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Farmer carves out Calif. record with huge pumpkin
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AP - That's a lot of pumpkin seeds. A Canadian farmer has won a contest in California with a pumpkin that weighs more than 1,500 pounds.
'Smoot' measurement reaches new heights at MIT
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 AP - The father of a measurement known as the "Smoot" returned Saturday to be honored at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the school where he and his fraternity brothers invented it 50 years ago.
GOP, Democrats battle in Pa. over voter dress code
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 AP - Sue Nace thought election volunteers were joking when they told her she would have to remove her T-shirt to vote in the presidential primary last spring.
Chinese wins tightrope contest across Seoul river
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 AP - A professional tightrope walker from China zipped along a wire strung across the Han River in just under 11 minutes to win Seoul's second international high-wire championship, which concluded Saturday.
Big fossil found in Ike-ravaged home's front yard
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 AP - A homeowner whose beachfront property in Texas was destroyed during Hurricane Ike has found a football-size fossil tooth in the debris.
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