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Common sense tells women that while mammography is an imperfect, inadequate defense against a disease that will kill 40,000 of them this year, it is better than nothing.
As Democrats readied a weekend vote, the GOP saw plenty to oppose.
WASHINGTON - Digging in for a long struggle, Republican senators and governors yesterday assailed the Democrats' newly minted health-care legislation as a collection of tax increases, Medicare cuts, and heavy new burdens for deficit-ridden states.
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ATLANTA - For the second time in little more than a year, a glitch at one of the two centers that handle flight plans for the nation's air-travel system set off delays and cancellations for passengers around the country.
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NEW DELHI - Police in India suspect that David Coleman Headley, a man with Philadelphia ties recently arrested in Chicago on terrorism charges, conducted scouting missions of the targets in last November's attacks in Mumbai, including the city's main train station, the popular Leopold Cafe, and the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower and the Oberoi Trident hotels.
- California budget cuts forced the steep price increase for 229,000 students, officials said.LOS ANGELES - The governing board of the University of California approved a $2,500 student-fee increase yesterday after two days of tense campus protests across the state.
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CHICAGO - The Oprah Winfrey Show, an iconic broadcast that began as a local Chicago talk show and grew over two decades into the foundation of a media empire worth billions, will end its run in 2011 after 25 seasons on the air, Winfrey's production company said last night.
- Gates ordered a 45-day review and a longer study on identifying problem troops.WASHINGTON - The Pentagon said yesterday that it would scour its procedures for identifying volatile troops hidden in the ranks after the Fort Hood shooting rampage and lapses that might allow others to slip through bureaucratic cracks.
- The Afghan vowed to fight corruption and boost security, but many are skeptical.KABUL, Afghanistan - President Hamid Karzai set two ambitious goals in his inauguration speech yesterday: to have Afghan soldiers and police take full responsibility for security within the next five years, and to root out the pervasive corruption that hobbled his first administration.
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SEOUL, South Korea - President Obama said yesterday that the six nations dealing with Iran's nuclear program would develop a package of serious new punitive measures in the coming weeks. The European Union said the six would gather immediately to begin consultations.
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RALEIGH, N.C. - The Army will allow the media limited coverage of Sarah Palin's book-signing appearance Monday at Fort Bragg but will bar reporters from interviewing her or her supporters on the post, officials said yesterday.
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