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Houston Chronicle, January 31, 2006 Newseum Image

January 31, 2006: An excerpt from a story in the Houston Chronicle:

The Enron Trial: One Day, One Jury
'You will be the judges of the facts,' jurors told

By MARY FLOOD and JOHN C. ROPER

A likely four-month primer on the fall of Enron and the actions of Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling will begin for 16 jurors and alternates with opening statements this morning.

U.S. District Judge Sim Lake picked the jury from Houston and surrounding communities on Monday -- in one day as he'd promised.
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Newsday, January 30, 2006 Newseum Image

January 30, 2006: An excerpt from a story in Newsday:

Journalist, cameraman stable after Iraq attack

By VERNE GAY

ABC News co-anchor Bob Woodruff and cameraman Doug Vogt were seriously injured yesterday by a roadside bomb in Iraq but were in stable condition last night after surgery, ABC News said.

Woodruff and Doug Vogt both suffered head injuries, and Woodruff also suffered broken bones. They were flown Monday to a U.S. military hospital, in Germany. The network said their families were at the hospital.

(Visit the ABC News Web site for updates.)
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The Telegraph, January 28, 2006 Newseum Image

January 28, 2006: An excerpt from a story in The (Nashua, New Hampshire) Telegraph:

Challenger Disaster 20 Years Later: Lessons Learned

By DAVID TIRRELL-WYSOCKI
(The Associated Press)

CONCORD -– It was just as Christa McAuliffe would have wanted.

The Concord High School teacher and her six crewmates on the space shuttle Challenger get no special billing in a school lesson on space travel.

It was just as she once taught, that ordinary people make history. Except this time, she was the ordinary person and the history was a disaster 20 years ago on Saturday that wounded the school and city so deeply that the slightest touch still can bring tears.

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Kleine Zeitung, January 27, 2006 Newseum Image

 

January 27, 2006: Here is a headline for a series of stories about the 250th anniversary of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's birth. (The Kleine Zeitung newspaper is published in Graz, Austria. You may need to use a language translation site.) 

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The Daily Al Bayan, January 26, 2006 Newseum Image

January 26, 2006:

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An-Nahar, January 25, 2006 Newseum Image

January 25, 2006:

Stories about the Palestinian election are featured in the Beirut, Lebanon newspaper, An-Nahar. 

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The Detroit News, January 24, 2006 Newseum Image

January 24, 2006: An excerpt from a story in The Detroit News:

PAINFUL

By BILL VLASIC and BRYCE G. HOFFMAN

DEARBORN -- Ford Motor Co. is staking its future on the success of a gut-wrenching restructuring of its North American operations that will dramatically downsize the No. 2 U.S. automaker.

Mired in one of the deepest crises in its 102-year history, Ford on Monday unveiled its long-awaited "way forward" plan to slash up to 30,000 manufacturing jobs, cut 4,000 salaried employees and shutter 14 factories -- including its assembly plant in Wixom.

"These cuts are a painful last resort, and I'm deeply mindful of their impact," Chairman and CEO Bill Ford said. "They're going to affect many lives, many families, and many communities."

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Detroit Free Press, January 23, 2006 Newseum Image

January 23, 2006: An excerpt from a column in the Detroit Free Press:

Ford plan: Big cuts, a secret strategy

By TOM WALSH

Bill Ford's big challenge today is this: How can he inspire hope, even enthusiasm about the future of Ford Motor Co., as he concedes the grim reality of its present circumstances by closing plants and eliminating 25,000 jobs or more?

The chief executive's answer is a daring gamble to reinvent Ford Motor, stop its sales decline and truly differentiate future Ford cars and trucks from a crowded field of fierce competitors.
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Florida Today, January 20, 2006 Newseum Image

January 20, 2006: An excerpt from a story in Florida Today:

Pluto mission sets its course
Launch successful after several delays

By CHRIS KRIDLER

CAPE CANAVERAL -- "I've got one thing to say: 36,256 miles an hour!" NASA launch director Omar Baez said Thursday after an Atlas 5 hurled New Horizons toward Pluto. "That's how fast we're going."

After two days of delays, the Lockheed Martin rocket, with a Boeing third stage, found enough of a hole in the clouds to launch from Cape Canaveral.

New Horizons is traveling faster than any spaceship has before. It was to cross the orbit of the moon in nine hours and should reach Jupiter in 13 months for a gravity assist.
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Asahi Shimbun, January 19, 2006 Newseum Image

January 19, 2006:

Stories about Wednesday's early close of the Tokyo stock exchange are featured in the Tokyo, Japan newspaper, Asahi Shimbun (english version). Trading was halted after investor sell orders overloaded exchange computer systems.

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The Oregonian, January 18, 2006 Newseum Image

January 18, 2006: An excerpt from a story in The Oregonian:

Justices back Oregon suicide law

By ASHBEL S. GREEN and DON COLBURN

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld Oregon's assisted suicide law against an attack by the Bush administration.

In a 6-3 ruling, the court agreed with two lower courts that former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft exceeded his authority when he threatened in 2001 to punish doctors who prescribe lethal doses of drugs to terminally ill patients under Oregon's Death With Dignity Act.

"The idea that Congress gave him such broad and unusual authority . . . is not sustainable," Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for a majority that included the court's four most liberal members, as well as retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer, January 17, 2006 Newseum Image

January 17, 2006: An excerpt from a story in The Philadelphia Inquirer:

Happy 300th, Ben!

By TOM FERRICK JR.

If Benjamin Franklin were alive, he might skip the events planned around town today for his 300th birthday.

Too much folderol for his taste, too much speechifying. Too much Franklin, Franklin, Franklin.

It would offend his sense of modesty, and while Franklin wasn't humble (he knew he was smarter than most), he worked hard at being modest.

It was a virtue he cultivated, aware of its value in everyday life. To be a leader of men, he realized, it was best to be one of the guys: generous in praise, respectful of divergent opinions, quick to give credit to others, slow to take it himself.

In short, Franklin was a genius with a first-class disposition, a rare thing. His brainpower, his energy, and his high emotional IQ made him the de facto civic leader of Philadelphia, its go-to guy, while still in his 30s.
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Deseret Morning News, January 16, 2006 Newseum Image

January 16, 2006: An excerpt from a story in the Salt Lake City, Utah newspaper, the Deseret Morning News:

Stardust floats down
Space probe reappears as speeding dot, parachutes to Earth -- then a loud boom

By JOE BAUMAN

WENDOVER, Tooele County -- "There it is!" a man exclaimed, and suddenly the Stardust space probe reappeared after seven years and nearly 2.9 billion miles of space travel, a fierce yellow-orange dot climbing swiftly above the western cloud bank.

It showed up right on schedule at 2:58 a.m. Sunday, a manmade meteorite far brighter than any star or planet.

Growing even more brilliant as it curved toward the southeast, it passed over buildings of the World War II-era air station, streaked behind the metal latticework of an aging control tower, emerged and flew high above the constellation Orion. A fainter purplish tail stretched behind it. The spacecraft arched almost directly overhead and dimmed as it slowed.
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JoongAng Daily, January 13, 2006 Newseum Image

January 13, 2006: An excerpt from a story in Seoul, South Korea's newspaper, JoongAng Daily:

Cloner insists his work was successful

Sounding by turns defiant, remorseful and confident in his technological prowess, Hwang Woo-suk told a press conference yesterday that he had been deceived by his research partners and could indeed produce patient-specific stem cells if he were given six months to do so.

The discredited Korean genetic researcher blamed two members of his team, Park Jong-hyuk and Kim Sun-jong, for giving him fabricated data on DNA fingerprinting associated with stem cells cited in two papers published by the U.S. journal science in 2004 and 2005. Both have been retracted by the journal.
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The New Anatolian, January 12, 2006 Newseum Image

January 12, 2006: An excerpt from a story in Ankara, Turkey's newspaper, The New Anatolian:

Agca due out of jail today, Italy could protect him

Mehmet Ali Agca, the gunmen who attempted to assassinate the pope in 1981, is to be released for good behavior from prison today amid ongoing controversy over the release, both at home and abroad.

Kartal Chief Prosecutor's Office yesterday announced that all objections to Agca's release were rejected.

A Turkish court decided to free 48-year-old Agca on parole on Thursday, saying he's served his prison term in Turkey. He was extradited back to Turkey in 2000 after serving almost 20 years in prison in Italy for shooting and wounding the pope in Rome in 1981.
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The Washington Post, January 11, 2006 Newseum Image

January 11, 2006: An excerpt from a story in The Washington Post:

Alito Says He'd Keep 'Open Mind' on Abortion
Nominee Avoids Detailing Views on Controversial Issues

By CHARLES BABINGTON AND JO BECKER

Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. said yesterday that his 1985 assertion that the Constitution does not protect the right to an abortion was a "true expression of my views at the time," but he told senators he would "approach the question with an open mind" if confirmed to the high court.

Repeatedly asked about abortion rulings that date to the 1973 Roe v. Wade case, Alito said long-standing decisions deserve great respect. He stopped short of saying Roe could not be overturned, however, saying that the doctrine of following precedent is not "an exorable command" -- the same language the late Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist once used in arguing to overturn Roe.

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The Christian Science Monitor, January 10, 2006 Newseum Image

January 10, 2006: An excerpt from a story in The Christian Science Monitor:

Reporter abducted in Iraq

By SCOTT PETERSON AND PETER FORD

BAGHDAD AND PARIS -- Jill Carroll, a freelance journalist currently on assignment for The Christian Science Monitor, was abducted by unknown gunmen in Baghdad Saturday morning. Her Iraqi interpreter was killed during the kidnapping.

"I saw a group of people coming as if they had come from the sky," recalled Ms. Carroll's driver, who survived the attack. "One guy attracted my attention. He jumped in front of me screaming, 'Stop! Stop! Stop!' with his left hand up and a pistol in his right hand."

One of the kidnappers pulled the driver from the car, jumped in, and drove away with several others huddled around Carroll and her interpreter, said the driver, who asked not to be identified. "They didn't give me any time to even put the car in neutral," he recounted.

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Rocky Mountain News, January 9, 2006 Newseum Image

January 9, 2006: A photo caption from the Rocky Mountain News:


Above, wind-whipped flames light up a hillside Sunday night near Carter Lake in Larimer County. The 300-acre blaze, visible from Interstate 25, forced the evacuation of about 40 homes. Firefighters in southern Colorado, meanwhile, were trying to contain the Mauricio Canyon Fire. Pam Dorland, top right, and her husband, Jim, were among as many as five Las Animas County families who lost their homes. About 100 homes were evacuated, authorities said.

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Haaretz, January 6, 2006 Newseum Image

January 6, 2006: An excerpt from a story in the Tel-Aviv, Israel newspaper, Haaretz:

Doctors question standard of treatment premier received after stroke

By RAN REZNIC, AMOS HAREL AND ALUF BENN

From the moment Ariel Sharon fell ill on Wednesday, and continuing all through yesterday, questions have been asked about the standard of treatment he has received -- from his first stroke two weeks ago, to his arrival Wednesday night at Hadassah University Hospital, Ein Karem, Jerusalem.
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Yedioth Ahronoth, January 5, 2006 Newseum Image

January 5, 2006:

Stories about Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's stroke and emergency surgery are featured in the Tel Aviv, Israel newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth.

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San Jose Mercury News, January 4, 2006 Newseum Image

January 4, 2006: An excerpt from a story in the San Jose Mercury News:

Horrifying Ending

Mercury News wire services

TALLMANSVILLE, W.Va. -- Jubilant family members celebrated news that 12 miners were pulled alive from the scene of an underground explosion, only to learn nearly three hours later that they had been misled and just one miner actually survived.

The owner of the mine blamed the stunning error on a misunderstood conversation overheard between rescuers and the command center overseeing rescue efforts.

Families learned of the deaths from mine officials more than three hours after Gov. Joe Manchin said he had been told 12 of the miners survived the disaster.

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Charleston (WV) Gazette, January 3, 2006 Newseum Image

January 3, 2006: An excerpt from a story in the Charleston (West Virginia) Gazette:

13 miners trapped

By SCOTT FINN

TALLMANSVILLE -- Two rescue teams were working underground Monday evening, trying to reach 13 miners trapped when a massive explosion rocked an Upshur County coal mine early Monday morning.

The miners were believed to be about 10,000 feet from the entrance of the Sago Mine and 260 feet underground.

There was no way of knowing if they were dead or alive, because the explosion cut off all communication with the surface.
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The Sacramento Bee, January 2, 2006 Newseum Image

January 2, 2006: An  excerpt from a story in The Sacramento Bee:

Officials voice relief as river levels fall

By CARRIE PEYTON-DAHLBERG and M.J. ENKOJI

Gusty winds slammed waves into Delta levees and tossed trees into power lines Sunday, but fears of widespread flooding receded along with creeks and rivers in much of the north state.

"We're seeing the light at the end of the tunnel here in Northern California," said Rob Hartman, a National Weather Service hydrologist.
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The Sunday Age, January 1, 2006 Newseum Image

January 1, 2006: A photo caption from Melbourne, Australia's newspaper, The Sunday Age:

Federation Square exploded with noise last night. Midnight came with a mass countdown, though it was drowned out by the fireworks. Soon, there were thousands of different gestures by thousands of people: the embrace of loved ones, the inevitable New Year's kisses, the sight of mobile phone cameras held up to the fireworks.

An estimated 300,000 entered the CBD for last night's festivities, down from about 400,000 the previous year. Inside Federation Square, few would have noticed the difference.