The Wire: March 8, 2009

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  Career Center boasts of 17 career paths

  Fourteen-year-old Sylvia Carder, on a tour recently of the Center for Career and Technical Education, is starting to narrow her career choices.
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  HANSON: Accounting for California's suicide

  What went wrong in California? I think we can all agree on at least three observations.
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  Inside Politics Weekend: Chez Limbaugh

  Mr. Limbaugh. Mr. Rush Limbaugh. Paging Mr. Limbaugh: The Republican party is looking for you to tell them which end is up and what planet they live on.
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  WETZSTEIN: American family needs some help

  Why are there more childless American homes? An aging population and “changing fertility patterns,” says bureau analyst Rose Kreider.
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  EDITORIAL: Rep. Wolf blasts intel aide

  Congressman Frank R. Wolf of Virginia has sent a letter to President Obama, a copy of which The Washington Times obtained exclusively, that expresses his “deep concern regarding the appointment of Chas W. Freeman Jr. as chairman of the National Intelligence Council.”
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  Rights advocates oppose Freeman

  Advocates for Chinese human rights are urging President Obama to reject the nomination of Charles W. “Chas” Freeman Jr. as chairman of the National Intelligence Council, citing Mr. Freeman’s defense of the Chinese government’s crackdown on democracy activists.
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  Pakistani girls seek better education

  Roughly half of Pakistan’s 173 million citizens know how to read, according to the CIA World Factbook. Sixty-three percent of the men are literate, compared with only 36 percent of the women.
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  Military may help Mexico fight drugs

  President Barack Obama was briefed Saturday by Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen about the drug wars in Mexico and wanted to know how the United States can help.
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  Obama plans to visit Ankara soon

  President Obama will visit Turkey soon, making the Muslim nation bridging East and West one of the first foreign stops of his presidency, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Saturday.
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  Adoptions of foreign children plunge

  Adoptions of children abroad by Americans are plummeting, and the trend is likely to continue owing to new restrictions by foreign governments and diminishing financial resources among prospective parents.
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  Health care debate to flood airwaves

  Who can be against affordable, quality health care? Want easy access to the doctor of your choice? Who doesn’t? And who can say no to better innovations in medicine and medical devices?
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  Credit crunch leaves economy gasping

  Wall Street’s monumental sell-off last week, with major stock indexes falling to levels not seen in a dozen years, reflects a rapid unraveling of the economy that was spawned by the collapse of the biggest credit bubble in history.
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  Obama faulted as indifferent on stocks

  Some Wall Street economists think President Obama could have voiced some sympathy about the plight of frightened shareholders when he compared the stock market’s plunge to an election tracking poll that “bobs up and down, day to day.”
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  Vacancies slow U.N. corruption probes

  An unusually high number of vacancies in the U.N. inspector general’s office has left that body significantly understaffed, raising concerns about the world body’s ability to detect fraud and other abuses even as the workload has swelled to include a myriad of procurement contracts.
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  12,000 U.S. troops out of Iraq by Sept.

  About 12,000 U.S. soldiers will leave Iraq by September under President Obama’s pledge to end America’s combat role here, officials said Sunday, hours after a Baghdad suicide bomber killed 32 people.
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  Boehner: No GM funds without plan

  Rep. John A. Boehner said Sunday he doesn’t support handing over more federal money to keep General Motors Corp. afloat unless the automaker develops a viable and long-term business model and can pay back government loans.
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  Obama picks 3 for Treasury Dept.

  President Barack Obama has chosen three people to join the senior ranks of the Treasury Department, where a slow pace of hiring has put the agency on the defensive.
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  Peace pledges after N. Ireland ambush

  UPDATED: Leaders of Northern Ireland’s Catholic-Protestant government pledged to keep the peace Sunday after Irish Republican Army dissidents fatally shot two off-duty British soldiers meeting pizza deliverymen at a barracks entrance.
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  OMB chief: 'Economy is weak'

  The White House’s top budget official declared on Sunday that “fundamentally, the economy is weak” while saying the administration’s own financial predictions could need a revision by midyear.
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  Pope to visit Holy Land in May

  Pope Benedict XVI said Sunday he would visit the Holy Land in May during the first papal trip to the area since 2000.
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  Israel: Iran can build nuclear weapons

  Iran is now capable of producing atomic weapons, Israel’s top military intelligence officer said Sunday, sounding the highest-level warning that Israel’s archenemy has achieved independent nuclear capability.
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  ROMper ROOM: Games improve math skills

  DreamBox Learning’s K-2 Math ($12.99 per month after a free two-week trial, www.dreambox.com/) delivers a robust, online math program geared to children in kindergarten, first and second grades.
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  LETTER TO EDITOR: The GOP is dead

  Wesley Pruden’s column “It’s a scary movie, but the plot is old,” (Perspectives, Friday) postulating a comeback by Republican conservatives is in error. He is wrong on this issue for one reason: the schools.
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  BOOKS: 'We'll Always Have Paris: Stories'

  What moves Ray Bradbury to create new stories and novels?
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  BOOKS: 'The Big Rich'

  Ah, the fickleness of American public opinion. A bit more than half-century or so ago, the “Texas oil man” was the media/Hollywood embodiment of the uncouth, ignorant bore who no civilized person would have over for white wine.
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  Coleman, Toliver nearing crown

  Marissa Coleman and Kristi Toliver have done just about everything in four years at Maryland - with one notable exception. One more victory, and they’ll take care of that one, too.
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  Hoyas finally find way to finish

  Georgetown’s lone junior took over on Senior Day.
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  Atlanta track poses unique challenge

  Grab hold of that steering wheel and hang on - it’s time to go racin’ in Atlanta.
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  Temple gets past GW

  Lavoy Allen scored 17 points and grabbed 16 rebounds to lead Temple to a 63-53 win over George Washington on Saturday night at Smith Center in the final regular-season game for both teams.
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  Logan promotes U.S.-Jamaica clash

  USA Track & Field proposed last week that the world’s two dominant sprinting powers - the United States and Jamaica - meet for face-to-face matchups.
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  MUELLER: Arizona has all walks of nature

  On the way to the Sonoran Desert, I found a dead coyote lying crumpled alongside Interstate 10, the obvious victim of trucking and automobile traffic that zips along at 75 and 80 mph
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  Owens signs one-year deal with Bills

  Terrell Owens needed only two days to find another place to play.
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  First Down

  HE SAID WHAT?
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  Terrapins' NCAA chances imperiled

  Gary Williams called a play. Greivis Vasquez was uncertain of what was afoot and called for something else in the final seconds of the ACC finale.
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  Bernadina shortening up and flying right

  Rick Eckstein doesn’t recall the time, place or location, but he remembers exactly what Roger Bernadina said to him.
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  DALY: Owens still has bridges to burn

  The way he carries on, you have to wonder if Terrell Owens isn’t Jerry Lewis’ secret love child - never mind this lady in the news.
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  Capitals looking at the long run

  The prevailing opinion in this area is that the Washington Capitals are built to contend for the next several seasons, that they are impervious to a Pittsburgh Penguins-esque step backward next season.
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  Tapscott can't find right motivation

  When former Washington coach Dick Motta coached the 1980-81 Mavericks expansion team, the players were having a particularly poor night. By halftime, Motta was steamed.
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  Dunn goes deep in U.S. win

  UNITED STATES 6, CANADA 5: With big league stars on both sides and national pride at stake, the United States and Canada gave their World Baseball Classic opener an October feel.
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  Nationals Report

  The flow of injured veterans returning to the Washington Nationals’ lineup could start as early as Sunday with Austin Kearns hoping he’s fully recovered from a blister on his left hand. But for a pair of other injured players, the chance to get back on the field and earn a roster spot is still a few days away.
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  Mets' Santana aims for Opening Day

  New York Mets ace Johan Santana doesn’t see any reason why he won’t be ready for Opening Day.
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  World Scene

  Three separate bombings killed 15 people in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, while authorities investigated reports that a pilotless U.S. drone crashed elsewhere in the militant-plagued region bordering Afghanistan.
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  Coal losing to cleaner sources

  Beneath the frozen plains of eastern Montana and Wyoming lie the largest coal deposits in the world - enough to last the United States more than a century at the nation’s current burn rate.
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  Web puts a face on down-and-out

  Until a few weeks ago, Tim Edwards was just another one of the men begging for change at a busy Houston underpass, ignored by most drivers who sped on past without a glance.
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  Metro Briefs

  A federal judge in Maryland has ruled that the key components of a developer’s $16.5 million lawsuit against the town of Walkersville will move forward.
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  Proposed literacy symbol falls flat

  Book “E” Lookee, the proposed state symbol for literacy, is sexist, resembles a milk carton with legs, a square M&M or a juice box missing a straw, depending on which state senator you ask.
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  Death penalty debate seen as win-win

  The state Senate last week thwarted the death-penalty repeal championed by Gov. Martin O’Malley after a contentious two-day debate, but Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr., a Prince George’s Democrat and capital-punishment supporter, downplayed any apparent victory.
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  Correction

  An article in Friday’s editions incorrectly referred to Republican Party of Virginia Chairman Jeffrey M. Frederick. Mr. Frederick is currently a Prince William County representative in the House of Delegates but has said he will not seek re-election this year.
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  Pell increase may ease student burden

  A change in Pell Grant funding pending in the Maryland Senate could ease the tuition burden for all college students, but for those in community colleges the dollars would make even more of a difference.
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  Fayyad resigns as Abbas' premier

  The Western-backed Palestinian prime minister submitted his resignation Saturday, improving the odds of a possible unity government of Fatah moderates and Hamas militants, followed by new Palestinian elections.