“Government-led effort to clean up N. America’s largest estuary has not yielded a healthy bay.

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“Maryland-raised director of Indian descent aims to challenge her homeland’s notion of life in U.S.

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Reuters - Israeli warplanes pounded the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing at least 227 people in one of the bloodiest days for the Palestinians in 60 years of conflict with the Jewish state.
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AP - Pat White had one more dazzling comeback in him before finishing his record-breaking college career.
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AP - Even after a crucial deadline came and went, the financing arm of General Motors Corp. remained silent Saturday on whether it cleared a final hurdle to become a bank holding company and gain access to billions in federal bailout money.
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Reuters - Fourteen crew competing in the Sydney-Hobart yacht race were rescued overnight by fellow competitors after their yacht began to sink off the east coast of Australia.
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AP - A woman found bound in the trunk of her own car may have been there for well over a week, police in Scotland said Saturday.
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“Water, Water Everywhere and Not a Drop to Drink: The Politics of 21st Century Water.“
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“Shattering a recent period of calm, car bombs take the lives of at least 25, wound more than 60.

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