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http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=188 Children will do well in their healthy development with a lot of old-fashioned playtime, says the American Academy of Pediatrics. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=186 Federal agents hunting the source of a deadly E.coli outbreak have searched two California spinach producers. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=185 Oil prices jumped as much as 2.5 percent today amid speculation that OPEC was considering cutting its production to stem the recent steep decline in oil prices. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=184 Drawing on its successes and failures in Iraq, the military has written a new counterinsurgency strategy that emphasizes working with and protecting civilians, defense officials said Thursday. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=183 Washington can continue wiretapping without warrants until its appeal against a ban on the practice is heard, a US federal appeals court has ruled. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=182 An Iowa couple who bought three Powerball tickets during a pit stop for soda are claiming a $200 million Powerball jackpot. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=181 Saudi Arabia will work with OPEC to bring oil prices to a "reasonable level," the kingdom's ambassador said Wednesday. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=180 The recent string of school shootings has prompted a Wisconsin lawmaker to propose arming teachers with guns. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=179 President Bush has signed into law a massive homeland security bill that will overhaul FEMA and pay for installing about 700 miles of fencing along the US-Mexican border. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=178 R.W. Apple Jr., the longtime New York Times correspondent who charted the fall of Richard Nixon and covered wars from Vietnam to the Persian Gulf died yesterday. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=177 New Orleans Saints fans celebrated Monday night by joyously rushing from their seats onto the field, ripping down the goal posts, destroying the playing surface, and trampling three people to death. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=176 The cancellation of four performances of a Mozart opera has reignited an anxious and heated debate in Europe over free speech, self-censorship and Islam. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=175 Long queues at polling stations characterised Thursday's general election in Zambia in which 3.9 million eligible voters were electing a president and other officials in a tightly contested race http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=174 Typhoon Xangsane has lashed Manila, grounding flights, halting vessels and closing schools and markets after triggering fatal flash floods in the centre of the country. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=173 Javier Solana, the European Union foreign policy chief, said today he had failed to reach a deal with the chief Iranian negotiator on Tehran's nuclear ambitions. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=172 The widow of Steve Irwin, the Australian Crocodile Hunter killed earlier this month in a stingray attack, has said that footage showing her husband's death will never be broadcast. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=171 A US woman convicted of broadcasting Japanese propaganda to undermine US troop morale during World War II has died in Chicago at the age of 90. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=169 Anna Nicole Smith's lawyer has revealed that he is the father of her new baby daughter, who has been named Dannie Lynn Hope. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=168 Socialite heiress Paris Hilton was charged Tuesday with two counts of misdemeanor drunk driving in connection with her arrest earlier this month in Hollywood. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=167 Naomi Campbell was warned that a warrant will be issued for her arrest if she does not show up in court next month, after she failed to turn up for a hearing Wednesday http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=166 Steven Tyler, lead singer of rock band Aerosmith, has battled Hepatitis C for three years and at one point underwent chemotherapy that "about killed" him. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=165 The Boondocks comic strip will not return "in the foreseeable future," Universal Press Syndicate, its distributor, announced Monday http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=170 Blockbuster announced Monday that it would be doing away with its long-standing rental charges in an attempt to stay competitive in the ever-changing home-video business. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=162 The woman accused of slashing a new mother's throat and kidnapping her baby whispered not guilty to the charges and convulsed in sobs during her arraignment Thursday. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=160 Two teenagers were in custody Thursday after the stolen car they were in smashed through the security gates of MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=157 A newborn girl who was abducted from her mother was found alive today and was in excellent condition, according to the doctor who treated her. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=164 The owners of a nightclub where a 2003 fire killed 100 people will plead no contest to involuntary manslaughter charges, and only one will have to serve prison time, their lawyer said Wednesday. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=161 Twenty-seven years after a hotel desk clerk's body was found in a wooded area, authorities have arrested five people. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=156 A weekend spillage of Tag Body Spray is described as the worst personal fragrance-related natural disaster in the history of the Eastern Seaboard http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=159 Senators 'Taking A Stand' Against Ancient Killer http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=158 The latest crime statistics rank New York as the safest big city in the country for the second year in a row. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=155 Israeli authorities on Monday charged three Hezbollah militants captured in Lebanon with murder and other terrorism-related crimes. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=153 Many Muslims insisted today that Pope Benedict XVI did not go far enough in an apology he made on Sunday for the offense that followed a speech he gave last week that discussed Islam and holy war. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=152 At least 11 people have died in an apparent bid to assassinate Somalia's interim president outside parliament in the town of Baidoa, say officials. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=151 As the search continued for a rural Missouri newborn snatched from her home after her mother's throat was slashed, authorities were hopeful Monday the baby was still alive and well. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=150 Two premature babies, one at 25 and the other at 26 weeks' gestation, have died after being given adult doses of Heparin, a blood-thinning drug. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=149 An armed man crashed his vehicle into a security barricade at the US Capitol on Monday, ran into the building and was arrested http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=148 Natural Selection Foods LLC, the world's largest producer of organic produce, was linked to the infected greens carrying E. coli bacteria, prompting a recall of 34 brands. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=147 Kidnapped Teen Uses Attacker's Cell Phone From Underground Bunker http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=154 Pope Benedict XVI said Sunday that he was "deeply sorry" about the angry reaction to his recent remarks about Islam, which he said came from a text that didn't reflect his personal opinion. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=145 LAS VEGAS— Comedian Rick Moranis offered apologies but not excuses Monday, saying his last-place finish as due to his inability to stay calm during the high-stakes game. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=146 Over 87 percent of Americans are unprepared to protect themselves from even the most basic world-ending scenarios, according to a study released Monday http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=142 Georgia's No. 1 deadbeat granddad, 79-year-old Roy Ehrengruber, who owes over $480 in grandchild birthday-card money, taken into custody. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=141 The classic Rolling Stones tune Ruby Tuesday isn't just the basis for a restaurant chain. It's also the inspiration for an upcoming animated feature film. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=140 Madonna slipped into Moscow on Monday under a shroud of secrecy and tight security for a concert that has rekindled debate about Russia's embrace of Western values in the post-Soviet era. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=139 Police investigating the death of Anna Nicole Smith's 20-year-old son said they had no evidence that he had suffered a heart attack or that drugs were involved. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=138 In dramatizing how our government's mistakes and negligence helped pave the way for disaster five years ago, "The Path to 9/11" was meant to be a wake-up call for viewers. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=143 BOSTON—University Of Maryland senior Dan Klein said Friday that his unpaid internship at Beacon Press Publishing was the "best experience of [his] life... http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=137 Rescue teams in Russia say there is still hope of saving more than 20 men trapped underground at a gold mine in south eastern Siberia. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=136 At least 37 people have been killed in bombings at a Muslim graveyard in western India, authorities say. More than 125 others were injured. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=135 Israel lifted its naval blockade of Lebanon on Friday after European warships began patrolling to keep out weapons shipments for Hezbollah. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=134 Osama bin Laden has returned to taunt the West - just four days before the fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, suicide hijackings that killed nearly 3,000 people. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=144 PASADENA, CA- Sequestered in a private booth at a Pasadena-area Cheesecake Factory for nearly 25 minutes, eight California Institute Of Technology physicists emerged exhausted but visibly excited... http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=129 Government scientists saved two men dying of melanoma by genetically altering their own white blood cells to attack their tumors - deemed the first major success in battling cancer with gene therapy. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=130 Americans are living longer since the 1960's, making the world's most expensive health-care system a good value despite its high costs. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=128 A study indicates that the average level of nicotine in cigarettes has risen 10 percent in the past six years, making it harder for smokers to quit. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=127 Seventy-five movies to be released on Blu-ray in Japan http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=126 Astronomers for the first time watched directly the phenomenon of a stellar explosion, called supernova. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=125 Skype announced a new cordless phone on Thursday that sends and receives Skype calls just like a landline, but without the need for a computer. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=124 Yahoo said this week that it will make its suite of mobile applications available to users of phones equipped with Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=123 Samsung Electronics Co. shows off its vision for the future of mobile technology http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=122 Starting this week internet users can download full copies of out-of-copyright books at Google's Book Search site, the search giant has confirmed. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=132 In a nationally televised address Monday, President Bush urged all citizens "to quiet down for just one minute" so he could have "a chance to think." http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=131 The FBI has announced that Jalal Dawoud, a suspected al-Qaeda lieutenant, was killed in a single-car accident. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=116 Though once defined as just a stand-alone meal, meat has risen quickly up the ranks to become the nation's second most popular condiment, according to a study released by the U.S... http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=133 Despite claims from the TV news outlet to offer "nonstop news" and "coverage you can count on," an Onion investigation has uncovered hundreds of instances in which KAMR Channel 4 10 O'Clock Eyewitness http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=115 In a decisive 1–0 decision Monday, President Bush voted to grant the president the constitutional power to grant himself additional powers. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=121 One of Pluto's leading public-interest groups yesterday sued the International Astronomical Union after the IAU declassified Pluto as one of the nine "classical" planets that circles the Sun. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=113 Only months after abandoning a tenured position at Lehigh University, maverick chemist Theodore Hapner managed to disprove two of the three laws of thermodynamics and show that gold is a noxious gas, http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=119 Rite Aid Corp. is near a deal to buy the Eckerd and Brooks drugstore chains from Canada's Jean Coutu Group Inc. for about $3.4 billion in cash and stock, according to a newspaper report. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=118 'Data Processing Error' Was a Medicare Slip-Up http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=117 Hamburger chain and restaurant group McDonald's has said that its president and chief operating officer Mike Roberts has resigned. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=111 A team headed by biologists from the University of California, San Diego has discovered the cells and the protein that enable us to detect sour, one of the five basic tastes. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=110 Pennsylvania's West Nile surveillance website lists a mosquito found Aug. 8 in Monroe Township as infected with the virus. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=109 The emergency contraceptive Plan B was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday for over-the-counter sale to women aged 18 and older. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=108 Rechargeable batteries are the brawn behind the brains of portable electronic devices. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=107 Leading scientists in the United States say the hole in the ozone layer of the Earth's atmosphere above the Antarctic appears to have stopped widening. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=106 Pluto has lost its status as the ninth planet of the solar system after scientists from around the world redefined it as a "dwarf planet". http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=105 Wireless mice include an automatic Web search button and a wheel to speed navigation of large documents. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=104 The U.S. federal judge who declared a Bush administration eavesdropping program unconstitutional belongs to a group that gave funds to a party in the case. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=103 'Critical shortage' prompts involuntary recall of reservists by US Marines. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=102 A new tropical storm in the Atlantic is likely to form by Wednesday. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=101 Pranksters in the US made life imitate art in a truly terrifying fashion when they released two rattlesnakes during a showing of the film Snakes on a Plane. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=100 When people see a new face, their brains decide whether a person is attractive and trustworthy within a tenth of a second, finds a U.S. study. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=120 Repeat Offender Serving Seven-To-10-Minute Sentence http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=98 Offers Vista support olive-branch... but does Mozilla need its help? http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=97 Instead of making the browser more secure, Microsoft's August Internet Explorer security update introduced a critical security bug, according to researchers at eEye Digital Security... http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=99 U.S. astronaut Jeff Williams revealed the name of the new vehicle that NASA hopes will take humans back to the moon when a message he taped in advance for the agency was accidentally transmitted. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=96 Researchers say that they have found a way to produce stem-cell lines without destroying human embryos. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=112 An international team of scientists conducting research in the Amazon River Basin announced the discovery of a formerly unknown primate species inhabiting a remote jungle area roughly 300 miles from M http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=95 Federal disease control experts and leading eye doctors have formally concluded that Bausch and Lomb's ReNu with MoistureLoc was the only contact lens solution contributing to an outbreak of potential http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=94 IBM said on Wednesday it agreed to buy Internet Security Systems Inc. for $1.3 billion to beef up its product line in the rapidly growing business of Internet security. http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=93 Palestinian Group Releases Video of 2 Kidnapped Fox News Journalists, Demands Prisoner Release http://www.xcent.com/examples/XcNewsPlus/News/NPViewArticle.asp?cmd=view&articleid=92 In coming up with the definition of a planet, astronomers hoped to bring order to the way we look at solar systems. 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