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Iraqi Police Beat News Photographer

News – An Iraqi photographer working for Reuters was hospitalized Friday after police beat him at the scene of a bombing, officials told CNN.

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Submitted and Voted for on May 17, 2008 08:24am

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Woman's Dead Body Lies In Apartment For 35 Years

Do No Evil – Governments have changed. War erupted and ended. Neighbors had children, and then grandchildren. But Hedviga Golik never left her tiny apartment in Croatia's capital -- until her mummified body was carried out this week, 35 years after she died.

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Obesity Contributes to Global Warming

Science – Obese and overweight people require more fuel to transport them and the food they eat, and the problem will worsen as the population literally swells in size, a team at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine says.

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Voted for on May 17, 2008 07:29am

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AOL seeks growth in shift from mass site to niches

Gadgets & Tech – NEW YORK A company rooted in bringing the Internet to the masses,AOL is shifting its focus toward serving niche audiences with the launch of dozens of specialty websites.The latest ParentDish for parents formally launched Friday,with The Boot for country music and The Boom Box for hip hop and R&B to follow on Tuesday.

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Voted for on May 17, 2008 07:27am

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US soldier refuses to serve in 'illegal Iraq war'

News – US veterans speak out against five-year-old war on Iraq, refuse to be involved in doing more harm to Iraqis. Matthis Chiroux is the kind of young American US military recruiters love."I was from a poor, white family from the south, and I did badly in school," the now 24-year-old said."I was 'filet mignon' for recruiters.

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Voted for on May 17, 2008 07:26am

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Curious George publisher may sue over offensive anti-Obama shirts

Politics – When word came out that a conservative Georgia tavern owner was selling t-shirts with the image of cartoon monkey Curious George over the slogan "Obama in '08," initial reactions focused on the racial slur.

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Voted for on May 17, 2008 07:25am

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'Waterboarding' film that 'CIA doesn't want you to see' launched

Movies – LONDON - Amnesty International has launched a hard-hitting new film about 'waterboarding', the practice of torturing prisoners by partially drowning them.Amnesty's film, called 'Stuff Of Life', is set to be one of the strongest campaign films ever seen by cinema-goers.What adds to the film's shock value is that it is effectively disguised as a bott

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Big ball of Columbia River sturgeon baffles experts

Science – What they found below the spillways in February was not a giant pile of rock at all, but a humongous pile of thousands upon thousands of sturgeon -- some of them 14 feet long or longer -- lounging together in frigid water at the bottom of the river.

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Voted for on May 17, 2008 07:24am

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The President Goes Negative

Do No Evil – President Bush's penchant for slash-and-burn politics, learned at the feet of Karl Rove and the late Lee Atwater, is unseemly when practiced at home. It is shameful for the president and damaging for the country when put on display abroad.

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Voted for on May 17, 2008 07:23am

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Oil sets record near $128; pump price at high, too

News – News that Saudi Arabia had boosted its oil output by 300,000 barrels a day was greeted as a non-event on oil markets - the move wasn't anywhere near the kind of production increase needed to bring prices down on Friday.

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Voted for on May 17, 2008 07:23am

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U.S. Citizenship to be Checked in Event of a Storm

News – Ending speculation about the fate of the Rio Grande Valley's undocumented immigrants during a hurricane evacuation, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has confirmed it will check the citizenship both of people boarding buses to leave the Valley and at inland traffic checkpoints.

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Voted for on May 17, 2008 07:19am

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Obama warns Republicans about critical ads

Politics – Perhaps no one took greater comfort in the Republican Party's third straight loss of a long-held House seat this week than Barack Obama, who says the results point to clear limits in the effectiveness of attack ads he expects this fall.

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Voted for on May 17, 2008 07:18am

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Food stamp recipients scramble for food

Money – Danielle Brown stands outside a South Side market at midnight, braving the spring chill for her first chance to buy groceries since her food stamps ran out nearly two weeks ago.

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Voted for on May 16, 2008 09:25pm

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Hunger and World Poverty

Do No Evil – About 25,000 people die every day of hunger or hunger-related causes, according to the United Nations. This is one person every three and a half seconds, as you can see on this display. Unfortunately, it is children who die most often.

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Submitted and Voted for on May 16, 2008 06:20pm

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Saudi Arabia rebuffs Bush on oil production

News – The White House said Friday that Saudi Arabia's leaders are making clear they see no reason to increase oil production until customers demand it.

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Voted for on May 16, 2008 06:04pm