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KABUL, Afghanistan - NATO soldiers on patrol in eastern Afghanistan Tuesday hit a roadside bomb that killed two of the troops, while NATO said it found and destroyed $400 million worth of opium in the south.
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AUSTIN, Texas - Hillary Rodham Clinton accused presidential rival Barack Obama of political plagiarism Thursday night, but drew boos from a Democratic debate audience when she ridiculed him as the candidate of “change you can Xerox.”
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ATLANTA - Only about 1 in 4 Americans know the warning signs of a heart attack and what to do first, according to a new government report. That’s a decline in knowledge since the last survey in 2001, which showed nearly 1 in 3 to be well informed.News.Enttwist.com

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NEW ORLEANS - What do mammograms, blood-sugar tests and daytime dozing have in common? All may offer clues that someone is headed for a stroke, new studies suggest. Higher stroke risk was seen in women with artery buildups accidentally revealed by mammograms, in non-diabetics starting to have insulin problems, and in older people who tend […]

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LOS ANGELES - Sometimes, government inspectors responsible for examining slaughterhouse cattle for mad cow disease and other ills are so short-staffed that they find themselves peering down from catwalks at hundreds of animals at once, looking for such telltale signs as droopy ears, stumbling gait and facial paralysis.
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