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ously up to the top of a 7,500-foot (2,300-meter) peak last week and forcibly dislodged a clutch of soldiers from a strategic outpost.
• These verdant, craggy mountains are the Nasa's ancestral lands and the Indians say they are fed up with violent usurpers. They are demanding that the country's military and its rebel foes leave their enclave in the southwestern state of Cauca.
• Yet neither side in Colombia's half-century old conflict is heeding the Nasas' wishes to leave them in peace. Their homeland lies on a key corridor that rebels and their chief funding source, cocaine, regularly transit on their way to the Pacific coast.
• The government alleges that some of the 115,000 Nasa are allied with rebels of the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, which authorities say

purchases the high-quality marijuana that many Indians grow.
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• SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Fire officials in California say at least 21 people were treated for burns after attendees of an event for motivational speaker Tony Robbins tried to walk on hot coals.
• The San Jose Mercury News reports (http://bit.ly/OJ9ha3http://bit.ly/OJ9ha3 ) that at least three people went to a hospital and most suffered second- or third-degree burns.
• Robbins was hosting a 4-day gathering called "Unleash the Power Within" at the San Jose Convention Center. Witnesses say on Thursday, a crowd went to a park where 12 lanes of hot coals were on the grass.
• Robbins' website promotes "The Firewalk Experience" in which people walk on super-heated coals.
• Witness Jonathan Correll says he heard "screams of agony."
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• LYTHAM ST. ANNES, England (AP) -- With a nifty shot out of the bunker and an emphatic pump of his clenched fist, Tiger Woods made one thing clear: He's right back in the hunt for a 15th major championship.
• Now, he's got to show he can finish the job on the weekend, which used to be a

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