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          <title>Study: Lesser&#45;known superbug becoming more popular</title>
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ATLANTA &#8212; As one superbug seems to be fading as a threat in hospitals, another is on the rise, a new study suggests.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Text messaging, e&#45;mails changing rules for open government in the digital age</title>
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SAN FRANCISCO &#8212; Open government in the heart of Silicon Valley is starting to mean turn off, tune out, power down.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Obama close to health law overhaul that eluded previous administrators</title>
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WASHINGTON &#8212; After a year of riotous argument, decades of failure and a century of spoiled hopes, the United States is reaching for a system of medical care that extends coverage nearly to all citizens. The change that&#8217;s coming, if Sunday&#8217;s tussle in the House goes President Barack Obama&#8217;s way, would reshape a sixth of the economy and shatter the status quo.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Black support high for Obama&#8217;s race&#45;neutral stance</title>
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. &#8212; In this banking center walloped by the Great Recession, where unemployment just hit a 20-year high and as many as one in three black people are out of work, blacks could easily be frustrated with President Barack Obama&#8217;s insistence that a rising economic tide for all will lift African-American boats.
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          <title>Three deaths reported as snow storm strikes Plains</title>
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NORMAN, Okla. &#8212; A powerful storm began blowing through Oklahoma and the southern Plains on the first day of spring Saturday, bringing heavy snow and strong winds a day after temperatures reached into the 70s.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Former Interior Secretary Udall dies at age 90</title>
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SANTA FE, N.M. &#8212; Stewart Udall, who sowed the seeds of the modern environmental movement as secretary of the interior during the 1960s and later became a crusader for victims of radiation exposure from the government&#8217;s Cold War nuclear programs, died Saturday. He was 90.
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          <title>Colombian president laments killing of journalist</title>
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BOGOTA &#8212; The killing of a radio reporter by a motorcycle gunman reignited concerns Saturday about the safety of journalists in Colombia. 
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          <title>Moderate earthquake, aftershock shake eastern Cuba</title>
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HAVANA &#8212; A moderate earthquake and smaller aftershock rattled houses and nerves in eastern Cuba on Saturday near the U.S. holding facility at Guantanamo Bay. No damages or injuries were reported.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Two pilots die after small planes collide over Florida</title>
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WILLISTON, Fla. &#8212; Officials are saying that two small planes have collided over central Florida and the two pilots have been killed.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Former press secretary for Lady Bird Johnson dies</title>
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AUSTIN, Texas &#8212; Liz Carpenter, an author and former press secretary to first lady Lady Bird Johnson, died Saturday at an Austin hospital after contracting pneumonia earlier in the week, said her daughter, Christy Carpenter. Carpenter was 89.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Mass murderer&#8217;s photos open old wounds</title>
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HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. &#8212; Police have been overwhelmed since they released more than 100 photos found in a serial killer&#8217;s storage locker, more than 30-year-old pictures of unidentified girls and women in bell bottoms, bikinis and Farrah Fawcett hair.           ]]></description>
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          <title>End in sight, health care battle tilts Obama&#8217;s way</title>
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 One by one, Democratic fence-sitters began choosing sides Friday, and the long, turbulent struggle over landmark health care legislation tilted unmistakably in President Barack Obama&#8217;s direction.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Obama rallies support for US health care vote</title>
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President Barack Obama delivered a closing argument for the goal to which he has devoted much of his presidency, urging lawmakers on Friday to pass a sweeping overhaul of the U.S. health care system in a long-awaited vote this weekend           ]]></description>
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          <title>Democrats push toward Sunday vote on health care</title>
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Slowly but steadily, support is building behind President Barack Obama&#8217;s health care legislation in the House, the result of intense lobbying and politically targeted changes aimed at reassuring waverers and winning over critics.
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          <title>Ore. lawsuit claims Boy Scouts sex abuse coverup</title>
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The Boy Scouts of America has long kept an extensive archive of secret documents that chronicle the sexual abuse of young boys by Scout leaders over the years. The &#8220;perversion files,&#8220; a nickname the Boy Scouts are said to have used for the documents, have rarely been seen by the public, but that could all change in the coming weeks in an Oregon courtroom.
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          <title>Ala. coach charged in crack cocaine case</title>
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Faulkner State Community College assistant basketball coach and two other men have been arrested on crack cocaine charges. Officers with the Baldwin County Drug Task Force served a warrant Wednesday, resulting in the arrests of 25-year-old Marcus Nicholas Grant, 45-year-old Charles Ricks and 55-year-old Tommy McReynolds.
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          <title>Judge hears case about Alabama&#8217;s largest casino</title>
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A judge in Macon County is considering whether to extend an order that allowed Alabama&#8217;s largest casino to reopen March 5. Circuit Judge Tom Young has a hearing scheduled at 9 a.m. Friday in Tuskegee.
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          <title>Conan O&#8217;Brien is in talks with Fox for a talk show</title>
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The next few months could keep Conan O&#8217;Brien very busy. For starters, he needs to keep posting those random tweets on his recently opened Twitter account. Then in April, he hits the road for a cross-country comedy tour that&#8217;s scheduled to last two months. And by mid-May, he just might be anointed by Fox as its late-night leading man, when the network&#8217;s program lineup for next season is officially unveiled.
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          <title>Could school bus ads save school budgets?</title>
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School districts have imposed all sorts of drastic cuts to save money during the down economy, canceling field trips and making parents pay for everything from tissues to sports transportation. And some have now resorted to placing advertisements on school buses.
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          <title>Pa. couple thinks Aruba vacation photo shows human remains, possibly of Natalee Holloway</title>
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A newspaper is reporting that a Lancaster County couple believes an underwater snapshot they took off the coast of Aruba reveals human remains on the ocean floor.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Two&#45;track economy: 9.7% unemployment, $200K cars</title>
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For the super-rich and everyone else, the economic recovery is taking place in two very different gears.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Obama backs senators immigration overhaul outline</title>
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President Barack Obama is backing an immigration bill outline drafted by two senators that says illegal immigrants must admit they broke the law to become citizens           ]]></description>
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          <title>Obama signs jobs bill as health care intrudes</title>
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President Barack Obama has said he wants to focus laser-like on the public&#8217;s top concern: jobs. But the ongoing effort to remake the nation&#8217;s health care system keeps getting in the way.           ]]></description>
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Democratic leaders are unveiling what is expected to be their final health care bill Thursday, setting the stage for a Sunday vote on a plan that would affect most Americans and has become the defining issue in Barack Obama&#8217;s presidency           ]]></description>
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          <title>Obama to sign bill to spur job growth</title>
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President Barack Obama is set to sign a jobs bill into law Thursday morning           ]]></description>
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House Democrats are on track for a Sunday vote on sweeping health care legislation that will expand coverage to millions of uninsured while also reducing the federal deficit, leaders said Thursday.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Lawmakers struggle to finish health overhaul bill</title>
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Pushing toward a history-making vote, Democrats struggled to eliminate lingering complications standing in the way of House action this weekend on President Barack Obama&#8217;s landmark health care overhaul. Their drive to change the way health care is administered and extend coverage to millions of uninsured Americans took on a growing sense of inevitability.           ]]></description>
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A legal tussle pitting media conglomerate Viacom Inc. against online video leader YouTube is about to get dirtier as a federal judge prepares to release documents that will expose their secrets and other confidential information. The information expected to be unsealed Thursday will include some of the evidence that Viacom and Google-owned YouTube have collected to prove their respective points.           ]]></description>
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          <title>1 vs. 16 usually lopsided in NCAA tourney</title>
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The NCAA tournament is famous for the little guys shocking the marquee powerhouses and turning into the darlings of March. Upsets happen. In every region, every year. With one lopsided exception: No. 1 vs. No. 16.
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          <title>Ala. prison population grows again</title>
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A new report shows Alabama&#8217;s prison population continued to increase last year while the number of inmates declined nationwide.The report by the Public Safety Performance Project of the Pew Center on the States shows the number of inmates housed by the state was 31,561 on Jan. 1, an increase of 3.5 percent from a year earlier.
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The University of Alabama has partnered with the University of North Alabama to offer a doctorate in education at the Huntsville school. If the plan is approved by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, students will be able to start working on their University of Alabama Doctor of Education degrees in the fall.
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The growing front in the war on terrorism may be no farther than Main Street           ]]></description>
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President Barack Obama&#8217;s much-challenged health care overhaul gained traction Wednesday as a liberal lawmaker became the first to switch his opposition and Roman Catholic nuns declared their support in an unusual public break with their bishops           ]]></description>
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Stocks rose Wednesday after U.S. and Japanese central banks reaffirmed plans to keep interest rates low to revive economic growth           ]]></description>
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Companies that hire unemployed workers get a temporary payroll tax holiday under a bill headed for likely Senate passage Wednesday           ]]></description>
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House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer declined to say Wednesday if Democrats have enough votes to pass historic health care legislation, but hinted that they&#8217;re poised to use an arcane parliamentary process to get it done           ]]></description>
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Mobile&#8217;s fire-rescue chief says a downgrade in fire protection rating is likely to boost insurance premiums the most for homeowners just outside the city limits.
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Amid heightened interest from last year, the federal government opens bids Wednesday from the energy industry for offshore petroleum leases off the coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
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A woman championed as the Obama administration&#8217;s emblem for health care reform does not have to choose between her home and her health, according to officials at the Ohio hospital where she is being treated           ]]></description>
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The United States and Israel stepped back Tuesday from their most public rift in a decade, a dispute over new Jewish homes in a traditionally Arab part of Jerusalem that quickly became a test of U.S. and Israeli commitment to peace talks and one another           ]]></description>
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The Federal Reserve on Tuesday repeated its pledge to hold interest rates at record lows to foster the economic recovery and ease high unemployment           ]]></description>
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Democrats defended plans to push massive health care legislation through the House without a direct vote and Republicans assailed the strategy Tuesday, as both parties fenced ferociously over the health overhaul end game           ]]></description>
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The Feds are on Facebook. And MySpace, LinkedIn and Twitter, too.           ]]></description>
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Days away from a make-or-break vote on his health care overhaul, President Barack Obama is turning up the pressure as only presidents can, as Democratic leaders make a desperate scramble for votes           ]]></description>
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The mistress of former presidential candidate John Edwards says she is helping him live &#8220;a life of truth&#8221; and the two remain in love even after their affair helped trigger his downfall from the pinnacle of U.S. politics.

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Authorities say a South Carolina woman is in critical condition after she was struck by a rock that flew through her windshield when a pickup truck hit a pothole along Interstate 20 near the Alabama-Georgia line.
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The husband of Huntsville shooting suspect Amy Bishop said police took his family&#8217;s computers during a search of the family&#8217;s home.
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The retirement nest egg of an entire generation is stashed away in this small town along the Ohio River: $2.5 trillion in IOUs from the federal government, payable to the Social Security Administration.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Official: Pentagon probing alleged spy operation</title>
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A Defense Department official is under investigation for allegedly hiring private contractors to gather intelligence on suspected insurgents in Afghanistan and Pakistan, a U.S. official said Monday.           ]]></description>
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A new Democratic Senate bill to tame U.S. financial markets would give the government new powers to break up firms that threaten the economy and would force the industry to pay for its failures.           ]]></description>
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With a fresh sense of urgency, President Barack Obama sought to reassure seniors Monday about health care legislation approaching a final vote in Congress, pledging it would make preventive care cost-free and close a gap in Medicare prescription drug coverage           ]]></description>
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Communications regulators are unveiling a sweeping proposal to overhaul U.S. broadband policy. Their aim: to bring affordable, high-speed Internet connections to all Americans and make access much faster for people who already have broadband           ]]></description>
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More than 120 million U.S. census forms begin arriving Monday in mailboxes around the country           ]]></description>
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With a fresh sense of urgency, President Barack Obama and congressional Democratic leaders pressed wavering rank-and-file lawmakers to back his health care overhaul, determined to give the party something to show voters in the midterm elections           ]]></description>
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About 3,000 people attended a rally in favor of a tax that would provide some $75 million for schools in Baldwin County.
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The University of North Alabama is among a small but growing number of colleges that contact parents if their children get nabbed for underage drinking. Kim Greenway, director of judicial affairs and student affairs at UNA, says underage drinking is among the most frequent violations at North Alabama.
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More than 120 million U.S. census forms begin arriving Monday in mailboxes around the country, in the government&#8217;s once-a-decade population count that will be used to divvy up congressional seats and more than $400 billion in federal aid.            ]]></description>
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Peter Graves, whose calm and intelligent demeanor was a good fit for the intrigue of &#8220;Mission Impossible&#8221; as well as the satire of the &#8220;Airplane&#8221; films, has died. Graves passed away Sunday just a few days before his 84th birthday outside his home in Los Angeles, publicist Sandy Brokaw said. Graves was returning from brunch when he had what Graves&#8217; doctor believed was a heart attack, Brokaw said.
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NEW YORK &#8212; In the years after the 9/11 terror attacks, 10,000 people who helped clear mountains of debris from Lower Manhattan filed lawsuits blaming New York City for failing to protect them from the toxic dust.
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President Barack Obama delayed next week&#8217;s Asian trip on Friday to seize on suddenly improved prospects for his sweeping health care legislation, as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi forecast final passage of the overhaul in days           ]]></description>
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Twitter can now let the world automatically know your whereabouts as well as your thoughts and activities           ]]></description>
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Retail sales posted a surprising increase in February as consumers did not let major snowstorms stop them from storming the malls. The advance, the biggest since November, provided hope that the recovery from the Great Recession is gaining momentum           ]]></description>
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President Barack Obama has delayed his visit to Asia, his first international trip of the year, to focus on the push to salvage health care legislation after a year of contentious debate.
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Teen power won out on &#8220;American Idol&#8221; as Katie Stevens claimed a place in the top 12 while a more experienced singer got the ax. Stevens, 17, earned viewer support even though the show&#8217;s judges were disappointed earlier this week by her performance of &#8220;Breakaway&#8221; that Randy Jackson likened to karaoke.

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A lesbian student who wanted to take her girlfriend to her senior prom is asking a federal judge to force her Mississippi school district to reinstate the dance it canceled The American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi on Thursday filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Oxford on behalf of 18-year-old Constance McMillen, who said she faced some unhappy classmates.           ]]></description>
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Too much cancer screening, too many heart tests, too many cesarean sections. A spate of recent reports suggest that too many Americans &#8212; maybe even President Barack Obama &#8212; are being overtreated. Is it doctors practicing defensive medicine? Or are patients so accustomed to a culture of medical technology that they insist on extensive tests and treatments?
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House leaders have concluded they cannot change a divisive abortion provision in President Barack Obama&#8217;s health care bill and will try to pass the sweeping legislation without the support of ardent anti-abortion Democrats           ]]></description>
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Democratic state Sen. Lowell Barron of Fyffe is planning to make another attempt at getting the Senate to approve his $1 billion road construction plan. The plan stalled in February when Barron couldn&#8217;t muster enough votes to shut off a filibuster by opponents.
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The University of Alabama in Huntsville has fired the professor accused of shooting six co-workers, killing three. UAH spokesman Ray Garner confirmed Wednesday that biology professor Amy Bishop received a termination letter Feb. 26 from Jack Fix, dean of the College of Sciences.
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Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim is the first man from a developing nation to become the world&#8217;s richest person &#8212; a shift that underlines the loosening of America and Europe&#8217;s stranglehold on the top spots in the billionaires&#8217; club. Slim&#8217;s arrival at the top aroused both pride and anger in Mexico, where many see his fantastic wealth in a poverty-afflicted nation as a sign of what ails it.
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Toyota&#8217;s massive recalls are prompting Congress to reconsider whether the nation&#8217;s auto safety agency has lived up to its mission of protecting motorists.

A House panel on Thursday planned to examine the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration&#8217;s oversight of the auto industry in the latest congressional hearing linked to Toyota&#8217;s recall of more than 8 million vehicles worldwide.           ]]></description>
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An AP News Analysis. 
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They flew planes during World War II but weren&#8217;t considered &#8220;real&#8221; military pilots. No flags were draped over their coffins when they died on duty. And when their service ended, they had to pay their own bus fare home           ]]></description>
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Unemployment rose in 30 states in January, the Labor Department said Wednesday, evidence that jobs remain scarce in most regions of the country           ]]></description>
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President Barack Obama is making his closing arguments for a health care overhaul, pushing a new anti-fraud plan as he cranks up the pressure on skittish Democratic lawmakers to act fast.
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Texas&#8217; state education board, rocked by primary elections that may push the influential panel&#8217;s far-right leanings toward the center, is set to take its first vote on a new social studies curriculum that could reverberate in classrooms nationwide. The board &#8212; long led by social conservatives who have advocated for ideas such as teaching Texas children more about the weaknesses of evolutionary theory &#8212; has worked on, and squabbled about, the social studies standards for months.            ]]></description>
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Americans have come to detest Congress ever more deeply as it nears the end of a nasty fight over health care. But more than half still back President Barack Obama, a bright spot for a Democratic Party counting on its leader to help stave off expected losses in elections this fall.
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Entertainers lined up for the Alabama Music Hall of Fame induction ceremony March 25 in Montgomery include Percy Sledge and the Blind Boys of Alabama.
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Minorities make up nearly half the children born in the U.S., part of a historic trend in which minorities are expected to become the U.S. majority over the next 40 years.           ]]></description>
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President Barack Obama&#8217;s health care bill would change federal policy on abortion, but not open the spigot of taxpayer dollars that some abortion opponents fear.           ]]></description>
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Legislation extending unemployment insurance for the long-term jobless faces a key test vote in the Senate, its momentum helped by about 60 popular tax breaks for individuals and businesses that expired at the end of last year           ]]></description>
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Stocks traded in a tight range Tuesday, a year after major market indexes hit 12-year lows           ]]></description>
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Two of the oldest people in the world have died on the same day. Mary Josephine Ray, who was certified as the oldest person living in the United States, died Sunday at age 114 years, 294 days. Ray died just hours before Daisey Bailey, who was 113 years, 342 days, said L. Stephen Coles, a director of the Gerontology Research Group, which tracks and studies old people and certifies those 110 or older, called supercentenarians.
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Publix Super Markets, which has more than 1,000 stores in five Southern states, has voluntarily recalled four kinds of seasoning mixes that may possibly be contaminated with salmonella.&nbsp; Publix said it has taken the mixes off of its shelves and says shoppers can return them to the stores for a full refund.
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Bus drivers at the University of Alabama, who went on strike for one day last week, have ratified a three-year contract.           ]]></description>
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A shooting Tuesday morning at an Ohio State University campus maintenance building left one employee dead and two others wounded, the university said. A suspect was taken into custody. The shooting was first reported at 3:30 a.m. Tuesday           ]]></description>
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Legislation extending unemployment insurance for the long-term jobless faces a key test vote in the Senate,.The measure also prevents doctors from absorbing a crippling cut in Medicare payments, extends health insurance subsidies for the unemployed and gives cash-starved states help with Medicaid, the federal-state program providing health care to the poor and disabled.
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The Connecticut Huskies didn&#8217;t celebrate after the game. Just another night&#8217;s work for coach Geno Auriemma&#8217;s latest dynasty. After their ho-hum 59-44 win over Notre Dame put them in the championship of the Big East tournament on Monday night, the Huskies just shook hands with the Irish &#8212; same as they have after pretty much every other game during their incredible streak.
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Toyota Motor Corp. plans to rebut claims that the electronics of its cars and trucks are to blame for unwanted acceleration problems that are behind the recall of more than eight million vehicles.
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 The Georgia Department of Natural Resources plans a recovery operation Monday for a man who fell into the Chattahoochee River when his fishing boat capsized.
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 Kansas City was held up as a national example of bold thinking when it tried to integrate its schools by making them better than the suburban districts where many kids were moving. The result was one school with an Olympic-sized swimming pool and another with recording studios. Now it&#8217;s on the brink of bankruptcy and considering another bold move: closing nearly half its schools to stay afloat.

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An Alabama woman who test piloted American warplanes in the 1940s is headed to Washington, D.C., to be honored with other women for their World War Two military service. Mary Helen Foster of Northport will receive the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest honor for civilians.
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Higher prices for fertilizer in recent years have taken a toll on profit margins for farmers throughout the world, prompting many to ask if there are any cheaper alternatives for providing nutrients to their crops. Work under way by a Shoals organization is aimed at providing farmers with affordable fertilizers that also would be more environmentally friendly than those used now on farms around the globe.
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Stocks jumped Friday after the government&#8217;s employment report showed fewer jobs were cut in February than expected           ]]></description>
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General Motors Co. will reinstate more than half the dealerships it targeted to drop from its network           ]]></description>
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A House committee on Friday questioned how rigorously Toyota has tested its vehicles for sudden acceleration, and asked the Japanese automaker for more records on the safety issues.           ]]></description>
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The unemployment rate held at 9.7 percent in February as employers shed 36,000 jobs, fewer than expected. The figures suggested the job market is slowly healing but that significant hiring has yet to occur           ]]></description>
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A frigid Florida winter is taking its toll on your sandwich. The Sunshine State is the main U.S. source for fresh winter tomatoes, and its growers lost some 70 percent of their crop during January&#8217;s prolonged cold snap. Wholesale prices are up nearly five times over last year. That means you can say goodbye to the beefsteaks on that burger and prepare to pay more than usual for the succulent wedges in your salad.
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Former Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford is due in court to find out how long he will go to federal prison for taking some $235,000 in bribes. U.S. District Judge Scott Coogler ordered Langford to be in court Friday for sentencing. He was convicted on 60 felony counts in October and removed from office.
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