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The Week in Pictures
A refreshing California moment, another knight and hungry geese highlight a week of images.
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Miss. River opens to some traffic
The Mississippi River reopened to limited ship traffic following a massive oil spill, Coast Guard officials said. Full story
'Last lecture' professor dies
Randy Pausch, a former Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose lecture about facing terminal cancer became an international sensation, died. Full story
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Tornado confirmed in N.H. town
A state official said Friday that a baby's cries led to his rescue after a possible tornado demolished his grandparents' lakeside home.
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Grandma to 911: ‘Smells like dead body’
On a 911 call, the grandmother of a missing Orlando toddler said her daughter’s car “smelled like there’s been a dead body” — but later said it may have been caused by old pizza. Cindy Anthony said that if her daughter comes to trial in the case, “that will be part of her defense.”
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Oil spill idles 200 ships in Miss. River
About 200 ships were stacked up Friday and more were expected to join them at a bottleneck along the Mississippi River caused by a massive spill of heavy fuel oil at New Orleans.
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'Last lecture' professor dies of cancer
Randy Pausch, a former Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose "last lecture" about facing terminal cancer became an international sensation, died Friday. He was 47.
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Secret memo OK'd harsh CIA tactics
A Justice Department memo issued in 2002 and released Thursday offered protection — method by method — to CIA interrogators using harsh techniques.
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Nuclear launch crew falls asleep
Three ballistic missile crew members in North Dakota fell asleep while holding classified launch code devices this month, triggering an military and national security investigation.
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After 60 years, black officers rare
Sixty years after President Truman desegregated the military, senior black officers are still rare, particularly among the highest ranks.
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Too poor, sick for Greek pilgrimage? E-mail a prayer
Greece's holiest pilgrimage site on the Aegean island of Tinos has launched an e-mail service allowing those too poor or sick to visit in person to have their prayers read to its icon of the Virgin Mary.
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Nonprofits walk fine line on political activity
Nonprofits could be one of the "sleeping giants" of this fall’s presidential election, having as much to do with turning red states blue — or vice versa — as will Iraq, Barack or soaring gas prices. Contribute magazine has the story.
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