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			<title><![CDATA[ In the trenches on climate change, hostility among foes ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Electronic files that were stolen from a prominent climate research center and made public last week provide a rare glimpse into the behind-the-scenes battle to shape the public perception of global warming.
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			<dc:creator>Juliet Eilperin</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Senate Democrats vote to bring health bill to floor for debate ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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The Senate voted along party lines Saturday night to overcome a Republican filibuster and bring to the floor a bill that would overhaul the nation's health-care system.
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			<dc:creator>Shailagh Murray and Paul Kane</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Prison holds promise for job-strapped town ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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CHICAGO --  On the edge of a cornfield 150 miles from Chicago lies a prison, all but vacant, that could become the new Guantanamo.
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			<dc:creator>Peter Slevin and Kari Lydersen</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ In Indiana, practice for 'civilian surge' in Afghanistan ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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CAMP ATTERBURY, IND. -- Outside a scruffy, two-story building, armed and flak-jacketed U.S. soldiers stood watch under a sagging Afghan flag. Inside, the provincial governor, a Hamid Karzai look-alike in a striped robe and Karakul cap, pleaded with two tribal elders to get along. Only the Taliban...
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			<dc:creator>Karen DeYoung</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ As deployment nears, nerves fray ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Even before the shootings at this sprawling military post, Pfc. Nicolas Woodworth was wary of shipping out for Afghanistan in early January. As a combat engineer, he is supposed to serve on a route-clearance team, creeping down Afghan roads at 5 mph looking for bombs.
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			<dc:creator>Greg Jaffe</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Plan ahead on donations to be safe come tax time ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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If you've noticed a slightly more hysterical tone in the fund requests we all get from charities this time of year, there's a reason: Donors, hit by factors as varied as the Madoff scandal and the general economic downturn, have cut back while the charities are facing greater demand for their...
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			<dc:creator>Albert B. Crenshaw</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ On Leadership: Dead philanthropy? ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Seth Goldman co-founded Honest Tea in 1998 with Barry Nalebuff, his professor at the Yale School of Management. The Bethesda-based company has been recognized for its growth and business practices .
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			<dc:creator>On Leadership</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ A different sort of holiday cheer ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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This holiday season, some workplaces are trading Chardonnay for charity contributions and crepes for kindness.
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			<dc:creator>Vickie Elmer</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ It may not be the thought that counts ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Questions for Joel Waldfogel, a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His book, "Scroogenomics: Why You Shouldn't Buy Presents for the Holidays," was published in October by Princeton University Press.
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			<dc:creator>Kiplinger's Personal Finance</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Don't trust the crowd if you value the truth ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Back when I was a newspaper editor in Rochester, N.Y., an investment club invited me to speak about small-company stocks, a subject I occasionally wrote about. Before the session, I talked with club members to learn more about how they picked stocks. They explained that they focused on a single...
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			<dc:creator>Bob Frick</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Wall Street conspiracy theories dissected, defined ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Once there was a simpler time, when pretty much everything that happened in the financial world had a straightforward explanation.
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			<dc:creator>Gary Weiss</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Money from Justice Dept. funneled to ACORN via a third party ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:07:59 EST</pubDate>
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While the Justice Department did not award any direct grants to ACORN between 2002 and 2009, it did fund one group that funneled money to the controversial advocacy group, an inspector general reported Friday in response to a congressional inquiry.
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			<dc:creator>Garance Franke-Ruta</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Americans conflicted over Afghanistan war ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:34:00 EST</pubDate>
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WINONA, MINN. -- Christina and Jesse Fladmark were married on Flag Day last year at the band shell on the Mississippi River. They chose the spot largely because Jesse, a soldier, draws strength from the nearby war memorial.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Hasan had intensified contact with radical Yemeni American cleric ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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In the months before the deadly shootings at Fort Hood, Army Maj. Nidal M. Hasan intensified his communications with a radical Yemeni American cleric and began to discuss surreptitious financial transfers and other steps that could translate his thoughts into action, according to two sources brie...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Fatal shooting of student splits community known for love of the outdoors ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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FERRUM, VA. -- Jessica Goode needed to clear her head. It was Tuesday afternoon, her senior project presentation was due by Friday and it wasn't going well. She wanted to be in the one place where she always felt better: the woods.
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			<dc:creator>Brigid Schulte</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Corrections ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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-- A mini review and a listing in the Nov. 20 Weekend section gave an incorrect closing date for "Full Circle" at Woolly Mammoth Theatre. The show closes Nov. 29.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Calif. college student fees on the rise ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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LOS ANGELES -- California's mission of providing residents with access to affordable, high-quality public education suffered a setback this week as University of California officials sharply increased student fees, driven by economic realities that are forcing similar steps at public university...
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			<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ World's largest atom smasher is restarted ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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GENEVA -- Scientists switched on the world's largest atom smasher Friday night for the first time since the $10 billion machine suffered a spectacular failure more than a year ago.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Kuwait-based military contractor wins court delay ]]></title>
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A Kuwaiti-owned company indicted in Atlanta this week for alleged fraud in connection with a multibillion-dollar contract to supply food and other products to coalition troops in Iraq, Kuwait and Jordan won a court delay Friday, indicating that it may be planning to fight the case, whether in...
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			<title><![CDATA[ As Singh's visit nears, perceived U.S. missteps worry India ]]></title>
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Days before Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is to be welcomed in the White House as the first state visitor hosted by President Obama, two perceived missteps by the Obama administration have Indian officials concerned that New Delhi suddenly has been relegated to the second tier of U.S.-Asian...
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			<title><![CDATA[ H1N1 cases fall in U.S. but could rise with Thanksgiving travel, gatherings ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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The level of swine flu activity in the United States appears to be declining, although officials are worried about another increase of cases during the Thanksgiving holiday when many people travel and families gather.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Md. agrees to 50-year lease of state port facilities ]]></title>
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Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley announced Friday an agreement to give the nation's largest port operator control of the state-owned portion of the Port of Baltimore for the next 50 years in exchange for the company's promise to invest hundreds of millions of dollars to expand and maintain the...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Hackers steal electronic data from top climate research center ]]></title>
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Hackers broke into the electronic files of one of the world's foremost climate research centers this week and posted an array of e-mails in which prominent scientists engaged in a blunt discussion of global warming research and disparaged climate-change skeptics.
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			<title><![CDATA[ More D.C. area residents on the move for Turkey Day in '09 ]]></title>
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If neither the sour economy nor gas prices creeping higher will deter you from getting away for Thanksgiving, you can expect to share the road to grandmother's house -- or wherever -- with 823,999 of your neighbors.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Terrapins Numbers ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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3 Games in which Terrapins wide receiver Torrey Smith has posted at least 260 all-purpose yards this season. He's the only player in the country to accomplish that feat.
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			<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Justice Dept. audit finds $200,000 in grants and sub-awards linked to ACORN ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:54:55 EST</pubDate>
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While the Justice Department did not award any direct grants to ACORN between 2002 and 2009, it did fund one group that funneled money to the controversial advocacy group, an inspector general reported Friday in response to a congressional inquiry.
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			<title><![CDATA[ In the recession, all roads lead to home ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:36:01 EST</pubDate>
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MISSOULA, MONT. -- Her parents redecorated her bedroom soon after she left for college, as sure as everyone else in this town that Melissa Meyer would not be moving back. They took down the photos of Melissa meeting the Dalai Lama and laughing alongside Joe Biden, placing them in the closet. They...
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			<dc:creator>Eli Saslow</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ 18,000 miles to Washington ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:12:55 EST</pubDate>
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Paulo Roberto Vieira stumbled into the Brazilian consulate on L Street NW bedraggled, nearly broke and at the end of his rope.
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			<dc:creator>Mike Shepard</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ For a nation with doubts on war, Afghanistan strategy is a conundrum ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:07:57 EST</pubDate>
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WINONA, Minn. -- Christina and Jesse Fladmark were married on Flag Day last year at a band shell on the Mississippi River. They chose the spot largely because Jesse, a soldier, draws strength from the nearby war memorial.
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			<dc:creator>Peter Slevin</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Rep. Reyes not under investigation, House panel says ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:53:59 EST</pubDate>
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The House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct has said it is not investigating Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-Tex.), chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, who was the subject of a complaint last year involving contact between his office and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enfor...
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			<title><![CDATA[ U.S. resetting its relationship with Karzai ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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When a team of senior U.S. officials led by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton entered the presidential palace in Kabul on Wednesday for a dinner meeting, they had little indication of what Afghan President Hamid Karzai planned to discuss, or whether questions about corruption and governance...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama faces congressional anger about economy ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Growing discontent over the economy and frustration with efforts to speed its recovery boiled over Thursday on Capitol Hill in a wave of criticism and outright anger directed at the Obama administration.
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			<dc:creator>Brady Dennis, Zachary A. Goldfarb and Neil Irwin</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ In Fort Hood aftermath, Pentagon opens two reviews ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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The Pentagon is launching an urgent review of whether military procedures hinder the identification of service members who pose a threat to their fellow troops.
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			<dc:creator>Ann Scott Tyson and Ben Pershing</dc:creator>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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-- An Associated Press item on the Nov. 18 Washington Business page described 1,000 Washington area job cuts at Verizon as layoffs. The AP issued a correction saying that a Verizon spokesman had confirmed layoffs were occurring but that the spokesman later said Verizon has a "surplus" of employees...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Arrests in Chicago drive home global nature of terrorism threat ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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CHICAGO -- David C. Headley, a peripatetic Chicagoan accused of scouting potential terrorism targets in India and plotting to kill two Danish journalists, was not always David C. Headley.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Scientists have high hopes for corn genome ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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If a biologist had to pick one living thing as the textbook of how genes work, what would it be?
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			<title><![CDATA[ House votes to protect payments to doctors ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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The House voted Thursday to add more than $200 billion to the deficit to prevent steep cuts in Medicare payments to doctors, a move Republicans denounced as a political payoff.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Metro board backs safety monitors ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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The Metro board of directors ordered all agency employees Thursday to cooperate fully with the transit system's safety oversight body and executives to notify the board before denying a request from the group after recent revelations about Metrorail safety lapses.
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			<dc:creator>Lena H. Sun and Joe Stephens</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Compensation urged as judge faults Army Corps of Engineers in Katrina floods ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Louisiana officials called on the Obama administration Thursday to compensate residents after a federal judge's ruling that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was responsible for some of the worst flooding in and around New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
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			<dc:creator>Spencer S. Hsu</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ A black teen longs for the wild blue yonder ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Colin Banks can talk to you about World War I and World War II planes until you're not interested anymore. He likes to TiVo aerial dogfights on the History Channel. The 17-year-old can't drive the distance from Maryland to Richmond by himself, but he's flown it.
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			<dc:creator>Sholnn Freeman</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Sen. Lugar's wife charged with DUI, hit-and-run ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:18:00 EST</pubDate>
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The wife of Sen. Richard G. Lugar (R-Ind.) was arrested in McLean on Wednesday night after crashing into a parked car, and she was charged with drunk driving and hit-and-run, Fairfax County police said Thursday.
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			<title><![CDATA[ World leaders to meet on Iran's failure to halt nuclear program ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:51:00 EST</pubDate>
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Iran lashed out Thursday against a new warning from President Obama of tougher sanctions over its nuclear program, dismissing such measures as out of date and threatening a resolute response to U.S. "deception and mischief."
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			<dc:creator>William Branigin and Thomas Erdbrink</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ White House aides: No Afghan decision before Thanksgiving ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:50:59 EST</pubDate>
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SEOUL -- President Obama will not announce his decision on sending more troops to Afghanistan before the Thanksgiving holiday, senior aides said Thursday.
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			<dc:creator>Anne E. Kornblut</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama, S. Korea agree on new approach to North ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:49:59 EST</pubDate>
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SEOUL -- With none of the tension presented by a rising China and a willful Japan, President Obama's visit Thursday to South Korea was short, congenial in substance and splendid in form.
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			<dc:creator>Blaine Harden</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ In announcing new Afghan strategy, Obama faces a crowded calendar ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:46:00 EST</pubDate>
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As White House observers attempt to read the tea leaves about the timing of President Obama's Afghanistan announcement, one thing becomes clear: There's not much time left.
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			<dc:creator>Michael D. Shear</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ FAA: Computer system restored, delays persist ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:24:00 EST</pubDate>
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Federal Aviation Administration officials say a failed computer system that affected flights across the country Thursday morning is working again, but they cautioned travelers to expect residual delays.
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:24:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Judge rules Army engineers liable for Katrina flooding ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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NEW ORLEANS -- A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Army Corps of Engineers' failure to properly maintain a navigation channel led to massive flooding in Hurricane Katrina.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Sides gear up for fight over U.S. ban on travel to Cuba ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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A battle over Cuba policy is escalating in Congress, with proponents saying they have their best chance in years of repealing the ban on U.S. tourist travel to the island.
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ U.S. to help China develop inventory of its greenhouse gas emissions ]]></title>
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The United States and China have agreed to cooperate on developing an inventory of China's greenhouse gas emissions, the Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday, an initiative that appears be a response to criticism of Beijing's data collection.
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			<dc:creator>Juliet Eilperin</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Pakistani nuclear scientist said to affirm Post article's accuracy ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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A leading Pakistani newspaper said Wednesday that the former director of Pakistan's clandestine nuclear program had affirmed a recent account in The Washington Post of the country's nuclear dealings with China, saying the account was accurately based on a letter that Abdul Qadeer Khan said he sent...
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			<dc:creator>R. Jeffrey Smith</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ What to watch ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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-- President Obama completes the final day of his Asia trip in Seoul, where he visited U.S. Embassy staff members and held a meeting with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak.
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			<title><![CDATA[ D.C. leaders set aside feud for home rule's sake ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Mayor Adrian M. Fenty and D.C. Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray put aside their political differences Wednesday to support an effort on Capitol Hill to give the District more control over its budget and laws.
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			<dc:creator>Tim Craig</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Cub Scouts look for a real-life hero to displace Superman ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Tina Miller knew she was up against some tough competition.
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			<dc:creator>Susan Craton</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ White House backs off cancer test guidelines ]]></title>
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A top federal health official said Wednesday that the controversial new guidelines for breast cancer screening do not represent government policy, as the Obama administration sought to keep the debate over mammograms from undermining the prospects for health-care reform.
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			<dc:creator>Rob Stein and Dan Eggen</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Lawmakers seek more help from administration for Fort Hood investigations ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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A bipartisan group of senators began a concerted push Wednesday to get more cooperation from the Obama administration in its reviews of the Fort Hood shootings, which left 13 dead and a raft of questions about information-sharing among intelligence agencies.
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			<dc:creator>Paul Kane</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Holder answers to 9/11 relatives about trying terrorism suspects in U.S. ]]></title>
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After enduring four hours of hostile questions in a crowded Capitol Hill hearing room about his decision to send the self-described mastermind of the Sept. 11 terrorist strikes to Manhattan for trial, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. submitted himself to one more round of interrogation Wednesday.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Lithuania investigates possible CIA 'black site' ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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ANTAVILIAI, LITHUANIA -- Residents of this village were mystified five years ago when tight-lipped American construction workers suddenly appeared at a mothballed riding stable here and built a large, two-story building without windows, ringed by a metal fence and security cameras.
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