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U.S. army soldiers secure an area after a roadside bomb blast in Baghdad. A roadside bomb went off, killing five people near a shelter used as a police recruiting center in the Shiite-dominated neighborhood of Binouk, police said. (Photo by Hadi Mizban / AP)

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Storm warning in Florida as Noel edges northward

Southeast Florida came under a storm warning as Tropical Storm Noel edged northward after dumping days of torrential rain in the Caribbean and killing at least 91 people.

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Reuters

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Noel takes aim at South Florida

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ABC News

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The Weather Channel

Russia and China blocked Iran sanctions

Russia and China have been blocking tough U.N. sanctions against Iran, the United States said, adding there would be a push to impose them if Iran did not halt nuclear activity within two weeks.

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Reuters

U.S. deaths hit new lows in Baghdad

Violence hit a yearly low in Baghdad, according to end-of-the-month statistics, even as killings elsewhere raised worrisome questions about whether security improvements will hold.

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McClatchy Newspapers

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Iraq violence, in figures

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BBC

Chrysler to cut up to 12,000 jobs

Chrysler LLC said it plans to cut up to 12,000 jobs, or up to 15 percent of its workforce, as part of an effort to slash costs.

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International Herald Tribune

President Bush defends attorney general candidate Mukasey

President Bush, seeking to salvage the nomination of Michael Mukasey as attorney general, defended the former judge's refusal to say whether he considers waterboarding as illegal torture.

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San Jose Mercury News

Invention of the year: the iPhone

The iPhone is more than just a gadget. It's a genuine handheld computer, the first device that really deserves the name.

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TIME

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A couple look at "carcutter," a sculpture made of scrap metal and a car by artist Dillon McEwan in Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Rob Griffith / AP)	Pope Benedict XVI, in white under a white umbrella, greets the faithful during a rainy general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. (Photo by Plinio Lepri / AP)	A Timorese boy watches as a boat burns after it caught fire while unloading gasoline off the beach in Dili, the capital of East Timor. (Photo by Binsar Bakkara / AP)

NATION

Alarming trend: Nationally and locally, criminals aim at police

The cold-blooded shooting of a Philadelphia police officer is a part of a national trend in which criminals are demonstrating an increasing fearlessness of taking aim at law enforcement officers.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

As gaming grows, many tribes worry

Potential competition from three proposed casinos in Massachusetts is pushing the Indian-run casino to upgrade its facilities even more.

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Christian Science Monitor

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Gambling addiction in America

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CBS News

Anti-gay church to pay $10.9 milliion for funeral protest

A grieving father won a nearly $11 million verdict against a fundamentalist Kansas church that pickets military funerals in the belief that the war in Iraq is a punishment for the nation's tolerance of homosexuality.

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CNN

POLITICS

Senate considers SCHIP for third time

More than 20 states will run out of money for the State Children's Health Insurance Program, unless Congress and the White House can resolve a dispute over funding for the measure, a new study shows.

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NPR

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Longtime Bush aide leaving State Dept.

Karen Hughes, who was one of President Bush's last remaining advisers from the close circle of Texas aides, will leave the government at the end of the year, she told the Associated Press.

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USA Today

BUSINESS

Prisoners of debt

In a financial version of "Night of the Living Dead," debts forgiven by bankruptcy courts are springing back to life to haunt consumers.

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Foreclosures up 30 percent

As Congress and the White House continue to work toward solutions to help embattled homeowners, home foreclosure filings took a big jump in the third quarter, according to data from real estate Web site RealtyTrac.

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MSNBC

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Fed cuts interest rates

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CBS News

Allied Waste third-quarter profit falls

Solid waste services company Allied Waste Industries Inc. said its third-quarter profit tumbled on steep losses from discontinued operations.

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Forbes

HEALTH

Be thin to cut cancer, study says

Even those who are not overweight should slim down if they want to cut their risk of cancer, a major study has claimed.

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BBC

Children would need different medical care in wake of dirty bomb

If terrorists were to attack with a dirty bomb, doctors should be prepared to treat children differently than adults.

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SPORTS

Dodgers general manager talking with Torre, no deal yet

While general manager Ned Colletti insisted they had not agreed on a contract, he indicated the former New York Yankees manager was the leading candidate to replace Grady Little, who resigned.

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Padres' Cameron suspended 25 games for stimulant use

San Diego Padres centerfielder Mike Cameron was suspended for 25 games for using stimulants, making him the second player penalized under Major League Baseball's ban.

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Bloomberg

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

African fishermen find way of conservation in the Quran

An experiment in Tanzania is emerging as an Islamic model for spreading environmental ideals.

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Christian Science Monitor

Anglicans and Catholics still not united on virgin Mary

Two years after Anglicans and Roman Catholics said they had reached a common understanding on the virgin Mary, there's still something about Mary that doesn't quite sit right with some Anglicans.

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Beliefnet

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The Daily Quote

“These, then, are my last words to you: Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create that fact.”

American psychologist and philosopher

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GOOD NEWS

Widowed at 25, cancer at 31, woman looks for love

Cancer survivor, Cathy Bueti, found that maintaining a social and romantic life throughout her treatment helped her uphold the mental strength that it takes to beat cancer.

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CNN

Alabama artist alive and painting at 84

Alabama artist Myrtice West says she's slowing down a little and her eyesight's not quite what it used to be. But she's certain she's not dead, despite recent reports to the contrary.

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Yahoo! News

WORLD

Japan pulls out of Afghanistan coalition

Japan's government has ordered its navy to end its mission in support of coalition forces in Afghanistan after failing to win opposition backing to renew the deployment.

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Guardian

Turkey tightens screw on Kurdish rebels

Turkey tightened the screw on Kurdish rebels by pushing ahead with planned economic measures designed to halt fighting on its border with Iraq, according to Turkish officials.

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Kenyan slum saves trees, cleans streets with big trash oven

A new U.N.-sponsored program is placing giant, garbage-burning ovens in one of Africa's biggest shantytowns.

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Christian Science Monitor

ENVIRONMENT

Norway to protect Amazon rainforest

The Norway government will grant $24 million towards the protection of the Amazon rainforest.

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Forbes

La Nina seen persisting into 2008

A "La Nina" cooling of sea temperatures is under way in the Pacific Ocean and the phenomenon is likely to persist into next year, the United Nations weather agency said.

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Environmental News Network

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Polar energy quest

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U.S. News & World Report

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Naomi Campbell joins Hugo Chavez at political rally

Supermodel Naomi Campbell left the glitz and bright lights of the fashion world behind and joined Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez at a political rally and toured government-funded housing projects.

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USA Today

How a man grows a 1,600-pound pumpkin

Don Young uses manure, seaweed and a special "compost tea" to produce a massive squash that missed the world record by only 27 pounds.

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Christian Science Monitor

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Cat's eye view of DNA sheds light on human disease

The first full genetic map of a cat, a pedigreed Abyssinian, is already shedding light on a common cause of blindness in humans and may offer insights into AIDS, researchers reported.

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Reuters

New spin on how stars are born

Invisible magnetic field lines twisted like long ropes of DNA help stars spiral into life, according to a new model.

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LiveScience

Apple 'Leopard' sales top 2 million

Apple Computer says it sold more than two million copies of its new Leopard operating system during the software's first weekend of availability.

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InformationWeek

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Apple's Microsoft-devouring jungle cat

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Slate

EDUCATION

19 colleges pledge support for low-income students

The heads of 19 state university systems are joining to make sure their policies match their rhetoric about more diversity and better learning.

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Christian Science Monitor

Poll: most OK birth control for schools

People decisively favor letting their public schools provide birth control to students. They also voice misgivings that divide them along generational, income and racial lines, a poll showed.

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Yahoo! News

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Boy gives savings to homeless hero

Milton Pendleton has been praised for saving two men who were injured in a small plane crash in Florida. He was filled with emotion when a 10-year-old boy gave his life savings to thank him.

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BITS AND PIECES

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An Afghan woman, center, carries a sack on her head as she walks down a street as the sun sets in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Rafiq Maqbool / AP)

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