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  • Published
    July 9, 2012

    Single-sex classes provoke a fight

    Supporters say splitting up boys and girls helps learning; critics, especially the ACLU, say it promotes harmful stereotypes.

  • Published
    July 9, 2012

    Nation/World Dispatches

    PHILADELPHIA As cold front approaches, temperatures ease slightly The heat that blanketed much of the U.S. began to ease up Sunday as temperatures from the Midwest to the East Coast dropped from highs above 100 degrees down to the 90s. Cooler air swept southward in the eastern half of the country, bringing down some temperatures […]

  • Published
    July 8, 2012

    Borgnine’s wide-ranging career

    LOS ANGELES — Among the best-known Ernest Borgnine films: • “China Corsair,” 1951 • “The Whistle at Eaton Falls,” 1951 • “The Mob,” 1951 • “The Stranger Wore a Gun,” 1953 • “From Here to Eternity,” 1953 • “Johnny Guitar,” 1954 • “Demetrius and the Gladiators,” 1954 • “The Bounty Hunter,” 1954 • “Vera Cruz,” […]

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    July 8, 2012
    Mono Lake, Tufa Towers

    Papers: No arsenic-loving bacteria

    A journal backs away from a 2010 report that led to speculation about life on some other planet.

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    July 8, 2012

    Oscar-winning actor Ernest Borgnine dies at 95

    Among his memorable roles were the lead in 'Marty' and the PT boat skipper in 'McHale's Navy.'

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  • Published
    July 8, 2012

    Indiana Planned Parenthood boosted by ruling on Medicaid funding

    The state had decided to stop funding because the group performs abortions.

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    July 8, 2012

    Libya may avoid Islamist trend

    Unofficial vote counts show Western-leaning candidates doing well in national elections.

  • Published
    July 8, 2012

    Malware threat sparks concern, conspiracy theories

    A number of bloggers are accusing the FBI of trying to steal data as it counters a possible loss of service.

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    July 8, 2012

    Syrian military simulates show of force

    The large-scale exercises are meant to present scenarios of the response to outside ‘aggression.’

  • Published
    July 8, 2012
    Carson Dean Cheney

    Old tombstone topples, killing boy, 4, in Utah

    He was pretending to be a leprechaun, trying to make kids smile for photos, a witness says.