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Yahoo! Daily News Digest: Front Page News for Saturday, November 17, 2007 12:00 AM PSTArmy desertion rate up 80 pct. since '03http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=542&e=1&u=/ap/20071117/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/military_desertersAP - Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:46 pm PSTSoldiers strained by six years at war are deserting their posts at the highest rate since 1980, with the number of Army deserters this year showing an 80 percent increase since the United States invaded Iraq in 2003.Democrats unable to bring troops homehttp://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=512&e=2&u=/ap/20071117/ap_on_go_co/us_iraqAP - Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:47 pm PSTNearly a year after anti-war voters put them in power, congressional Democrats remain unable to pass legislation ordering troops home from Iraq. Frustrated by Republican roadblocks, Democrats now plan to sit on President Bush's ${dlvDollarSign}196 billion request for war spending until next year pushing the Pentagon toward an accounting nightmare and deepening their conflict with the White House on the war.Bangladesh cyclone kills reported 1,100http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=516&e=3&u=/ap/20071117/ap_on_re_as/bangladesh_cycloneAP - Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:05 pm PSTMilitary ships and helicopters joined in rescue and relief operations Saturday for survivors of a cyclone that savaged coastal Bangladesh, killing a reported 1,100 people in the deadliest such storm in more than a decade.US air assault targets militants in Iraqhttp://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&e=4&u=/ap/20071117/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraqAP - Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:50 pm PSTHundreds of American and Iraqi troops backed by helicopters descended Friday on a remote desert area southwest of Baghdad to root out al-Qaida in Iraq and search for two U.S. soldiers missing after a deadly insurgent ambush six months ago.Giuliani would pick conservative judgeshttp://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&e=5&u=/ap/20071117/ap_on_el_pr/giuliani_federalistsAP - Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:52 pm PSTRudy Giuliani assured a conservative legal group Friday that if elected president he would appoint federal judges who adhere to their principles. He also praised a judge who declared the capital city's gun ban unconstitutional and ridiculed efforts to eliminate the words "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance.Toy recalls, iffy economy aid shoppershttp://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=509&e=6&u=/ap/20071117/ap_on_bi_ge/holiday_toy_recallAP - Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:08 pm PSTLead on toys was bad enough, but last week's recall of a toy tainted with a date rape drug threatens to turn into a lump of coal for toy retailers just as the key holiday selling season gets started.US envoy to press Musharrafhttp://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=516&e=7&u=/ap/20071117/ap_on_re_as/pakistanAP - Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:31 pm PSTPresident Gen. Pervez Musharraf faces a stern warning from a top American diplomat on Saturday: end emergency rule or wreck landmark elections and risk undermining vital U.S. support.Blockbuster charts course to digital agehttp://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=493&e=8&u=/ap/20071117/ap_en_mo/reinventing_blockbusterAP - Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:11 pm PSTIn his corner office 32 floors above downtown, Blockbuster CEO James Keyes pulls out his phone and starts up last year's Oscar winner, "Crash," to demonstrate his vision of the movie-rental giant's future.Oregon's Dixon tears ACL, out for seasonhttp://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=566&e=9&u=/ap/20071117/ap_on_sp_co_ne/fbc_t25_oregon_dixonAP - Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:54 pm PSTDennis Dixon will have surgery on the left knee that buckled early in second-ranked Oregon's upset loss to Arizona, spoiling his chance to win the Heisman Trophy. The quarterback tore his anterior cruciate ligament during Oregon's Nov. 3 victory over Arizona State, according to coach Mike Bellotti, but he had rested it and felt as if he was ready to play Thursday night against the Wildcats.Mom: Web hoax led girl to kill herselfhttp://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&e=10&u=/ap/20071117/ap_on_re_us/internet_suicideAP - Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:28 pm PSTMegan Meier thought she had made a new friend in cyberspace when a cute teenage boy named Josh contacted her on MySpace and began exchanging messages with her.N.H. probes anti-Romney 'poll' callshttp://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&e=11&u=/ap/20071116/ap_on_el_pr/republicans_push_pollingAP - Fri, 16 Nov 2007 03:36 pm PSTNew Hampshire's attorney general is investigating phone calls to voters that pretend to be opinion polls but then undercut presidential contender Mitt Romney and his Mormon faith and make favorable statements about Republican rival John McCain. McCain says they're not his doing and he wants them stopped. Romney says it's a religious attack and "un-American."Robotic bugs mingle with cockroacheshttp://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=624&e=12&u=/ap/20071117/ap_on_sc/robots_and_roachesAP - Fri, 16 Nov 2007 07:58 pm PSTTiny robots programmed to act like roaches were able to blend into cockroach society, according to researchers studying the collective behavior of insects. Cockroaches tend to self-organize into leaderless groups, seeming to reach consensus on where to rest together.UK fat patients claim discriminationhttp://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=541&e=13&u=/ap/20071116/ap_on_he_me/britain_fat_patientsAP - Fri, 16 Nov 2007 02:47 pm PSTFor two years, Frances Kinley-Manton says she lived with arthritis pain in her hips, a condition that kept her in a wheelchair. She wanted hip replacement surgery. But doctors at Britain's National Health Service said she was too fat for the operation. "They wouldn't even put me on a waiting list," Kinley-Manton recalled.Woman stabs dog that attacked her cathttp://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=817&e=14&u=/ap/20071117/ap_on_fe_st/odd_dog_stabbedAP - Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:45 pm PSTAuthorities said a woman stabbed a pit bull that got into her house and attacked her cat. The Otter Tail County sheriff's office said the woman's daughter and a friend were walking into the house on Wednesday evening when the neighborhood dog made it past them and got into the home.Arc de truculencehttp://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2328&e=15&u=/csm/20071116/cm_csm/efranceThe Christian Science Monitor - Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:00 am PSTThe French are at it again: transit strikes and student barricades this week; work stoppages for teachers, hospital workers, and judges next week. Oh yes, the French are all for the reform agenda of their feisty new president, Nicolas Sarkozy as long as it doesn't affect them personally.You received this email because you subscribed to Yahoo! Alerts.

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