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1. Presidential candidates didn't spend the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday resting -  they continued to campaign. Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John Edwards spent Monday night debating each other in South Carolina.  Republican Senator John McCain won the Republican presidential primary in the Palmetto State last Saturday. The Democratic primary will take place this Saturday. The Ohio primary election will be held the first Tuesday in March, the 4th.  
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/states/south.carolina.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/topics/topic.php?topicId=1102#/primaries/
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2.  More than one thousand miles southeast of Ohio, the communist country of Cuba held its assembly elections this week. Their election process is a bit different from the United States, as only candidates of the communist political party can participate. For the 614 open seats, there are 614 candidates. There is no other choice.  Next month the new assembly will vote for the president of council, a position Fidel Castro has held for decades. 
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0107443.html
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3. Iraq is another country that has experienced political turmoil, as well as religious turmoil.
Despite major re-structuring, and assistance from the U.S., some people feel situations there are not getting better; or that the process is too slow. Arwa Damon tells us about teenager Taha Nawaf, who is trying to send an inspiring message of peace – a message in a bottle tossed into the Euphrates River – amid the chaos and fighting. 
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L17509735.htm
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18319948
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4. There is only so much space, only a certain number of places where people can live, and where their trash can go. As researchers raise concerns about U.S. landfill space, a city in Italy has reached its trash limit. Alessio Vinci has more on the garbage piling up in Naples because the landfills there are filled.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22505149/
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18028075
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5. Kate Bolduan tells us how the 2009 digital broadcast conversion will affect our homes and our landfills. TV owners can buy a digital converter to make their older TVs usable, but many will buy new digital TVs, sending the older models to the landfill. However, TVs and computers contain large amounts of lead as well as mercury that can be dangerous to our health and the environment. Efforts are under way to recycle these projects safely.
http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/hazwaste/recycle/ecycling/donate.htm
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6. Can you imagine a parent being so busy they forget to take the baby out of the back seat?  Well, it's been known to happen, and Sue Sloan of Columbus is a grandmother who wants to make sure it doesn't happen again. She invented "Cecelia's safety seat," which includes a pressure pad that fits any car seat. When the child sits on the pad, it triggers an indicator on the dashboard. Sue says, just like car seats, seat belts and air bags, Cecelia's safety seat should be mandatory. She has a patent on her invention and will contact auto makers about her idea.
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7. For the second time in four months, thieves broke into a community center on the north side of Columbus. Thieves made off with dozens of computers, rebuilt at the center, to be given to families who can't afford them. The center was opened by community activist and local hero Sean Rogers who plans to continue his crusade to help neighborhood kids.
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8. Oscar Pistorius is not like his peers.  He's got hefty ambitions and enormous drive to succeed.  Oscar is also a paraplegic and he's not giving up on his dreams, even though the International Association of Athletics Federation has denied him from participating in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Is this 21-year-old - with his blade-like prosthetics - an engineering marvel or a naturally gifted athlete?  All the fuss is about his carbon fiber “legs” -  do they give him a competitive advantage or not?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Pistorius
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/15/sports/othersports/15runner.html
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SPORT/01/10/athletics.bladerunner/index.html
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9. Last week we had a story about the travels of Flat Stanley, and this week we heard from the family of the young lady who sent Stanley on his travels. Unfortunately we had her name wrong in our story, and just wanted to give full credit to Hannah Ingram for her Flat Stanley project.
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10. An eleven-year-old piano player in Texas is sharing his talents with the city's homeless. Lewis Warren, Jr. says he wants his music to give hope to those in need. Lewis' talent was discovered rather randomly. Someone gave the family a piano and three-year-old Lewis instantly started playing tunes. Now piano teachers are astounded by his creativity. Lewis says he wants to compose music that will make people want to get dressed up and go ballroom dancing. He's already bringing people to their feet. http://www.lewiswarrenjr.com/Home_Page.php
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