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be talked about today (times in EDT):
• 1. REPUBLICANS CHEER ROMNEY'S DEBATE PERFORMANCE
• Even some Democratic partisans grudgingly acknowledged that the GOP candidate outperformed a cautious Obama, according to an analysis by AP's Charles Babington.
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• 2. ROMNEY: "I LOVE BIG BIRD"
• Twitter users posted 17,000 tweets per minute mentioning the Sesame Street star shortly after the Republican presidential candidate made this proclamation, the only bona fide sound bite of the debate.
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• 3. TENSIONS RISE ALONG A VOLATILE BORDER
• Turkish artillery fired on Syrian targets for a second day, but the shelling is described as a "warning" without intention to declare war.
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• 4. STATE DEPARTMENT OPENS BENGHAZI REVIEW
• Clinton pledges a full inquiry into whether security was adequate at the U.S. Consulate where an ambassador was killed.
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• 5. WHERE $10 MILLION OF POT WAS FOUND
• A marijuana farm with about 1,500 plants, some 8 feet tall, was discovered in the South Side of Chicago.
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• 6. ABORTION SHIP APPROACHING MOROCCAN SHORE
• If allowed, it would be the first time the Dutch ship, which terminates pregnancies in international waters, would dock at a Muslim country.
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• 7. WHAT'S SUSPECTED BEHIND DEADLY MENINGITIS OUTBREAK
• Everyone in five states who has been sickened had received steroid injections, mostly for back pain.
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• 8. THE NEWEST TEEN TREND: PHONE VALETS
• Thousands of teens in New York City who can't take their cells into school are paying a dollar a day to leave the devices in a truck parked nearby.
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• 9. WHO'S NOMINATED FOR THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME
• Rush, Deep Purple, Public Enemy and N.W.A. are among the 15 artists vying for

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