one bishop to stop his religious work and threatening a second with the same thing.

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Reuters

Jesus 'tomb' controversy reopened

A leading New Testament expert from Princeton Theological Seminary, professor James Charlesworth, organized a conference in Jerusalem to determine if the crypt of Christ had yet been found.

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TIME

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GOOD NEWS

Report: School slayings down from '90s

About 16 students are murdered at U.S. schools each year, says a new government report that shows the number and rate of slayings has held steady and is lower than in the previous decade.

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Examiner

Google.org announces $26 million in grants and investments

As part of its save-the-world mission, Google Inc.'s philanthropic arm announced $26 million in grants and investments in what is the organization's biggest round of funding to date.

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San Francisco Chronicle

WORLD

Britain's Smith vows to tackle ideology of violent extremists

Home secretary, Jacqui Smith, promised to tackle the "ideology and ideologues of violent extremism", ahead of next week's publication of the counter-terrorism bill.

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Guardian

Kenya 'turned into killing field'

Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga has accused the government and the police of turning the country into "killing fields of the innocent."

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BBC

ENVIRONMENT

Coal producer pays $20 million fine

The country's fourth-largest coal producer will pay a $20 million pollution fine as part of a settlement with the government over allegations it routinely polluted hundreds of streams and waterways.

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Houston Chronicle

Amazon deforestation seen surging

Deforestation of the Amazon has surged in recent months and is likely to rise in 2008 for the first time in four years, a senior Brazilian government scientist said.

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Environmental News Network

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Scientists produce embryo clones

Scientists in California say they have produced embryos that are clones of two men, a potential step toward developing scientifically valuable stem cells.

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Star Tribune

Apple unveils iTunes video rentals, but DVD stores should fear TiVo

Apple's Steve Jobs came down from the mountain to announce online video rentals at Macworld, but, as usual, most of the world misses out.

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iTWire

Contact lenses with circuits

Engineers have for the first time used manufacturing techniques at microscopic scales to combine a flexible, biologically safe contact lens with an imprinted electronic circuit and lights.

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LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Rock stars turn Hollywood composers

For the rowdy rock band, "scoring" might not necessarily have anything to do with film music. Yet over the last couple of years, a number of rockers have made the leap from arenas to scoring stages.

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MSNBC

Net and tube: a cool couple

The courtship of Internet and television has been awkward. Now, instead of putting the Web on a television, companies want to send television across the Web.

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U.S. News & World Report

Directors reach 3-year deal with Hollywood producers

Movie and television directors agreed to a new three-year contract with Hollywood producers, a deal that could put pressure on the striking Writers Guild of America.

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MarketWatch

EDUCATION

Hybrid school buses hit the road

Dan Taghon, the director of transportation for the Sigourney Community School District in southeast Iowa, said his district’s new hybrid bus has been running routes since Jan. 3.

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Environmental News Network

Teacher absences are hurting learning

Despite tremendous pressure on schools to increase instructional time and meet performance goals, the vacuum created by teacher absenteeism has been all but ignored.

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MSNBC

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College applications break records

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International Herald Tribune

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

New Zealand police let public write laws

New Zealanders have been given the chance to write their own laws, with a new online tool launched by police.

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BBC

Photo of the Day

A mammoth iceberg dwarfs Beth Ipsen, Alaskan State Trooper and public information officer, during a photo documentation of the LeConte Glacier in southeast Alaska, near Petersburg, Alaska. (Photo by Klas Stolpe / AP)

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