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The cartoon protests turning into a true phenomenon, and out of control.
Police shot four protesters to death Wednesday to stop hundreds from marching on a southern U.S. military base, as President Bush, King Abdullah II of Jordan and Islamic organizations called for an end to deadly rioting across the Muslim world over drawings of the Prophet Muhammad. "We reject violence as a way to express discontent with what may be printed in a free press," Bush said. "I call upon the governments around the world to stop the violence, to be respectful, to protect property, protect the lives of innocent diplomats who are serving their countries overseas."
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A House Republican whose subcommittee oversees the National Security Agency broke ranks with the White House on Tuesday and called for a full Congressional inquiry into the Bush administration's domestic eavesdropping program. The lawmaker, Representative Heather A. Wilson of New Mexico, chairwoman of the House Intelligence Subcommittee on Technical and Tactical Intelligence, said in an interview that she had "serious concerns" about the surveillance program. By withholding information about its operations from many lawmakers, she said, the administration has deepened her apprehension about whom the agency is monitoring and why.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/08/politics/08nsa.html?_r=1&oref=sloginA former U.S. soldier injured in Iraq said he was forced to pay $700 for a blood-soaked Kevlar vest that was destroyed. Medics in January of 2005 removed the vest to treat the 25-year-old soldier for critical shrapnel wounds to his right arm. First Lt. Eddie Rebrook IV of Charleston, W.Va., had to leave the Army because of his injuries. Rebrook said before his discharge last week, he had to scrounge up cash from his buddies to pay for the body armor.
http://www.nbc5.com/news/6825131/detail.htmlSoon after scientists landed by helicopter in the misty mountains of a remote Indonesian province, they stumbled on a primitive egg-laying mammal that simply allowed itself to be picked up and brought to their field camp. Describing a Lost World -- apparently never visited by humans -- members of the team said Tuesday they also saw large mammals that have been hunted to near-extinction elsewhere and discovered dozens of exotic new species of frogs, butterflies and palms.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-indo08.htmlThat's some of what we're planning for tonight's show.
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ARKADELPHIA, Ark. -- Sometimes a chicken does have lips, just not her own. Marian Morris saved her brother's exotic chicken, Boo Boo, by administering "mouth-to-beak" resuscitation on the fowl after it was found floating face down in the family's pond. Morris, a retired nurse, said she hadn't had any practice with CPR in years, but that she was interested to see if she "still had it." "I breathed into its beak, and its dad-gum eyes popped open," Morris said. "I breathed into its beak again, and its eyes popped open again. "I said, 'I think this chicken's alive now. Keep it warm.'"
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/R/RESUSCITATED_CHICKEN?SITE=NWCN&TEMPLATE=STRANGEHEADS.html&SECTION=HOME-- Carey Fox
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A terror informant arrested in 2004 identified one of the London transit system suicide bombers as a possible threat, according to U.S. officials who said the tip was too vague to foil last year's deadly attack.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11234995/A "highly pathogenic" strain of the H5N1 bird flu virus has been found in poultry stocks in Nigeria - the first reported case of the disease in Africa, the Paris-based World Organization for Animal Health said Wednesday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11232657/The owner of a Mexican newspaper in this violent border town said Tuesday there will be no more investigative coverage of drug gangs, a day after the paper's offices were sprayed with bullets and a reporter hospitalized with five gunshots.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11235595/Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to open more than 1,500 stores in the United States in the coming years, on top of nearly 3,200 it already operates, the world's largest retailer said Tuesday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11233081/A man was sentenced Tuesday to nearly 11 years in prison after pleading guilty to robbing "Girls Gone Wild" creator Joe Francis and forcing him at gunpoint to pose for a demeaning videotape as part of an extortion attempt.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11234146/Eating less fat late in life failed to lower the risk of cancer and heart disease among older women, disappointing news for those who expected greater benefits from a healthy diet.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11221022/A collaborator on the children's book series Curious George has been found dead on the driveway of his mobile home in Florida.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11235272/Adventurer Steve Fossett shot down the space shuttle's runway in an experimental aircraft Wednesday and took off on an attempt to break a 20-year-old flight distance record.
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