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  China Coal Mine Blast Kills 42, Traps 66

  msnbc.com (14 hours, 50 minutes ago)

  A gas explosion tore through a state-run coal mine in China, killing 42 people and leaving 66 others trapped underground as rescuers worked hastily to save them.

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  'New Moon' Takes Record $72.7M Box Office Bite

  yahoo.com (41 minutes ago)

  AP - Vampires and werewolves have vanquished a dark knight. "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" took in $72.7 million in its first day to break the single day domestic box office record previously held ...

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  Mental Health Cases Tax Police, Emergency Workers

  miamiherald.com (19 minutes ago)

  Police and emergency responders around the nation have long struggled to deal with people who have mental illness. Now some say the situation is getting worse.

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  Life Sentences Sought In Amanda Knox Case

  msnbc.com (7 hours, 21 minutes ago)

  Italian prosecutors request life in prison for American Amanda Knox and her ex-boyfriend, who are accused in the fatal stabbing of her British roommate.

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  Pope And Anglican Leader Agree On Closer Relations

  miamiherald.com (5 hours, 7 minutes ago)

  The archbishop of Canterbury held his first talks Saturday with Pope Benedict XVI since the Roman Catholic church's unprecedented invitation to disaffected Anglicans, with the Vatican saying the two sides still want to press ...

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  EPA: Uranium From Polluted Mine In Nev. Wells

  miamiherald.com (4 minutes ago)

  Peggy Pauly lives in a robin-egg blue, two-story house not far from acres of onion fields that make the northern Nevada air smell sweet at harvest time.

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  Chavez Hails 'Carlos The Jackal'

  bbc.co.uk (2 hours, 14 minutes ago)

  Venezuela's Hugo Chavez defends "Carlos the Jackal" and world leaders he says are wrongly considered "bad guys".

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  Report Finds Wide Disparities In Gifted Education

  miamiherald.com (1 hour, 4 minutes ago)

  When Liz Fitzgerald realized her son and daughter were forced to read books in math class while the other children caught up, she had them moved into gifted classes at their suburban Atlanta elementary ...

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  Saudi: 4 Pilgrims Die Of Swine Flu Before Hajj

  miamiherald.com (1 hour, 4 minutes ago)

  Saudi health officials announced the first deaths from swine flu of this year's annual pilgrimage to Mecca, as four pilgrims succumbed to the disease soon after arriving in Saudi Arabia.

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  Afghan Road Builder's Dream Thwarted By Violence

  yahoo.com (3 hours, 22 minutes ago)

  AP - Khalid Khan stares through the dusty window pane, down across the rooftops of the capital, and wonders if they really know where he lives.

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