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Sports – Big Brown won the 134th running of the Kentucky Derby, overcoming and a field of 19 other horses to etch his name in the history books with a five-length victory.
News – With all 21 precincts reporting, Obama finished with 2,264 votes, or 50.1 percent. Sen. Hillary Clinton got 2,257 votes, or 49.9 percent.
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News – Austrian police believe a 73-year-old man held his daughter captive in his cellar for the past two decades and fathered at least six children with her, according to police and state-run news reports Sunday.
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Voted for on April 28, 2008 05:55am
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News – Kevin Gannon and Anthony Duarte have presented their evidence on the Jenkins case to Hennepin County prosecutors and Minneapolis Police. So what are those public officials doing?
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Family – Not the big glossy one they have now either the black and white pocket encyclopedia for geeks. As part of my everlasting nerdishness I was obliged to know the biggest and longest and oldest of as many things as I could.
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News – Swimmers, surfers and casual beachgoers know now a great white shark might be lurking below the glassy blue surface of the ocean here.
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News – Starting in 1968, the United States and Britain began forcibly removing 2,000 Chagossian people from an island in the Indian Ocean so the U.S. could build a military base.
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Voted for on April 18, 2008 11:32am
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Politics – So much for President Bush's effort to repair his legacy on global warming - at least when it comes to one German official with a flair for sloganeering.
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Voted for on April 18, 2008 06:48am
Family – Interesting, amusing take on "crazed" over-involved sports parents. Author, former CNN producer/writer, notes Larry King's recent unwanted attention as an over-zealous coach. Author always assumed these kinds of parents were pathetic, bad news. But recent experience has her re-assessing. A simple, honest, entertaining meditation.
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Food – In a bid to become less dependent on supermarkets, the residents of Martin are working together to become as self-sufficient as possible.
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Movies – Unbelievable, absurd, and downright unnecessary, or simply masterpieces ahead of their time? You decide as you enjoy this look at the top 10 banned films of the 20th century.
Politics – NPR is covering Universal Health care in various countries this week. Japan produces cars, color TVs and computers, but it also produces the world's healthiest people. It has the longest healthy life expectancy on Earth and spends half as much on health care as the United States.
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Science – Sea levels could rise by up to one-and-a-half metres (approximately four-and-a-half feet) by the end of this century, according to a new scientific analysis.
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Religion – Pope Benedict XVI landed at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on Tuesday afternoon, beginning a six-day visit to the United States after having told reporters aboard his aircraft that he was "deeply ashamed" of the Roman Catholic Church's child sexual-abuse scandal in the United States.
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Money – Why is it that Americans have rejected the Bush Administration's approach to domestic economic matters? McClatchy Newspapers analysis of 2005 census figures found that 16 million Americans are living in severe poverty....
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