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    Spying at the Olympics, The Virgin Mary in Jersey, and 'Uncle Vanya'

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    Top Stories: Seeking to win at the Olympics, countries take espionage cues from Bond. James Bond. A report names prominent figures as participants in the killings of the Afghan civil war. 

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    World: In China the one-child policy comes under criticism and evaluation. The popularity of drug cocktails made from kratom leaves in Thailand concerns authorities.

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    U.S.: Residents of Aurora mourn as information is gathered about the suspect in the movie theater shooting.

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    New York: A tree trunk with a knot said to resemble the Virgin Mary draws crowds of the devotional and also the wary. 

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    Business: Fashion magazines are growing in China where they have an eager audience interested in the products they advertise.  

    Technology: For Facebook "to please Wall Street, [it] must first curry favor with Madison Avenue, and it is scrambling to do just that." 

    Media & Advertising: David Carr argues that Yahoo is a media company. 

    Sports: Ernie Els won the British Open as his friend Adam Scott's game suffered.

    Opinion: Chip Kidd imagines MetroCard advertisements. 

    Theater: Ben Brantley reviews Cate Blanchett in Uncle Vanya.

    Art & Design: Jeffrey Deitch's reign at Los Angeles' Museum of Contemporary Art "has so far been a disappointment even to the people who thought it was a feasible idea in the first place." 

    Television: Members of the mob are all over TV and talking. 

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    • Copper reserves at China's Sicomines in Congo less than hoped

      KINSHASA (Reuters) - Copper reserves at a mine owned by Sicomines, a miner at the centre of a $6 billion resources for infrastructure deal between China and Democratic Republic of Congo, have fallen more than 30 percent short of expectations, a senior Congolese official said. Congo agreed in 2008 to cede mining rights to Sicomines, a joint venture between China's Sinohydro, the China Railway Group Ltd and Congolese miner Gecamines, in exchange for the building of roads, schools, railways, hospitals and dams. ...

    • Early Land Animals Lacked Good Bites

      Tens of millions of years passed between the emergence of land animals and the evolution of an efficient apparatus for munching on the available fare. Karen Hopkin reports.

    • Cycling-Road-Giro d'Italia points classification after stage 18

      May 23 (Infostrada Sports) - Points Classification Giro d'Italia after Stage 18 on Thursday 1. Mark Cavendish (Britain / Omega Pharma - Quick-Step) 113 2. Cadel Evans (Australia / BMC Racing) 109 3. Vincenzo Nibali (Italy / Astana) 103 4. Carlos Betancur (Colombia / AG2R) 94 5. Mauro Santambrogio (Italy / Vini Fantini) 89 6. Giovanni Visconti (Italy / Movistar) 86 7. Rigoberto Uran (Colombia / Team Sky) 86 8. Elia Viviani (Italy / Cannondale) 72 9. Ramunas Navardauskas (Lithuania / Garmin) 65 10. Giacomo Nizzolo (Italy / RadioShack) 61

    • No Wonder Republican Criticism of Obama Isn’t Working

      Henny Youngman, the late borscht belt comedian, told hundreds of politically incorrect jokes. One of them was his response when asked, “How’s your wife?” “Compared to what?” he’d say.

    • Trayvon Martin texts, photos: Might they change Zimmerman trial?

      Ultimately, many of the photos and cellphone records of Trayvon Martin released online Thursday by George Zimmerman’s defense attorneys – indicating that the slain teenager smoked marijuana, got into fights at school, and had an interest in, and perhaps access to, guns – may be ruled inadmissible in court. But they are already making the rounds in the court of public opinion, which can influence everything from fundraising efforts to the mind-set of potential jurors in Mr. Zimmerman's murder trial.

    • 5.7-magnitude earthquake shakes Northern Calif

      GREENVILLE, Calif. (AP) — A magnitude 5.7 earthquake was widely felt as it rattled Northern California Thursday night, breaking dishes and shaking mirrors off walls. But authorities said there were no immediate reports of injury or serious damage.

    • Woman accused of contaminating daughter's IV tubes

      TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A prosecutor says a woman on trial in Tucson contaminated her hospitalized infant daughter's intravenous lines in an attempt to get attention from the girl's father.

    • Rare Superman comic found in house insulation

      It's considered the Holy Grail of comic books: Action Comics No. 1 from 1938, featuring the debut of Superman. And David Gonzales found one mixed in with old newspapers insulating a wall in a house he ...

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