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People wait for the arrival of the eye of Hurricane Dean as they overlook the Caribbean Sea from Pedernales, Dominican Republic, some 200 miles west of the capital, Santo Domingo, near the Haiti border. Dean, which has claimed six lives, began sweeping past the Dominican Republic and Haiti and threatened to engulf Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa / AP)

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Peru deploys army to halt looting after quake

Peru's government sent more soldiers to its southern coast to halt looting of aid convoys, three days after the country's worst earthquake in more than 30 years.

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Bloomberg

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Falluja's calm is fragile if U.S. leaves

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International Herald Tribune

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Officials: Bush plans troop cuts in Iraq

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Hurricane Dean makes beeline for Jamaica

Jamaica's electrical grid was powered down as the first winds from Hurricane Dean began pounding the eastern end of the island.

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CNN

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Hurricane Dean could be a powerful Category 5

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Jamaica on alert

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Yahoo! News

Search for six trapped coal miners abandoned

The search for six miners trapped in a collapsed Utah mine was suspended after crumbling tunnel walls inside the Crandall Canyon Mine killed two rescue workers and a federal mine inspector.

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San Jose Mercury News

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Chinese rescuers seek 172 in flooded shandong mine

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Bloomberg

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Handling of mine disaster questioned

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New U.S. law may permit broader spying on citizens

Broad new surveillance powers approved by Congress this month could allow the Bush administration to conduct spy operations that go well beyond wiretapping.

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International Herald Tribune

NATION

White House's Snow to leave before Bush term ends

White House spokesman Tony Snow plans to leave his job before U.S. President George W. Bush's term ends in January 2009, citing financial reasons.

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Reuters

Empty highrise burns near Ground Zero

An abandoned skyscraper was in danger of collapse after a seven-alarm ripped through the building near ground zero and critically injured at least two firefighters, police said.

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ABC News

Two arrested in schoolyard slayings

Two people were arrested in connection with the triple killings in a New Jersey elementary schoolyard, law enforcement sources said.

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Newark killings

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POLITICS

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Non-candidate Thompson campaigns in Iowa

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TIME

Edwards' finances and populism clash

A company John Edwards has invested $16 million in Fortress Investment Group, which owns mortgage companies that have moved to foreclose on homeowners in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans.

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BUSINESS

Starbucks: A baristas union?

At the Labor Board trial of the company, twentysomething activists are trying to poke holes in the company's socially responsible image.

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Home Depot agrees to pay $10M in hazardous waste dumping lawsuit

Home Depot has agreed to pay nearly $10 million in penalties and investigation costs to settle a lawsuit alleging it mishandled hazardous waste from its California stores, officials said.

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International Herald Tribune

SPORTS

Familiar sight: USC once again preseason No. 1

After a season of chasing, Southern California is again the team being chased. And that’s just the way coach Pete Carroll and the Trojans like it.

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MSNBC

Vick must make choice after pals plead guilty

With his NFL career in jeopardy and a superseding indictment adding more charges in the works, Michael Vick has been left with a hard choice.

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Kansas City Star

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Vick's co-defendants enter guilty pleas

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HEALTH

N.M. planning medical marijuana program

Gov. Bill Richardson ordered the state Health Department to resume planning of a medical marijuana program despite the agency's worries about possible federal prosecution.

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Forbes

Dendreon breast cancer drug effective in clinical trial

Dendreon Corp., the developer of a treatment to stimulate the immune system against prostate cancer, said a small study suggests the same technique may help women with breast cancer.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

EDUCATION

American campuses get greener than ever

As the demand for green industry increases, colleges are encouraging their student bodies to engage in environmental stewardship while they seek a college education.

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Newsweek

America gets cash for science education

President Bush signed legislation to recruit thousands of new teachers, update the science and maths skills of those already in classrooms and help science-orientated kids to launch careers.

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GOOD NEWS

Kidnapped tortoise returns home from rehabilitation center

Bob, a 42-pound pet tortoise who was mutilated after being stolen from a family's yard, has returned home after a month in a rehabilitation center. "He's doing great" owner Dorothy Sullivan said.

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San Jose Mercury News

WORLD

German woman kidnapped in Kabul

Armed assailants abducted a German woman from a restaurant in Kabul, officials said, prompting police to shoot at the speeding getaway car, killing a nearby taxi driver.

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Guardian

Turkish jet hijack ends peacefully

Two men who hijacked a Turkish passenger jet bound for Istanbul have surrendered to authorities and were escorted from the plane after releasing the remaining passengers and crew.

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In pictures: Turkey hijack attempt

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BBC

Kazakh election watched as barometer of commitment to democracy

Oil-rich Kazakhstan, the most stable and prosperous of the ex-Soviet Central Asian republics, voted for a new parliament in an election closely watched for signs of the country's commitment to democracy.

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International Herald Tribune

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Kazakhstan's low-key personality cult

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BBC

ENVIRONMENT

EU biofuel policy is a 'mistake'

The EU target of ensuring 10 percent of petrol and diesel comes from renewable sources by 2020 is not an effective way to curb carbon emissions, researchers say.

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BBC

Arctic ice at lowest level ever - a month before melt season ends

Arctic sea ice reached its lowest extent on record and the melting is continuing. Officials said satellite measurements show ice levels falling below the previous record low of 2.05 million square miles.

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Scotsman

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Pioneering jazz drummer Max Roach dies at 83

Max Roach was the hottest drummer in New York by the time he was 20 years old. By the time he died at age 83, he was truly one of the giants of jazz.

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NPR

Review of 'Superbad': adolescent id, awash in hormones

Superbad might be the most provocative teen sex-comedy ever made. I hedge because it's just opening, and the only ones provoked so far are nerdy male film critics. We love it!

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NPR

Arnold, Ellen, hundreds more honor Merv Griffin

A-list celebrities, political figures, industry titans, old Hollywood luminaries: Merv Griffin knew them all in life. And none of them was about to forget him in death.

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E! Online

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Study: As Internet news grows, print is in jeopardy

A new study suggests that the Web is a threat to print media, whose advantage of being a "first mover" is in flux.

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Editor & Publisher

Tailoring ads to cell phone users

Mobile phones are a potential gold mine for advertisers, the most personal and intimate way to communicate and engage with more than 2 billion subscribers worldwide.

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San Jose Mercury News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Billy Graham hospitalized for intestinal bleeding

The Rev. Billy Graham, the 88-year-old legendary Christian evangelist, was hospitalized in North Carolina for evaluation and treatment of intestinal bleeding.

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CNN

Idaho congressman apologizes for remarks about Muslim colleague

U.S. Representative Bill Sali has apologized to a Muslim colleague for remarks suggesting the United States' founders never intended for Muslims to serve in the U.S. Congress.

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International Herald Tribune

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Article: CIA methods against alleged 9/11 planner 'tantamount to torture'

Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, faced the CIA's harshest interrogation methods while held in secret prisons for more than three years.

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Lorraine Haas of South Lyon, Mich., cruises down Woodward Avenue in Royal Oak, Mich., during the 13th annual Woodward Dream Cruise in a miniature 1954 Ford Sunliner as her husband, Bob, trails behind her in the full-size version. (Photo by Gary Malerba / AP)

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