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Math Professor Helps Uncover Art Fakes()  

A drawing that was until recently attributed to the Renaissance-era artist Pieter Bruegel.

Professor Daniel Rockmore is an art lover — and the chairman of the math department at Dartmouth College. He has united his two interests, art and math, to develop a program that analyzes pen strokes. The program gives art historians a new tool for detecting art forgeries, which are estimated to make up 20 percent of the worldwide art market.

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Latin America

In Haiti, Many Buildings Left Standing Shouldn't Be()  

A damaged building in Haiti

Teams of American structural engineers are in Haiti looking into the integrity of the thousands of buildings still standing. U.N. officials say perhaps 20 percent of the structures in Port-au-Prince collapsed, and 80 percent of those still standing suffered serious damage. Some of these structures shouldn't be occupied.

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Skeleton Racer Hopes For Redemption In Vancouver()  

USA skeleton competitor Zach Lund poses for a portrait during the USOC Media Summit in Chicago.

Four years ago, U.S. skeleton racer Zach Lund was barred from the Olympic Games in Italy after testing positive for a banned drug, used in hair loss medication, that officials said could be used to mask steroids. The drug was taken off the banned list in 2008.

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Declining Greek Economy Fuels Anti-Immigrant Mood()  

Greek ultra right-wing activists demonstrate in central Athens on Feb. 6.

Seventy percent of migrants entering the European Union arrive through the Greek archipelago. With job opportunities vanishing in northern Europe, more and more immigrants are staying in Greece, even as a weak economy prompts a rising intolerance of foreigners.

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Unearthing Prokofiev: Rare Works Get NYC Debut()  

Boris Berman

When it comes to Prokofiev's music, pianist and Yale University professor Boris Berman is the go-to guy. Along with faculty and student musicians, Berman will present newly discovered pieces by the Soviet composer at New York's Zankel Hall on Tuesday night.

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Asia

Critics Worry About Shanghai Expo's Legacy()  

A trumpet-shaped structure at the Shanghai World Expo

February 8, 2010 China's largest city is preparing to host the 2010 World Expo, a world's fair expected to draw 70 million visitors. But critics say construction of the exposition and the face-lift to neighborhoods is bringing environmental concerns and altering the character of the city. Some voices of dissent are being muzzled.

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Politics

Rep. Murtha, Pennsylvania Democrat, Dies At 77()  

Rep. John Murtha introduces Democratic presidential hopeful  Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2008.

February 8, 2010 U.S. Rep. John Murtha, an influential critic of the Iraq War whose congressional career was shadowed by questions about his ethics, died Monday. He was 77. The Pennsylvania Democrat had been suffering complications from gallbladder surgery.

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Asia

N. Korea's Kim Said To Pledge Nuclear Disarmament()  

February 8, 2010 North Korean leader Kim Jong Il reiterated his country's pledge to achieve a denuclearization of the Korean peninsula when he met a senior Chinese envoy, Beijing's official news agency reported. "The sincerity of relevant parties to resume the six-party talks is very important," Kim said.

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Math Professor Helps Uncover Art Fake
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"Rockmore realized that if he had digital images of those drawings, he could use his math skills to design a computer program that would analyze those pen strokes..."