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The Red Tape Chronicles: Sweden's happy, generous image challenged by four-day riot
STOCKHOLM -- Hundreds of youths have torched cars and attacked police in four nights of riots in immigrant suburbs of Sweden's capital, shocking a country that dodged the worst of the financial crisis but failed to solve youth unemployment and resentment ...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 7:15am -07:00T (65 words)
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The Red Tape Chronicles: UK mom calms man with blood-soaked knife after suspected deadly terror attack
LONDON - A mother-of-two who confronted a blood-soaked, knife-carrying man in the moments after the suspected ideologically motivated murder of a British soldier said she did so in order to protect the crowd of onlookers.Ingrid Loyau-Kennett, 48, jumped o...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 5:00am -07:00T (66 words)
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The Red Tape Chronicles: Amid the rubble, laughter and tears for one family devastated by tornado
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — A little treasure in the debris of a home that once welcomed Rebecca Garland's four grandchildren gave her such a delight as her friends and family scoured the mountain of rubble for any mementos left behind by Monday's powerful t...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 2:30am -07:00T (71 words)
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The Red Tape Chronicles: Boy Scouts vote on gay members: What's at stake
After years of emotional debate, the Boy Scouts of America are considering a proposal at their annual meeting to allow gay youths to participate openly in the popular organization for the first time.The exclusion of gay Scouts has been the subject of mu...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 1:15am -07:00T (63 words)
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The Red Tape Chronicles: Solar Impulse plane sets distance record for a solar-powered flight
The Swiss-made Solar Impulse plane broke the distance record for a solar-powered flight on Wednesday, flying from Phoenix to Dallas on the second leg of its coast-to-coast odyssey across America.The super-light, super-wide plane rose from its runway at Ph...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 11:00pm -07:00T (61 words)
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The Red Tape Chronicles: 'Europa Report' packs realistic chills into trailer for science-fiction thriller
The first trailer for the science-fiction film "Europa Report" has been launched onto the Internet, and it just might be the most realistic — and harrowing — depiction of space travel on the big screen in years.In "Europa Report," an intrepid crew of ...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 11:00pm -07:00T (69 words)
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The Red Tape Chronicles: Japanese climber, 80, becomes oldest atop Everest
An 80-year-old Japanese mountaineer on Thursday became the oldest person to reach the top of Mount Everest - although his record may last only a few days. An 81-year-old Nepalese man, who held the previous record, plans his own ascent next week. Yuichiro ...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 11:00pm -07:00T (67 words)
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The Red Tape Chronicles: Moon or asteroid? Congress debates best Mars pit stop
By Clara MoskowitzSpace.comNASA's plan to lasso an asteroid for astronauts as a deep-space dry run for a future mission to Mars has some members of Congress wondering if the space agency would be better off setting its sights on the moon instead.The aster...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 7:15pm -07:00T (66 words)
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The Red Tape Chronicles: Rare plant in danger from logging at Boy Scout camp in California
Expulsion from the Boy Scouts of America is a dishonor few Scouts endure. But that was the punishment imposed on Kim Kuska, a self-taught naturalist and former biology teacher who had been with the organization for more than 50 years.His crime: an obsessi...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 7:15pm -07:00T (62 words)
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The Red Tape Chronicles: Light of my life: Homemade engagement ring glows when fiancee is near
An inventor's romantic proposal idea has come to happy fruition. It took months of work, but Ben Kokes crafted an engagement ring for his girlfriend, Julie, that would light up from within — but only after he put it on her finger and took her by the han...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 7:15pm -07:00T (75 words)
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The Red Tape Chronicles: Tornado birth: Mom endures labor as twister destroys hospital
When a devastating tornado touched down in Moore, Okla., on Monday afternoon, Shayla Taylor was on the upper floor of the local hospital, in active labor with her second child.As the floor shook “like an earthquake†beneath her and ceiling tiles and i...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 6:15pm -07:00T (65 words)
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The Red Tape Chronicles: ‘A hot meal can make people cry’: BBQ volunteers comfort Oklahoma victims
The cooks flipping meat on grills or sweating behind smokers at barbecue competitions are all about seasoning, basting, charring — and being the best. This week, though, these maestros of meat are putting their competitive nature aside to bring comfort ...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 6:15pm -07:00T (64 words)
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The Red Tape Chronicles: While Oklahoma staggers, Joplin marks 2 years after its own tornado
While Oklahoma begins to clean up after a ferocious tornado, the site of one of the worst twisters in American history — Joplin, Mo., a little more than 200 miles away — marked a solemn anniversary Wednesday.On May 22, 2011, a tornado all but wiped Jo...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 5:00pm -07:00T (73 words)
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The Red Tape Chronicles: Doctors print up a splint for baby's blocked throat
The Youngstown, Ohio, baby turned blue again and again as his little airways collapsed and kept air from reaching his lungs. But doctors used a 3-D bioprinter to custom-make a splint that is holding his airway open and helping him breathe.Now 19-month-old...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 3:45pm -07:00T (66 words)
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The Red Tape Chronicles: Post-tornado peril: Victims could face deadly fungal infections
Doctors treating victims hurt badly in Monday’s devastating Moore, Okla., tornado should be alert for a rare but deadly complication of wind-whipped debris: fungal infections like those that killed five people after the Joplin, Mo., twister in 2011.That...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 3:45pm -07:00T (59 words)
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