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• 4. ELECTION ROLLS YOU DON'T WANT TO BE ON
• Residents and election administrators around the country report a series of bizarre and questionable mailings addressed to animals, dead people, noncitizens and people already registered to vote.
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• 5. SHHH! ... SAUDIS MUM ON FEMALE OLYMPIANS
• Word that Saudi Arabia is sending women athletes to the Olympics for the first time rocketed to the top of websites and broadcasts. In Saudi Arabia's official media: Not even a hint.
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• 6. AUTISTIC MAN SURVIVES THREE-WEEK ORDEAL IN DESERT
• The 28-year-old from Colorado is found emaciated but alive after living off mainly frogs and roots while wandering lost in the remote Escalante Desert of southern Utah, authorities say.
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• 7. ECUADOR'S UNIQUE INVESTMENT IN EDUCATION
• The government is offering $250,000 scholarships to students accepted at the world's top 50 universities. The trade off? Return home and devote two years to government service for each year of state-paid education.
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• 8. WHY "AMERICAN IDOL" IS ON THE BRINK OF AN ADOLESCENT CRISIS

• Steven Tyler is leaving, Jennifer Lopez is dithering about staying, and the TV talent contest field keeps getting more crowded and competitive as the Fox show's ratings slide.
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• 9. WHEN YOU CAN BID ON AMERICAN GANGSTER PARAPHERNALIA
• The guns that 1930s outlaws and lovers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were carrying when they were ambushed by law enforcement agents are going up for auction Sept. 30.
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• 10. CLIPPERS STAR OUT OF OLYMPICS
• Blake Griffin will have surgery to repair torn cartilage in his left knee and the U.S. forward will miss the London Games. New Orleans Hornets rookie Anthony Davis may replace him.
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