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President Bush, right, enters the Diplomatic Room of the White House with Secretary of Defense nominee Robert Gates, left, before the start of Gates' Senate confirmation hearings. Gates is expected to face extensive questioning on the war in Iraq. (Photo by Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP)

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Supreme Court weighs question of race and school segregation

The Supreme Court wrestled with voluntary integration plans in public schools, asking whether programs in Louisville, Ky., and Seattle are acceptable moves toward student diversity or racial quotas.

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MSNBC

Military seizes power in Fiji

Fiji's military chief said the army has taken over running the country, while the elected prime minister was confined to his home in the South Pacific island nation that is undergoing its fourth coup in 20 years.

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CNN

Russia: No extraditions in spy death probe

The chief prosecutor dismissed as "nonsense" allegations by another ex-security officer of a death squad for Kremlin critics.

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Yahoo! News

WORLD

Egypt arrests American, others in terror plot

Police have arrested an American, 11 Europeans and several others from Arab countries for allegedly plotting terrorist attacks in Middle Eastern countries including Iraq, the Interior Ministry said.

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MSNBC

Venezuela's Chávez easily wins new term

Venezuelans overwhelmingly re-elected President Hugo Chávez, further extending a presidency that began when he was swept into power eight years ago.

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Saudi women can sell - not drive - cars

Saudi women still can't drive cars. But now in addition to being allowed to own them, they can also sell them.

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Yahoo! News

Merger mania fuels stock market surge

U.S. stocks rallied as $35.2 billion in takeovers and falling oil prices sent the Standard & Poor's 500 Index to a six-year high.

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Bloomberg

Oil prices fall despite OPEC worries

Oil prices dropped by more than $1, reversing some of last week's increases, as traders focused on a halt in the dollar's decline, while shrugging off next week's OPEC meeting.

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Kentucky congressman raises concerns about Delta merger

Kentucky congressman Geoff Davis is encouraging the U.S. Attorney General and Transportation Secretary to conduct a "full and careful review" of US Airways' efforts to merge with Delta Air Lines.

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Lawmaker's wife gets deportation reprieve

The Colombia-born wife of a Georgia state senator emerged from hiding and turned herself in to face a deportation order, but an immigration judge lifted the order and she was expected to be freed.

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AOL

Bolton resignation ends era of U.S. diplomacy

The resignation of John Bolton as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations ends an era when the focus of U.S. diplomacy often rested, for better or for worse, on the man himself.

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Reuters

Pelosi to fast-track minimum wage bill

Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants to fast-track efforts to boost the federal minimum wage and could seek to bring a bill directly to the House floor in January.

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Fort Worth Star-Telegram

MEDIA

Yahoo partners with Reuters for citizen journalism project

Yahoo Inc., in partnership with Reuters, is inviting the public to contribute eyewitness photos and videos of news events, in the latest move to turn spectators into on-the-spot journalists.

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Scientific American

EDUCATION

NGOs in Singapore call for change in way sex education is taught to students

Non-government organizations are calling for a change in the way sex education is taught in schools as a way to tackle the AIDS epidemic.

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Pilot who lost legs hopes to fly again

Tammy Duckworth‘s last thoughts when a rocket-propelled grenade tore into the cockpit of her Black Hawk helicopter were 1. stay awake, and 2. fight like hell to get the crew on the ground.

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San Jose Mercury News

Secret Santa gives $24M anonymous gift

An anonymous benefactor has made a $24 million donation to the Foundation of Greater Montreal, which will be used for arts and culture, education, social and humanitarian causes.

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CNEWS

U.S. sailor pleads guilty to espionage

A sailor accused of stealing a Navy laptop and peddling its classified contents to an undisclosed foreign government pleaded guilty to espionage, desertion and other charges.

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CBS News

Three members of missing family found alive

Unwilling to wait any longer, James Kim left his wife and two young children in their frozen, snowbound car and set off into the wilderness to seek help. Now he is the only one still missing.

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U.S.News & World Report

E. coli threat may have passed in New Jersey

New Jersey's top health official describes a recent spate of E. coli sickness as "a serious outbreak," but says the threat seems to have passed.

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Newsday

Mary J. Blige wins big at Billboard awards

Mary J. Blige picked up nine awards at the 2006 Billboard Music Awards, including honors as R&B/Hip Hop artist of the year.

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Showbuzz

Painter of abstract works wins Turner Prize

German abstract painter Tomma Abts has captured the Turner Prize, the controversial British art honor previously won by some of the U.K.'s most audacious contemporary artists.

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CBC

SPORTS

Garcia's three TDs have Philadelphia Eagles feeling good

Through tough times in Cleveland and Detroit, Jeff Garcia wondered if he'd ever be a significant contributor in the NFL again.

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ESPN

Thornton leads Florida State past No. 4 Florida

Al Thornton scored 28 points, including two free throws with four seconds left, and host Florida State upset No. 4 Florida 70-66.

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Indianapolis Star

TECHNOLOGY

Novell to support Microsoft Office documents

Novell said it is participating in an open-source project designed to bridge rival document formats and thus enable its OpenOffice.org customers to work with Microsoft Office documents.

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ZDNet

The future of robots

Futurist Ray Kurzweil explains how the boundary between man and machine is quickly disappearing.

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Popular Science

ENVIRONMENT

Rainforest gets protected status

Vast tracts of rainforest in Brazil are to get a new protected status. Thousands of wildlife species inhabit the pristine forest, including jaguars, anteaters and colourful macaws.

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BBC

German high-tech sky sail may cut costs, emissions

Putting a harness on ocean winds, a German shipping company plans to unfurl a giant high-tech kite over a cargo ship next year to boost the vessel's propulsion and to conserve fuel.

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Reuters

HEALTH

Medicare touts success of drug benefit

Medicare officials are touting the success of the new drug benefit by pointing to defections from another government program.

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Overly thin women more likely to miscarry

If you are very underweight and become pregnant your chances of having a miscarriage are much higher during the first three months of pregnancy, say researchers.

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Medical News Today

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School of shock

Inside a school where mentally disturbed students are jolted into good behavior.

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