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Opposition members celebrate at the Altamira Square in Caracas, Venezuela, after learning that President Hugo Chavez lost the referendum on constitutional changes that would have let him impose a socialist system and run for re-election. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd / AP)

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Monitors question Putin's victory

European election monitors called into question a victory by the party of Russia's President Vladimir Putin that would pave the way for him to remain the country's de facto leader even after he leaves office.

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NPR

Some voters speak out after casting their ballots

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International Herald Tribune

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Fraud claims in Russia poll

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Reuters

Writers' strike: As reruns take over television, eyes shift to new media

As the Hollywood screenwriters' strike stretches into its fifth week, viewers, networks and content creators all look to alternative outlets for fresh entertainment.

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Christian Science Monitor

President Chavez tastes defeat over reforms

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez conceded his first electoral defeat since winning Venezuela's presidency in 1998. His reforms were narrowly beaten back by a 51 percent to 49 percent margin.

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TIME

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Chavez's defeat: reaction in quotes

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BBC

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Chavez loses 'president-for-life' vote

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Reuters

National debt grows $1 million a minute

Like a ticking time bomb, the national debt is an explosion waiting to happen. It's expanding by about $1.4 billion a day or nearly $1 million a minute.

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ABC News

Fatal storm spreads ice, snow across Northeast; 11 dead

A storm system slid across the Northeast with snow, sleet and freezing rain, glazing roads and tying up air travel after blacking out thousands of customers in the Midwest.

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MSNBC

Sudan president pardons British teacher

A British teacher who was jailed in Sudan for letting her students name a teddy bear Muhammad was released, the British government said.

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USA Today

NATION

'Jena 6' teen pleads guilty to battery

A black teenager whose prosecution in the beating of a white classmate led to one of the largest civil rights protests in years pleaded guilty to a battery charge.

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St. Petersburg Times

Fourth suspect appears in court as Redskins pay Taylor tribute

A fourth man arrested in the shooting death of Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor appeared before a judge via video phone.

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CNN

POLITICS

Congress is returning to a full agenda

Congress returns to Washington with a full slate of must-do legislation, just three weeks before the Christmas recess.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Clinton hits Obama on courage, character as he rises in polls

Sen. Hillary Clinton questioned the courage and character of her chief opponent, Sen. Barack Obama, in the wake of a new poll finding her campaign is losing ground in the crucial early-voting state of Iowa.

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McClatchy Newspapers

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Obama/Clinton advisers debate

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CBS News

BUSINESS

Mortgage rescue plan no solution

If lenders temporarily freeze low introductory interest rates on home loans made to risky borrowers before they soar, it would be a modest fix for the country's fractured housing market.

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A great time to shop, for foreigners

Overseas shoppers whose countries have a stranglehold on the dollar are finding deals at U.S. stores and flying back to their homelands with their suitcases filled.

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TIME

SPORTS

Pettitte is returning to Yankees

Andy Pettitte has decided to put off retirement and pitch for the New York Yankees in 2008.

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ESPN

Ohio State, LSU to play for college football's title

Ohio State University and Louisiana State University will play for college football's national title after finishing atop the final Bowl Championship Series standings.

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Bloomberg

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Miles will remain LSU's football coach

Les Miles turned down a chance to return to University of Michigan, the school where he played and coached, telling his team he would remain at Louisiana State University.

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HEALTH

Congress weighs national standards on food offered to schoolchildren

Congress is considering the broadest effort ever to limit what children eat: a national ban on selling candy, soda and salty, fatty food in school snack bars, vending machines and a la carte cafeteria lines.

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San Jose Mercury News

Fruits, veggies a hard sell

Years after a concerted effort to boost consumption of healthful foods, Americans eat the same paltry amounts that they did in 1985.

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RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Romney to give Mormon speech

Republican Mitt Romney, vying to become the first Mormon president, said he decided to give a speech focused on his faith and the role of religion in politics because the subject is of interest in early voting Iowa.

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Romney to address Mormon faith

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Pope critical of atheism, Christianity

Pope Benedict criticized modern-day atheism in a major document, saying it had led to some of the "greatest forms of cruelty and violations of justice" ever known.

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London Free Press

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GOOD NEWS

New HIV drug approved in Canada

A new HIV-AIDS drug, the first in a promising new class of medications, has been given approval for the Canadian market for treatment when viruses are resistant to other HIV drugs.

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Good News Network

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China's Hu presses the flesh with AIDS patients

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Reuters

Skin cells: a new age of medicine

Scientists are giddy about the discovery that skin cells can be coaxed into behaving like stem cells. The cells could be some of the greatest tools modern medical science has ever devised.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

WORLD

Turkey's military kills 4 Kurdish rebels in fighting near Iraq border

Turkish troops killed four separatist Kurdish rebels in fighting near Turkey's border with Iraq, officials and reports said.

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International Herald Tribune

Rudd sworn in as prime minister

Australian Labor Party leader Kevin Rudd has been sworn in as prime minister, following a landslide victory in parliamentary elections last week.

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BBC

ENVIRONMENT

Cruise ship sinking raises concern over tourism boom

When a cruise ship sank in Antartica, three others came to the rescue, an indication of a tourism boom that critics say threatens Antarctica's environment.

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Houston Chronicle

U.N. kicks off global warming conference for new climate agreement

Delegates and scientists from around the world opened the biggest-ever climate conference, aiming to build a new international pact by 2009 to combat global warming.

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International Herald Tribune

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

South Bronx celebrates its B-boy, street-culture pioneers

Wayne Blizzard and Douglas Walker, who began performing on the streets as teenagers around 1980, will be honored at the New York Public Library's South Bronx branch.

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International Herald Tribune

America shuns Hollywood's take on Iraq

Americans may be divided on many subjects, but they seem to agree on one thing: They will not buy tickets to see this year's crop of war films.

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Observer

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Mummified dinosaur may have outrun infamous Tyrannosaurus rex

One of the most complete dinosaur mummies ever found is revealing secrets locked away for millions of years, bringing researchers as close as they will ever get to touching a live dino.

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LiveScience

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Mummified dinosaur unveiled

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National Geographic

Facebook drops controversial 'opt-out' advertising service

Facebook, the social networking Web site, has been forced into a dramatic climbdown over a new advertising system after users in America expressed privacy concerns.

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London Independent

EDUCATION

Renewal of No Child Left Behind legislation challenged

Five years after President Bush's signature education program became law, No Child Left Behind is at a crossroads.

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McClatchy Newspapers

Sub-prime crisis leaves state schools in Florida ‘flat broke’

Florida officials are expected to re-open part of the state’s investment fund to resolve a $19 billion funding crisis that threatens to delay salary payments for public employees.

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Call to protect shark-filled sea

Conservationists are urging the Australian government to protect the Coral Sea, one of its last tropical marine wildernesses.

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BBC

Photo of the Day

Daredevil motorcyclist Evel Knievel sails over seven Mack trucks during a practice jump in the open-air Canadian national exhibition stadium in Toronto, Canada, in this Aug. 20, 1974, photo. (Photo by AP)

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