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What books have high-profile readers been enjoying this year?
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U.S. Senator James Webb , a Virginia Democrat who won his seat in one of 2006’s key races, said today he won’t seek re-election next year.
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The Hubble Space Telescope may have discovered the farthest-away object ever identified, a galaxy with light that began shining when the universe was only about 500 million years old.
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John F. Kennedy ’s call to send a man to the moon symbolized the soaring ambition associated with his presidency. In private, he was more a cold-eyed realist, concerned that the mission would be dismissed as a costly “stunt” and might be better recast as a military venture.
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Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine said he will run for the U.S. Senate in Virginia in next year’s election, bolstering his party’s chances of keeping the open seat by having a proven fundraiser and former governor of the state in the race.
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The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration is aiming to find out whether life forms can survive on Mars. First, they need to pull off a successful landing of a 1-ton rover named Curiosity.
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The Senate rejected a measure that would overturn a U.S. regulation to cut mercury and other toxic emissions from coal-fired power plants, a rule that is among the most expensive issued by the Environmental Protection Agency.
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Harris N. Miller resigned as chief executive and president of the Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities, the industry group representing for- profit colleges in the U.S.
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Critics of President George W. Bush’s anti-terrorism efforts, mainly Democrats and some Republicans, rejoiced when Barack Obama was elected. They were convinced that what they considered the post-Sept. 11 trampling of constitutional rights and civil liberties would end.
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President Barack Obama’s assertion that U.S. warplanes aren’t engaged in hostilities by helping allies bomb Libya was greeted with skepticism from Democrats and Republicans at a Senate hearing.
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