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Debt clock draws confused looks, anger or nothing (AP)

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:45:27 +0800

The current amount of the U.S. national debt is shown on the National Debt Clock in New York, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. In a sign of the times, the National Debt Clock has run out of digits to record the growing figure. As a short-term fix, the digital dollar sign on the billboard-style clock near Times Square has been switched to a figure — the '1' in $10 trillion. It's marking the federal government's current debt at about $10.2 trillion. (AP Photos/Bebeto Matthews)AP - A watched clock never moves — unless it's the National Debt Clock.


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Holocaust survivors tell love story (AP)

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:11:07 +0800

Herman and Roma Rosenblat pose for a photo in their North Miami Beach, Fla. home, Sept. 25, 2008 as they talk about 'Angel Girl,' the book written by Laurie Friedman, about the beginning of their relationship during the Holocaust. (AP Photo/J. Pat Carter)AP - In the beginning, there was a boy, a girl and an apple.


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Yale celebrates Noah Webster's 250th birthday (AP)

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:10:57 +0800

AP - NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The announcement came in 1800 in the back of a Connecticut newspaper just above a farmer's reward for a stray cow. A man named Noah Webster was proposing the first comprehensive "dictionary of the American language."

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Recovery, ruin visible in Texas a month after Ike (AP)

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:10:06 +0800

Beth Hanna picks through the sand and muck and debris Friday, Oct. 10, 2008 trying to recover any of her salvageable belongs after her Crystal Beach, Texas home was completely destroyed last month by Hurricane Ike. Hanna is slowly picking and digging through every bit of her property. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)AP - A month later, piles of Sheetrock, appliances, furniture and family mementos dot most streets in this island town. Electronic road signs in southeast Texas flash, "Watch for cows next 20 miles," a reminder that few fences remain to hem in livestock. Blue tarps cover 11,000 roofs for 100 miles from Houst! on to the Louisiana line.


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Ohio shooting puts face on foreclosure crisis (AP)

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:03:58 +0800

A foreclosure sign in front of a home for sale in Miami, Florida. The American financial crisis is expected to delay capital market reforms in China and other developing Asian economies stunned by the colossal damage unleashed by complex financial contracts on the United States, experts have said.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Joe Raedle)AP - She shot herself in the chest Oct. 1 before she could be taken away from the foreclosed house, which was worth less than its mortgage from the day she took out the loan.


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Blighted San Francisco district touts its history (AP)

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:19:07 +0800

A man walks past a Tenderloin entranceway in San Francisco, Friday, Aug. 22, 2008. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - In the Tenderloin, corner stores sell more alcohol than food, drug-addled pan handlers shake paper cups at passers-by and churches vie for real estate with strip clubs.


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All is forgiven; McCain returning to Letterman (AP)

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:48:56 +0800

Democratic US presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama greeting voters in Ohio. Republican John McCain Monday desperately sought to win back voters hit by the economic crisis and flocking in droves towards Obama, three weeks before the elections.(AFP/Getty Images/Joe Raedle)AP - David Letterman and Sen. John McCain will get a chance to make up.


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Counting cards: NY collection includes 6,356 decks (AP)

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:43:28 +0800

Playing cards from the 1830s are displayed at Columbia University in New York, Tuesday, May 20, 2008. The university has a playing card collection that spans four centuries and 50 countries and is among the biggest of its kind in the world. Scholars say cards can be useful records of social history, depicting how political figures and historical events were seen in their times. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - The collection spans 50 countries and four centuries and touches on subjects ranging from beer marketing to 19th-century Portuguese politics.


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Balloon pilots somber at NM festival after death (AP)

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:26:13 +0800

Blazing fuel tanks hang from a hot-air balloon that slammed into power lines during the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta in Bernaillo, N.M. on Friday, Oct. 10, 2008. The balloon scattered debris across the town as it disintegrated, killing one man and injuring another. (AP Photo/Terri Bordelon)AP - Pilots of hot air balloons on Saturday mourned the loss of one of their own in a fiery crash at Albuquerque's famous festival, even as they said another pilot fighting for his life after the accident would want them to keep flying.


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Residents get OK to return after Pa. chemical leak (AP)

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:59:19 +0800

AP - About 2,500 people who fled when a corrosive liquid overflowed from a tank at a chemical plant and evaporated were allowed to return home Sunday after authorities determined that no toxins remained in the air.

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Chief says Chicago police are supported, motivated (AP)

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:38:40 +0800

New Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis speaks with members of the Chicago City Council police and fire committee to address concerns about the city's crime rate in this Tuesday, July 15, 2008 file photo. Weis told reporters Saturday Oct. 11, 2008 that despite what a few people may say, he sees officers who are well supported by their superiors and highly motivated.(AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, FILE)AP - Chicago's police superintendent is denying a news report that officers in his command are working the streets less aggressively out of fear of being second-guessed by him.


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Attorney: Marine fighting extradition from Mexico (AP)

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:52:14 +0800

In this April 10, 2008 file photo, Marine Cpl. Cesar Laurean, left, is presented by police in Morelia, Mexico. The attorney for Laurean accused of killing a pregnant colleague says his client is fighting extradition to the United States. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini, file)AP - The attorney for a Marine accused of killing a pregnant colleague says his client is fighting extradition to the United States.


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