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Tonight's candid "60 Minutes" report on the country's disastrous economy, focusing on Newton, Iowa. Must see!!

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SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) -- Despite being 83 years old and reliant on oxygen tubes for a lung ailment, Harry Carpenter wouldn't let his wife of 57 years be robbed by knife-wielding intruders in his own home.

I am looking to greatly increase my knowledge of American History over the years ahead. I know there are so many experts and aficionados here on my favorite forum, and I would be so grateful if you could advise some starting points for me. In fact, I would appreciate a roadmap on this to follow over the next couple of years. I have tried just plunging in reading historical documents, but feel that I need more background first to make it stick. I have learned that on many topics that you don't need to know "much" to know more than...

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Julia Roberts may be the country's oldest alleged crack dealer. The 96-year-old North Carolina woman--that's right, 96--was busted Monday along with a few younger relatives/cohorts for running a drug operation out of her home.

Surveillance Camera Activist Charged in Harassment For a recent newspaper article on the potential ills of surveillance cameras in public places, Bill Brown led a reporter on a walking tour of Manhattan, deploring the mechanical eyes disguised as street signs or affixed to buildings that infringe -- "like mushrooms in a forest" -- on personal freedoms. "This is warping human beings," said Brown, 44, at one point, narrowing his eyes to a "conspiratorial squint," according to the Jan. 17 New York Times article. What the self-styled social activist did not mention was that two weeks before the article was published,...

The Waterford School District should not have suspended the student in August 2001 for contributing to "Satan's Web page," U.S. District Judge Patrick Duggan ruled this week. School officials were concerned by content that included a passage labeled "Satan's mission for you this week." It read: "Stab someone for no reason then set them on fire throw them off of a cliff, watch them suffer and with their last breath, just before everything goes black, spit on their face."

NEW YORK (AP) - Laura Bush looked right at home as she visited a monster and a towering fowl. The setting was "Sesame Street" (as it exists on Stage G at Kaufman Astoria Studios in New York) where the first lady paid a call Thursday morning to tape a segment. Seated at a picnic table and surrounded by giggly Elmo, Big Bird and three cute youngsters, Mrs. Bush read aloud a kids' book called "Wubba, Wubba, Woo!" - and seemed very much like the teacher and librarian she once was. "No matter what you look like," she read, "no matter...

"In what experts say is a rare if not near-impossible occurrence on Long Island, at least three people have been diagnosed with brown recluse spider bites this week." "The clustering of three or four cases in one week left many skeptical."

CBS prefers to call the President of the United States "Mr. Bush"!

"DeGeneres is out to do some consciousness-raising. Enthused the actress: "I think it's important to have more gay films available — especially to our youth, so that they see there's other people out there like them. It's not all tragic and depressing. Unfortunately, we just focus on how hard it is and the suicide and hate crimes, but there are a lot of love stories, and that should be portrayed in the media. If I can bring awareness to that and ask for people to shell out a few more dollars, that's why I'm here, basically."