Nation & World
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PublishedJuly 13, 2013
Third girl to die in SF plane crash identified
Liu Yipeng, 16, went to school with the other two victims killed in the crash.
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PublishedJuly 13, 2013
Zimmerman jury continues 2nd day of deliberations
George Zimmerman, 29, is charged with second-degree murder, but the jury also is allowed to consider manslaughter.
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PublishedJuly 13, 2013
Alien planet’s color detected for first time
LONDON – Astronomers have for the first time managed to determine the color of a planet outside our solar system, a blue gas giant 63 light-years away. Using the Hubble Space Telescope, an international team said the planet known as HD 189733B would look like a deep blue dot if viewed up close. While Earth […]
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PublishedJuly 13, 2013
Egypt’s Islamists digging in for long-term protests
CAIRO – Tens of thousands of Islamists rallied Friday in cities across Egypt, vowing to sustain for months their campaign to restore deposed President Mohammed Morsi to power. Ten days after the military coup that toppled him, however, Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood and its allies appear to have failed to bring a significantly wider segment of […]
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PublishedJuly 13, 2013
Smoking sinks to new low among young Americans
LOS ANGELES – Cigarette smoking hit the lowest point ever recorded among American eighth-graders and high school sophomores and seniors last year, a new report shows. Last year, only 5 percent of high school sophomores said they had smoked cigarettes daily in the previous 30 days, compared with 18 percent of sophomores who were smoking […]
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PublishedJuly 13, 2013
Edward Snowden asks Russia for asylum
He may accept Putin's condition to stop harming the United States, but more revelations are expected from previously leaked materials.
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PublishedJuly 13, 2013
‘Malala Day’ puts Taliban on notice
The teenager gives her first public speech since she was shot in the head by the Pakistani Taliban.
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PublishedJuly 13, 2013
Nation & World Dispatches
SAN FRANCISCO Fire truck may have struck, killed Asiana crash survivor A girl who was aboard the Asiana Airlines flight that crash-landed died Friday, the same day that authorities confirmed one of the two Chinese teenagers killed in the disaster was hit by a fire truck. The disclosure about the teen raised the tragic possibility […]
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PublishedJuly 13, 2013
Little debate on privacy as DNA collection flourishes
The trove of DNA now in official hands has alarmed privacy campaigners as well as some scientists.
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PublishedJuly 12, 2013
MIT acoustics pioneer Bose dies at 83
Amar Bose founded Bose Corp., a company known for the rich sound of its small tabletop radios and its noise-canceling headphones.
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