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Dume, attracting onlookers who wandered down the narrow beach to look at the remains -- white bones, rolls of blubber and the tail flukes trailing along the water's edge. Massive estates line the cliffs high above the beach in Malibu.
• Jonsie Ross, marine mammal coordinator for the California Wildlife Center, said

evidence suggests the whale was hit by a ship.
• No government agency took action to remove the dead whale, and it appeared the job would be left to Mother Nature.
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• NEW YORK (AP) -- It sure didn't feel like a farewell.
• The Rolling Stones -- average age 68-plus, if you're counting -- were in rollick

ing form as they rocked the Barclays Center in Brooklyn for 2½ hours Saturday night, their first U.S. show on a mini-tour marking a mind-boggling 50 years as a rock band.
• And although every time the Stones tour, the inevitable questions arise, -- whether it's "The Last Time," to quote one of their songs -- there was no sign that anything is ending anytime soon.
• "People say, why do you keep doing this?" mused 69-year-old Mick Jagger, the band's impossibly energetic frontman, before launching into "Brown Sugar." ''Why do you keep touring, coming back? The answer is, you're the reason we're doing this. Thank you for buying our records and coming to our shows for the last 50 years."
• Jagger was in fine form, with strong vocals and his usual swagger -- strutting, jogging, skipping and pumping his arms like a man half his age. And though he briefly donned a flamboyant feathered black cape for "Sympathy for the Devil" and later, some red-sequined tails, he was mostly content to prowl the stage in a tight black T-shirt and trousers.
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• LAS VEGAS (AP) -- No need for Juan Manuel Marquez to impress the judges. No need for the referee to count to 10.
• Marquez took care of all of his business Saturday night with a thunderous right hand that left Manny Pacquiao face first on the canvas with his remarkable career in

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