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Nigerian underwear bomber gets life in prison for trying to blow up jetliner on Christmas 2009
( 17-Feb-2012 )

DETROIT _ Defiantly declaring ``a day of victory,'' a Nigerian man was given a mandatory life sentence Thursday for trying to blow up a packed jetliner with a bomb sewn into his underwear. People aboard the flight testified that the failed attack had disturbed their sleep and travels for m ....
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New York Times correspondent Anthony Shadid dies of apparent asthma attack working in Syria
( 17-Feb-2012 )

NEW YORK _ New York Times correspondent Anthony Shadid, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner who strove to capture untold stories in Middle East conflicts from Libya to Iraq, died Thursday in eastern Syria after slipping into the country to report on the uprising against its president. Shadid, shot i ....
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US couple receive 8 year prison terms in son's cancer death after he begged to see a doctor
( 17-Feb-2012 )

CLEVELAND _ The parents of an 8-year-old boy who died from Hodgkin lymphoma after suffering for months from undiagnosed swollen glands were sentenced to eight years in prison Thursday following their guilty pleas to denying him medical treatment. Attorneys for Monica Hussing, 37, and William Robi ....
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Attend college at age 8? It's not that hard if you really want to, says boy scholar's book
( 16-Feb-2012 )

LOS ANGELES _ The one thing 14-year-old Moshe Kai Cavalin dislikes is being called a genius. All he did, after all, was enrol in college at age 8 and earn his first of two Associate of Arts degrees from East Los Angeles Community College in 2009 at age 11, graduating with a perfect 4.0 grade poin ....
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Interracial marriages on the rise as US becomes more diverse, blurring American colour lines
( 16-Feb-2012 )

WASHINGTON _ The number of interracial marriages in the U.S. has climbed to 4.8 million, a record 1 in 12 couples, as a steady flow of Asian and Hispanic immigrants expands the pool of prospective spouses. Blacks also are now substantially more likely than before to marry whites. A Pew Research C ....
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