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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, left, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Md., second from left, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., second from right, take part in a ceremony marking the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. (Photo by Charles Dharapak / AP)

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Iraq government welcomes Petraeus approach

The government of Iraq has welcomed the latest report from the U.S. military's senior commander in the country and says there will be less need for foreign forces there "in the near future".

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Al Jazeera

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Petraeus: surge goals mostly being met

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WCBS

U.S.-led team to visit N. Korean nuke plant

Nuclear engineers from the U.S., China and Russia began a five-day inspection of North Korea's main Yongbyon nuclear reactors.

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Bloomberg

Heads bow in memory of 9/11 victims

Relatives of World Trade Center victims bowed their heads in silence at a small park to mark the moment exactly six years earlier when the first hijacked plane struck the towers.

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U.S. News & World Report

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Remembering Welles Crowther

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CNN

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Bin Laden praises 9/11 hijacker

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Al Jazeera

U.S. base in Germany acts on threat

Police in Germany have helped the U.S. military secure an air base after a bomb threat was made by telephone.

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BBC

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Suspects nabbed in Germany terror plot

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ABC News

Tennessee plans for first electrocution in nearly 47 years

A Tennessee man who killed his three sons and their half-sister is scheduled to die in the electric chair at Riverbend Maximum Security Prison in Nashville.

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Shelbyville Times-Gazette

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Man set to be executed by electric chair

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NATION

Overweight trucks damage infrastructure

More than a half-million overweight trucks are allowed onto the nation's roads and bridges, a routine practice that some officials say is putting dangerous wear and tear on an already groaning infrastructure.

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Yahoo! News

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Many jury candidates dismissed from polygamous leader's trial

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Salt Lake Tribune

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Jurors being selected for Warren Jeffs trial

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POLITICS

Clinton to return $850,000 from donor

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign said it will return $850,000 in donations raised by fundraiser Norman Hsu, who is under federal investigation for allegedly violating election laws.

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AOL News

Sen. Hagel won't seek third term

Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, a Republican critic of the Iraq war, will announce that he will not seek a third term, according to GOP officials.

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Kansas City Star

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Nebraska's Hagel confirms he will bow out

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BUSINESS

Dallas oil company signs deal with Kurds

Texas' Hunt Oil Co. and Kurdistan's regional government said they've signed a production-sharing contract for petroleum exploration in northern Iraq.

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Associated Press

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Hunt oil makes deal to seek oil in Iraq

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NPR

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Energy from unusual sources

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BusinessWeek

HEALTH

6 years later, 9/11 health questions linger

No one doubts the impact of the Sept. 11, 2001, World Trade Center disaster on rescue and cleanup workers' hearts, lungs and minds.

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HealthDay

Study: vitamin D increases life expectancy

An intriguing new study finds that those who take vitamin D supplements can increase their life expectancies by one to two years.

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SPORTS

United States rallies to tie North Korea

Heather O'Reilly's goal in the 69th minute helped the United States rally to tie North Korea, 2-2, and avoid a stunning upset in its World Cup opener.

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Sources: Raiders reach agreement in principle with top pick Russell

Ending months of negotiations and a holdout that stretched to more than six weeks, the Oakland Raiders reached a contact agreement in principle with JaMarcus Russell.

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ESPN

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Young Muslims begin fight for right to abandon faith

A group of young Muslim apostates launched a campaign on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on America to make it easier to renounce Islam.

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Times Online

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Misconceptions about Muslims

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CNN

China Catholic bishop dies in custody

An elderly bishop from China's underground Roman Catholic church has died of unknown causes during his imprisonment, after spending about half of his life in various forms of custody.

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GOOD NEWS

In Sept. 11 remembrance, a turning to good deeds

Hundreds of thousands of people have pledged to memorialize those killed on 9/11 by doing something good for others. Their heroic acts have spawned a growing grass-roots movement.

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Christian Science Monitor

Future smart cars would prevent accidents by removing mistakes

Researchers have set out to make cars far smarter than today’s models — especially when it comes to dealing with their twitchy, tweaky, all-too-human drivers.

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LiveScience

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Wallet friendly green cars

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WORLD

Taliban says it's 'ready for talks' with Afghan government

The Taliban said it was ready for talks with the Afghan government after President Hamid Karzai offered negotiations in a bid to end the rebels' nearly six-year bloody insurgency.

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AFP

Notorious Golden Triangle loses sway in the opium trade

Fields of brightly colored opium poppies, Corsican gangsters and the CIA's secret war: The mystique of the Golden Triangle clings to the jungle-covered mountains here like the morning mist.

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International Herald Tribune

ENVIRONMENT

U.N. envoy urges developing nations to accept climate targets

U.N. climate change envoy Gro Harlem Brundtland opened a G8 meeting on global warming with a plea for the developing world to agree to binding goals on cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

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Google News

First ever 'zero emission' Antarctic station

The International Polar Foundation has unveiled to the world the first ever “zero emission” Antarctic research station at Tour & Taxis exhibition center in Brussels, Belgium.

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'Green' Antarctic home built

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LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

'Harry Potter' becomes highest-grossing film franchise

"Harry Potter" became the top-grossing franchise in movie history, with earnings topping $4.47 billion around the world, $30 million more than James Bond, the previous holder of the record.

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Guardian

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'Harry Potter' actor determined to man up

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KCAL

Jazz keyboard legend dies at 75

Keyboardist Joe Zawinul, who played with Miles Davis and helped shape jazz fusion with his band Weather Report, died in his native city of Vienna. He was 75.

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Reuters

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Jazz legend Joe Zawinul dies

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Madeleine L'Engle, author of 'A Wrinkle in Time', dies

U.S. writer Madeleine L'Engle, beloved for her classic science-fiction classic "A Wrinkle in Time", has died, her publicist said. She was 88.

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CBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

3-D facial images of children can reveal genetic disorders

The facial features of children can be analyzed in three dimensions to help doctors assess whether a child is suffering from one of many rare genetic disorders.

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The Independent

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Facial features disorders link

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BBC

Part-synthetic muscle sheets made with rat heart cells

Imagine origami that can fold itself into the shape of a fish or a slug—and then swim or crawl around under its own power. Harvard researchers are bringing that fantastic scenario closer to reality.

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National Geographic

EDUCATION

Defying history and stereotype, the South's schools rise

Fifty years after the "Little Rock Nine" integrated Central High in Arkansas, hundreds of Southern high schools have quietly become educational powerhouses.

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Christian Science Monitor

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Rewriting history textbooks post-Sept. 11

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NPR

Colleges build Web sites to enable comparisons, sans ranks

Long-established college associations and a nascent national organization are either building or planning five free, Web-based college-information platforms.

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Girl, 2, becomes member of Mensa

Georgia Brown, from Aldershot, Hampshire, astounded experts by scoring 152 on an IQ test, putting her in the top 2 percent of the population for her age.

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BBC

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Palestinian visually impaired students practice hearing methods as part of sports class under a soft blue light, on the first week of the school year at Al-Qabas Islamic school for the visually impaired in the West Bank city of Ramallah. (Photo by Muhammed Muheisen / AP)

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