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Border fence design blasted as causing flooding (AP)

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:46:38 +0800

In this photo provided by the Naitonal Park Service, flooding at the port of entry at Lukeville, Ariz. and Sonoyta, Mexico is seen, on July 12, 2008. Environmentalists say flooding caused by a newly built border security fence during a July monsoon bears out their concerns and warnings about the adverse environmental impacts of the government's rush to build fences. (AP Photo/National Park Service)AP - Environmentalists say flooding caused by a new border security fence in southwestern Arizona shows the structure is being built too quickly and without regard for the environment.


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Despite Fla. floods, some hoping for Fay's rain (AP)

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:45:30 +0800

A road sign warns motorists of flood water from Tropical Storm Fay on a street in St. George Island, Fla.,Saturday, Aug. 23, 2008. The storm began wrapping up its disastrous slog across Florida on Saturday by making a record fourth landfall on the Panhandle's coast. (AP Photo/Phil Coale)AP - Tropical Storm Fay may be gone but the rain remains.


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Kidnap suspect calls days with daughter 'glorious' (AP)

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:10:56 +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 - The man who calls himself Clark Rockefeller and is accused of kidnapping his young daughter says he spent "six glorious and wonderful days" with the girl while evading authorities, but he still isn't talking about his life before 1993.


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Investigators examine Utah plane crash wreckage (AP)

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:50:32 +0800

Burned wreckage of a small plane lies on a hillside Saturday, Aug. 23, 2008, northwest of Moab, Utah. The pilot and all 9 passengers died when the aircraft went down Friday night after taking off from a nearby airport. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)AP - Investigators had little more than ash and blackened shards of metal to sift through on Sunday as they tried to figure out what caused a twin-engine plane to crash shortly after taking off, killing all 10 people on board.


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US hoops back on top, beats Spain for gold medal (AP)

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:15:49 +0800

USA's coach Mike Krzyzewski, center, wears his players gold medals as they celebrate after beating Spain 118-107 in the men's gold medal basketball game at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Sunday, Aug. 24, 2008.  Flanking Krzyzewski is Deron Williams, left, and Jason Kidd.  (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)AP - Order is restored in international basketball. The United States is back on top, but not by that much anymore. Culminating a three-year mission to end years of embarrassment, the U.S. Olympic team survived a huge challenge from Spain, winning 118-107 Sunday in the gold-medal game.


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Winter weather? Almanac says 'Numb's the word!' (AP)

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:40:39 +0800

Peter Geiger, editor of the Farmers' Almanac, poses outside his company in Lewiston, Maine, on Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008. The 192-year-old publication, which claims an accuracy rate of 80 to 85 percent for its forecasts that are prepared two years in advance is  predicting below-average temperatures for most of the U.S. this coming winter. (AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach)AP - People worried about the high cost of keeping warm this winter will draw little comfort from the Farmers' Almanac, which predicts below-average temperatures for most of the U.S.


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'Thunder' reigns again with $16.1 million weekend (AP)

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:18:22 +0800

AP - The action comedy "Tropic Thunder" weathered a rush of new movies to remain No. 1 for a second-straight weekend with $16.1 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.

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FBI: Couple offered sex with girl, 5, for used car (AP)

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:02:40 +0800

AP - A San Antonio couple is accused of trying to trying to trade sex with the woman's 5-year-old daughter for an apartment, a used car and child care for her 10-month old daughter.

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Dems give Michigan and Florida full voting rights (AP)

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 03:25:30 +0800

Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee poses for photographers inside the Pepsi Center before the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado, August 24, 2008. (Mike Segar/Reuters)AP - Democratic delegates from Michigan and Florida were awarded full voting rights at the national convention Sunday, despite holding early primaries against party rules.


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At writing camp, schlepping goes with scholarship (AP)

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 02:36:30 +0800

Head waiter and work study student Tiphanie Yanique poses as lunch is served at the Breadloaf Writers Conference in Ripton, Vt., Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2008, where a small crew of students fulfills their part of a work study scholarship to attend the Middlebury College writing program by waiting tables. According to Bread Loaf lore, ambitious young writers waiting tables have slipped copies of poems or manuscripts to visiting editors over meals and gotten published that way. (AP Photo/Alden Pellett)AP - It's billed as the oldest writers' conference in the nation, a gathering at a picturesque mountaintop retreat where liter! ary giants, book editors and up-and-coming novelists have been coming together once a year since the 1920s.


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New chief seeks DC schools fix where others failed (AP)

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 02:05:55 +0800

In this July 17, 2008 file photo, Washington Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee testifies on Capitol Hill before the House Education and Labor Committee. Just a year on the job, Rhee is making bold changes as she tries to accomplish what six would-be reformers in the past decade could not: rescue one of the nation's most dysfunctional school districts. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)AP - She has shuttered 23 schools, fired more than 30 principals and given notice to hundreds of teachers and administrative workers.


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Comeback Kid: Biden's memoir now a best-seller (AP)

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:35:37 +0800

AP - A memoir by Sen. Joe Biden, once as forgotten as his presidential run, is now a best seller.

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