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Residents go about their daily business in Yangon, Myanmar, after troops removed road blocks and appeared to ease their stranglehold on the city. Myanmar's leader stalled a U.N. envoy for yet another day, delaying his chance to present world demands for an end to the junta's crackdown on pro-democracy protesters. (Photo by AP)

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New chief troubled by Iraq

Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says the Iraq war has consumed so much U.S. attention it might be overstretching the military and distracting the nation from other threats.

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Admiral Mike Mullen

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CNN

DNA evidence changing legal system

State lawmakers across the country are adopting broad changes to criminal justice procedures as a response to the exoneration of more than 200 convicts through the use of DNA evidence.

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Ledger

Chicago cops awash in scandal

Videotapes of angry officers savagely beating civilians and charges that a murder plot was hatched within an elite special operations unit have Chicago's troubled police department reeling again.

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ABC News

U.N. envoy to meet top Myanmar general

United Nations envoy Ibrahim Gambari will meet with Myanmar's military junta leader within the next day to try to end a government crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators.

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Bloomberg

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The monk's tale: 'We cannot turn back'

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London Independent

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Yahoo! News

Kasparov will run for president on anti-Putin platform

Garry Kasparov, the ex-world chess champion turned politician, will run in Russia's 2008 presidential election as the candidate for The Other Russia, a coalition opposed to President Vladimir Putin.

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Bloomberg

The power of the sun

The search for renewable-energy sources is making clean-tech jobs hot.

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Newsweek

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All about solar energy

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CNN

Summer may be over, but solar power's heating up

The American Solar Energy Society has been showcasing solar power through tours in 46 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico for 12 years.

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The Olympian

50 years ago, high-tech culture was born

They weren't out to make history, the eight young engineers who met secretly with investor Arthur Rock 50 years ago to form Silicon Valley's ancestral chip company, Fairchild Semiconductor.

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San Francisco Chronicle

NATION

Victim uses Facebook to finger suspect

Police arrested a suspect in an attack on the Georgetown University campus with the help of a Facebook profile.

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CNN

Presiding U.S. Episcopal bishop affirms same-sex unions

On the deadline set by church leaders for the Episcopal Church to roll back support for same-sex unions, the U.S. church's presiding bishop said that there would be no retreat.

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San Francisco Chronicle

POLITICS

Bush says Dems want to raise taxes

President Bush warned that Democrats are ready to raise taxes in historic proportions and reiterated his opposition to the expansion of a children’s healthcare program during his weekly radio address.

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The Hill

Defecting Republican donors fund Hillary

Former Republican donors are lining up behind Hillary Clinton for president as she establishes a formidable lead over her rivals for the Democratic nomination.

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Sunday Times

Obama remains stuck in 2nd place

Barack Obama is the campaign rock star, but Hillary Clinton is still the woman to beat. Despite leading all of his rivals in the race for money, Obama is still far back in second place.

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A talk with Obama

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CNN

BUSINESS

Payrolls for September expected to bounce back

The Federal Reserve's next big decision on interest rates is a month away, but we're only days away from the most important economic data on which the Fed will base its decision.

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MarketWatch

BUSINESS

Big writedowns to slash Citi's quarterly profit 60 percent

Citigroup Inc said it expects third-quarter profit to fall from last year after huge writedowns for unsold debt it issued to finance corporate takeovers and losses on subprime mortgage-backed securities.

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MarketWatch

UPS, Teamsters agree on contract for 240,000 workers

United Parcel Service Inc. and the Teamsters agreed on a tentative contract that would boost pay and benefits for workers and allow the company to pay $6.1 billion to exit a pension plan.

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Bloomberg

HEALTH

Mysteries of sleep revealed

It has long been believed that our dreams provide an insight to our innermost thoughts. Now experts say that our behavior while we sleep can reveal hidden aspects of our personalities.

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Telegraph.co.uk

Why Americans 'tune out' obesity talk

Every day, Americans are inundated with the latest statistics, weight-loss products and information about how healthy or unhealthy they are, yet fewer people are trying to lose weight.

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ABC News

SPORTS

Favre sets NFL record with 421st TD pass

Brett Favre broke Dan Marino's record for career touchdown passes, zipping No. 421 to Greg Jennings in the first quarter of the game against the Minnesota Vikings.

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USA Today

Efficient Germany tames Brazil to win World Cup

A ruthlessly efficient Germany tamed Brazil to win the World Cup final 2-0 with goals from Birgit Prinz and Simone Laudehr making them the first nation to successfully defend their title.

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AFP

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

The rise of atheism

While their views still may be the minority in the United States, atheists have become more vocal and visible in recent years.

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ABC News

Group plans rival branch to represent Anglicanism in North America

Bishops from 13 Anglican and Episcopal groups in North America announced that they had formed a partnership as the first step to creating a rival to the Episcopal Church.

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GOOD NEWS

Better lupus treatments on the horizon

High-tech research into better, safer ways to treat the autoimmune disease lupus is building up steam, a group of scientists report.

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HealthDay

Bear rescued from Sierra bridge ledge

A 250-pound bear stranded under a bridge near Lake Tahoe was saved by an army of rescuers, a tranquilizer dart and a nylon net bought at an Army surplus store.

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San Francisco Chronicle

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Volunteers rescue frightened bear

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Yahoo! News

WORLD

Magnitude 7.4 quake hits near islands off New Zealand

A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 7.4 hit about 300 miles southwest of New Zealand, but there were no reports of damage and authorities discounted the risk of a major tsunami.

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Reuters

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Deadly earthquakes: past and present

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LiveScience

Africans brave perilous sea in search of job opportunities

This is where Africa ends. In the decrepit port city of Bossasso at the easternmost tip of the continent, thousands of Africans are waiting to get out — to escape from the unrelenting war of Somalia.

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McClatchy Newspapers

Darfur attack kills peacekeepers

An attack on an African Union army base in the Sudanese region of Darfur has killed at least 10 peacekeepers.

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BBC

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Peacekeepers killed in Darfur

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LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Scientists say owl recovery plan was 'deeply flawed'

A group of independent scientists concluded that a draft recovery plan for the northern spotted owl was “deeply flawed.”

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McClatchy Newspapers

Bush's EPA pursues fewer criminal cases

The Environmental Protection Agency's pursuit of criminal cases against polluters has dropped off sharply during the Bush administration.

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San Francisco Chronicle

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

'Game Plan' wins weekend

Disney had the winning game at the weekend box office, with family laffer "The Game Plan" easily grabbing the keys to the castle from Universal's geopolitical drama "The Kingdom."

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Variety

After making the definitive gay-cowboy romance in Hollywood history, what do you do next? With "Lust, Caution," protean Taiwanese director Ang Lee does something unexpected and truly daring.

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Slate

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Robots get social

Dominated by home-cleaning gadgets, the consumer robotics market is expanding with new 'bots that can spy inside your home when you're away or arrange virtual meetings of family or friends.

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LiveScience

How Sputnik changed the world

Just after the sun set on a nation meeting the Cleavers, many real-life families stepped outside and gazed up at a dark, disturbing reality: A “baby moon” roamed the skies, and it belonged to the Russians.

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Kansas City Star

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Asia could win next 'Space Race', US scientists fear

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Yahoo! News

EDUCATION

South Carolina breaking ground with single-gender classes

As the country's first and only statewide coordinator of single-gender education, David Chadwell is helping to make South Carolina a leader among public schools that offer such programs.

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Associated Press

Innovative teaching to involve students in science

Rochelle Schwartz-Bloom, a pharmacology professor at Duke University who left the lab bench to focus on science education, created a tactic to keep students' hands in the air at the end of class.

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Medical News Today

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Child abuse, neglect rise after U.S. soldiers deploy to combat zone: study

Recent research shows that incidents of child abuse and neglect among U.S. military families rise significantly when a parent is deployed to a combat zone.

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Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre carries wide receiver Greg Jennings after completing a 16-yard touchdown pass to him in first quarter, setting the NFL record for career touchdown passes at 421, in a football game against the Minnesota Vikings. (Photo by Jim Mone / AP)

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