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Tech & science: Special report on the Large Hadron Collider
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Super-smasher targets a massive mystery

The world's largest science experiment will re-create big-bang energies on the smallest scale, as part of a multibillion-dollar effort to solve the biggest puzzle in physics. Full story

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Spin through 
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See the collider
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Hurricane Ike pounds Cuba

  After bringing massive floods to Haiti, the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos, Category 2 storm blasts Cuba, where more than 1 million have been evacuated.  Full story  |    Video  |    Images

‘Hurricane fatigue’ sets in on Gulf Coast  |    Video
Interactive:  Track the storm
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How the
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have changed
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First Read:  New looks for Missouri, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Palin's baby gives a political boost
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NYT: Alaska governor's son has an unexpected effect on her fortunes. Full story

McCain leads Obama in new poll  |    Video
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2008 Republican National Convention: Day 3
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