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• BERLIN (AP) -- German pastor Gabriele Stangl says she will never forget the harrowing confession she heard in 1999. A woman said she had been brutally raped, got pregnant and had a baby. Then she killed it and buried it in the woods near Berlin.
• Stangl wanted to do something to help women in such desperate situations. So the following year, she convinced Berlin's Waldfriede Hospital to create the city's first so-called "baby box." The box is actually a warm incubator that can be opened from an outside wall of a hospital where a desperate parent can anonymously leave an unwanted infant.
• A small flap opens into the box, equipped with a motion detector. An alarm goes off in the hospital to alert staff two minutes after a baby is left.
• "The mother has enough time to leave without anyone seeing her," Stangl said. "The important thing is that her baby is now in a safe place."
• Baby boxes are a revival of the medieval "foundling wheels," where unwanted infants were left in revolving church doors. In recent years, there has been an increase in these contraptions -- also called hatches, windows or slots in some countries -- and at least 11 European nations now have them, according to United Nations figures. They are technically illegal, but mostly operate in a gray zone as authorities turn a blind eye.
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• LOS ANGELES (AP) -- For four straight plays in the waning minutes, Notre Dame's defense was backed up to its 1 with its perfect season in peril.
• And on four straight plays, Southern California got nothing.
• "We're going to fight," linebacker Manti Te'o said. "That's our name. It doesn't matter where we are."
• The Fighting Irish will be in Miami next. With one another hard-nosed victory, they punched their ticket to the BCS championship game.
• Theo Riddick rushed for 146 yards and a touchdown, Kyle Brindza kicked five field goals, and No. 1 Notre Dame secured the chance to play for the national title

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