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"I'm going to put my spacesuit on, next stop: Earth Orbit!!"
tweeted NASA astronaut Mike Massimino the morning before his May
shuttle launch. Twitter founder…
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By the end of the year, aid workers in East Asia were still
calculating the damage from a triple calamity that brought massive
misery: a typhoon, a tsunami,
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It was the almost comeback. The sudden June 25 death of Michael
Jackson came only weeks before the megastar was to open "This Is
It," a sold-out, 50-show…
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Two young women spending nearly nine months in Iran's notorious
Evin Prison became the face of persecuted religious minorities in
the Islamic state after…
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After the Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in
America (ELCA) voted to allow noncelibate gay clergy on its
leadership rosters, the…
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President Obama signed an executive order in January ordering the
military prison at Guantanamo Bay to be closed. By fall, he
acknowledged it wasn't possible,
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U.S. combat operations in Vietnam began in 1965 and lasted until a
formal ceasefire in 1973. By that measure combat operations in
Afghanistan, which began in…
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The Florida Gators knocked off top-ranked Oklahoma in early January
for their second national championship in three years. Gators
quarterback Tim Tebow rushed…
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The year began in Israel with one of the tightest elections in the
country's modern history. Both candidates claimed victory in the
Feb. 10 contest, but…
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If you had to sum up 2009 congressional politics with one topic,
healthcare would be the hands-down winner. From a White House
roundtable discussion in March…
