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An Iranian man chants slogans as police officers prevent protestors from entering the British Embassy in Tehran, Iran, during a protest calling for the expulsion of the British ambassador because of the standoff over Iran's capture of 15 British sailors and marines. (Photo by Vahid Salemi / AP)

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Hillary Clinton smashes fundraising records

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CBS News

Bush, Brazil leader talk trade, alternative fuels

President Bush and Brazil's leader plotted cooperation on freer global trade and increased use of alternative fuels in talks that brought the allies together for the second time in less than a month.

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BusinessWeek

Tainted pet food a bigger risk to cats than dogs

A greater sensitivity of cats to a chemical found in plastics and pesticides could explain why they’ve died in larger numbers than have dogs after eating contaminated pet food, experts said.

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MSNBC

Iranian TV airs new video of captured sailors

Iranian state TV aired new video showing two of the 15 captured British sailors pointing to a spot on a map of the Persian Gulf where they were seized and acknowledging it was in Iranian waters.

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U.S. News & World Report

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Iranians protest outside British embassy

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CNN

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UK in direct communication with Iran on sailors

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Reuters

Blast hits Iraq hospital, violence spreads

Car bombs and gunfire killed more than two dozen civilians and wounded more than 60 in attacks throughout Iraq, officials said.

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CNN

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U.S. death toll in March twice that of Iraq forces

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MSNBC

Tsunami hits Solomon Islands, several missing

A powerful earthquake struck in the South Pacific off the Solomon Islands, triggering a tsunami several yards high that destroyed a village and left at least four people missing, officials said.

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Yahoo! News

Scores dead in battle-ravaged Somali capital

Somalia's battle-ravaged capital, Mogadishu, suffered a third successive day of fighting. Scores of civilians were killed, hundreds were injured, and thousands fled.

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London Independent

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Battles ravage Somalia

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CNN

NATION

Israel's Olmert urges Arab leaders to meet him

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert responded to a revived Arab land-for-peace plan by inviting Arab leaders to meet him for a regional conference.

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Reuters

Global warming could bring hunger, melt Himalayas

Global warming could cause more hunger in Africa and melt most Himalayan glaciers by the 2030s, according to a draft U.N. report due next Friday which also warns that the poorest nations are likely to suffer most.

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Reuters

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Climate aid scarce for nations at risk

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International Herald Tribune

South Korea and U.S. try to save extended trade talks

The United States and South Korea struggled to save a proposed free trade agreement in extended high-level talks, after failing to conclude the deal by an original U.S.-imposed deadline.

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International Herald Tribune

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N. Korea raps U.S., S. Korea over spy flights

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POLITICS

Rolling back Bush's tax cuts will pay for proposals, Obama says

Presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama found a way to campaign face-to-face with a group of political activists in the leadoff caucus state, while at the same time connecting with a national audience.

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USA Today

Many U.S. attorney posts go to insiders

About one-third of the nearly four dozen U.S. attorney's jobs that have changed hands since President Bush began his second term have been filled by administration insiders.

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Style on the stump

In presidential politics, the goal is to get voters to focus on a candidate's record. But this year, style has been front and center—and has sometimes seemed like a curse.

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Wall Street Journal

BUSINESS

Saving Starbucks' soul

Chairman Howard Schultz is on a mission to take his company back to its roots. Oh, yeah—he also wants to triple sales in five years

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BusinessWeek

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Q&A with Starbucks CEO

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U.S. prices rise for third consecutive month

U.S. prices continued to rise last month at a fast pace, according to fresh government figures that underlined the Federal Reserve’s concerns about inflation.

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Financial Times

SPORTS

Gators pack bite in semifinal victory over UCLA

Florida's 76-66 romp against UCLA in the Final Four semifinal wasn't as mathematically overpowering as last year's 73-57 win over the Bruins for the national title, yet was every bit as lopsided.

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USA Today

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Florida runs over UCLA

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Yahoo! News

Preview: St. Louis vs. New York

Although the stakes will be considerably lower, memories of the St. Louis Cardinals' Game 7 win in last year's NL championship series will be fresh when the teams play the 2007 major league opener.

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Will the Cardinals and Tigers repeat their success?

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ESPN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

ICANN board rejects domain suffix for porn Web sites

The Board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has rejected a proposal to establish a .xxx domain suffix for adult Web sites.

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Playfuls

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Nearly 7-year effort to establish Internet red light district hits dead end, again

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The Age

Rubbish is a ticking timebomb in the sky

The passengers on the LAN Chile flight from Santiago to Auckland last week should know just how close they came to calamity when mysterious burning objects roared past during their journey.

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New Zealand Herald

Mystery of Great Pyramid 'solved'

A French architect claims to have solved the mystery of how Egypt's Great Pyramid was built.

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BBC

Columns And Op-Ed

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Strange bedfellows in Ireland peace

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Houston Chronicle

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San Francisco Chronicle

The House plan: Out of Iraq by 2008

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Liberal-speak defies logic on capitalism

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Arizona Republic

Congress vs. commander in chief

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San Diego Union-Tribune

Why the Iran sanctions are working

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Newsweek

Column (Bud Cummins):

How Bush's Justice Department has 'blown it'

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Salon.com

Mixing politics with justice leaves Gonzales on the ropes

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USA Today

A candle for conservation

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International Herald Tribune

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GOOD NEWS

MacArthur Foundation announces 2007 creative and effective nonprofits

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has announced that eight organizations in six countries will receive the second annual MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions.

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PNN

U.N. pact on disabled rights signed

In what the U.N. human rights chief called an unprecedented show of support, 80 countries signed a U.N. convention enshrining the rights of the world's 650 million disabled.

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NATION

Murder rate soars in Philadelphia

The "City Of Brotherly Love" is anything but these days. So far this year, more than one person a day has been killed, putting Philadelphia on track for its deadliest year in a decade.

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CBS News

Florida community sues to kick out toddler

Kimberly Boffman, 3 1/2, lives with her grandparents. But their 55-plus Largo, Fla., community forbids permanent residents under age 18. So it's filed a lawsuit to force the child out.

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St. Petersburg Times

Was Amelia Earhart a doomed castaway?

It's the coldest of cold cases, and yet 70 years after Amelia Earhart disappeared, clues are still turning up.

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CNN

ENVIRONMENT

Can we buy our way to a greener world?

More people are purchasing "carbon offsets'' to cut greenhouse gases. Experts advise caution.

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Star Tribune

U.S. agency, Indian industry to fight climate change together

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has decided to collaborate and share information with India's leading industry body for its upcoming global session on climate change.

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Earth Times

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

At 96, author debuts with acclaimed memoir

Into his 90s, decimated by the loss of his beloved wife and alone at night with the memories of a rough and sad childhood, Harry Bernstein decided to write.

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CBS News

South Korea vies for Hollywood business

The Seoul Korea government is stepping into the major film making league by issuing incentives to attract foreign film shoots to the South Korean capital.

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Monsters and Critics

HEALTH

Is race a factor in heart health?

New findings emerging from a study of race and cardiovascular disease promise to shed light on why African-Americans are at greater risk of heart failure than other groups.

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Groundbreaking Canadian asthma study

A new report published in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that patients treated with bronchial thermoplasty demonstrated an overall improvement in asthma control.

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Medical News Today

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Mormon head says he's still healthy

The 96-year-old leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints says he is still in good health despite "rumors to the contrary."

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

U.N. rights commission condemns 'defamation' of religion

The U.N.'s top human rights body condemned "defamation" of religion and, in an apparent reference to the storm over the Prophet cartoons, said press freedom has its limits.

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Reuters

John Edwards: 'My faith came roaring back'

The former North Carolina senator talked with Beliefnet's Washington editor to do something he hasn't done before: talk openly and in depth about his religious faith.

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Beliefnet

EDUCATION

America's best graduate schools ranked

More than 1,000 programs are ranked and reviewed, with tips on finding the right school, how to get in, and how to pay for it.

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U.S. News & World Report

Contractor evaluating own reading program

The government contractor that set up the billion-dollar-a-year federal reading program for the Education Department is also part of the team hired to evaluate it.

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CNN

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Algae may fuel our future

U.S. biochemistry scientists at Utah State University are using an innovative approach that takes oil from algae and converts it to biodiesel fuel.

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Monsters and Critics

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An Afghan man on a horse carriage is seen through a side mirror of a vehicle in Herat province, south west of Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Fraidoon Pooyaa / AP)

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