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Turkey ends a lucrative cross-border oil trade over concerns about who might gain control of Iraq's oil fields, leaving many families at a loss. Washington Journal: Rep. Shaw mends from lung surgery Rep. E. Clay Shaw Jr., one of the Florida congressional delegation's most senior members, underwent surgery Friday in Tampa to remove a small cancerous growth from his left lung. Astronauts mark radio transmission centennial EASTHAM, Mass. -- A century after Guglielmo Marconi ushered in the era of wireless communications, his daughter marked the centennial Saturday by greeting astronauts from close to the same spot where her father sent a historic radio transmission across the Atlantic. Nation in brief: Panel wants freeze on some Medicare payments WASHINGTON -- To slow the growth of Medicare, an influential federal advisory panel will soon recommend that Congress freeze payments to nursing homes and home care agencies and reduce the cost-of-living allowance that hospitals are scheduled to receive next year. Bush touts small-business benefit of economic plan WASHINGTON -- Promoting his tax cut plan, President Bush said Saturday it could help small businesses whose financial health is essential to economic growth. Found papers point to failed nuclear fuel effort LARNACA, Cyprus -- An Iraqi scientist confirmed Saturday that documents found at his home outlined high-tech attempts to enrich uranium in the 1980s but said the information was from an experimental program that was declared a decade ago. Next up: Host your own DNA dance MADRID -- Imagine the human genome as music. Unravel DNA's double helix, picture its components lined up like piano keys and assign a note to each. Run your finger along the keys. Fighting terror: Key warlord may bow to pressure to back Karzai WAZA, Afghanistan -- Padsha Khan Zadran, a powerful Afghan warlord who had opposed the American-backed government of President Hamid Karzai, may be finally bowing to pressure and coming into the fold, the American commander of forces in Afghanistan, Gen. Daniel K. McNeill, said Saturday. Canada report: Allan Rock won't try to succeed Chretien Allan Rock has abandoned plans to try to succeed Prime Minister Jean Chretien, who will retire next year. World in brief: Chavez foes promise peaceful resolution CARACAS, Venezuela -- Foes of President Hugo Chavez vowed on Saturday to step up efforts to resolve the country's crisis peacefully -- one day after troops battled through protesters to raid privately owned bottling plants. 4 years of turmoil scar Los Alamos lab LOS ALAMOS, N.M. -- The laboratory that built the atomic bomb and is entrusted with some of America's most sensitive defense secrets has lost track of millions in equipment and credit card expenses in a scandal that has claimed five top managers, including the director. London school's lunch goes cashless LONDON -- A new high school said Wednesday its students will be charged for their lunches with a retina scanning device to prevent poor children who eat for free from being ridiculed in the cafeteria. National headlines World headlines Science headlines
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