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PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - The U.S.-European Cassini spacecraft has been listening to natural radio signals from Saturn, and what it's hearing raises questions about the length of day on the ringed planet. Cassini found the rhythm of natural radio signals, regarded as the most reliable indicator of the length of day, shows a complete rotation takes 10 hours, 45 minutes and 45 seconds, plus or minus 36 seconds, NASA said in a statement Monday. That's about six minutes longer than the radio rotational period measured by the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft that flew by Saturn in 1980 and 1981....

Anecita Hudson saw a mother's nightmare, her 23-year-old son captured by Iraqi soldiers. But whether she saw international law violated is another matter. It's a question of growing significance, as more American soldiers like Joseph Hudson are captured and paraded on Iraqi television. "All I did was scream and start crying," Hudson, who saw her son on a Filipino-language network, told U.S. reporters. "I looked at him, and he looked so scared." Hudson's horror puts a human face on how the proliferation of war images forces choices on both the legal and the mass media fronts. The choices keep boiling...