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		<description><![CDATA[ CHICAGO - Defiant and upbeat, Illinois US Senate appointee Roland Burris said yesterday that upon arriving in Washington, he plans to tell Democratic leaders: "I'm here to take my seat."   But Burris faces an uphill battle on Capitol Hill, where...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Leftist anti-American Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is acting a lot like a profit-driven capitalist.   Chavez suddenly shut down a free heating-oil program for poor Americans - intended to mock the US government - after a market crash made his...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[  WASHINGTON -For decades, astronomers thought the Milky Way was weaker than Andromeda. Not anymore.   The Milky Way galaxy is larger and spinning faster than was thought.   Scientists mapped the Milky Way and found that it's 15 percent larger than...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Brooklyn  Police are asking for the public's help to find this man (right) who disappeared after leaving his Coney Island home.   Kenneth Viera, 53, who lives on Avenue S at West Seventh Street, was last seen on Saturday. He is 6-foot-6 and weighs...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[CITY GIVES UP BASEBALL STADIUM LUXURY BOXES]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration is bowing to critics and will forgo luxury boxes at the new ballparks for the Yankees and Mets.  A Bloomberg spokesman said today the city has worked out a deal to get extra money from the Yankees and put...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[LI MAN ACCUSED OF STABBING PIT BULL]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[  MIDDLE ISLAND, N.Y. -- A Long Island man is accused of felony animal cruelty after police say he fatally stabbed his family's pit bull.   Suffolk County police say 35-year-old Lamont Yarborough stabbed the pit bull multiple times inside he...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[ ALBANY, N.Y. - New York's unemployment claims systems have crashed, overwhelmed by tens of thousands of jobless New Yorkers trying to call or log in at once ahead of this week's filing deadline.  State labor department officials say the problem...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Heavy drinking might be responsible for more sexual HIV transmission than illicit drugs, according to a new study by the city's Health Department.   The study found that people who abused alcohol tended to have more sex partners, which put them at...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[  The widow of a brave firefighter killed on Black Sunday sobbed uncontrollably yesterday when her husband's desperate cries of "Mayday!" were played in a hushed courtroom.   Curtis Meyran, 46, and five other firefighters were trapped in a maze of...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[  A former Vogue cover girl is standing up to cyber bullies - fighting to unmask the anonymous cowards who've turned to the Web to ruin her reputation in the modeling business with a "Skanks in NYC" blog.  Liskula Cohen, 36, is seeking a court order...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Back from visiting Israeli cities facing terrorist missiles, Mayor Bloomberg returned to one of the more mundane tasks of his job yesterday by filling a Brooklyn pothole.   "It was, so far, the highlight of my day," the mayor joked in Sheepshead...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Gov. Paterson has asked Caroline Kennedy and the other dozen or so candidates vying for Hillary Rodham Clinton's Senate seat to complete a deeply personal 28-page questionnaire by tomorrow to help him with his choice.   The document, mailed last...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[ ALBANY - A good-government reform group that four years ago branded the state Legislature the most dysfunctional in the nation declared yesterday, "Albany remains broken."   NYU Law School's Brennan Center for Justice said virtually nothing had...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[ A JetBlue passenger who was forced to cover up a T-shirt that read, "We will not be silent" in Arabic and English before boarding a cross-country flight won a $240,000 settlement from the airline and the Transportation Security Administration...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[ He didn't make it home in time for Christmas, but John Gotti Jr. is hoping to get sprung from jail while he waits to be tried a fourth time on racketeering charges.   In court papers filed yesterday in Manhattan, defense lawyers said the mob scion...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[ ALBANY - Senate Democrats yesterday demanded a criminal probe of a bombshell memorandum showing Republicans plotting to use their state-funded Senate staffers for campaign purposes.   "What's detailed in the memo appears to be a blatant misuse of...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer's handpicked economic-development czar, who has overseen projects that wound up mired in delays and cost overruns, is stepping down as president of the Empire State Development Corp.   But Avi Schick's resignation...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[  What chutzpah!   Ponzi-scheme pilferer Bernard Madoff secretly mailed more than $1 million worth of jewelry, valuables and Hanukkah gifts to relatives and friends after he was pinched, it emerged yesterday.   Prosecutors dragged the archswindler...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Two hospital workers helped uncover an alleged Medicaid drug-treatment scam that prosecutors say has cheated taxpayers out of $50 million, The Post has learned.   The heroic whistleblowers in the fraud case - first reported in yesterday's Post -...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[  A Canadian man didn't run a-fowl of the law when he hurled live chickens at several stores.   Yelling, "Chickens are murder," the 20-year-old tossed a live bird into cooked-chicken displays at a Saskatchewan convenience store. Minutes later, two...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[ BERLIN - German billionaire Adolf Merckle has committed suicide after his business empire, which included interests ranging from pharmaceuticals to cement, ran into trouble in the global financial crisis, his family said Tuesday.  The 74-year-old's...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama's Kenyan step-grandmother will be among the millions of people in Washington for the Inauguration.  Sarah Obama, the stepmother of Obama's Kenyan-born father, will join representatives from the Kenyan...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Israeli mortar shells exploded Tuesday near a U.N. school in Gaza that was sheltering hundreds of people displaced by Israel's onslaught against Hamas militants, killing at least 30 Palestinians, tearing bodies apart and staining streets with...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[  PARIS - "My life is not a novel," says Rachida Dati (right), the glamorous, Muslim-born French justice minister who, at 43, has become a single mother and refused to identify the father.   But one could argue that not only is Dati's life a novel...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[UN-FAIRWAY TO GO DEAF]]></title>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[By RITA DELFINER]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Golfers who use thin-faced titanium drivers may risk damage to their hearing, researchers said.   An ear, nose and throat specialist and colleagues at Norfolk and Norwich University in Britain believe the noise of the club hitting the ball accounts...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[FRENCH NAVY WINS! (REALLY. STOP LAUGHING)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Incroyable! The French navy finally notched a victory.   The fleet from a country known more for its lightning-quick surrenders than its military successes captured more than a dozen Somali pirates (right) and rescued two threatened cargo ships off...]]></description>
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