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Flights Resuming At Denver's Airport (U.S., 17 articles) [UPDATE]
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Hundreds of packed flights left the airport carrying passengers who had been stranded when a blizzard shut down the runways last week, wrecking the itineraries of holiday travelers around the country who raced to get home. Air travelers were stranded across the country yesterday as severe weather disrupted thousands of flights on one of the airlines' busiest days of the holiday season complicating plans of countless passengers trying to make it home for Christmas. (CBS/AP) Denver's snowbound airport reopened Friday afternoon to limited flights, chipping away at a national travel backlog but leaving thousands of travelers in Denver and elsewhere days behind their Christmas travel schedules. The first passenger flight in two days was a Frontier Airlines Airbus A-319, carrying a full load of 132 passengers to Atlanta. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva called in the Brazilian air force Friday to help transport airline passengers on an emergency basis as long delays and overbooked planes snarled commercial flights over the busy holiday weekend. Thousands of travelers whose flights were canceled by a blizzard that backed up air traffic nationwide were stuck on standby, trying to grab a rare empty seat on planes that were mostly booked.
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California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger breaks leg skiing in Sun Valley, Idaho (U.S., 5 articles) [UPDATE]
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Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger returned to the state Christmas Day for surgery after breaking his leg in an Idaho skiing accident over the weekend, his spokeswoman said. The procedure will use cables and screws to secure the governor's upper right thigh bone, said Dr. Kevin Ehrhart, the orthopedic surgeon performing the surgery at an undisclosed hospital in Los Angeles. The governor, who was admitted to the hospital, will be placed under general anesthesia for no longer than two hours, though the surgery is not expected to last that long, Ehrhart said.
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Clinton, Obama driving off Democratic rivals for '08 early on (U.S., 7 articles) [UPDATE]
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WASHINGTON Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Barack Obama of Illinois are already rewriting the script of the 2008 Democratic presidential campaign, driving potential Democratic rivals to the sidelines. Trading on their star power, capacity to raise tens of millions of dollars with relative ease, and ability to dominate news media attention, the two senators are casting a huge shadow over all others who may run. In a more perfect world, a graduate program complete with a doctoral thesis might be required of all those seeking the presidency.
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ABC News: Mock Bird Flu Drill Tests French Town's Preparedness, and Gets a Good Grade (U.S., 9 articles)
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Initial tests found that a brother and sister from West Java who died earlier this week were infected by the H5N1 virus, said Nyoman Kandun, head of the Health Ministry's office of communicable disease control. In northern Sumatra, WHO officials say an outbreak involving at least seven members of the same family, six of whom died, appears to be an isolated case of limited human-to-human trasmission. However the WHO says the virus has shown no signs of having mutated or of spreading outside the family all blood relatives who had close contact with each other.
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Industry, consumers are likely to feel economic impact (U.S., 4 articles)
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California's landmark law to drastically cut greenhouse gases could boost the state's economy or make it even more expensive to live in California. The Global Warming Solutions Act, which drew international attention when it became law in September, is vague on details about how the state must cut emissions that cause the planet to warm most notably carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide. This college town recently adopted the nation's first "climate tax" an extra fee for electricity use with all proceeds going to fight global warming.
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Rape charges dropped in Duke lacrosse case (U.S., 5 articles) [UPDATE]
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DURHAM, N.C., Dec. 23 - The moment that may have changed the course of the Duke lacrosse rape case came in a packed courtroom two Fridays ago. Sexual offense and kidnapping charges remain against the defendants, but even some former backers of Dunham County District Attorney Mike Nifong say the accuser may have lost her credibility for good after backing off a key allegation. Nifong dropped rape charges against the three men Friday, writing in court papers the accuser is no longer certain vaginal intercourse had occurred.
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England fans flock to fourth Test (U.S., 5 articles) [UPDATE]
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This happens to be the 100th Test match here (only Lord's has staged more) and it is the first to be held since the A$433 million (about $180 million) new Northern Stand was completed this year. Thousands of England fans are expected in Melbourne, as part of a record crowd of 100,000 for the first day of the fourth Ashes Test. To view the one-day squad chosen by England for the triangular series against Australia and New Zealand is to realise the extent of their disarray on this expedition.
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Canadian Gold medalist Bedard arrested (U.S., 4 articles)
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Canadian Olympic champion Myriam Bedard faces an extradition hearing Tuesday after spending Christmas weekend in a Maryland jail on charges of abducting her daughter. Bedard, a national figure after winning double gold in the biathlon at the 1994 Winter Olympics, officially became an international fugitive when Canadian authorities issued an arrest warrant on Dec. 8. TORONTO (Reuters) - Bedard has been arrested on suspicion of abducting her 12-year-old daughter in a custody case, the U.S. Marshals Service said on Saturday.
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Romney throwing sharp jabs at McCain (U.S., 4 articles) [UPDATE]
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According to an astonishing report in the Globe yesterday, Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has managed to spend all or part of 212 days over the past year outside of Massachusetts. With the 2008 primary season just around the corner, Romney seems to be stepping up his criticism of Arizona Senator John McCain on everything from taxes to terrorism. The state that gave the United States two of its first six presidents has not had a presidential winner since John F. Kennedy in 1960.
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New law may stop hunts using birds of prey to pursue foxes (U.S., 4 articles)
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Countryside groups say more than 200 hunts are due to meet - nearly two years after hunting with hounds was made illegal in England and Wales. Almost two years after the ban on hunting with dogs in England and Wales, the new legislation is seen as the latest threat to the sport. Hunts have spent thousands of pounds on these spectacular birds believing that their use in hunting is exempt from the overall ban on the sport.
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2 in Custody After Deadly Mall Shooting (U.S., 4 articles) [UPDATE]
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(12-25) 04:26 PST Boynton Beach, Fla. (AP) Two men were in custody Monday after a shooting at a crowded mall that left one man dead and sent hundreds of Christmas shoppers running for cover, police said. Jesse Cesar of Lake Worth, was charged with first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder of a police officer. SWAT team members arrested the suspect after he barricaded himself in a department store at the Boynton Beach Mall, north of Miami, said Lieutenant Jeffrey Katz of the Boynton Beach police.
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Democrats' Real Victory (U.S., 5 articles)
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The most important tension within the new Democratic majority in the House of Representatives is not between liberals and conservatives or free traders and fair traders. Nearly two-thirds of the Democrats in the new House have been elected since 1994, meaning they have only known life in the opposition during a time when Republicans radically centralized control in their leadership. In their hunger to overturn the Republican majority, these younger Democrats honed their strategic shrewdness by taking the lesson from Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich that politics and policy are inevitably linked.
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Former CBS Exec Frank Stanton Dies At 98, Tiffany Network President Was Called 'Conscience Of Broadcasting' (U.S., 5 articles)
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Dr. Frank Stanton was the right-hand man of William S. Paley , the tycoon who built the Columbia Broadcasting System empire from a handful of struggling radio stations in 1928. As a brilliant corporate builder and a technologically minded executive, Stanton - everybody used the "doctor" - played a pivotal role in CBS's rise. BOSTON - Stanton, a broadcasting pioneer and CBS president for 26 years who helped turn its TV operation into the "Tiffany network" and built CBS News into a respected information source, has died.
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Health Highlights: Dec. 5, 2006 (U.S., 5 articles)
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Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors ofHealthDay: New York City Bans Trans Fats at Restaurants. As of July 2007, restaurants will not be permitted to use most frying oils that contain artery-clogging trans fats and by July 2008 they won't be allowed to serve any foods that contain trans fats, theAssociated Pressreported. A tad indulgent, perhaps - but not too awful, right? In fact, a five-piece order of Arby's chicken tenders has 630 calories.
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Computer Voting Disks Likely Made For Testers (U.S., 5 articles)
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A Maryland election official said yesterday that possibly stolen computer disks believed to be electronic voting software were "apparently produced" for use by a testing firm hired by the Maryland legislature in November 2003. Having survived one election season made tumultuous by problems with new electronic voting systems, Maryland voters appear likely to face fresh voting challenges during the 2008 presidential election cycle. Any change in Maryland will come at a considerable cost and its own set of challenges, as well as the admission that the state erred in purchasing inadequate technology after Florida's troubles in 2000 spawned a nationwide shift toward computerized voting.
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The Seattle Times: Nation & World: FBI fumbled Oklahoma City bomb probe, panel says (U.S., 4 articles)
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House panel criticizes FBI's investigation of OKC bombing 12:00 AM CST on Monday, December 25, 2006. FBI spokesman Richard Kolko declined to comment on the report's specific findings but said that the FBI had " worked tirelessly to cover all of the leads and conducted a thorough and complete investigation. The House International Relations investigative subcommittee will release the findings of its two-year review as early as Wednesday, declaring there is no conclusive evidence of a foreign connection to the attack but far too many unanswered questions remain.
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AP Poll: Santa Claus Endures in America (U.S., 4 articles)
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The Associated Press-AOL News poll on public attitudes about angels and Santa Claus was conducted Dec. 12-14 and is based on telephone interviews with 1,000 adults from all states except Alaska and Hawaii. No more than one time in 20 should chance variations in the sample cause the results to vary by more than plus or minus 3 percentage points from the answers that would be obtained if all people in the U.S. were polled. And despite the multiethnic nature of the country, more than 60 percent of those with children at home consider Santa important in their holiday celebrations now.
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Md. schools join trend, add classes in Chinese (U.S., 4 articles)
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This collection of articles is unprecedented: a Nature supplement that was written for researchers in China and originally published, at the end of last year, in the Chinese language. WITH SCENES OF xenophobic Chinese and riots against foreigners, the new film "The Painted Veil" provides a view of early 20th century China that is unusually realistic - particularly for a film made in China and altered by government censors. But as with so many things involving the Asian giant, the filmmakers' experience shows that Hollywood is still taking one or two steps back in China for every step forward.
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San Francisco Zoo Probes Tiger Attack, San Francisco Zoo Investigates Attack by Siberian Tiger, No Word on Condition of Keeper (U.S., 4 articles)
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It was hard to tell this week which activities at the National Zoo the youngsters liked best: petting the miniature donkeys, watching cows get a bath or cavorting on a giant rubberized pizza with movable mushrooms. In addition to cows and miniature donkeys, the farm features two breeds of goats, six breeds of chickens and a pond with a small flock of colorful ducks. (AP) San Francisco Zoo has closed its Lion House, an exhibit where the public can watch the big cats eat a meal, while officials investigate the mauling of a keeper by a Siberian tiger.
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