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People wait in line for food at a roadside chicken stand in Kihei, Hawaii, after an earthquake struck the big island of Hawaii knocking out power and forcing restaurants and other merchants to close. (Photo by Joseph Kaczmarek/AP)

A strong earthquake rattles Hawaii

A strong earthquake struck the Hawaiian Islands early Sunday, shaking residents, knocking out electrical power and setting off a landslide that rained boulders and other debris on the major highway of the largest island.

New York Times

Bush's Press Secretary is raising money, and some eyebrows

Tony Snow has reinvented his job with his snappy sound bites and knack for deflecting tough questions with a smile.

New York Times

GOP senators urge new Iraq strategy

Two leading Republican senators called Sunday for a new strategy in Iraq, saying the situation in getting worse and leaving the United States with few options.

USA Today

Women look to gain more ground in Senate

If polls hold true, there will be a record number of women in the Senate next year, up from the current all-time high of 14 - nine Democrats and five Republicans.

USA Today

Chief Executive at health insurer is forced out

Dr. William W. McGuire, a medical entrepreneur who built the UnitedHealth Group, was forced to resign from the company yesterday and to give up a portion of his $1.1 billion stock options.

Reuters

Consumer unease with U.S. health care grows

USA Today

U.S. firing plans for Great Lakes raise concerns

For the first time, Coast Guard officials want to mount machine guns around all five of the Great Lakes as part of a program addressing the threats of terrorism after Sept. 11.

New York Times

SCIENCE

Doctors say electric pulses aided brain-damaged man

A team of neuroscientists reported Sunday that they had restored some movement and speech to a severely brain-damaged man by stimulating his brain with pulses of electric current.

New York Times

ENTERTAINMENT

CBGB brings down the curtain with nostalgia and one last night of rock

Crowds lined up outside the club for a chance to see Patti Smith and bid farewell to the club who after a protracted real estate battle with its landlord agreed late last year to leave its home at the end of this month.

New York Times

SCIENCE

Research finds selfishness 'off' switch

New research has found the switch in the brain for turning selfishness on and off

Forbes

SPORTS

Fox fires baseball announcer Steve Lyons after racially insensitive comment

Fox baseball broadcaster Steve Lyons has been fired for making a racially insensitive comment directed at colleague Lou Piniella's Hispanic heritage on the air during Game 3 of the American League championship series.

USA Today

BUSINESS

Wal-Mart owes $78.5 million in back pay, jury finds

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. owes workers in Pennsylvania $78.5 million for missed rest breaks and hours worked beyond regular shifts, a jury ruled, handing the world's largest retailer its second such trial loss in less than a year.

Bloomberg

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Daum):

The state of student activism

Los Angeles Times

Column (Adams):

Disputed election keeps Mexico on edge

St. Petersburg Times

Column (Taylor Martin):

Books lay blame with general

St. Petersburg Times

Column (Ghitis):

Will Iran follow North Korea's lead?

Miami Herald

Column (Rubin):

Kremlin won't investigate killings

Miami Herald

Column (Brooks):

A good week for the Axis of Evil

Los Angeles Times

Editorial:

A medical-legal travesty in Libya

New York Times

Editorial:

AARP to voters: Don't vote, unless...

Kalamazoo Gazette

Editorial:

Desperately seeking Susan

New York Times

Editorial:

AIDS tests, everywhere

New York Times

Editorial:

Immigrants are eager to learn English

USA Today

Editorial:

Prove them wrong

Baltimore Sun

Editorial:

Globalization and schools

Washington Post

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EDUCATION

Gallaudet protest shuts school

Deaf students protest over the choice of a new president form human blockade to close university for a second day.

New York Times

WORLD

Draft law would help Chinese unions

A proposed law would clamp down on sweatshops and protect the rights of workers, giving unions power.

New York Times

NATION

Coming tomorrow, American number 300 million

The United States will become a nation of 300 million people on Tuesday, the U.S. Census Bureau estimates.

CNN

Simpler form created to aid storm victims

The Federal Emergency Management Agency said Thursday that it had greatly simplified the form for evacuees from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita to reapply for extended rent subsidies.

New York Times

ENTERTAINMENT

Booker winner had author mother for strength

Prize-winning novelist Kiran Desai said long talks and travelling with her daughter helped her defeat self-doubt and go on to win an award on three occasions.

Reuters

TECHNOLOGY

Political 'Tracker' is looking for err time

Video cameras are now a valued campaign tool, as a foe's gaffes can land on YouTube in a flash.

LA Times

Parents disapprove, but Internet romance a big hit

In a country where arranged marriages are common and premarital relations of any sort are frowned on, the Internet represents a threat to the established order.

USA Today

HEALTH

In cities, healthful living through fresher shopping

Eastwick is one of the first sites for a government campaign to bring supermarkets stocked with healthful food into neglected inner-city neighborhoods to improve public health.

Washington Post

GOOD NEWS

Microchip gets dog back to owners after 1,400-mile trek

Kobe the terrier is back with his family after the small white pooch vanished from his California home last month and was found by a stranger 1,400 miles away in Denton, Texas.

USA Today

Message in bottle travels around world in 47 days

A message in a bottle was discovered on the other side of the world, in New Zealand.

USA Today

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