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Utah slips in report on higher ed in U.S.
Most states are doing better preparing students for higher education than they did a decade ago, but that modest progress is eclipsed by rising tuition costs, enduring enrollment gaps between rich and poor, and a decrease in global competitiveness, a new report finds.
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Travel pinched by global financial crisis
The tourists chatting in multiple languages in the piazzas, bars and shops of Rome belie a more somber mood at the ancient city's hotels.
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Gunmen came from Pakistan
The gunmen who attacked Mumbai set out by boat from the Pakistani port of Karachi, then later hijacked an Indian fishing trawler that carried them toward this financial capital on their suicide mission, a top police official said Tuesday.
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Nixon tapes show aides dishing dirt
In Richard Nixon's time, all the president's men fretted about threats on every front: disquiet out on the streets, disloyalty inside the administration and trouble from political opponents who had to be discredited at any cost.
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India demands 'strong action'
Moshe Holtzberg, whose parents were slain in the Mumbai Jewish center, cries during a memorial service in India Monday.