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AP - A pair of suicide bombers targeting army vehicles detonated explosives within seconds of each other Friday, killing at least 43 people in this eastern city and wounding about 100, police said. It was the fourth major attack in Pakistan this week, indicating Islamist militants are stepping up violence after a period of relative calm.

AP - At least two mass graves containing dozens of people killed by the Nazis have been found on property used by the Austrian army, government officials said Friday. An army statement suggested some of the remains may be that of U.S. pilots shot down and imprisoned during World War II.

The Christian Science Monitor - Conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh said this week he’d go to Costa Rica for medical treatment if Congress passes proposed reforms to the US healthcare system.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was admitted to a hospital in Seoul on Saturday for "minor stomach troubles," the state-run Yonhap news agency reported.

President Obama's upcoming trip to Indonesia and Australia will be delayed a few days, the White House says.

Utah's House majority leader says he paid a woman $150,000 to keep silent about going nude "hot-tubbing" with her when she was minor a quarter century ago.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's wife underwent surgery Friday after breaking her neck and back in a traffic accident that also injured the senator's daughter, a spokesman said.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was at his wife's side in a Virginia hospital Friday as she was treated for a broken neck and back suffered in a traffic accident that also injured their daughter, officials said.

In one chair sits a rural retiree, his financial security shot in the slump, a humble Southerner who's never thought much about politics. In another seat is a born Northerner, an inner-city native, a relative of a civil rights giant. And nearby, circling a table, are an economist, an artist, a onetime John McCain supporter and a long-haired guy who's rich in Woodstock memories.

\President Barack Obama has delayed his first international trip of the year, a three-country visit to Asia, to focus attention on the final push to salvage health care legislation after a year of contentious debate.

\President Barack Obama has delayed his first international trip of the year, a three-country visit to Asia, to focus attention on the final push to salvage health care legislation after a year of contentious debate.

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What is it about Disney films that make them so easy to deconstruct and turn into an entirely different product?

We've shown you our Animated Classic/Modern Movie Mashup collection, and talked about the history of cartoon remix with Apocalypse Pooh, and with the rise of techno tracks from Nick Bertke, like Upular and Alice, Disney movies have become the great standby for homemade trailers/music videos.

But nothing could have prepared us for the brilliantly high-brow concept of taking everyone's favorite perfect princesses and turning them into our millennium's version of Heathers.


The only thing we would change? We could never tell the difference between Sleeping Beauty's Aurora and Cinderella in the first place and you need to be able to tell Queen Bee Regina from Amanda Seyfried's Karen Smith, and we'd totally change Janice Ian from Jasmine to Snow White (who was way more goth).

 

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Democrats have set a date to begin what they hope is the final phase of health care debate in Congress.