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This much Hiba Siddiqui knows: She is a Muslim teenager living in America. But what does that mean for her?
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Two NASA astronauts ventured outside the International Space Station today for a high-tech lube job, aiming to replace and grease joints that keep the outpost's solar panels facing the sun. >>
November 19, 2008
A clinical trial involving people ages 75 to 96 showed no relation between taking the supplement and boosting brainpower or staving off the effects of Alzheimer's disease. >>
Commentary: On the media
Media fervor over the election of Obama is already being tempered by stories about the harsh realities facing the incoming president. >>
Plastic surgeons pledged today to help the government track the safety of one of the most popular new beauty treatments: facial injections of various kinds of gels to smooth away wrinkles. >>
Battered by financial woes, the corn-based biofuel industry faces a shaky future, as does the town of San Pierre, which had counted on a distillery plant for its revival. >>
The Rocky Mountain Christian Church, which wanted to expand but was denied, says Boulder County is hampering its ability to practice its religion. >>
A scientific panel chartered by Congress cites nerve gas drug and pesticides used during the conflict as being associated with veterans' neurological problems. >>
Researchers say psychological counseling focused on stress reduction may prolong patients' lives. But experts say the results are not conclusive. >>
Roger Bergendorff said he never planned to use the homemade toxin. >>
Nebraska legislators opened a public hearing Monday on adding an age limit to a safe-haven law that has allowed nearly three dozen children -- some close to adulthood -- to be abandoned at hospitals. >>
Prosecutors in Dallas were found to have kept back statements that might have cleared the man. >>
November 17, 2008
The Big Three's fortunes steer thousands of suppliers nationally. One report puts 2.5 million jobs at risk if a carmaker fails. >>
A proposal to expand cellphone towers in the park and install wireless Internet service in its hotels -- where TVs are banned -- has environmentalists furious. >>
Liberals hope the president-elect would name someone who could counter the court's conservative justices. But Obama has hinted that he favors a more moderate choice. >>
The president-elect also discusses his historic election, national security, Bin Laden, Lincoln, FDR and college football. >>
The church, which has long sought to be seen as mainstream, joins other religious organizations to back California's gay-marriage ban. But now it has become a political target. >>
NEW YORK
Jury selection begins today in the trial of Lillo Brancato Jr., 32, on charges of second-degree murder and other crimes in the 2005 killing of New York Police Officer Daniel Enchautegui. >>
The shuttle's crew will help give the station an 'extreme makeover' that will allow more astronauts to live there. >>
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Tales of America
A proposal to expand cellphone towers in the park and install wireless Internet service in its hotels -- where TVs are banned -- has environmentalists furious. By Nicholas Riccardi. Nov. 17.
At Donna's Ranch, a brothel in Wells, Nev., most of the customers are long-haul truckers. High fuel and food prices have drained them of 'play money.' So the working girls sit and wait. By Ashley Powers. Nov. 4.
With 40 years on the floor, Ted Weisberg has seen it all -- till now. By Erika Hayasaki. Oct. 16
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