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Conventions seek lower-profile cities
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Pakistan expects bombings

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2 Americans, 1 Israeli win Nobel chemistry prize
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Consumers, beware
Who would oppose protecting the consumer? Actually, the banking lobby. The industry is spending big bucks to scuttle plans for a federal financial watchdog for consumers.
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Health & Behavior

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By Katye Martens, USA TODAY
Doctors join fight against obesity
By Nanci Hellmich, USA TODAY
As the debate continues on health care reform, medical experts believe primary-care physicians need to launch a full-fledged attack against...
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By Garrett Hubbard, USA TODAY
High-tech 'scribes' help transfer medical records into electronic form
By Liz Szabo, USA TODAY
Hospital scribes trail doctors from bed to bed, taking detailed notes that will form part of each patient's electronic medical record....
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By David Banks, AP
Vaccine arrives as flu spreads
By Mary Brophy Marcus, USA TODAY
The first doses of swine flu vaccine arrived Monday as more than half the USA reported widespread flu cases.
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By Ben Margot, AP
Plastic chemical linked aggression in toddler girls
By Liz Szabo, USA TODAY
A new study adds to the growing concern that prenatal exposure to the chemical bisphenol A could harm children's development.

Religion

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Italian scientists claim to debunk Shroud of Turin
Scientists have reproduced the Shroud of Turin revered as the cloth that covered Jesus in the tomb and say the experiment proves the relic...
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Israeli rabbis rule against 'Shabbat elevators'
By Michele Chabin, Religion News Service
Four influential ultra-Orthodox rabbis in Israel have decreed that Jews may not use so-called "Shabbat elevators," which enable observant...
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By Douglas Healey, AP
Supreme Court won't block release of sex abuse papers
The Supreme Court refused on Monday to block the release of documents generated by lawsuits against priests in Connecticut for alleged...

Education

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By Susan Tusa, Detroit Free Press
College technology 'catching up' with students
By Kathleen Gray and Robin Erb, USA TODAY
Today's college campuses incorporate iPhones and Kindle, classrooms are high-tech marvels, with overhead projectors and grease pencils...
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Hispanic students aspire to higher education but face barriers
By Greg Toppo, USA TODAY
Nearly nine in 10 Hispanics say it's "necessary" to get a college education to get ahead in life more than any other ethnic or racial group...
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CDC: Schools cutting out candy, soda
By Greg Toppo, USA TODAY
Fewer middle school and high school students in the USA have access to fatty, salty snacks and soft drinks at school, a survey from the...

Science & Space

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Warming blamed for dwindling caribou herds
By Charles J. Hanley, Associated Press
The insidious impact of climate change is decimating the caribou, a species that has long numbered in the millions and supported human life...
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2 Americans, 1 Israeli win Nobel chemistry prize
Americans Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas Steitz and Israeli Ada Yonath won the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for mapping...
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3 Americans win Nobel Prize in physics
By Dan Vergano, USA TODAY
Light transformed into technology specifically, fiber optics and digital images lighted the way to the Nobel Prize in Physics for three...

Offbeat

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By Alicia Castelli, Chronicle-Telegram
Vampires vow till death do us part at Ohio wedding
An Ohio bride and ghoul have vowed to love each other and haunt and howl at the moon together at a Halloween-themed wedding....
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Wildlife officer saws antlers off aggressive elk
Sometimes the only way to stop a bully is to embarrass them. That's what Wildlife Officers in Estes Park have learned.
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Driving lesson ends with minivan in bedroom
Police say a driving lesson on Good Luck Road ended with a minivan crashing through an apartment wall.