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Cloak of invisibility takes a step forward (AP)
March 19, 2010
AP - From Grimm's fairy tales to Harry Potter, the cloak of invisibility has played a major role in fiction. Now scientists have taken a small but important new step toward making it reality.
Obama backs senators' immigration overhaul outline (AP)
March 19, 2010
AP - President Barack Obama, facing criticism from advocates of immigration reform, pledged Thursday "to do everything in my power" to get immigration legislation moving in Congress this year.
New password-stealing virus targets Facebook (Reuters)
March 19, 2010Reuters - Hackers have flooded the Internet with virus-tainted spam that targets Facebook's estimated 400 million users in an effort to steal banking passwords and gather other sensitive information.
Dems sweeten health bill, set showdown Sunday vote (AP)
March 19, 2010
AP - Historic health care change in the balance, Democrats plowed fresh billions into insurance subsidies for consumers on Thursday and added a $250 rebate for seniors facing high prescription drugs, last-minute sweeteners to sweeping $940 billion legislation headed for a climactic weekend vote.
Fess Parker, TV's `Davy Crockett,' dies at 85 (AP)
March 19, 2010
AP - Fess Parker, a baby-boomer idol in the 1950s who launched a craze for coonskin caps as television's Davy Crockett, died Thursday of natural causes. He was 85.
Obama argues for health care effort on Fox News (AP)
March 19, 2010
AP - President Barack Obama on Wednesday took to the Fox News Channel, derided by his White House as a wing of the Republican Party, to sell his embattled health care overhaul in an interview punctuated with interruptions from the host and chiding from the guest.
Book makes new claims about Anne Frank (AP)
March 19, 2010
AP - A Holocaust survivor claims in a new book that Anne Frank distracted younger children from the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp by telling them fairy tales — an account disputed by at least one Frank authority and a childhood friend of the diarist.
'Life': 11-part Discovery series on nature debuts (AP)
March 19, 2010
AP - The theme of the 11-part Discovery Channel series "Life" is as simple as the title sounds: the fascinating things creatures large and small do to stay alive.
Wind farm plans stir up storm over military radar (AP)
March 19, 2010
AP - The U.S. military is growing increasingly concerned that proposed wind farms can disrupt or block radar designed to detect threats and protect America's skies, a problem that is stalling the alternative energy projects around the country.
State of health care debate: Pundits attack 11-year-old (McClatchy Newspapers)
March 19, 2010
McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Conservative talk show hosts and columnists have ridiculed an 11-year-old Washington state boy's account of his mother's death as a "sob story" exploited by the White House and congressional Democrats like a "kiddie shield" to defend their health care legislation.
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