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John Tyler Hammons, the 19-year-old newly elected mayor of Muskogee, Okla., gestures as he speaks during an interview in his new office in Muskogee, Okla., Thursday May 15, 2008.

Teenager taking helm as mayor of Oklahoma town
Scripps Howard

MUSKOGEE, Okla. -- John Tyler Hammons may have already performed his grandest feat as mayor, even before taking office. He put Muskogee in the national spotlight. Hammons, 19, beat an opponent three and a half times his age in a runoff election this week, receiving nearly 70 percent of the vote. Hammons, who just completed his first year at the...

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Ageing Japan to get first foreign nurses - report

Filipino doctors and nurses tend to patients along the corridors of the JP Rizal Medical

The Star

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan is set to accept nurses and elderly-care workers from Indonesia, possibly as soon as July, the financial daily Nikkei said on Friday, as the country struggles to care for its rapidly growing ranks of old people. The Japanese...
photo: AP / Bullit Marquez

A star is born: Tom and Katie take baby Suri to tap-dancing class

London Evening Standard

Baby Suri still may not have ditched the milk bottle but it appears her parents have decided it's never too early to start nurturing her talents. Although the two year-old hardly need work to achieve fame and fortune, Tom and Katie have already...
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Giant snake hatches 40 babies

Independent online (SA)

Kampala - A 30-year-old python housed in a Ugandan animal conservation centre has hatched 40 offspring, newspaper reports said on Friday but wildlife officials later said...
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Men's Basketball

ESPN

Updated: May 16, 2008, 12:46 PM ET DALLAS -- Officials are investigating whether Kansas basketball star Darrell Arthur was eligible to play in high school, which could affect whether he should have ever played for the national champion Jayhawks,...
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Students study effect of climate change on plants

Global Warming and Climate Change. Many chemical compounds present in Earth´s atmosphere behave as ´greenhouse gases´. These are gases which allow direct sunlight (relative shortwave energy) to reach the Earth´s surface unimpeded. Climate fluctuates in t

Ohio

WADSWORTH: Brady Easterling and Ryan Moore were engrossed in a mystery. They puzzled over a shrub they'd encountered on the edge of some woods not far from Wadsworth's Kaleidoscope Playground. They knew it was a honeysuckle, but what type? They...
photo: WN/Theresa Poongan

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