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9:22am

Wed March 23, 2011
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Reports: Explosion In Jerusalem; Many Casualties

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Update at 12:25 p.m. ET. Recapping the news:

"A bomb struck a crowded bus stop in central Jerusalem Wednesday, killing one woman and wounding more than 20 other people in what authorities said was the first major Palestinian militant attack in the city in several years," The Associated Press writes. "The bombing brought back memories of the second Palestinian uprising last decade, a period in which hundreds of Israelis were killed by suicide bombings in Jerusalem and other major cities."

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9:20am

Wed March 23, 2011
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Hollywood Legend Elizabeth Taylor Dies

Originally published on Wed May 23, 2012 12:39 pm

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Elizabeth Taylor became a star at age 10 and an icon by the time she was 30. Taylor died Wednesday at age 79.
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Taylor skyrocketed to fame at the age of 12 when she starred in the 1944 film National Velvet.
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By her mid-teens, Taylor was considered to be one of the world's most beautiful women.
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Montgomery Clift and Taylor star in the melodrama A Place In The Sun.
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In addition to her films, Taylor was famous for her Hollywood lifestyle and multiple marriages. In total, she married eight times to seven husbands.
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Taylor won an Academy Award in 1960 for her performance in Butterfield 8 as a promiscuous model who falls in love with a married man.
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Taylor with her fourth husband, Eddie Fisher. Fisher divorced his wife, Debbie Reynolds, to marry Taylor, the widow of his best friend.
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Taylor earned $1 million for her iconic role in Cleopatra, one of the highest salaries to date in 1963.
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Taylor and Richard Burton, her co-star in 11 films, had a passionate but rocky relationship that spanned 12 years and two separate trips to the altar.
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Taylor considered Michael Jackson to be one of her closest friends and defended him when he was charged with sexually abusing a child.
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During her career, Taylor became an icon of beauty and super-stardom. In the 1960s, Andy Warhol painted a series of portraits of Taylor.
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In her later years Taylor, seen here at an event on Sept. 26, 2008, in Santa Monica, Calif., put considerable energy and money into the fight to find a cure for AIDS.
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Elizabeth Taylor, the English-American actress who became a star at age 10 and an icon by the time she was 30, died Wednesday.

A publicist told The Associated Press that Taylor died of congestive heart failure at a Los Angeles hospital. She was 79.

Taylor hadn't made a movie in years — and she had spent decades raising millions of dollars for causes including HIV and AIDS — but to most anyone born before 1975, she was always the woman who was Cleopatra, the legendary beauty with a famous weakness for jewelry.

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9:14am

Wed March 23, 2011
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Elizabeth Taylor Has Died; She Was 79

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ABC News and CNN are reporting that actress Elizabeth Taylor has died. She was 79.

NPR has not yet independently confirmed that news. (Update at 9:18 a.m. ET: NPR has now gotten that confirmation.)

Taylor made her movie debut at the age of 10 in There's One Born Every Minute. Her role in 1944's National Velvet made her a star. Later, she was the movie world's most famous Cleopatra.

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8:45am

Wed March 23, 2011
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Reports From Syria: Six Protesters Killed Outside Mosque

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From Daraa, Syria, The Associated Press reports that "new violence in a restive southern Syrian city killed as many as six people early Wednesday, making it the deadliest single day since anti-government protests inspired by uprisings across the Arab world reached this country last week, an activist said."

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Wed March 23, 2011
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Report: Army Could Have Prevented Anthrax Attacks

Originally published on Wed March 23, 2011 6:20 am

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A panel of behavioral analysts has concluded that the "Army scientist believed responsible for the 2001 anthrax letter attacks that killed five people and crippled mail delivery in parts of the country had exhibited alarming mental problems that military officials should have noticed and acted on long before he had a chance to strike," the Los Angeles Times reports this morning.

And, the Times writes:

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