Could the same technology that protects players on the gridiron help American soldiers stay safe in Iraq? Kimberly Dozier look at how football helmets are being explored as potential combat life-savers.
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I've been at the Apple store in Palo Alto, Calif. all morning watching the crowds snap up the new iPhone. Some people spent the night in line but there weren't nearly as any people as there were on June 29, last year when Apple released the original iPhone.
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Former West Virginia football coach Rich Rodriguez will pay $4 mil in buyout.
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Legal action against YouTube by content giant Viacom, threatens internet freedom, says owner Google.
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Employers shed 49,000 jobs as the unemployment rate rose the most since 1986.
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Archaeologists in Jordan have discovered a cave underneath one of the world's oldest churches and say it may have been an even more ancient site of Christian worship. But outside experts expressed caution about the claim.
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AP - A pivotal moment in the 1998 movie "Pleasantville" comes when an unusual remote control pulls a brother and sister into their television set. They emerge on the other side, inside the world of the show they are watching.

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Spokesman for national space agency backs off on earlier reports that Beijing plans challengers to international space station by 2020.
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Christianne Ray has a rare form of dwarfism, but became a mom despite the risk.
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In an interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel, Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said he supported a plan proposed by Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq within 16 months.
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AP - Barack Obama stands before delegates and the nation Thursday — the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s historic "I Have a Dream" speech — to accept the Democratic presidential nomination, the first black man to claim such a prize.

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Newly released files show that Winston Churchill was urged to keep Britain's Special Operations Executive going in peacetime.
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Britain’s economy slowed to a crawl in the second quarter, with growth dropping to the weakest for three years as housebuilding activity halted, official figures revealed this morning.
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Brewers send 4 prospects to Indians for C.C. Sabathia, reigning Cy Young winner.
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Seven out of 10 young people want to work abroad one day - but most do not have a second language, research suggests.
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Nasa's robotic rover Opportunity is driving out of a giant crater on Mars nearly a year after its dangerous descent.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Medicare bill opposed by the White House won final congressional approval on Wednesday with the help of Sen. Edward Kennedy, who returned to the Senate floor for the first time since brain surgery last month.

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What a week! Between iPhone 3G in San Francisco and the Webby Awards here in New York there was a lot going on. (By the way, Stephen Colbert's five-word acceptance speech managed to be both funny and reflect the current narcissism often associated with the Web and social networking: "Me, me, me, me, me.")
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