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Gaza civilian toll rises; diplomats seek truce
Israel's expanding ground and air offensive against Gaza's Hamas rulers took a heavy civilian toll Monday, including three young brothers reported killed by a crashing shell and the wounded who filled hospital corridors.
10 seconds to escape the terror
I was just beginning to climb up a ridge at the northwest edge of this
rocket-pocked southern Israeli town yesterday when a loudspeaker
crackled to life and the air-raid warning rattled out.
U.S. presses for Gaza ceasefire
The Bush administration is pressing for a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip that would include three main elements, including a halt to Hamas' rocket attacks on Israel, the U.S. State Department said Monday.
Family's suicide pact stuns Quebec town
There is little remarkable about the modest white house ? inside which a couple's suicide pact apparently unfolded ? other than piles of garbage bags out front and on the back porch, as if no one had taken them to the curb for weeks.
New test weeds out 'rogue' stem cells
Scientists at McMaster University have found a way to tell the difference between normal stem cells and cancer stem cells, a discovery that removes one of the hurdles to the long-awaited promise of using human embryonic stem cells for personalized organ and tissue transplants.
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