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Gloria Guy looks at a home that was damaged by Hurricane Katrina from the rear window of her new home, built by Brad Pitt's "Make It Right " program, during an open house party. The first few homes in Pitt's rebuilding project in the city's Lower 9th Ward are complete. (Photo by Bill Haber / AP)

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Brad the builder in New Orleans

After Hurricane Katrina, Brad Pitt called in the world's top architects for his acclaimed "Make It Right" project.

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Guardian

Probe of runaway Prius story in Calif.

Sikes called 911 to report losing control of his Prius as the hybrid reached speeds of 94 mph. A California Highway Patrol officer helped Sikes bring the vehicle to a safe stop on Interstate 8 near San Diego.

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USA TODAY

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Prius 911 Call: "My car won't slow down"

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Israel to investigate timing of settlement announcement

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has set up a team to investigate why officials announced new settlement construction in disputed territory while U.S. Vice President Joe Biden was visiting.

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CNN

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Clinton's harsh words stun Israel

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Los Angeles Times

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Netanyahu regrets settlement with US

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Reuters

Going rogue or leading the fight?

U.S. Marine commanders have a different view of the dusty, desolate landscape that surrounds Delaram. Controlling this corner of remote Nimruz province as essential to promoting economic development.

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MSNBC

Obama pollster: US will like health care bill, despite poll numbers

President Barack Obama's pollster said the health care bill will win over public support once it becomes law, despite polls showing Americans are against the plan.

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The Hill

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Are stock market woes bad for the heart?

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HealthDay

NATION

Ireland frees US woman in terrorist plot

Jamie Paulin-Ramirez of Colorado had been arrested in an alleged plot to kill cartoonist Lars Vilks, after following radical Islamists to Ireland. Her parents await word of her and their grandson, 6.

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ABC News

New fraud cases point to lapses in Iraq

Federal investigators looking into corruption involving reconstruction in Iraq say they have opened more than 50 new cases by scrutinizing large cash transactions made in the nearly $150 billion rebuilding program.

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POLITICS

Coffee party brews up rival for tea party

The "Coffee Party", a grassroots political grouping that has emerged in recent months in opposition to the conservative tea party movement, has been holding its first national day of meetings in the U.S.

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BBC

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'Coffee party': Not far from 'tea party' message?

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Christian Science Monitor

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Coffee party founder wants common grounds

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NPR

Kissinger hospitalized in South Korea

Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was hospitalized after he complained of stomach pains.

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MSNBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Innovation ruled Game Developers

Motion controls and social gaming were hot topics at the Game Developers Conference, the annual convention of designers, programmers and executives.

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San Francisco Chronicle

We like to move it, move it

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Toronto Star

Biologists find 1st confirmed species of monogamous frog

Amphibians may be a love 'em and leave 'em class, but one frog species defies the norm.

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ScienceDaily

Human cells exhibit foraging behavior

When cells move about in the body, they follow a complex pattern similar to that which amoebae and bacteria use when searching for food, a team of Vanderbilt researchers has found.

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ScienceDaily

HEALTH

Gum disease 'linked to early births'

Successful treatment for gum disease cuts the risk of pregnant women giving birth early, U.S. research suggests.

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BBC

Diabetes heart treatments may cause harm

Three aggressive treatment strategies that doctors had expected would prevent heart attacks among people with Type 2 diabetes have proven to be ineffective or even harmful, new studies show.

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Brain scan 'can read thoughts'

British scientists from University College London found they could differentiate brain activity linked to different memories and thereby identify thought patterns by using functional magnetic resonance imaging.

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Sydney Morning Herald

ENVIRONMENT

Edible gardens are sprouting all over

People are eating up the idea of growing their own food. Economic hard times have sent millions of Americans foraging for ways to eat more economically, and they're doing it by growing their own food.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Ivory and bluefin tuna top agenda at UN wildlife summit

Sales of ivory and a possible ban on trading bluefin tuna top the agenda for the meeting in Doha, Qatar.

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BBC

SPORTS

McNamee attorneys may ask Jeter, Rivera to testify against Clemens

Brian McNamee's defense attorneys might call on former teammates of Roger Clemens as the ex-pitcher attempts to appeal a judge's decision to dismiss his defamation suit against his former trainer.

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Sports Illustrated

Zenyatta gets job done yet again

Zenyatta displayed her brilliance, and continued perfection, in the $250,000 Santa Margarita Handicap at Santa Anita, extending her winning streak to 15 races.

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ESPN

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Abuse claims sweep church in Europe

From Ireland to Germany, Europe's many victims of child abuse in the Roman Catholic church are finally breaking social taboos and confronting the clergy to face its demons.

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MSNBC

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Vatican: Pope being set up over sex abuse case

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Guardian

Reform Judaism Movement's prayer book 'could upset'

A progressive wing of the Jewish religion is publishing a prayer book for funerals which it says could prove controversial among orthodox believers.

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BBC

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GOOD NEWS

Dance troupe brings grace to school for the blind

One of New Zealand's top dance troupes, the 15-member Black Grace, visited the Perkins School for the Blind and taught a customized dance class for 16 eager students at a Boston school.

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Daddy, I want to help the poor – let’s sell the house

Kevin Salwen obviously wasn’t thinking. He opened his mouth, said the first thing that popped into his head and brought his family’s hitherto comfortable existence to an end.

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Times Online

Denver school officials heartened by enrollment in preschool, kindergarten

Denver Public School officials see a promising future for the district as enrollment continues to climb for preschool and kindergarten classes.

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Denver Post

WORLD

Afghanistan hit by suicide bombers

At least 30 people have been killed and 46 wounded in four suspected suicide bombings in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, hospital officials say.

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BBC

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Deadly blasts rock southern Afghanistan

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CNN

Iraq vote count too close to call

With early results representing only a fraction of the vote and no figures in from areas like Basra, overall results from Iraq's general elections were too close to call.

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Al Jazeera

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Iraq's PM leads in early Baghdad vote count

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BUSINESS

Storms probably hurt production

Blizzards on the East Coast and harsh weather in other parts of the U.S. probably impeded manufacturing and construction, representing a temporary setback to the recovery, economists said.

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Bloomberg

Google, China at impasse

Google is "99.9 percent" certain it will have to close its Chinese search engine as talks with Chinese authorities about censorship have reached an apparent dead end.

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CBS News

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

People names for pets has become our new calling

The roster includes Hannah, Cameron, Sophie, Henry, Tucker and Emma, the same names you'd find at just about any day care center in town. But these names are from a day care for dogs.

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Denver Post

How do you make a Yugo cool? Turn it into a book

Remember the Yugo? Jason Vuic would like to remind you of its not-so-illustrious story. Vuic's book is on the tiny, no-frills, breakdown-prone automobile imported from communist Yugoslavia in the 1980s.

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NPR

EDUCATION

Lured into trade school and debt

America has become a beneficiary of the recession: for-profit colleges and trade schools, where anxious students borrow aggressively to pay tuition that can exceed $30,000 a year.

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Schools spar over stimulus funding

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The Mad Hatter's secret ingredient: math

Since author Lewis Carroll was also a math teacher in Oxford, England, mathematicians say the Alice books are full of algebraic lessons — such as why a raven is like a writing desk.

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NPR

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Quit smoking to double cancer survival

People with early lung cancer who quit smoking could double their chances of surviving, a new study says.

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MSNBC

Photo of the Day

Dhow operators compete in the finals of a sailing competition along Lamu Island's seafront waters in Kenya, during the climax of the annual Maulid festivals to mark the birth of Prophet Mohammed. (Photo by Anonymous / AP)

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