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TOP MIAMI-DADE NEWS  
The Miami Herald
  Alert cancels flight to Miami International Airport
Six flights from Europe to the United States, including one to Miami, are canceled for security reasons.
A British Airways flight scheduled to leave London today for Miami was one of six U.S.-bound overseas flights grounded because of what federal officials described as a ''credible threat'' of a terrorist plot.

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TOP BROWARD NEWS  
The Miami Herald
  Broward elections chief wants 1,300 to help with March primary
Commissioners are expected to decide on Tuesday whether to loan 1,300 county employees to the elections office for the March presidential primary.
Broward County Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes has asked the county to provide 1,300 government employees to help run the March presidential primary.

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TOP FLORIDA NEWS  
The Miami Herald

  First soldiers of Florida's National Guard are nearly home
Throughout the parade field, hugs turned to lingering kisses. Moms and dads, wives, sisters and friends unleashed pent-up tears. It was a day for thanksgiving; a time for prayers answered.

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TOP NATION / WORLD NEWS  

  Dozens killed in Iraq suicide bombings
Nearby hospitals were crammed with corpses and the screaming wounded. Men, women and children had been blown to pieces in the predominantly Kurdish town Ibril, in northern Iraq.
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TOP AMERICAS NEWS  
The Miami Herald
  Aristide agrees to steps to ease crisis
The Haitian leader, at a meeting with Caribbean leaders, agrees to measures including a larger role for opponents and the repeal of curbs on protest.
Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide agreed Saturday to give opponents, demanding his resignation, a role in his government and to immediately rescind a controversial decree restricting where they can demonstrate to help end the country's political crisis.

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ELECTION 2004  

Candidates target undecided voters
Democratic presidential rivals worked across several time zones to sway undecided voters in states with contests Tuesday. It was a day of morning television appearances and evening Super Bowl parties.
 »  Schedule of primaries and caucuses
 »  Full Election 2004 coverage
  

ISSUES & IDEAS  
The Miami Herald

  Rx for healthcare
Democrats' plans are far-reaching - but they stop short of Clinton's disastrous efforts in '94
Amid concern over steeply rising health-care costs, the top-tier Democratic presidential candidates are offering far-reaching proposals for the uninsured but stopping short of the system-wide overhaul that former President Bill Clinton sought a decade ago.

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NEWS SPOTLIGHT  


  NASA's mission changing
The space agency is venturing in two directions it's rarely gone before: out of the grasp of Earth's gravity and deep into NASA's soul.


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TOP WEIRD NEWS  
AP Wire
  Whale of an explosion hits town
Folks in Taiwan wish the insides of a whale had stayed there. People covered their noses and business came to a halt after a dead, decomposing whale being transported on a truck burst because of a gas buildup.

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