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  • Reviving the Dead Sea Scrolls

    Scientists using American space technology have started a huge project to digitally photograph the Dead Sea Scrolls, the oldest known version of the Hebrew Bible, and post it on the Internet for all to see, Israeli authorities said Wednesday.
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  • New Orleans tense as Gustav nears

    On the eve of Hurricane Katrina's third anniversary, a nervous New Orleans watched Wednesday as another storm threatened to test everything the city has rebuilt, and officials made preliminary plans to evacuate people, pets and hospitals in an attempt to avoid a Katrina-style chaos.
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  • West increases pressure on Russia

    TBILISI, Georgia — Western leaders warned Russia on Wednesday to "change course," hoping to keep a conflict that already threatens a key nuclear pact and could affect the U.S. meat and poultry industry from broadening into a new Cold War.
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  • Pakistanis repel attack by Taliban

    Pakistani troops drove off a Taliban attack on a fort and pounded another band of militants holed up in a health center, officials said Wednesday as fighting spread to a third area of the tribal belt along the Afghan border.
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Yasir Nawaf, 18, who was wounded in a suicide car bomb attack that struck a group of police recruits in the town of Jalula, arrives for treatment at a hospital in the northern town of Sulaimaniyah, where some of the 40 wounded had been taken. (Yahya Ahmed, Associated Press)
Yahya Ahmed, Associated Press
Suicide bomber kills 25 in Iraqi town
Yasir Nawaf, 18, who was wounded in a suicide car bomb attack that struck a group of police recruits in the town of Jalula, arrives for treatment at a hospital in the northern town of Sulaimaniyah, where some of the 40 wounded had been taken.
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