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Group decries textbooks on Islam as inflammatory (AP)

Shown are 'World of Islam' books by Mason Crest Publishing before a news conference held by the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Philadelphia, Wednesday, March 17, 2010. The Muslim civil liberties group is protesting the series of children's textbooks that it says contains misleading and inflammatory rhetoric against Islam. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - A series of children's textbooks on Islam contains misleading and inflammatory rhetoric about the religion, inaccurately portraying its followers as inherently violent and deserving of suspicion, according to a Muslim civil liberties group.


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NY Gov.’s press aide quits in scandal; 4th to fall (AP)

FILE - In this Jan. 14, 2009 file photo, press secretary Marissa Shorenstein, left, watches New York Gov. David Paterson leave a room at the Capitol in Albany, N.Y. Shorenstein announced Wednesday, March 17, 2010, that she is resigning, making her the fourth top staffer to resign amid scandals that threaten the administration. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)AP - Gov. David Paterson's press secretary on Wednesday became the fourth top staffer to quit amid dual scandals, resigning just hours after her boss publicly proclaimed for the first time that he did nothing wrong when he talked to a woman who had accused one of his top aides of abuse.


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Kids, teens key to flood fighting effort in Fargo (AP)

Three-year-old Carsen Gianakos uses his plastic shovel to assist in the sandbagging efforts on Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 'Sandbag Central,' a warehouse in Fargo, N.D. on Tuesday, March 16, 2010. (AP Photo/Jay Pickthorn)AP - Some children lugged sandbags that weighed more than they did. Determined teens showed up just after dawn with groups of friends, ready and willing to shovel. New groups of kids arrived by the busloads, all ready to join the race to protect their city from the rising Red River.


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Nation, world go green for St. Patrick’s Day (AP)

John Ruplenas, foreground, of Harpers Ferry, W.Va., and in background from left, Jessica Scott, Brandy Bazinet, and Johnna Pitt, all from Alabama, wait on 5th Ave for the start of the St. Patrick's day parade, Wednesday, March 17, 2010, in New York. Ruplenas arrived on 5th Ave to get a spot at 5 a.m. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - All the world from the Sydney Opera House to the Empire State Building turned Irish, or at least Irish for the day, as revelers marked St. Patrick's Day with bagpipes, dancing, emerald lights and green body paint in a flurry of celebration.


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LA airport screening closed after security breach (AP)

AP - Airport security agents mistakenly allowed a bottle of liquid to pass through before it was properly scanned early Wednesday at Los Angeles International Airport, causing a security breach that halted screening for about 25 minutes, authorities said.

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Beach jogger killed by plane likely never heard it (AP)

An  Experimental Lancair IV-P airplane lies beached on Hilton Head Island, S.C., Tuesday, March 16, 2010, the day after its pilot made an emergency landing. The pilot, Edward Smith, and his passenger survived the crash, but man jogging on the beach was killed when he was struck by the plane. (AP Photo/Russ Bynum)AP - The kit-built single-engine plane was gliding quietly as it came down for an emergency landing on a beach. Pharmaceutical salesman Robert Gary Jones, listening to his iPod while jogging, likely never saw or heard it before the aircraft hit him from behind Monday evening and killed him.


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