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Participants with the "Sea of People" project march down the street in Lower Manhattan during the Step It Up 2007 rally in New York. More than 1,300 events were organized in every state, calling for Congress to require an 80 percent cut in carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. (Photo by Dima Gavrysh / AP)

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Global warming rallies held across the U.S.

Americans worried about climate change gathered on ski slopes and in cities for a nationwide day of demonstrations aimed at drawing attention to global warming.

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MSNBC

Diplomatic Washington asks N. Korea to keep its promises

The Bush administration said North Korea must follow through on its promise to shut down and seal its nuclear reactor, but held back from criticising Pyongyang for missing the deadline to do so.

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Sydney Morning Herald

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Deadline passes

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Yahoo! News

East Coast braces for severe nor'easter

Three hundred flights were canceled as a hard-blowing nor’easter bore down on New York and threatened to deliver some of the worst flooding in coastal Long Island in 14 years.

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MSNBC

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Huge winter storm sweeps east

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ABC News

Baghdad bombs kill 26, British helicopters crash

Up to 26 people were killed and 70 wounded in bomb attacks in three mainly Shi'ite districts of Baghdad and two British military personnel died when two helicopters crashed north of the city.

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Reuters

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Car bombers claim more lives

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Yahoo! News

Thai flash-flood deaths reach 35

The death toll in a flash flood that swept away holidaymakers in southern Thailand has reached 35.

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BBC

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Thai flood death toll rises

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Yahoo! News

NATION

Moscow police violently quash pro-democracy rally

Thousands of police brutally suppressed an anti-Kremlin rally in Moscow, beating some protestors with truncheons and detaining at least 170 demonstrators, including former world chess champion Garry Kasparov.

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Financial Times

Iran enrichment 'in early stages'

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Iran had only hundreds of centrifuges for enriching uranium, not the thousands that would be needed for industrial production.

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BBC

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Eye on Iran, rivals pursuing nuclear power

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International Herald Tribune

Wolfowitz fate overshadows global finance chief meetings

The fate of World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz overshadowed meetings of global finance chiefs as Britain said his actions had damaged the bank and critics stepped up calls for him to quit.

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Reuters

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European nations pile pressure on Wolfowitz

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Reuters

POLITICS

Democrats hope to get their way on Iraq

Democrats know they might lose this month's showdown with President Bush on legislation to pull troops out of Iraq. But with 2008 elections in mind, Democrats says it is only a matter of time.

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Houston Chronicle

Giuliani: GOP must focus on terror, taxes

Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani in Des Moines warned GOP activists that insisting on a nominee who always agrees with them would spell defeat in 2008.

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Des Moines Register

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McCain trails rivals in cash

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Forbes

Libby says not seeking new trial but will appeal conviction

A top White House aide convicted on perjury and obstruction of justice charges has decided not to seek a new trial but will move directly to challenge his conviction in the appeals court.

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Reuters

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Libby to appeal conviction

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USA Today

BUSINESS

Computer Associates founder accused of fraud

A special committee of the board of directors at computer software company Computer Associates accused its founder of fraudulent accounting and urged legal action.

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Reuters

Google to buy DoubleClick for $3.1 billion

Google has once again thwarted Microsoft's Internet ambitions, announcing it will buy DoubleClick, a maker of advertising software, for $3.1 billion in cash.

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San Jose Mercury News

SPORTS

Pacman: NFL making me a poster boy

Titans cornerback Adam "Pacman" Jones said he will appeal his season-long suspension and thinks NFL commissioner Roger Goodell made him the league's poster boy for disciplining players.

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ESPN

Wade of old back, leads late comeback

In a fourth-quarter flurry, Dwyane Wade turned back into Dwyane Wade at AmericanAirlines Arena.

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Sun-Sentinel

HEALTH

If you lose your job, you can sell your home. If you lose your home, you can sell your possessions. And if you lose everything else, you can sell one more thing: your organs.

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Slate

Gonorrhea mutates to resist antibiotic treatment

Gonorrhea has become so resistant to one class of antibiotics that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that the drugs should no longer be used to treat it.

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USA Today

EDUCATION

Study: Abstinence classes failing

Students who took part in sexual abstinence programs were just as likely to have sex as those who did not, according to a study ordered by Congress.

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CBS News

Rich nations failing to deliver education aid, report claims

The world's richest nations are failing to deliver promised aid to educate children in war-torn countries such as Somalia and the Congo, according to the charity Save the Children.

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Guardian

Columns And Op-Ed

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Hillary is right to raise competency issue

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Wolfowitz at the World Bank door

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Investor's Business Daily

Kurt Vonnegut, R.I.P.

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International Herald Tribune

Address casino shortcomings before approving any more

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San Jose Mercury News

Torture in Egypt report should trigger wider Arab studies and action

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Daily Star

Blog (John McWhorter):

Etymology and what's on the screen

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New Republic

Column (Julian Baggini):

This is what the clash of civilizations is really about

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Guardian

Column (Chuck Todd):

The Imus primary

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MSNBC

Blog (Christy Smith):

Of threats and deletions and a hefty helping of hubris

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Firedoglake

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GOOD NEWS

How she saved her brother

Mom was out, and Madison Valentine's little brother was hungry - again. Since he was adopted from Haiti two months ago, 7-year-old Erickson has been that way pretty much all the time.

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San Jose Mercury News

Chicago to lead bid for 2016 Olympics

Chicago beat Los Angeles in a U.S. Olympic Committee vote to pick a candidate for the 2016 Summer Games.

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Sports Illustrated

NATION

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Police find driver in Corzine crash, won't pursue charges

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Courier-Post

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Governor Crozine still at risk after second operation

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Bloomberg

Hawaiian singing legend Don Ho dies

Don Ho, the biggest and best-known Hawaiian entertainer of the last 50 years, died of heart failure, his publicist Donna Jung confirmed.

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Honolulu Star-Bulletin

Military disputes Marines' version of suicide attack

A preliminary U.S. military investigation indicates that more than 40 Afghans killed or wounded by Marines after a suicide bombing in a village near Jalalabad last month were civilians.

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ENVIRONMENT

Energy under water

Six giant turbines are being placed underwater in the East River around New York City for a $7 million project to harness the energy of the tides and produce electricity.

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Hartford Courant

Air pollution rules relaxed for U.S. ethanol producers

The federal government said it will permit corn milling facilities that make ethanol for fuel to emit more than double the amount of air pollutants previously allowed.

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Environment News Service

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

The best Vonnegut obit you haven't read

In July of 1982, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. refused to attend a ceremony honoring him, saying, "I personally find it embarrassing. It seems to me this is the kind of thing you do for an author after he's dead.''

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San Francisco Chronicle

'Stranger' far from 'Perfect'

Early on, you know "Perfect Stranger" is going to be dopey when its newspaper reporter heroine announces she's going to a bar and "the drinks will be on the paper" after filing a big story.

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News Journal

The popcorn review: Perfect Strangers

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Bone stem cells 'may morph into sperm'

Stem cells taken from the bone marrow of men can be coaxed into something that resembles an immature sperm cell, researchers working in Germany said.

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The Age

Mars Global Surveyor lost because of human error

Human error triggered a cascade of events that caused the battery to fail on the Mars Global Surveyor last year, according to a preliminary report released.

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Sydney Morning Herald

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Creationist museum challenges evolution

For some a battle between science and religion is being fought for the soul of America.

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BBC

Living with religious pluralism

In Chicago, a dynamic young Muslim is working to help solve a problem many religious believers have—how to relate to people of another faith tradition.

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Religion & Ethics

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

France takes step toward smoking ban

Part one of a French ban on smoking in public places takes effect this week, setting the clock ticking for smoke-filled cafes and bars that have until next January to kick the habit.

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Photo of the Day

Participants holding flags are seen at a remembrance day event to mark the 62nd anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald near Weimar, eastern Germany. (Photo by Gordon Schmidt / AP)

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