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AP – The United States and NATO need a new strategy to defeat the Taliban, the top commander in Afghanistan said Monday as he delivered a classified assessment that is widely seen as the groundwork for a fresh request to add more American forces next year.
Read More: Gates: Report details highs, lows of Afghan fight
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AP – It was one of the greatest mysteries of the collapse of the Third Reich. As Russian tanks moved into Berlin and Adolf Hitler committed suicide in his bunker, his brutal and feared private secretary, Martin Bormann, simply vanished.
Read More: UK documents reveal hunt for Hitler's deputy
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OneWorld.net – SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 31 (New America Media) – While California’s standardized testing indicates there has been
some improvement in student achievement this year, it still hasn’t
closed the performance gap between low-income students and their more
economically advantaged counterparts.
Read More: California's Achievement Gap Persists
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AP – Extremely dangerous Hurricane Jimena roared toward Mexico’s resort-studded Baja California Peninsula on Monday, prompting emergency workers to set up makeshift shelters and chasing away an international finance conference.
Read More: Hurricane stronger, heads for Mexico's Los Cabos
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AFP – An Australian zoo that sold endangered antelope to a hunting enthusiast has been barred from trading in animals until an investigation into the incident is completed, a media report said Monday.
Read More: Ban for Australian zoo that sold antelope to hunter
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AP – The son of the late leader of Iraq’s largest Shiite political party on Monday took the reins of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, a party official said.
Read More: Son of late Iraqi Shiite leader takes over party
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AP – Armenia and Turkey, bitter foes for a century, took a step toward reconciliation Monday by announcing they would launch final talks aimed at establishing diplomatic ties. But they won’t discuss the deepest source of their enmity: the World War I-era massacres of Armenians under Ottoman rule.
Read More: Turkey, Armenia to launch talks on diplomatic ties
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AP – Yukio Hatoyama, the Stanford Ph.D and political blue blood who led Japan’s opposition party to a stunning election victory, is coming to power amid questions about how he will pursue his desire for a more independent relationship with the United States.
Read More: Questions arise over how Japan's new leader will handle U.S. ties
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AP – Mexico is preparing for a second wave of swine flu, looking at what worked and what didn’t last spring when it banned everything from dining out to attending school in an effort to control the virus.
Read More: Lessons from Mexico for next wave of swine flu
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AP – When he was younger, “Dancing with the Stars” pro Mark Ballas says it was a nightly ritual to watch Melissa Joan Hart in the popular 1990s show “Clarissa Explains it All.”
Read More: Ballas hopes for 'Dancing' repeat win with Hart
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Reuters – Adding yet another wrinkle to next year’s Academy Awards, Oscar organizers plan to use a preferential voting system in tallying the final vote for best picture, where 10 nominees will be competing for the first time since 1943.
Read More: Oscars' best picture race to factor in rankings
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Reuters – Here’s an interesting pairing of short plays by Neil LaBute: “The New Testament” is a world-premiere showbiz satire, directed by Bjorn Johnson. The hard-hitting marital drama “Helter Skelter,” directed by LaBute, debuted last year in London.
Read More: Bad boys take center stage in LaBute short plays
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AP – Country music singer Shania Twain is slowly stepping back into the spotlight after the break up of her marriage to Robert “Mutt” Lange in May 2008.
Read More: Shania Twain slowly stepping back into spotlight
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AP – Ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich says in a new book that White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel wanted his help in arranging to leave the Obama administration after two years to reclaim his seat in Congress.
Read More: Ousted Ill. governor explains himself in new book
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AP – A benefit concert that rapper Jay-Z is planning for Sept. 11 is a step in the direction that his career and life is heading in, he said Monday.
Read More: Jay-Z to give Sept. 11 benefit concert in NYC
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AP – Former Miss California USA Carrie Prejean sued pageant officials Monday for libel, slander and religious discrimination, accusing them of telling her to stop mentioning God even before her controversial remarks against gay marriage.
Read More: Former Miss California sues over firing
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Fashion Wire Daily – It’s all about red boots in Sandra Bullock’s crack-up new comedy “All About Steve”; knee-high, chunky heeled red patent leather boots, in fact. As crossword puzzle creator and general oddball Mary Horowitz, Bullock wears those boots throughout the flim, as she wildly pursues Bradley Cooper, a television cameraman she meets on a blind date.
Read More: Sandra Bullock, Boot Gal, Rocks the "All About Steve" Premiere
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AP – Until not so long ago, Stage 42 at CBS’ Broadcast Center held a honeycomb of chambers where “Guiding Light” was shot.
Read More: An institution ends when 'Guiding Light' turns off
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AP – Pop-punk band Blink-182 has pulled out of its show in Saratoga Springs, New York, saying band members were grieving the death of their friend, celebrity disc jockey Adam “DJ AM” Goldstein.
Read More: Blink 182 cancels NY show after DJ AM's death
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AP – When is swine flu just miserable and when do you need a doctor?
Read More: Advice on when flu needs TLC or a doctor's care
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Reuters – A sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer is also to blame for half of all cases of cancer of the penis, Spanish researchers said on Tuesday.
Read More: Virus blamed for half of penile cancers
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HealthDay – MONDAY, Aug. 31 (HealthDay News) — Parents should add an eye exam to
their children’s back-to-school list, experts say.
Read More: Is Eye Exam on Your Back-to-School List?
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Reuters – Routine screening for prostate cancer has resulted in more than 1 million U.S. men being diagnosed with tumors who might otherwise have suffered no ill effects from them, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
Read More: Prostate cancer screening: More harm than good?
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AP – An experimental drug reduces the stroke risk in patients with irregular heartbeats by more than three times, compared with the popular drug warfarin but possibly at a cost, according to new research released Sunday.
Read More: Study shows experimental drug cuts stroke risk
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AP – The alarm sounded with two sneezy children in California in April. Just five months later, the never-before-seen swine flu has become the world’s dominant strain of influenza, and it’s putting a shockingly younger face on flu.
Read More: Return of swine flu: What's ahead for Americans?
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AP – Working up a sweat may be even better than angioplasty for some heart patients, experts say.
Read More: Exercise beats angioplasty for some heart patients
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AFP – More than 30 million people in the EU are undernourished, many of them patients in hospitals and nursing homes, experts told a specialist nutrition congress in Vienna on Monday.
Read More: Millions undernourished in EU: experts
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HealthDay – MONDAY, Aug. 31 (HealthDay News) — Having your baby at home with a
registered midwife is just as safe as a conventional hospital birth, a new
study says.
Read More: Home Birth With Midwife As Safe As Hospital Birth: Study
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AP – There is an epidemic in an old gold mining town in western Arizona: The wild burros that roam the town’s single street are overweight, with rolls of fat on their necks and big, full bellies. But don’t blame them. They’ll eat anything.
Read More: Carrot-toting tourists making Arizona burros obese
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HealthDay – MONDAY, Aug. 31 (HealthDay News) — The Mediterranean diet, long
touted as a healthy eating plan, may help people with type 2 diabetes stay
off blood sugar-lowering medications, as well as help them lose weight and
lower cardiovascular risk factors.
Read More: Mediterranean Diet May Be Best for Type 2 Diabetes
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AP – Doctors don’t know yet if it will take one dose or two of vaccine to protect against the new swine flu. Add that to vaccine for the regular winter flu, and it could be a multishot season for a lot of people or a multisquirt season, for those who choose the FluMist nasal-spray version.
Read More: Flu season: How many shots?
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Reuters – A low-carbohydrate, Mediterranean-style diet is more effective than a typical low-fat, calorie-restricted diet for diabetes management, according to a study released Monday.
Read More: Mediterranean diet tops low-fat diet for diabetics
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AP – A new drug to prevent blood clots in heart patients reduced their chances of dying by more than 20 percent compared with the standard treatment, new research says.
Read More: New AstraZeneca drug reduces heart patients' risks
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AFP – Billionaire investor Carl Icahn has sold 12.7 million shares in Yahoo!, cutting his stake in the company a month after it formed an Internet search partnership with software giant Microsoft.
Read More: Icahn cuts stake in Yahoo!
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Reuters – Google Inc is shipping its Chrome browser with Sony Corp PCs, sealing the Internet company’s first such deal since it introduced the Web browser last year to compete with Microsoft.
Read More: Sony PCs to offer Google Web browser
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PC World – A hacker has posted code that could be used to take over a system running Microsoft IIS (Internet Information Services) server.
Read More: Unpatched Flaw Could Take Down Microsoft's IIS Server
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InfoWorld – If you think you can easily whittle down the best open source software to a manageable number, you’ll soon discover that you can’t do it without a great deal of hair pulling, nail biting, and gnashing of teeth.
Read More: Best of Open Source Software Awards 2009
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AP – Watch what you tweet.
Read More: Tennis officials a-Twitter: US Open players warned
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AP – Kobe Bryant isn’t just the “NBA 2K10″ cover athlete, he also makes a good mermaid.
Read More: Lakers' Kobe Bryant talks `NBA 2K10' video game
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Macworld.com – Apple on Monday released firmware updates for the Mac mini and for certain SuperDrive-containing systems.
Read More: Apple releases Mac mini, SuperDrive updates
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AP – Goofy videos weren’t on the minds of Len Kleinrock and his team at UCLA when they began tests 40 years ago on what would become the Internet. Neither was social networking, for that matter, nor were most of the other easy-to-use applications that have drawn more than a billion people online.
Read More: As Internet turns 40, barriers threaten its growth
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AP – Six months ago, Brianna Karp found herself living in an old truck and camper she inherited after the suicide of a father she barely knew.
Read More: Jobless and homeless, blogger scores Elle job
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NewsFactor – Even as rumors spread about the iPhone coming to new carriers next year, Rockstar Games has announced plans to bring its blockbuster franchise to Apple’s iPhone this fall. But will App Store reviewers approve the violent game?
Read More: Grand Theft Auto Could Be Next App Store Controversy
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AP – With a little help from the Beatles, Super Mario and price cuts from Sony and Microsoft, the slumping video game industry is hoping for a sales resurrection this fall.
Read More: Beatles, Stones, Super Mario: big autumn for games
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PC World – 3Com plans to integrate intrusion prevention technology from its TippingPoint subsidiary into networking gear from its H3C division as part of a strategy to deliver streamlined secure networks at less cost and power consumption than marquee vendors.
Read More: 3Com to Blend Security Brains, Enterprise Brawn
(PC World)
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 Telegraph.co.uk |
In Taiwan, Dalai Lama disputes China's claims
CNN International JIA SHI'AN, Taiwan (CNN) — The Dalai Lama — on a visit to Taiwan that includes prayers for recent typhoon victims — has rebutted China's claims that he is there for political reasons. The Dalai Lama visits the typhoon-hit village of Hsiaolin, … Dalai Lama visits typhoon-hit Taiwan Typhoon-affected Taiwanese protest Dalai Lama's visit Dalai Lama begins Taiwan visit |
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Frantic Ga. 911 caller: 'My whole family is dead!'
The Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. — Guy Heinze Jr. arrived home from a night out to find a gruesome scene — seven people dead, a cousin with Down syndrome clinging to life and another critically injured. "My dad's dead, my uncle's dead. There's like six. … Trailer park murders: My whole family is dead Georgia police probe trailer killings of eight Reward posted to help solve US trailer park murders |
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 Washington Post |
Vote-rigging in Afghanistan leaves US scrambling to save election
Times Online The sheer scale and brazen nature of vote rigging in Afghanistan's elections has left the US Administration scrambling for a “least-worst” option, according to officials haunted by the spectre of a failed government in Kabul. The widespread evidence of … Karzai Maintains Lead in Latest Afghan Vote Count Karzai leads in Afghan leadership race as complaints surge Troops inflict 'vast damage' in south Afghanistan, says Holbrooke |
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 Telegraph.co.uk |
Dugard, 2 girls seemed normal, some say
USA Today To some people who had contact with them, Jaycee Lee Dugard and her two daughters led seemingly ordinary lives that gave little hint of the squalid conditions in which they lived. Dugard helped Phillip Garrido, … Bone fragment found as California kidnap probe expands Why did Jaycee stay? Couple never on FBI radar in CA girl's kidnapping |
Read More: Dugard, 2 girls seemed normal, some say – USA Today
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 New York Times |
White House Not Pleased With Two Republican Senators
New York Times Charles Dharapak/AP Senator Mike Enzi, the ranking Republican on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, among copies of the health care reform bill before a committee meeting in June. The White House was evidently … Gibbs Says Republicans Walking Away From Health Talks The Gang of Six Appears to be Dead — But How Many of Them Know It? Today's Qs for O's WH – 8/31/2009 |
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