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Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 05:34:31 -0500

NEWS
First aid flight arrives to Burma from Italy; three more expected
Thursday
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The U.N.'s World Food Program says its first flight carrying aid has
landed in Burma after the military regime gave clearance to send relief
material to cyclone victims.

Magnitude 6.8 quake hits Japan; no injuries, damage reported
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A magnitude 6.8 earthquake off the Japanese coast rattled Tokyo early
Wednesday, seismologists and national television said.

U.S. deploys more than 43,000 unfit for combat
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More than 43,000 U.S. troops listed as medically unfit for combat in the
weeks before their scheduled deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan since
2003 were sent anyway, Pentagon records show.

MONEY
A new kind of crash-test dummy is born at Ford
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Ford Motor has redesigned the midsection of child-size crash-test
dummies to help carmakers invent seat belts that could protect children
against abdominal injuries.

Baskin-Robbins scooping out new territory: Soft serve
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Baskin-Robbins, the world's largest ice cream chain, Thursday will
announce plans to sell soft-serve ice cream, a risky marketing move that
it has resisted since its founding 62 years ago.