Wednesday, February 27, 2013

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Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 03:34 PM PST
Arm-in-arm, Ohio students commemorate slain classmates 
Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 03:34 PM PST
 Chardon High School students march to the square in Chardon, Ohio for a memorial ceremony for three classmates who died in a school shooting rampage one year ago, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013. The march ended at the courthouse where 18-year-old shooter T.J. Lane pleaded guilty to all charges Tuesday. He could face life in prison at his sentencing March 19. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)One day after a teen gunman pleaded guilty in the deadly school shooting in northeast Ohio, students marked its one-year anniversary Wednesday with hugs, supportive messages and a somber march through town.
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Photos: Pope Benedict XVI bids farewell 
Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 03:00 PM PST
 Photos: Pope Benedict XVI bids farewellROME, ITALY - APRIL 06: Pope Benedict XVI waves to the faithful gathered at the Colosseum during the Way Of The Cross procession on Good Friday April 6, 2012 in Rome, Italy. The traditional Catholic procession on Good Friday recalls the crucifixion of Jesus Christ ahead of Sunday's Easter holiday. (Photo by Franco Origlia/Getty Images)
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These mutant tadpoles are watching you...with their third eye 
Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 05:05 PM PST
 Whoa! Mutant Tadpoles Sprout Eyeballs on Their TailsEyes hooked up to the tail can help blinded tadpoles see, researchers say.
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Yosemite junior ranger mails back two sticks taken from park 
Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 04:12 PM PST
 FILE - In this 2005 file photo, visitors view Half Dome from Glacier Point at Yosemite National Park, Calif. Visitors to America's national parks will encounter fewer rangers, find locked restrooms and visitors centers, and see trashcans emptied less often if 5 percent across-the-board cuts are enacted by sequestration. A National Park Service internal memo obtained by The Associated Press compiles a list of cuts in services in parks from Cape Cod to Yosemite. It's the result of an order by Park Service Director John Jarvis in January that asked superintendents to show how they will absorb the funding cuts. (AP Photo/Dino Vournas, File)Honest Evie sent the sticks back with a charming letter of apology.
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These nut-cracking monkeys have skills 
Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 06:52 PM PST
 Nut-Cracking Monkeys Show Humanlike SkillsA new study shows Brazil's bearded capuchin monkeys can use tools with finesse.
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Acid attack victim gets face transplant 
Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 04:15 PM PST
 This undated photograph provided by the Brigham and Women's Hospital on Wednesday Feb. 27, 2013 shows face transplant patient Carmen Blandin Tarleton, right, with her sister Kesstan Blandin, before she was attacked. Tarleton, 44, underwent the face transplant surgery earlier in February 2013. She was doused with industrial strength lye by her former husband in 2007 and suffered chemical burns over 80 percent of her body. The mother of two wrote a book about her experience that describes her recovery. (AP Photo/Brigham and Women's Hospital)My reflection will "remind myself what selfless really is," she says.
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U.S. Senate approves Lew as Treasury chief 
Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 05:46 PM PST
 Treasury Secretary-designate Lew faces Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in WashingtonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Wednesday confirmed Jack Lew as President Barack Obama's new Treasury secretary, putting the former White House chief of staff in the middle of political brawls over the government's budget. Senators backed Lew 71-26, with all 53 Democrats voting in favor. Lew's most pressing task will be to find a compromise to lessen the economic blow from $85 billion in government spending cuts set to kick in on Friday. But two more deadlines will quickly follow. Funds for most government operations expire on March 27, and the U.S. ...
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Group fights to save old Pan Am terminal 
Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 02:39 PM PST
 The Pan Am Worldport in 1965. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)Built in 1960, it was an early icon of New York’s entry into the modern jet age.
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Loved ones salute New Zealand dad killed by shark 
Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 07:12 PM PST
 Police in inflatable rubber boats shoot at a shark off Muriwai Beach near Auckland, New Zealand, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013, as they attempt to retrieve a body following a fatal shark attack. Police said a man was found dead in the water after being "bitten by a large shark." (AP Photo/Ross Land) NEW ZEALAND OUT, NO SALESAbout 150 friends and family of Adam Strange wrote messages to him in the sand and stepped into the water Thursday at a New Zealand beach to say goodbye a day after he was killed by a large shark while training for an endurance swim.
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Humidity could save you from the flu, study says 
Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 06:53 PM PST
 You may be safer from the flu in a humid room than in a dry one, according to a new study from researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Navy identifies 2 divers who died at Md. Army site 
Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 05:43 PM PST
 This undated photo provided by the U.S. Army shows a test pond at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Aberdeen, Md. Two Navy divers with the Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit died Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2013 during a routine training operation in the pond. An Aberdeen spokesman says that the deaths are not believed to be connected to a death late last month at the site, when an engineering technician died while performing maintenance. The pond is used for a variety of tests, including shock testing of boat hulls. (AP Photo/U.S. Army\)BALTIMORE (AP) â€" The Navy on Wednesday identified two sailors who perished during routine diving operations at a test pond at an Army site in Maryland.
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Actor Dale Robertson dies in California hospital 
Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 07:13 PM PST
 FILE - In this April 11, 1964 photo, television actor Dale Robertson, who is in town for a rodeo, stops by to watch the Southwestern Relays in Lafayette, La. Dale Robertson, an Oklahoma native who became a star of television and movie Westerns during the genre's heyday, died Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013. He was 89. (AP Photo, File)OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) â€" Dale Robertson, an Oklahoma native who became a star of television and movie Westerns during the genre's heyday, died Tuesday. He was 89.
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Gunfire, chants mark Wounded Knee anniversary 
Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 06:45 PM PST
 Members of the American Indian Movement stand near the Wounded Knee Massacre Monument, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013 in Wounded Knee, S.D. Wednesday marked the 40th anniversary of the start of the 71-day occupation in the village of Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Hundreds of AIM members and other supporters turned out for a day of ceremonies to commemorate the anniversary of the fatal standoff that drew national attention to the impoverished reservation and the plight of local tribes. (AP Photo/Kristi Eaton)WOUNDED KNEE, S.D. (AP) â€" A Pine Ridge Indian Reservation resident who found herself in the middle of the 1973 Wounded Knee occupation said Wednesday amid ceremonial gunfire and chants that little has changed since the fatal standoff.
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Miss. mayorial candidate found dead, homicide suspected 
Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 06:17 PM PST
 JACKSON, Miss. (AP) â€" A Mississippi mayoral candidate was found dead Wednesday and the case is being investigated as a homicide, authorities said.
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