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Headlines for 30 March 2006

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 Kidnapped journalist Jill Carroll has been freed.

 U.N. Security Council send Iran a strongly worded letter, asks IAEA to report back in a month.

 Experimental avian flu vaccine is 12 times the size of a standard flu vaccine. No word yet on the size of the needle.

 Today in the Tournament of Books: The first round draws to a close as Whitney Pastorek makes the call between Kristin Allo and Ian McEwan!

 Senators pass bill that will both regulate lobbyists and restore their constituents’ absolute trust.

 Part two of how the Department of Defense has delayed a ban on an industrial solvent, even though it’s killing those exposed to it.

 HBO filmmakers take credit for immigrant marches, even though it’s on cable.

 Afghan Christian granted asylum in Italy.

 Crime and Katrina: Houstonians say evacuees brought it with them, N.O. police say it’s surging back home.

 For everyone who is afraid of their houses, there is a product.

 Justice Scalia wants you to keep your Sicilian hand gestures straight.

 Video: The three-year-old who crawled into a claw machine at Godfather’s Pizza.

 Smart kids make dumb babies.

 Gestalt of Gary Benchley, nouveau hipster parents, and Neal Pollack.

 The Apple Corps/Apple Computer trial begins, and a lawyer downloads “Le Freak.”

 It’s the time of year when NASA releases “artist’s conceptions” of hotels on the moon or grand expeditions to Mars.

 First folio edition of Shakespeare plays will be auctioned this summer. And: Shakespeare got to get paid, son.

 How many zeroes are in a billion? Not everyone agrees.

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