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Floodwaters cover farmland and roads near Paragon, Ind. Storms pounded the country from the Midwest to the East Coast, forcing hundreds of people to flee flooded communities. Tornadoes tore up houses and killed at least five people. (Photo by Alan Petersime / Indianapolis Star / AP)

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US rebuked for leaving rights council

An international rights watchdog has reacted sharply to the U.S. government's decision to further disengage itself from the Geneva-based Human Rights Council.

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OneWorld

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Bush, EU leaders discusses sanctions

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NPR

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US and EU 'to issue Iran warning'

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BBC

Auditors criticize popular teacher recruitment program

A popular teacher recruitment program failed to abide by federal accounting rules, making it difficult to determine if federal grants were properly spent.

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Yahoo! News

Indian climatologist wins top UAE prize

Indian climatologist, V. Ramanathan, who has done pioneering work on the effect of pollutants on global warming, won the Zayed International Prize awarded by the UAE government.

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After storms, Midwest flooded

Rain finally stopped falling, but the water left behind from the weekend's multiple torrents continues to make folks in southern Wisconsin miserable.

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

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Midwest in state of emergency

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CBS News

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Imminent levee failure could flood new ommunities in Indiana

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theindychannel.com

At least 28 killed in Sudan plane blaze

A Sudanese airliner burst into flames after landing in Khartoum in bad weather, killing at least 28 of the 217 people on board.

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BBC

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Sudan plane crash

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Monsters and Critics

World Bank prices first UN carbon offset bond-lead

The World Bank priced a $25 million bond linked to United Nations-approved carbon emission offset credits, the market's first such bond, lead manager Daiwa Securities SMBC Europe said.

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Environmental News Network

Climate change hastens extinction in Madagascar's reptiles and amphibians

According to a new research, global warming is depleting the habitats of amphibians and reptiles in Madagascar, forcing them to move up tropical mountains.

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NATION

FDA expands salmonella in raw red tomatoes warning

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expanding its warning to consumers not to eat raw red tomatoes, because they could be contaminated with a rare type of salmonella.

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Medical News Today

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Which tomatoes were taken off the menu

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MSNBC

Gates recommends Schwartz as next Air Force chief

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates took action to reorient the leadership of the Air Force, calling for the nomination of the first nonfighter or bomber pilot to lead the service since its inception.

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Austin American-Statesman

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Why the Air Force bugs Gates

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TIME

POLITICS

Obama's plan: tax breaks, stimulus check

Barack Obama spoke directly to pocketbook issues and outlined an economic plan that would include a second stimulus check, tax breaks for seniors and the middle class, and debt relief for students.

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Newsday

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Obama hits McCain on economy, gas prices

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MSNBC

McCain wants low corporate taxes, regulated CEO pay

Republican White House candidate John McCain will promise to lower corporate tax rates and ease the tax burden on middle-class workers to help revive the faltering economy.

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Reuters

The McCain-Bush two-step: a timeline

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Newsweek

SPORTS

Ken Griffey Jr. hits home run No. 600

"I really didn't think about it running the bases," Griffey said. "I don't think I touched a base. I floated around. It didn't hit me until I saw my family and Trey."

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Cincinnati Enquirer

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Griffey's 600th

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ESPN

NFL Giants' Strahan set to retire

New York Giants star defensive end Michael Strahan has apparently decided to retire after 15 seasons.

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The Sports Network

HEALTH

Dying to be thin

Janell Smith struggled with an eating disorder, was hospitalized, then discharged, per her insurer, allegedly over her father's and her physicians' protests. She soon committed suicide.

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ABC News

Kiddie Prozac docs took millions from drug makers

Advocates of antidepressant used by children received millions of dollars from antidepressant manufacturers, casting into question the integrity of their already-controversial research.

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Wired

High-dose cyclophosphamide shows promise for aggressive MS

Aggressive relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis responded significantly to high-dose cyclophosphamide with reduced disease activity and disability, a small trial showed.

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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Apple unveils a faster, cheaper iPhone

Steve Jobs, chief executive of Apple, introduced a new cheaper iPhone model that connects to the Internet faster and displayed a range of new services.

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International Herald Tribune

IBM's Roadrunner computer breaks supercomputer record

IBM announced that the new Roadrunner supercomputer is the first capable of executing more than 1 quadrillion (1,000 trillion) floating point operations per second.

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InformationWeek

EDUCATION

Teachers achieving 'highly qualified' status on the rise

There was a 7 percent increase in the total number of highly qualified teachers nationwide who were teaching core-subject classes since 2003-04.

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Los Angeles teachers stage 1-hour walkout

Teachers skipped class in the nation's second-largest school district to protest a state budget they contend will cost their district $353 million and lead to cutbacks.

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Yahoo! News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Gay Episcopal bishop and his partner joined in civil union

The first openly gay Episcopal bishop, Rev. Gene Robinson, and his partner of 20 years, Mark Andrew, have been united in a private civil union.

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Star Tribune

China funds campaign to eliminate churches in homes

A new report released ahead of the Beijing Olympic Games, details the current Chinese government’s crackdown on unregistered Christians.

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Columns And Op-Ed

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Al-Qaeda pushed on to the defensive

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Financial Times

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How to get back to growth

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Newsweek

Column (Timothy Lynch):

Bush's foreign policy will endure

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Guardian

The mother-daughter wars

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Salon.com

Greg Norman is back and Broadmoor-bound

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Denver Post

FAA raps county over Paine Field

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These steps could lower oil prices, but nobody'll take them

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McClatchy Newspapers

Dick Cheney's loaded 'joke' has white elitist roots

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Newsday

The Malthus blues

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Economist

Ins and outs of higher ed

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USA Today

The cost of food and oil need the Fed's urgent attention

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Christian Science Monitor

Editorial (Chris Simmons):

To unite nation, Obama must first unite his party

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San Jose Mercury News

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GOOD NEWS

10-year-old hero rescues boy in river

Peter Hamm, age 10, helped rescue a 3-year-old boy who fell into the Fox River near Elgin, Illinois during the annual "Fish for Fun" fishing derby.

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Chicago Sun-Times

Afghanistan's hidden treasures on display in Washington, DC

The National Gallery of Art in Washington is exhibiting some artifacts that have outlasted all the wars and conflicts. The show is a mix of breath-catching beauty, artistry, derring-do and heroism.

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NPR

WORLD

Austrian incest victim awakes from medically induced coma

A daughter of the Austrian incest victim imprisoned in a cellar for decades has been brought out of a medically induced coma, a hospital official said.

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CBS News

Chinese quake lake begins to drain

A brimming quake lake in central China began to drain, but some fear the water that is now gushing out of the lake could trigger floods downstream.

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CBC

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Chinese town engulfed

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BBC

Farmers push for a bigger harvest

In a year when global harvests need to be excellent to ease the threat of pervasive food shortages, evidence is mounting that they will be average at best. Some farmers are starting to fear disaster.

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International Herald Tribune

BUSINESS

Bernanke: Risk of US downturn has 'diminished over past month'

The U.S. economy may have avoided a major decline, U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has said, stating that the risk of a substantial downturn had "diminished over the past month or so."

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BBC

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How HUD’s mortgage policy fed the crisis

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MSNBC

Rising gas prices finally kill the once-mighty SUV

After reigning supreme for years, the SUV has at long last fallen, done in by mounting fuel prices that have consumers embracing small cars and automakers scrambling to build them.

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Wired

Buy one home, get one free: US agents try to beat property slump

"Don't miss this incredible investment opportunity! It's never been done before and may never be done again!" reads the advertisement promoting the two-for-one offer from Michael Crews Development.

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Telegraph.co.uk

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Swayze plans to act through his cancer

The star of such hit films as "Dirty Dancing" and "Ghost" is going forward with plans to begin working on a new cable television series despite being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

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ABC News

'Kollective' makes ads that aim to engage and entertain

A group of filmmakers began functioning as ad directors and formed Kontent Films, a hybrid production company whose expertise is interactive advertising.

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San Francisco Chronicle

ENVIRONMENT

Finnish PM urges rich nations to take lead on climate change

Finland's Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen urged developed countries to take the lead in reducing greenhouse gas emissions while helping emerging economies with clean energy technologies.

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Yahoo! News

Report confirms drilling, not earthquake, caused Java mud volcano

A mud volcano which has caused millions of dollars worth of damage was caused by the drilling of a gas exploration well, a team of scientists has concluded.

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Environmental News Network

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

New theory of origin of life proposed

Life may have begun in the protected spaces inside of layers of the mineral mica in ancient oceans, according to a new hypothesis.

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Italian beach volleyball player Daniela Gattelli practices her serve prior to a qualifying match during the Smart Grand Slam in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Franka Bruns / AP)

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