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Letters: Debate Teams, Frangela

Listener e-mails this week include comments on the rapid-fire speaking style of modern high school debate teams and differing views of a comedy duo we featured called Frangela.

Letters: Debate Teams, Frangela

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World

Pakistan's High Court Reverses Judge's Suspension

Pakistan's Supreme Court has reinstated Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry, who was charged with misconduct and suspended four months ago by Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf. The ruling is seen as a political rebuke to Pakistan's leader.

Pakistan's High Court Reverses Judge's Suspension

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Power-Plant Damage in Japan May Be Severe

New information is coming out about the quake that hit Japan earlier this week. Water leakage into the Sea of Japan from a nuclear power plant is 50 percent more than originally announced, and some 400 barrels of nuclear waste were knocked over. The International Atomic Energy Agency is pressing for a thorough investigation.

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Deadly Bombings Rock Iraq City of Kirkuk

Explosions rocked the northern Iraq city of Kirkuk Monday, with bombs detonated in front of a political party office and at an outdoor market. Between 70 and 85 people were killed, and more than 150 were wounded.

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A Tale of Two Interstates

Interstate 15 runs from Canada to Mexico through the American West, while Interstate 86 runs west to Portland and then Seattle. The two highways intersect at Pocatello, Idaho. We hear from truckers, traveling teenagers and a hitchhiker about the culture of the interstates.

A Tale of Two Interstates

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Education

School for Belmont Kids Gets Boost from Barbaro

Anna House is a seven-day-a-week preschool on the backstretch at Belmont for the children of exercise riders and stable workers, and it just got a huge financial boost. Barbaro's owners won the Barbaro Stakes and gave $250,000 to the school.

School for Belmont Kids Gets Boost from Barbaro

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'Flags In' at Arlington National Cemetery

Monday, as on each Memorial Day, there are flags flying in front of every grave at Arlington National Cemetery. More than 270,000 small flags were placed there by an Army infantry unit known as the Old Guard.

'Flags In' at Arlington National Cemetery

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Jockey Calvin Borel Prepares for the Preakness

Kentucky Derby-winning jockey Calvin Borel awaits a much-anticipated run at the Triple Crown with the second of three events, the Preakness, set to take place Saturday in Baltimore.

Jockey Calvin Borel Prepares for the Preakness

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Resilient Hokies Return to Finish School Year

Classes resume Monday at Virginia Tech. Some students who left after last week's shooting are back on campus. Most look forward to a positive completion of the school year.

Resilient Hokies Return to Finish School Year

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