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More than 'Shaft': Hayes was goldmine of influence (AP)

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:14:44 +0800

American funk-soul legend and Academy Award-award winning musician Isaac Hayes, pictured in 2005, was found dead Sunday at his home in Memphis, Tennessee, officials said. He was 65.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Brad Barket)AP - With its riveting orchestration, definitive guitar play and signature sensual baritone vocals, Isaac Hayes' theme song for the 1971 movie "Shaft" not only became one of pop music's iconic songs, but also the defining work of Hayes' career.


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What a race! Lezak keeps Phelps' hopes alive (AP)

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:08:50 +0800

Members of the U.S. relay team show their medals during an awarding ceremony after setting a world record to win the men's 4x100-meter freestyle relay final in the National Aquatics Center at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Monday, Aug. 11, 2008. They are from left: Cullen Jones, Jason Lezak, Michael Phelps and Garrett Weber-Gale. (AP Photo/Thomas Kienzle)AP - With history about to slip away and Michael Phelps cheering him on, Jason Lezak pulled up next to the lane rope and set out after hulking Alain Bernard, like a NASCAR driver drafting down the backstretch at Daytona.


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Influx brings Brazilian `bounce' to NYC suburb (AP)

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:46:27 +0800

Executive Director Ricardo Braxtor is photographed during an interview at the Brazilian Civic Center, Tuesday, June 24, 2008 in Mount Vernon, N.Y. In the spare office of the Brazilian Civic Center, Braxtor offers lessons in speaking English and energetically urges Brazilian assimilation. The 46-year-old Sao Paulo native is pushing his community to join blood drives, school groups and soccer league. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - Police Commissioner David Chong has made a new addition to the department's wish-list: a Portuguese-speaking officer.


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Officials work to ID remains from helicopter crash (AP)

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:54:03 +0800

A pair of California National Guard helicopters scoop a load of water from the Pacific Ocean in an effort to suppress a wildfire in Big Sur, California July 4, 2008. (Robert Galbraith/Reuters)AP - Authorities on Sunday finished collecting badly burned remains from the crash site of a firefighting helicopter in the Northern California wilderness.


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Mourners pray at Texas bus crash site (AP)

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:47:28 +0800

National Transportation Safety Board investigator David Rayburn looks out Sunday, Aug. 10, 2008 from the cab of a charter bus involved in a deadly accident early Friday that killed 17 people and left at least eight others in critical condition in Sherman, Texas. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)AP - Like others returning from a religious festival in Missouri, Hoang Vu stopped at the spot where a charter bus carrying fellow Vietnamese Catholics on the pilgrimage had crashed and killed 17 people.


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Authorities: 3 dead in midair plane crash in Wyo. (AP)

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:26:01 +0800

AP - Two single-engine planes collided Sunday above a remote area a few miles from an airport in southwestern Wyoming, killing all three people aboard, authorities said.

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Calif. lawmakers weigh chemical ban in baby items (AP)

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:02:18 +0800

AP - Responding to growing consumer anxiety, California lawmakers are considering enacting what could be the first statewide restrictions on a chemical found in plastic baby bottles and infant formula cans.

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Iconic stone arch collapses in southern Utah park (AP)

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 03:26:49 +0800

This image provided by the National Parks Service taken Tuesday Aug. 5, 2008 shows the collapsed Wall Arch. One of the largest and most visible arches in Arches National Park collapsed according to park officials. Paul Henderson, the park's chief of interpretation, said Wall Arch collapsed sometime late Monday or early Tuesday. The arch is along Devils Garden Trail, one of the most popular in the park. For years, the arch has been a favorite stopping point for photographers. Henderson said the arch was claimed by forces that will eventually destroy others in the park: gravity and erosion. (AP Photo/National Parks Service)AP - One of the largest and most photographed arches in Arches National Park has collapsed.


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Colleges peddle bikes to car-loving students (AP)

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 02:16:49 +0800

AP - Emory University is hoping to make bikes the must-have back-to-school accessory this fall.

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FDNY stint 'proving ground' for West Point cadets (AP)

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 02:04:00 +0800

West Point Cadet Zachary West is assisted by New York Fire Department paramedic Steven Miller, center, and Michael Valenza, right in helping an injured man Saturday, Aug. 9, 2008 in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)AP - Before they hit the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, West Point cadets have gotten a taste of chaos, New York City style.


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Texas 7 member volunteers for execution this week (AP)

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 01:50:49 +0800

This is an undated file photo of Irving, Texas, police officer Aubrey Hawkins, who was killed in Dec. 2000 during a suburban Dallas sporting goods store robbery. Michael Rodriguez, a member of the 'Texas 7' prison escapees, who was convicted in Hawkin's death, is set to become the first of the six surviving fleeing convicts — all of them now on death row — to go to the death chamber. (AP Photo/Irving Police, File)AP - Michael Rodriguez remembers the exhilaration of newfound freedom when he hid in the back of a stolen truck as he and six of his buddy convicts staged one of Texas' most notorious prison breaks.

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