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Study: A bad joke might endanger the teller (AP)

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:38:51 +0800

Nancy Bell, left, a Washington State University applied linguist, uses a key as a prop as she asks Jenai Uhrich, a freshman from Ravensdale, Wash., a deliberately bad joke while Bell demonstrates how she and her assistants conducted research into failed humor, Monday, Aug. 18, 2008 on the WSU Pullman campus. (AP Photo/Dean Hare)AP - There's a reason comedians call it "dying on stage."


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Some parents struggling with back-to-school buys (AP)

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:38:09 +0800

A bilingual sign is seen posted inside the Salvation Army thrift store in downtown Chicago on Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2008. In out weak economy, parents are finding back-to-school shopping tougher and heading to thrift stores like Goodwill and Salvation Army. Those stores say they're getting more parents and teachers buying for back-to-school nationwide compared with last year. (AP Photo/Charles Rexz Arbogast)AP - Charles Lane-Bey combed through racks of blue jeans at a Salvation Army thrift store and held up a pair with potential to his 8-year-old son, Edward, who swung them over his shoulder with a smile.

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Unsung Holocaust hero celebrates 100th (AP)

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:36:59 +0800

Andrei Steiner speaks with a reporter in the retirement home where he lives in Atlanta, Wednesday Aug. 20, 2008. Steiner wil turn 100 on Friday and is the last known holocaust survivor of the Nazi's Bratislava work group. Steiner will turn 100 on Friday and is the last known holocaust survivor of the Nazi's Bratislava work group. Steiner was the muscle behind one of the most daring — and overlooked — missions to save Jews during the Holocaust. In his youth, before he became a renowned architect, he helped engineer a plan to stave off the deportation of Slovakia's Jews through a network of work camps and a series of bribes that likely h! elped save the lives of thousands. (AP Photo/John Amis)AP - Andre Steiner was the muscle behind one of the most daring — and overlooked — missions to save Jews during the Holocaust.


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Universities try to control students off campus (AP)

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:36:30 +0800

University of Washington Police officers Russell Ellis Jr., left, and Kevin Jackson, right, leave the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity house near the University of Washington campus in Seattle Thursday, Aug. 14, 2008 after giving the president of the house a citation for violating noise ordinances due to loud music playing at a late-night party. A growing number of universities across the nation are starting to take a more proactive approach to monitoring off-campus behavior of students, and University of Washington police work with Seattle officers to patrol the area north of campus thick with off-campus housing including fraternities and sororities. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)AP - Ah, life in the university district. Cheap ethnic food. Vibrant street life. Fresh-faced students whizzing by on bicycles.


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Fay bedevils Florida for fifth weary day (AP)

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:28:27 +0800

Due to heavy rains, Keira Dreiling, left, Crystal Ellis, center and Greg Meyer make their way down a flooded street during Tropical Storm Fay in Cocoa, Fla., Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008.(AP Photo/John Raoux)AP - Tropical Storm Fay continued its slow, wet trudge across the state Friday, prompting communities farther inland and on the state's Gulf coast to brace for what could be drenching rains.


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Immigration agency scraps self-deportation program (AP)

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:23:12 +0800

Marcelo Padilla, right, and Carlos Garcia hold an American flag outside the Fremont High School auditorium, in Fremont, Neb., where hundreds of people crowded Tuesday, July 29, 2008, to attend a public hearing on a plan that would outlaw renting housing to or hiring illegal immigrants in this city of 25,000. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)AP - A pilot program allowing illegal immigrants to surrender to authorities and have more control over their deportation has been dubbed a failure.


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Oregon tribe to allow same-sex marriages (AP)

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:16:13 +0800

AP - At the request of a lesbian couple, the Coquille Indian Tribe on the southern Oregon coast has adopted a law recognizing same-sex marriage.

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Harvard reclaims top spot in latest US News list (AP)

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:45:23 +0800

Students walk through the Harvard Law School area on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., in this Nov. 19, 2002 file photo. Harvard is back on top of the U.S. News & World Report college rankings, claiming sole possession of the No. 1 spot for the first time in 12 years. (AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki, file)AP - Harvard University is the country's oldest, wealthiest and most selective university. Now it's back on top of the U.S. News & World Report college rankings, claiming sole possession of the No. 1 spot for the first time in 12 years.


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2 Marines refusing to testify ordered to court (AP)

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:29:55 +0800

Former Marine Jose Luis Nazario Jr., arrives at Federal Court Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008, in Riverside, Calif., for opening statements in his trial for allegedly killing unarmed detainees in Iraq in November 2004. It is the first time such charges have been brought under a federal law that allows the prosecution of former military service members for war crimes. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)AP - A judge has ordered two Marines to disclose whether they will testify against their former squad leader who is the first to be tried under a federal law that allows the prosecution of former combatants for war crimes.


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Illinois community fights to save prison, jobs (AP)

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:20:06 +0800

Several signs in John Ziegler's barber shop remind tourist and residents of his hours, historic Route 66, and that the city of Pontiac, Ill., is losing their prison, in Pontiac, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)AP - When folks here heard the governor wanted to close the 137-year-old Pontiac Correctional Center, sucking hundreds of jobs from the area, they mobilized in a way that only small towns can.


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Crews rescue 2 teens trapped in Wash. snow field (AP)

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:24:47 +0800

AP - An ice cave collapsed on two teenage boys Thursday, trapping them for hours until rescuers with chain saws managed to cut through large chunks of compact snow and ice to free them.

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Kidnap suspect `Rockefeller' gives NBC interview (AP)

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:23:20 +0800

In this image released by NBC News, correspondent Natalie Morales, left, is shown during a jailhouse interview with Clark Rockefeller, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008, at Suffolk County Jail in Boston. The interview will air on the NBC 'Today' program on Monday and Tuesday, Aug. 25-26 and on NBC's 'Dateline,' in September. Rockefeller was arrested Aug. 2 in Baltimore after allegedly kidnapping his daughter during a supervised visit. He has also been named as a person of interest in the 1985 case of a missing couple in San Merino, Calif. (AP Photo/NBC News, Lauren Kapp)AP - A man using the name Clark Rocke! feller says in an upcoming television interview that he had hoped to live an "obscure life" in Baltimore with the 7-year-old daughter he's accused of kidnapping in a custody snatch.


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Suspect holds authorities at bay in Md. motel (AP)

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:35:55 +0800

AP - A burglary suspect wanted in four states was holed up Thursday in a western Maryland motel with a woman police believed was his pregnant girlfriend, and doctors were standing by in case she went into labor, authorities said.

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Texas man gets life for child sex club conviction (AP)

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:17:57 +0800

AP - An auto body shop worker was convicted and swiftly sentenced to life in prison Thursday for grooming children as young as 5 to perform in sex shows at a small-town swingers club.

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Student killed in shooting at Tenn. school (AP)

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:12:51 +0800

Police car stands near entrance to Central High School in Knoxville, Tenn., on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008 after a student was fatally shot in the school cafeteria. Another student was arrested minutes after the incident, which police say was not random. Their identities were not immediately released. ( AP Photo/Lisa Norman-Hudson)AP - A student fatally shot a 15-year-old classmate Thursday at a high school, police said, as other teenagers watched in horror as the victim clutched his chest and fell to the floor.


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Company acknowledges voting machine error (AP)

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:43:51 +0800

In this Dec. 5, 2007 file photo, a message is posted on a Sequoia Voting Systems' electronic voting machine in San Francisco. Beginning last year, states including California, Ohio and Florida abruptly ordered election officials to mothball their electronic machines. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - A major voting machine maker has cautioned its customers in 34 states to look out for a programming error that may cause votes to be dropped.


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Grand jury issues 3 indictments in polygamist case (AP)

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:19:31 +0800

This undated booking file photo provided by the Mohave County Sheriff's Office shows polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs in Arizona. Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints documents disclosed as part of a separate child custody case show that about 20 underage girls, a few as young as 12, are identified in the documents as married to jailed sect leader Warren Jeffs or one of his followers. (AP Photo/Mohave County Sheriff's Office, File)AP - A grand jury issued three new felony indictments Thursday against members of a polygamist sect raided here in April.


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At top of Greenland, new worrisome cracks in ice (AP)

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:16:51 +0800

This image provided by the Byrd Polar Research Center, Columbus, Ohio, taken July 25, 2008, shows a growing giant crack and an 11-square-mile chunk of ice hemorrhaging off a prominent glacier in northern Greenland. The crack, at center, right, is seven miles long and about half a mile wide. It is about half the width of the 500 square mile floating part of the glacier. If the cracking continues, the floating part of the glacier could lose up to one third of its size. (AP Photo/Byrd Polar Research Center)AP - In northern Greenland, a part of the Arctic that had seemed immune from global warming, new satellite ima! ges show a growing giant crack and an 11-square-mile chunk of ice hemorrhaging off a major glacier, scientists said Thursday.


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Report details fire in NYC tower rife with hazards (AP)

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 06:56:37 +0800

In this Monday Aug. 20, 2007 picture, the Deutsche Bank building in New York is closed for work as investigators continue to look into the cause of a deadly blaze. Manhattan prosecutors are preparing to conclude soon whether the failures before the blaze at the state-owned building were bureaucratic blunders or crimes. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)AP - They had no water, hardly any air and no way out.


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Jurors in Idaho murder case cry at graphic videos (AP)

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 06:22:34 +0800

In this artist's rendering, Joseph Edward Duncan III listens to opening statements in the sentencing phase of his death penalty case in U.S. District Court in Boise, Idaho on Wednesday Aug. 13, 2008. A jury that will decide whether Duncan, a convicted pedophile should be executed listened Wednesday as a prosecutor graphically described how the man killed members of an Idaho family, abducted two children and abused the youngsters at a campsite before murdering one of them. (AP Photo/Ward Hooper)AP - Jurors cringed, cried and some desperately looked away as they were shown a series of deeply disturbing and graphic vid! eos taken by a convicted child killer as he tortured, sexually abused and nearly killed a 9-year-old boy.


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