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Partisan lines drawn in Sotomayor nomination debate Obama selects Alabama family doc, Genius Grant recipient for Surgeon General Dems nudge harder for CIA/Cheney investigation Kim Jong-Il diagnosed with pancreatic cancer Obama's "tough love" message to Africa In wake of protests, Philadelphia swim club asks kids back Alcohol cuts dementia risk... except when it doesn't

• Over 90 dead in Italy earthquake, thousands homeless
• Disaster economics: Milan shares fall after quake
• North Korea launches rocket, world becomes highly nervous

• The 30-minute Obama-mercial blankets the primetime airwaves tonight
• Earthquake in southwestern Pakistan kills at least 160
• North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il is, well, very ill

An engrossing and timely documentary, Abduction tells the story of young Megumi Yokota, a Japanese teenager who vanishes while walking home from school one afternoon in 1977. While her parents and the police initially suspect a typical runaway or child abduction scenario, two decades go by without any clue as to her whereabouts.