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    Unsung Holocaust hero celebrates 100th (AP)

    Andrei Steiner speaks with a reporter in the retirement home where he lives in Atlanta, Wednesday Aug. 20, 2008. Steiner wil turn 100 on Friday and is the last known holocaust survivor of the Nazi's Bratislava work group. Steiner will turn 100 on Friday and is the last known holocaust survivor of the Nazi's Bratislava work group. Steiner was the muscle behind one of the most daring — and overlooked — missions to save Jews during the Holocaust. In his youth, before he became a renowned architect, he helped engineer a plan to stave off the deportation of Slovakia's Jews through a network of work camps and a series of bribes that likely helped save the lives of thousands. (AP Photo/John Amis)AP - Andre Steiner was the muscle behind one of the most daring — and overlooked — missions to save Jews during the Holocaust.


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    Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:40:17 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    NASA destroys rocket after failed launch (AP)
    AP - NASA destroyed an unmanned experimental rocket carrying a pair of research satellites Friday when it veered off course shortly after an early morning liftoff. -- read full article
    Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:15:50 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Some parents struggling with back-to-school buys (AP)

    A bilingual sign is seen posted inside the Salvation Army thrift store in downtown Chicago on Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2008. In out weak economy, parents are finding back-to-school shopping tougher and heading to thrift stores like Goodwill and Salvation Army. Those stores say they're getting more parents and teachers buying for back-to-school nationwide compared with last year. (AP Photo/Charles Rexz Arbogast)AP - Charles Lane-Bey combed through racks of blue jeans at a Salvation Army thrift store and held up a pair with potential to his 8-year-old son, Edward, who swung them over his shoulder with a smile.


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    Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:38:09 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Universities try to control students off campus (AP)

    University of Washington Police officer Russell Ellis Jr., patrols off-campus near the University of Washington in Seattle Thursday, Aug. 14, 2008. A growing number of universities across the nation are starting to take a more proactive approach to monitoring off-campus behavior of students, and University of Washington police work with Seattle officers to patrol the area north of campus thick with off-campus housing including fraternities and sororities. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)AP - Ah, life in the university district. Cheap ethnic food. Vibrant street life. Fresh-faced students whizzing by on bicycles.


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    Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:10:20 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Demolition derbies take hit from high scrap prices (AP)

    Demolition derby drivers compete in the V-8 engine class at the Valley District Fair Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2008, in Reedsville, W.Va.,   Soaring scrap metal prices are making crashable cars more expensive and harder to find. (AP Photo/Vicki Smith)AP - Mud is flying, smoke and steam are rising, and the deafening roar of V-8 engines all but drowns out 5-year-old Shelby Scott's screams.


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    Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:26:41 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Death toll at 5 as Fay pours more rain on Florida (AP)

    Due to heavy rains, Keira Dreiling, left, Crystal Ellis, center and Greg Meyer make their way down a flooded street during Tropical Storm Fay in Cocoa, Fla., Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008.(AP Photo/John Raoux)AP - Tropical Storm Fay hobbled across Florida for a fifth day Friday as the state's death toll rose to five, while residents began plodding through muddy water to assess the flood damage to their homes.


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    Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:23:34 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    NTSB: Firefighting chopper lost power before crash (AP)

    A card and flowers are part of a memorial set up at Grayback firefighting headquarters in White City, Ore., Friday, Aug. 8, 2008, for firefighters killed in a northern California wildfire helicopter crash.  Nine were killed in the crash, seven from the Grayback unit. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)AP - An initial investigation into a deadly helicopter crash that killed nine people in Northern California earlier this month has found that the chopper's main rotor lost power during takeoff.


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    Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:56:38 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Melting Arctic Ocean opens new shipping frontier (AP)

    Aviation Maintenance Tech 2 John Ferrari looks out of the back of a Coast Guard C-130 as he surveys the coast near the village of Kivalina Alaska during a surveillance flight to the Arctic, Thursday, Aug. 7, 2008. Part of the Coast Guard's mission is to inspect for coastal erosion along the arctic coast. Ships in the upper right wait to be loaded from the Red Dog copper mine. (AP Photo/Al Grillo)AP - Rapidly melting ice on Alaska's Arctic is opening up a new navigable ocean in the extreme north, allowing oil tankers, fishing vessels and even cruise ships to venture into a realm once trolled mostly by indigenous hunters.


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    Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:58:04 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Report details fire in NYC tower rife with hazards (AP)

    In this Monday Aug. 20, 2007 picture, the Deutsche Bank building in New York is closed for work as investigators continue to look into the cause of a deadly blaze.   Manhattan prosecutors are preparing to conclude soon whether the failures before the blaze at the state-owned building were bureaucratic blunders or crimes.  (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)AP - They had no water, hardly any air and no way out.


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    Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:56:37 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Jurors in Idaho murder case cry at graphic videos (AP)

    In this artist's rendering,  Joseph Edward Duncan III listens to opening statements in the sentencing phase of his death penalty case in U.S. District Court in Boise, Idaho on Wednesday Aug. 13, 2008. A jury that will decide whether Duncan, a convicted pedophile should be executed listened Wednesday as a prosecutor graphically described how the man killed members of an Idaho family, abducted two children and abused the youngsters at a campsite before murdering one of them.  (AP Photo/Ward Hooper)AP - Jurors cringed, cried and some desperately looked away as they were shown a series of deeply disturbing and graphic videos taken by a convicted child killer as he tortured, sexually abused and nearly killed a 9-year-old boy.


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    Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:22:34 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    At top of Greenland, new worrisome cracks in ice (AP)

    This image provided by the Byrd Polar Research Center, Columbus, Ohio, taken July 25, 2008, shows a growing giant crack and an 11-square-mile chunk of ice hemorrhaging off a prominent glacier in northern Greenland. The crack, at center, right,  is seven miles long and about half a mile wide. It is about half the width of the 500 square mile floating part of the glacier. If the cracking continues, the floating part of the glacier could lose up to one third of its size. (AP Photo/Byrd Polar Research Center)AP - In northern Greenland, a part of the Arctic that had seemed immune from global warming, new satellite images show a growing giant crack and an 11-square-mile chunk of ice hemorrhaging off a major glacier, scientists said Thursday.


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    Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:16:51 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Company acknowledges voting machine error (AP)

    In this Dec. 5, 2007 file photo, a message is posted on a Sequoia Voting Systems' electronic voting machine in San Francisco. Beginning last year, states including California, Ohio and Florida abruptly ordered election officials to mothball their electronic machines.  (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - A major voting machine maker has cautioned its customers in 34 states to look out for a programming error that may cause votes to be dropped.


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    Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:43:51 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Suspect holds authorities at bay in Md. motel (AP)
    AP - A burglary suspect wanted in four states was holed up Thursday in a western Maryland motel with a woman police believed was his pregnant girlfriend, and doctors were standing by in case she went into labor, authorities said. -- read full article
    Fri, 22 Aug 2008 04:35:55 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Crews rescue 2 teens trapped in Wash. snow field (AP)
    AP - An ice cave collapsed on two teenage boys Thursday, trapping them for hours until rescuers with chain saws managed to cut through large chunks of compact snow and ice to free them. -- read full article
    Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:24:47 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Texas man gets life for child sex club conviction (AP)
    AP - An auto body shop worker was convicted and swiftly sentenced to life in prison Thursday for grooming children as young as 5 to perform in sex shows at a small-town swingers club. -- read full article
    Fri, 22 Aug 2008 04:17:57 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
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