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'); document.write(''); document.write('GENEVA (AP) — Greenhouse gases in the Earth\'s atmosphere reached record highs in 2008, with carbon dioxide levels increasing faster than previously, the U.N. weather agency said Monday.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('BEIJING (AP) — A veteran dissident was sentenced Monday to three years in prison after casting a spotlight on poorly built schools that collapsed during China\'s massive earthquake last year, killing thousands of children — an apparent government attempt to squelch such information.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('What happens when you combine Thanksgiving — a holiday dedicated to overindulging — with America\'s love of all things Supersized? Not as much as you\'d think.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('NATRONA, Pa. (AP) — The federal government and the Allegheny County Health Department have sued Allegheny Ludlum Corp. and a contractor for alleged air pollution violations at a slag dump near Pittsburgh.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('CINCINNATI (AP) — Hunters are donating more venison to strapped food banks as Ohio and other states offer financial aid aimed at managing high deer populations. It\'s a much-needed boost for pantries struggling to meet rising demand.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The state of New Mexico has spent more than a half-million dollars investigating and monitoring a giant cavern a few hundred feet beneath the ground in southeastern New Mexico.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('RICHMOND, Texas (AP) — The sky cleared and Lorena Ochoa and Jiyai Shin were left with one day to settle their duel for LPGA Tour player of the year.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers plucked a woman from choppy waters Monday, some 25 hours after she jumped from a crowded ferry that sank in a storm off Indonesia\'s Sumatra island. At least 29 people drowned, and 20 others were missing.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A kangaroo startled by a man walking his dog attacked the pair, pinning the pet underwater and slashing the owner in the abdomen with its hind legs.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('LONDON (AP) — Residents of flood-battered northern England are struggling back to work, school and homes after swollen rivers inundated roads and caused several bridges to collapse.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('PARK FALLS, Wis. (AP) — Forests are a treasure trove of limbs and bark that can be made into alternative fuels and some worry the increasing trend of using that logging debris will make those materials too scarce, harming the woodlands.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('WASHINGTON (AP) — Since the 1997 international accord to fight global warming, climate change has worsened and accelerated — beyond some of the grimmest of warnings made back then.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('Lawyer says 9/11 defendants will plead not guilty so they can express their political views
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'); document.write(''); document.write('NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The creatures living in the depths of the ocean are as weird and outlandish as the creations in a Dr. Seuss book: tentacled transparent sea cucumbers, primitive \"dumbos\" that flap ear-like fins, and tubeworms that feed on oil deposits.
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