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1) Heads Up, Citizen Scientists: The Moon Needs You!
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/KFUcN1zBx9U/Heads_Up_Citizen_Scientists_The_Moon_Needs_You
Chris Lintott is asking amateur astronomers to help review, measure and classify tens of thousands of moon photos streaming to Earth. He has set up the website MoonZoo.org, where anyone can log on, get trained and become a space explorer.
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2) 40 is the new 30 for mothers
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/MZE0kif2UQU/40_is_the_new_30_for_mothers
A recent national report found birth rates falling in virtually every age group of women in their childbearing years ? except for those between 40 and 50. The group aged 40 to 44 had its largest birth rate since 1967.
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3) Jury Selection Begins in Ill. Police Torture Trial
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/OowIUaGalBc/Jury_Selection_Begins_in_Ill_Police_Torture_Trial
For decades, black men across Chicago described torture at the hands of former police Lt. Jon Burge and his officers, and for decades no one listened. Suspects landed in jail and even on death row for crimes they say they didn't commit after Burge and his men coerced confessions using terrifying methods including suffocation, and waterboarding.
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4) Rare stamp sold for world record price
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/Yf_HCX1YnHI/Rare_stamp_sold_for_world_record_price
The stamp was first discovered in 1885 by a 14 year old Swedish schoolboy while searching for stamps in his family?s belongings to sell on for his pocket money.
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5) Elizabeth Smart Abductor Gets 15 Years in Prison
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/Mlw07mty7hs/Elizabeth_Smart_Abductor_Gets_15_Years_in_Prison
One of Elizabeth Smart's abductors received a 15-year prison sentence in Utah after apologizing to her family.
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6) Relatives: 3 Pakistanis innocent in Times Sq. case
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/Y810eO4dzfI/Relatives_3_Pakistanis_innocent_in_Times_Sq_case
Relatives of three Pakistanis detained for alleged links to the suspect in the attempted Times Square bombing protested the men's innocence Sunday, saying their fervent religious beliefs do not mean they are Islamic extremists.
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7) 'Dracula' Fish and Bombardier Worm Make Top 10 List
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/fE3kbnFtZ4E/Dracula_Fish_and_Bombardier_Worm_Make_Top_10_List
A "Dracula" fish with canine-like fangs, a worm that launches glow-in-the-dark bombs and a psychedelic frogfish are among the Top 10 new species discovered in 2009, scientists just announced.
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8) UN Publishes "Shame List" of Child Soldier Recruiters
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/ve4udhwL56E/UN_Publishes_Shame_List_of_Child_Soldier_Recruiters
The world's "most persistent violators" of children's rights were named this week in a report from U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon, which included details of a training camp for young girls run by the al-Qaida-linked al Shabaab movement in Somalia and persistent atrocities carried out by the Lord's Resistance Army in central Africa.
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