The 9-year-old turned her headlamp toward the dried brown leaves and braved the prickly bushes to pick up the squirmy toad.

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The coming elections are likely to thin the ranks of centrist Democrats even further, and may also pick off Scott Brown of Massachusetts, one of the few remaining moderate Republicans.

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There are still aren't, you know, very many lines dedicated to women of color, so you really have to shop around--you know, going to Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, and then going to the drugstore to pick up some Black Opal foundations, and then going to Wet 'n' Wild to get a lipstick.

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They had the first overall pick in the draft, and Jordan chosehigh-school phenom Kwame Brown.

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