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Math Scores Show No Gap for Girls, Study Finds
New York Times - 1 hour ago
By TAMAR LEWIN Three years after the president of Harvard, Lawrence H. Summers, got into trouble for questioning women’s “intrinsic aptitude” for science and engineering - and 16 years after the talking Barbie doll proclaimed that “math class is tough” ...
Numbers don't lie: Girls as good at math as boys, study finds
Dallas Morning News
New study: Girls, boys do equally well on standardized math tests
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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Oil Spill on Nearly 100 Miles of Mississippi River
New York Times - 2 hours ago
By ADAM NOSSITER NEW ORLEANS - A sheen of oil coated the Mississippi River for nearly 100 miles from the center of this city to the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday following the worst oil spill here in nearly a decade.
Video: Ship Collision Closes Part of Mississippi River
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Miss. River oil spill idles ships near New Orleans
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The Southern Ledger

Controller says he won't cut workers' salaries
San Francisco Chronicle - 51 minutes ago
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's bombshell plan to slash the pay of state workers and lay off thousands of other employees to ease a looming cash shortage brought on by the state's budget impasse faces the same obstacle that arose five years ago during a ...
Hundreds of angry state workers hold rally to protest governor's ...
San Jose Mercury News
Possible order to cut state workers' wages 'not a chess move ...
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NY1

4 Spitzer Aides Broke Ethics Law in Bid to Smear Rival, Panel Says
New York Times - 3 hours ago
By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE ALBANY - Four Spitzer administration officials violated the state’s ethics law when they used the State Police last summer to gather travel documents they hoped would tarnish Joseph L. Bruno, then the State Senate majority leader ...
Spitzer Aides Charged in Troopergate Probe
New York Sun
Three Spitzer aides charged in NY ethics probe
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The Washington Independent

Justice Advised CIA in '02 About Legal Waterboarding
Washington Post - 1 hour ago
By Joby Warrick Lawyers for the Bush administration told the CIA in 2002 that its officers could legally use waterboarding and other harsh measures while interrogating al-Qaeda suspects, as long as they acted "in good faith" and did not deliberately ...
Documents Laid Out Interrogation Procedures
New York Times
Previously secret Justice Department memo released Thursday
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Albany Times Union

Arrest made in Phoenix community college shooting
The Associated Press - 25 minutes ago
PHOENIX (AP) - A former student shot three people Thursday in a computer room at a Phoenix community college, injuring one of them critically, authorities said.
3 shot at Phoenix community college; 1 critical
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Police say possible suspect in custody
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Barack Obama misses a cancer forum
Los Angeles Times - 2 hours ago
If the views expressed by one woman attending tonight's town hall forum on cancer that Lance Armstrong and John McCain headlined in Columbus, Ohio, are at all typical, it may explain the noticable lack so far of any uptick in national polls for Barack ...
A McCain Riddle: What Do Lance Armstrong and Barack Obama Have in ...
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McCain vows funding to fight cancer
Dayton Daily News
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Dallas Voice

Congress Approves $50 Billion for AIDS Treatment, Prevention
Bloomberg - 21 minutes ago
By Nicholas Johnston July 24 (Bloomberg) -- The US Congress today approved legislation allocating $50 billion to extend President George W. Bush's program to combat HIV/AIDS and other diseases in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, sending the measure to ...
House Passes Broader Plan to Fight AIDS
New York Times
US Congress sends Bush expanded global AIDS program
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Boston Globe

One dead in violent NH storm
Boston Globe - 2 hours ago
Bob Bennett becomes overwhelmed with emotion after telling his 11-year old daughter over the phone that they no longer had a home and that their neighbor had perished when a storm hit their Epsom neighborhood.
1 dead in NH storms that levels several homes
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Damage most dramatic along Northwood Lake
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Voice of America

Hispanic voters prefer Obama three to one
Fort Worth Star Telegram - 43 minutes ago
By PATRICK McGEE Hispanic voters prefer Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama over his Republican opponent John McCain by nearly three to one, according to a survey released Thursday.
Analyzing the Democrats most frequently mentioned as running mates ...
Dallas Morning News
Study: Latino voters prefer Obama
Chicago Tribune
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China Daily

Air Force Missile Launch Crew Fell Asleep
ABC News - 2 hours ago
By LOLITA C. BALDOR and JAMES MacPHERSON AP Writers AP One of 35 B-52 bombers housed at the Minot Air Force Base is serviced Friday, May 13, 2005, in Minot, ND The base was not on the Pentagon's list of military installations recommended for closure or ...
Missile Crew Asleep on the Job
New York Times
US missile crew falls asleep with launch codes
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New York Times

Police Dept. Gains Control of Security at World Trade Center Site
New York Times - 1 hour ago
By DAVID W. DUNLAP The New York Police Department will be given broad control over security at the World Trade Center site under an agreement announced on Thursday by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, ...
Port Authority and NYPD to split Ground Zero duties
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NYPD wins in bitter WTC security battle
New York Daily News
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Madison Messenger

Virginia executes man for killing of co-worker
Reuters - 2 hours ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A man convicted of the fatal beating of a co-worker in 2001 was put to death by lethal injection in Virginia on Thursday, becoming the fourth inmate in the state to be executed this year.
Va. executes killer who challenged injections
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Emmett Executed
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KING5.com

Multibillion-dollar rail, bus plan is up to voters
Seattle Post Intelligencer - 42 minutes ago
By LARRY LANGE Sound Transit board members on Thursday voted to place another expansion measure on November's ballot, a measure now estimated to cost $22.8 billion when the debt is repaid.
$17.9B Sound Transit plan on Nov. ballot
Seattle Times
Sound Transit plan to appear on Nov. ballot
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Some Reality, Please
New York Times - 1 hour ago
If the Senate could summon some wisdom, it would interrupt its mud wrestling over partisan placebos for the gas crisis long enough to debate something real: emergency help for the nation’s poorest families who face skyrocketing home heating costs this ...
Energy assistance bill gains support
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
LIHEAP Funding
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KAALtv.com

Billions needed to shore up nation's bridges
USA Today - 1 hour ago
By Marisol Bello, USA TODAY The fatal collapse of a bridge in Minneapolis a year ago jolted states into better inspections of the nation's 600000 bridges, but they aren't coming up with the billions of dollars needed to ensure that all of them are ...
UPDATE 1-US House passes bill to repair "deficient" bridges
Reuters
House backs $1 billion initiative to upgrade nation's bridges
Minneapolis Star Tribune
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Expedited Trials of Illegal Immigrants Are Questioned
Washington Post - 3 hours ago
By Spencer S. Hsu Criminal defense and immigration lawyers yesterday challenged the government's use of expedited trials to convict 306 illegal immigrant workers at a meat processing plant in Iowa in May, arguing that fast-tracked group trials violated ...
Democrats blast Bush administration for targeting workers, not ...
San Francisco Chronicle
Immigration raid tactics draw congressional ire
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Calgary Herald

Flooding feared along US-Mexico border from Dolly
Reuters - 5 hours ago
By Joe Mitchell BROWNSVILLE, Texas (Reuters) - Hurricane Dolly, which lashed the US-Mexico coastline, weakened to a tropical depression on Thursday over South Texas, but concern remained over flooding along the populous Rio Grande Valley.
South Texas begins cleanup after Hurricane Dolly
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Texas anxiously waiting for water to drop
Minneapolis Star Tribune
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Ex-Judge Sentenced to Nearly 4 Years in Prison for Child Pornography
FOXNews - 57 minutes ago
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - A federal judge has sentenced a former Sevier County judge to nearly four years in prison for having child pornography on an office computer.
Lawyer had child porn
Knoxville News Sentinel
Former Sevier County judge sentenced for child porn
WBIR-TV
Seymour Herald - Knoxville News Sentinel
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Russia Denies Cuba Bombers Report
New York Sun - 4 hours ago
By BENNY AVNI, Staff Reporter of the Sun | July 25, 2008 UNITED NATIONS - With Fidel Castro openly relishing the prospect of a second missile crisis and a renewed confrontation with America, Russia is denying a report that it will deploy nuclear ...
Video: 'Flight plans' could spark new Cuban missile crisis
RussiaToday

Russia Rejects Reports of Plan to Send Strategic Jets to Cuba
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