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No Child Left Behind program is going unused. Government addresses problem with No Federal Education Program Left Behind program.

Former Connecticut governor leaves prison. Film about his emotional journey to self-discovery, "Picking Up My Political Soap (that I dropped in the prison shower)," will premiere this Sunday on the Lifetime Network.

Oil giants fall behind on fees. Although fi's and fo's surpass prestigious industry standards, level of fum's is also abominable.

Penn junior held for attempted murder. Student was allowed one phone call, 15 text messages and unlimited nights and weekends blog access on Blackberry.

As opera audiences shrink, the Met gets daring. For horned-helmet roles, company imports real Vikings from 8th Century Norway.

High School graduation rate fell in 2005. Vitamin C makes comeback with bittersweet single, the "Unemployed Cocaine-Addict Dropout Song."

95 pounds heavier, angry son faces mother who starved him. Son taunts hand-cuffed mother by slowly eating father.

Warning urged on stimulants like Ritalin. One ardent junky defends drug as "the only thing good in my life. Don't take it away, FDA. Don't take it away or I will lose my attention span and never finish this senten...."

Auditors find huge fraud in storm aid. FEMA's accounting records declared a natural disaster.

Experts sound alarm as bird flu spreads. However, local parakeet learns to imitate alarm, and baffles experts.

Wind and snow strike 14 states: record accumulation in NYC. Local drug addict mistakes powdered streets for afterlife.

Yahoo grapples with online rights. rOsApArKzQT refuses to sign out of chatroom.

Cheney shoots fellow hunter in mishap on Texas ranch. Before accident, Cheney quoted as saying, "Be vewwy vewwy quiet, I'm hunting Democwats."

Penn reports that Ph.D. might not be worth it. 6th year Ph.D. candidate expresses his relief: "And to think, I almost wasted the next four months finishing this dissertation"