IAF strikes 60 Hamas targets in Gaza; IDF soldier wounded - Haaretz.com
An Israel Defense Forces soldier was lightly wounded early Thursday during an operation in the Gaza Strip, as the army attacked at least 60 Hamas targets across the coastal territory. As part of the operation, Israel Air Force war planes, in ...
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Obama picks CNN man to be surgeon-general - Gulf News
Washington: President-elect Barack Obama has asked Dr Sanjay Gupta to be the next US surgeon-general, looking to a popular television personality to help provide a public face for his healthcare agenda. Best known as a health and medicine ...
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Feinstein says she supports Panetta for CIA - Island Packet Online
WASHINGTON ? Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the incoming chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Wednesday she intends to support President-elect Barack Obama's choice for CIA chief, Leon Panetta, despite earlier comments that she had ...
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Obama, Bush dine with ex-presidents at White House - Reuters India
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush and his successor, Barack Obama, joined all the living U.S. presidents on Wednesday for a historic meeting at the White House two weeks before the country's next transfer of power. Bush, a Republican ...
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In a flip-flop, Senate paves way for Burris - Los Angeles Times
Reporting from Washington, D.C. -- After days of distracting controversy -- and a quiet request from President-elect Barack Obama -- Senate Democrats opened a path Wednesday toward ushering Roland Burris into the seat vacated by Obama. A top Senate ...
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High school culinary students to compete in Greater Dallas Restaurant ... - Pegasus News
High school Food Service Preparation (FSPrep) programs around the Dallas-Fort Worth area will send teams of students to compete in the 1st Annual Greater Dallas Restaurant Association FSPrep Student Competition. The competition will be held Tuesday ...
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Sandwich Community School director resigns - Cape Cod Times
SANDWICH ? James Lehane, director of the Sandwich Community School, has resigned. His last day on the job will be April 30. The move comes as the school committee voted, 5-2, last night to take over control of the facility, an adult education ...
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School Board picks president - Baton Rouge Advocate
AMITE ? The Tangipahoa Parish School Board named Danny Ridgel its board president for 2009 on Tuesday. Ridgel, board vice president, was the only nominee. He was approved by acclamation. Elected to his first term on the School Board in a November ...
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Death toll in attack at U.N. Gaza school rises to 43 - Houston Chronicle
JERUSALEM ? Facts remained murky Wednesday on the Israeli tank shelling of a U.N. school in the Gaza Strip that U.N. relief officials said left 43 Palestinians dead and almost 150 injured. The Israeli military continued to defend its troops, saying ...
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Mt. Lebanon high school repairs studied - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Many of the windows in Mt. Lebanon High School are sealed with tape as the gaskets have failed. Mt. Lebanon Superintendent John Allison holds a decayed three-foot section of pipe that was recently removed from the ceiling above the high school ...
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