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• Fired for stripping, Houston reporter files discrimination complaint

  The former Houston Chronicle reporter who was fired after another publication exposed her second job as a night club stripper announced Thursday she had filed a federal gender discrimination complaint against the paper that let her go. In her complaint, Sarah Tressler, 30, is as …

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• The John Edwards trial: where it is; where it's going

  ANALYSIS GREENSBORO, N.C. — After an eventful first five days, here are three keys as the John Edwards case moves on to week two:

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• How Washington lost the war on childhood obesity

  Source: msnbc.com

  Food industry hasn't lost a single fight with DC despite mounting evidence that unhealthy food causes obesity

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• Kindergartner handcuffed, taken to police station after allegedly throwing tantrum -- and furniture

  The family of a 6-year-old Georgia girl is upset at police and school officials after the girl was handcuffed and taken to a police station for allegedly throwing furniture, tearing items off the walls and knocking over a shelf, which injured the principal.

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• All hope 'annihilated,' retiree kills himself outside Greek parliament

  A retired Greek pharmacist shot himself dead outside Greece's parliament Wednesday, saying he refused to scrounge for food in the garbage, touching a nerve among ordinary Greeks feeling the brunt of the country's economic crisis. The public suicide by the 77-year-old in the …

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