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• Cuba limits sales of food so all can eat
HAVANA - Cuba is limiting how much basic fruits and vegetables people can buy at farmers' markets, irritating some customers but ensuring there's enough — barely — to go around. The lines are long and some foods are scarce, but because the ...
• Leading in polls, Obama plays it safe
I don't like to yell," Obama told more than 10,000 people in Columbus on Friday, his fifth large rally in hotly contested Ohio in two days. He was referring to a sound-system glitch, but it could have been a metaphor for his home-stretch strategy. "He ...
• The world’s strangest museums
People’s fascination with the strange, the quirky, and the perverse has inspired an array of outlandish museums that dot the globe. Of course, strange is a relative term. What seems odd to one person is perfectly normal to another. You may think it ...
• After bank failures, sales of metal vaults surge
CHICAGO - Afraid cash isn't secure even behind the thick walls of banks, more people are turning to something that's protected money since the days of Jesse James and Bonnie and Clyde: safes. The metal vaults are so popular in some parts of the ...
• Pakistan: U.S. missile attacks helping terrorists
The comments came as a suicide bomber drove his car into an anti-insurgent group in a northwest tribal area, killing at least 30 people and wounding around 100. The Orakzai area tribesmen had gathered to plan the demolition of a militant base. Al ...