Back to School [News Bits]
- 85% of people displaced by flooding in Pakistan are women and children.
- Venezuela deadlier than Iraq, with 16,000 civilian deaths in 2009.
- 33 Chilean miners alive after mine collapse, but it could take four months to get them out.
- S. Africa's ANC ruling party wants more control over the press.
- Muslims in Tennessee stunned by reaction to plans for a mosque in Murfreesboro.
- School's back in session: remember, don't use your cell phone in a school zone!
- Neil Patrick Harris and Betty White win awards at the Creative Arts Emmy ceremony.
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