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Leader Of Sears Tower Plot Sentenced To 13 Years()  

Narseal Batiste, who faced a maximum of 70 years in prison, was convicted in May of conspiracy to provide material support to al-Qaida, plotting to blow up buildings and conspiracy to wage war against the U.S. Officials acknowledged the plot never got past the discussion stage and the group never acquired the means to carry it out.

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Business

Price Fight: Coke Isn't It At Costco()  

Coca-Cola on display at Costco in Mountain View, Calif.

If you're a member of Costco, the nation's largest wholesale club, you may be surprised to learn that Coca-Cola's products are no longer on the shelves. The two companies are locked in a rare public dispute over the price consumers pay for beverages.

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Kitchen Table Conversations

Black Males Hit Extra Hard By Unemployment()  

Randolph Smith of Richton Park, Ill.

The country's spiraling unemployment rate continues to take a particular toll on men. The "he-cession," as it's sometimes called, has hit African-American men especially hard, increasing their unemployment rate to more than 17 percent last month.

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Afghanistan

Suicide Motorcycle Bomber Kills 16 In Afghanistan()  

Two children and a policeman were among those killed in the blast, which wounded at least 23 others when the motorcyclist detonated the explosives in a busy city square in western Afghanistan, officials said.

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Education

Students Rail Against University Of California Fees()  

UC regents, meeting at UCLA, approved fees that will bring the average annual cost to about $10,300 — a threefold increase in a decade. In protest, University of California Berkeley students barricaded themselves in part of a campus building on Friday.

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Science

Fungus Provides Clues To North American Extinctions()  

Mastodons eating black ash trees

One of the great mysteries about North America is what killed off woolly mammoths and other exotic animals that roamed the land after the last ice age. Ideas have ranged from a comet impact and climate change to human hunters. A study published Friday in Science Magazine provides new clues about this — cleverly deduced from samples of a fungus that grew on the animal's dung.

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Do Long Island Police Ignore Hate Crimes?()  

Rosario Lucero poses at her home by a small memorial for her son, Marcelo, in Gualaceo, Ecuador.

November 19, 2009 With the Latino population booming in Suffolk County, N.Y., so is anti-immigrant sentiment. Illegal immigrants see a rise in the kind of violence that took Rosario Lucero's son, but often won't report it for fear of the police and deportation. Now the Justice Department is probing whether local police are turning a blind eye.

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Museum: Galileo's Fingers, Tooth Found()  

Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again, a Florence museum said Friday.

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