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"Dead" baby elephant calf born alive in Sydney zoo
(Reuters)
 Reuters - An elephant gave birth to a calf at Sydney's main zoo on Wednesday, surprising vets and keepers who two days earlier declared the baby had died in the womb.
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Obama wants side deals out of bill
(Politico)
 Politico - President Barack Obama is pushing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to go further than Obama has previously disclosed to strip the final health care reform bill of the narrow deals aimed at appeasing specific senators.
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Another runaway Toyota Prius reported
(Reuters)
Reuters - Federal regulators said they were looking into a report of another runaway Toyota Prius, this one in Westchester County, New York, where police said a woman pulling out of a driveway zoomed across a busy street and into a stone wall.
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Marion Jones signs with WNBA's Tulsa Shock
(AP)
 AP - Marion Jones hasn't lost much of her swagger.
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World's mega-rich adding wealth, Carlos Slim No. 1
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim is the world's richest person, knocking Microsoft founder Bill Gates into second spot, as the wealth of the world's billionaires grew by 50 percent over the last year, Forbes magazine said on Wednesday.
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Google chief sees outcome "soon" in China row
(Reuters)
Reuters - Google expects an outcome soon from its talks with China over a censorship and hacking dispute, Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said on Wednesday.
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Unemployment rises in 30 states in January
(AP)
 AP - Unemployment rose in 30 states in January, the Labor Department said Wednesday, evidence that jobs remain scarce in most regions of the country.
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Senate jobs bill: the perils of extended unemployment benefits
(The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor - The Senate jobs bill, approved by a vote of 62 to 36, has touched off a couple of red-hot debates.
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NJ man accused of raping, beating 5 daughters
(AP)
AP - A New Jersey man with apocalyptic visions is accused of years of terrorizing his family, raping his five daughters and impregnating three, beating his children with wooden boards and even moving at one point to avoid child welfare investigators.
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Corey Haim prolonged tragic Hollywood tradition
(AP)
 AP - Corey Haim's story is sadly familiar in Hollywood: A teen talent who discovered drugs as he tasted his first success and whose personal problems increased as his star-power faded.
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Biden implores Israel, Palestinians to make peace
(AP)
 AP - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday implored Israelis and Palestinians to move beyond a diplomatic spat that has marred his trip to the region, urging the sides to waste no time in resolving their decades-old conflict despite daunting obstacles.
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Study suggests too many invasive heart tests given
(AP)
 AP - A troublingly high number of U.S. patients who are given angiograms to check for heart disease turn out not to have a significant problem, according to the latest study to suggest Americans get an excess of medical tests.
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Midnight knitter pulls the wool over NJ shore town
(AP)
AP - Someone is spinning quite a yarn over one New Jersey shore town. An unknown person dubbed The Midnight Knitter by West Cape May residents is covering tree branches and lamp poles with little sweaters under cover of darkness.
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House rejects pullout from Afghanistan
(Reuters)
 Reuters - The House of Representatives on Wednesday overwhelmingly rejected a measure calling for President Barack Obama to pull U.S. forces from Afghanistan, in an election-year test of his decision to escalate the war.
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Spike in Prius complaints may not be all it seems
(AP)
 AP - Reports of sudden acceleration in the Toyota Prius have spiked across the country. But that doesn't mean there's an epidemic of bad gas pedals in the popular hybrid.
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Hoyas use D to top South Florida in Big East
(AP)
 AP - Jason Clark and Greg Monroe scored 16 points each, and No. 22 Georgetown built a big first-half lead before handling everything South Florida star Dominique Jones could offer in a 69-49 victory Wednesday in the Big East tournament.
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Chief Justice John Roberts and Obama White House: a tit for tat
(The Christian Science Monitor)
 The Christian Science Monitor - It’s starting to look like the Hatfields versus the McCoys. Except, in this instance, it’s two branches of government duking it out: the judicial branch (Chief Justice John Roberts) versus the executive (President Obama).
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Cable, sat TV firms ask gov't to stop TV blackouts
(AP)
 AP - The most recent showdown left millions of Cablevision Systems Corp. customers around New York without an ABC station at the start of the Academy Awards.
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Mexico's Slim becomes 'world's richest' person
(AP)
 AP - Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim is the first man from a developing nation to become the world's richest person — a shift that underlines the loosening of America and Europe's stranglehold on the top spots in the billionaires' club.
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Heidi Montag: Consumer Advocate
(The Nation)
The Nation - The Nation -- First, the former Saturday Night Live presidents threw their support behind financial regulation. Now an even more unlikely reformer, reality TV star Heidi Montag, is teaming up with director Ron Howard and Americans for Financial Reform in an amusing new video pressing for the creation of a new agency to protect consumers. After all, "a consumer agency will stop the banks and credit card companies from being such sleazy jerks."
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