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5:00pm

Tue February 22, 2011
World

U.S. Lacks Leverage To Pressure Libya

The United Nations Security Council met in emergency session Tuesday to discuss the crisis in Libya. And U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had tough words for Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, saying the violence against protesters is unacceptable.

But unlike in Egypt, the United States has little leverage to stop the bloodshed in Libya.

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4:33pm

Tue February 22, 2011
World

American's CIA Ties Imperil Pakistan Cooperation

Revelations that Raymond Davis, the American jailed in Pakistan for shooting two men, was secretly working for the CIA is endangering relations between the intelligence agencies of the two countries.

And the disclosure has only deepened public skepticism about what the United States is doing in Pakistan.

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4:30pm

Tue February 22, 2011
The Two-Way

Flashback: Reagan Calls Gadhafi The 'Mad Dog Of The Middle East'

Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's hour-long address to his nation today, during which at times he seemed to ramble while at other moments he "thundered, pounding his fist on the podium," has renewed speculation about his sanity.

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4:03pm

Tue February 22, 2011
Shots - Health Blog

Virus Passed During Oral Sex Tops Tobacco As Throat Cancer Cause

If you're keeping score, here's even more evidence that HPV causes oral, head and neck cancers and that vaccines may be able to prevent it.

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3:44pm

Tue February 22, 2011
The Two-Way

Woman Pitches Batting Practice To Cleveland Indians

When she was a kid, Justine Siegal dreamed of playing baseball for her hometown Cleveland Indians. The idea stuck with her for about 10 years. "It wasn't until I was 15 when I knew it wasn't going to happen," she told The New York Times.

But Siegal got to live out part of that dream Monday, when she threw batting practice to the Indians at their training camp in Arizona. And her daughter, Jasmine, was there to see it all happen.

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