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  • Dr. Kiss, a three-foot-tall wooden puppet, can handle his business in the wrestling ring. He's the star of a traveling show, reveling in the art and artifice of pro wrestling.
  • The battleship ferried Franklin Roosevelt to a historic meeting during World War II and parried Russians in the Cold War. Now the USS Iowa is setting course for a second life as a museum.
  • Leaders of Egypt, Jordan and Israel met with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to offer support during his battle with rival Palestinians in the Hamas organization. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said he will release 250 Fatah members from Israeli prisons.
  • A new survey about American attitudes toward abortion turns up strong regional differences in opinion. And the divide seems to be growing. Renee Montagne talks to Michael Dimock, director of the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, about the survey.
  • Echinacea has been widely used to treat the common cold, but a new study finds the herbal remedy has no effect on the virus that causes the infection or on the illness that results. Past studies have had similar results. But the message doesn't seem to sink in with consumers.
  • Experts say the services companies like Crowdstrike supply are in the hands of too few providers that are themselves too interconnected.
  • Ernest Hemingway is iconic as a macho outdoorsman, but he had a very tender relationship with his mother-in-law Edna.
  • As Oscar nominees are announced, uncertainty remains over the fate of the annual ceremony. The ongoing writers' strike could short-circuit the awards show.
  • Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is speaking Thursday at his impeachment trial in Springfield. Blagojevich has not participated in the trial at all until now.
  • Though the nation's unemployment rate fell to 3.8 percent in February, employers actually cut payrolls by a net 63,000 jobs. The rate fell because so many people decided to stop looking for work — a new sign of weakness in the economy.
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