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    US Airways To Merge, Move Base To Arizona (washingtonpost.com)

    washingtonpost.com - US Airways Group Inc. and America West Holdings Corp. said yesterday that they would merge in a $1.5 billion deal that would create the nation's largest budget airline with service throughout the United States and overseas...
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    Koreans Say They Cloned Embryos For Stem Cells (washingtonpost.com)

    washingtonpost.com - Scientists in South Korea reported making nearly a dozen cloned human embryos that are genetic twins of patients with various medical problems and have isolated from those embryos batches of stem cells with the potential to replace failing tissues in those patients...
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    Pentagon Aims To Disperse Facilities (washingtonpost.com)

    washingtonpost.com - The Pentagon's recommendation to move more than 20,000 defense jobs from sites in the Washington area is based in part on Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's goal of shifting operations out of the capital region, according to the base realignment and closure plan released...
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    For Dead Sea, A Slow And Seemingly Inexorable Death (washingtonpost.com)

    washingtonpost.com - EIN GEDI, When the Ein Gedi Spa opened in 1986 to pamper visitors with massages, mud wraps and therapeutic swims, customers walked just a few steps from the main building to take their salty dip in the Dead Sea...
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    A Likely Script For The 'Nuclear Option' (washingtonpost.com)

    washingtonpost.com - The "nuclear option" will have a long fuse. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/washpost/20050518/ts_washpost/a_likely_script_for_the__nuclear_option_
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    Koran Allegation May Long Resonate (washingtonpost.com)

    washingtonpost.com - KARACHI, Pakistan, May 17 -- In markets and tea shops, the news bulletin flashed from transistor radios in Arabic and Urdu, Dari and Pashto. In universities and business offices, it raced across the Internet. In mosques and religious schools, it was repeated from pulpits and...
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    In Uzbekistan, Families Caught In A Nightmare (washingtonpost.com)

    washingtonpost.com - KARA-SUU, Uzbekistan, May 17 -- The Uzbek troops were shooting again, this time from rooftops, and Zukra Karimova's 58-year-old father fell to the ground as he ran, a dark bloodstain spreading along his thigh. "Go on without me or you'll be killed, too!" he shouted as she...
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    Democrats, GOP End Talks On Filibusters (washingtonpost.com)

    washingtonpost.com - Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) announced yesterday that he and Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) had broken off negotiations aimed at averting a showdown over President Bush's judicial nominees, moving the Senate to the brink of a constitutional...
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    Two Fronts In The War On Poverty (washingtonpost.com)

    washingtonpost.com - BALTIMORE -- Jacquelyn D. Cornish keeps several postcards on her desk at the Druid Heights Community Development Corp., which has marshaled millions in government money in a decades-long effort to renovate houses and rebuild a proud community ravaged by drug addiction, crime...
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    Newsweek Apologizes (washingtonpost.com)

    washingtonpost.com - Newsweek apologized yesterday for an inaccurate report on the treatment of detainees that triggered several days of rioting in Afghanistan and other countries in which at least 15 people died...
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    Looking For Battle, Marines Find That Foes Have Fled (washingtonpost.com)

    washingtonpost.com - ARABI, Iraq -- Cpl. Alexander Kalouf snapped an ammunition clip into his M-16 assault rifle and strapped grenades to his chest in the crowded hold of an armored vehicle, bursting into excited snatches of songs with other Marines as they headed into hoped-for battle...
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    'Martyrs' In Iraq Mostly Saudis (washingtonpost.com)

    washingtonpost.com - Before Hadi bin Mubarak Qahtani exploded himself into an anonymous fireball, he was young and interested only in "fooling around."...
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    Retirement's Unraveling Safety Net (washingtonpost.com)

    washingtonpost.com - MIDDLE RIVER, Md. -- If it's a clear morning, you can count on seeing 80-year-old Junior K. Paugh strolling streets that tell his life story: Propeller Drive, Fuselage Avenue, {censored}pit Street, Compass Road. He's been here more than 60 years, ever since aviation pioneer Glenn...
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    Afghan Protests Spread (washingtonpost.com)

    washingtonpost.com - QALAT, Afghanistan, May 13 -- Angry mobs ransacked government offices and relief agencies and clashed with police in several provinces Friday in a fourth day of growing anti-American demonstrations. The violence left at least eight people dead and raised the death toll since...
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    Pentagon Plans To Close 180 Sites, Shift Area Jobs To Outer Suburbs (washingtonpost.com)

    washingtonpost.com - The Pentagon announced plans yesterday to close the District's Walter Reed Army Medical Center and abandon more than 4 million square feet of leased office space in Arlington and Alexandria, proposing a massive shift of defense workers and economic investment toward...
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    Therapies Shown To Cure Breast Cancer (washingtonpost.com)

    washingtonpost.com - Chemotherapy and hormone treatment have dramatically reduced the death rate from early breast cancer, according to a major international analysis that indicates the often arduous regimens do cure many women...
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    Divided Panel Sends Bolton Nomination To Full Senate (washingtonpost.com)

    washingtonpost.com - A bitterly divided Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted along party lines yesterday to send the nomination of John R. Bolton to become U.N. ambassador to the full Senate without any endorsement...
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    China Alters Language On Taiwan (washingtonpost.com)

    washingtonpost.com - BEIJING, May 12 -- Chinese President Hu Jintao proposed new diplomatic language Thursday aimed at ending the decades-old state of hostilities between China and Taiwan, in a rare but tentative concession by a Communist leader on one of the most sensitive issues in Chinese...
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    Microsoft Throws Prime-Time Party For Next Xbox (washingtonpost.com)

    washingtonpost.com - Is the world ready for the next Xbox? http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/washpost/20050512/ts_washpost/microsoft_throws_prime_time_party_for_next_xbox
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    Ban On Small Aircraft At National Likely To Remain (washingtonpost.com)

    washingtonpost.com - Until yesterday, federal officials felt confident enough in new air security procedures to consider lifting a ban on small aircraft flying in and out of Reagan National Airport, possibly by the end of the year...
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