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To help nonprofit group, woman eats on a dollar a day
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – As she concluded her quest to eat for 30 days on a mere $30, Maria Gajewski can think of nothing but ... “ . . . a big fruit salad,” she said, smiling at the thought.
- PUBLIC EYE
Photos to prove it
President Bush spent months joking about being a father of the bride, but yesterday he was downright wistful about giving his daughter Jenna away to her longtime beau.
- THE LIST
U.S. birth rates
Here are some statistics about births in the United States, from the U.S. Census Bureau.
- This day in history: 1978
- Boat sinks ferrying aid to Myanmar
YANGON, Myanmar – Myanmar's monumental task of feeding and sheltering 1.5 million cyclone survivors suffered another blow yesterday when a boat laden with relief supplies – one of the first international shipments – sank on its way to the disaster zone.
- Serbia's pro-Western party declares victory in parliamentary vote
BELGRADE, Serbia – Serbia's pro-Western president declared victory in yesterday's parliamentary elections – a stunning upset over ultranationalists who tried to exploit anger over Kosovo's independence. But his rivals vowed to fight on, and it was unclear if he could stave off their challenge.
- With Beirut quiet, fighting breaks out elsewhere in Lebanon
BEIRUT, Lebanon – Lebanon hung between fears of all-out war and hopes of political compromise yesterday as government supporters and opponents battled with rockets and machine guns in the mountains overlooking the capital.
- WORLD UPDATE
Sudan says Chad backed rebel assault
KHARTOUM, Sudan – Sudan severed ties with Chad yesterday, accusing its neighbor of backing a rebel assault on the capital and raising the possibility of new border clashes that could worsen Darfur's humanitarian crisis.
- Debt-laden farmers in India see no way out but suicide
KOCHI, India – On the last night of his life, the farmer walked into his dusty fields, choked down pesticide and waited to die.
- Thousands rally against Mexican drug cartel
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – Several thousand white-clad people marched silently yesterday to protest a surge of drug-related violence in a Mexican city across from Texas where the No. 2 police officer was shot dead.
- Military holding out hope for diplomacy in Sadr City
BAGHDAD – The U.S. military expressed hope yesterday for a diplomatic solution to seven weeks of fighting in Baghdad's Sadr City as a fragile cease-fire settled over the Shiite slum that houses nearly half the capital's 6 million people.
- Residents of Basra say al-Maliki's push broke 'circle of fear'
BASRA, Iraq – Three hundred miles south of Baghdad, the oil-saturated city of Basra has been transformed by its own surge, now seven weeks old.
- Daily developments
The U.S. military ordered the court-martial yesterday of a civilian contractor charged with aggravated assault while working as an Army translator in Iraq – the first such military prosecution since the Vietnam War.
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