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die because of their habit.
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• 7. A BLOW TO ORGANIZED LABOR
• The government says union membership fell last year to its lowest level since the 1930s.
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• 8. RIFLES FOR SCHOOL GUARDS
• A suburban Los Angeles district bought 14 semi-automatic Colt rifles last month for school police officers.
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• 9. WHO'S JOINING THE FIGHT AGAINST NYC'S SODA BAN
• The NAACP and Hispanic leaders say small businesses would suffer if stopped from selling the supersize drinks.
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• 10. CHARLIE BROWN IS ARRESTED
• Peter Robbins, the actor who voiced the "Peanuts" cartoon character on TV, is charged with stalking his former girlfriend.
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AP News in Brief
Now that women can serve in combat roles, military chiefs will have to defend any exceptions
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Pentagon's decision to lift the ban on women serving in combat presents a daunting challenge to top military leaders who now will have to decide which, if any, jobs they believe should be open only to men.
• Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is expected to announce Thursday that more than 230,000 battlefront posts -- many in Army and Marine infantry units and in potentially elite commando jobs -- are now open to women. It will be up to the military service chiefs to recommend and defend whether women should be excluded from any of those more demanding and deadly positions, such as Navy SEALs or the Army's Delta Force.
• The historic change, which was recommended by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, overturns a 1994 rule prohibiting women from being assigned to smaller ground combat units.
• The change won't take place overnight: Service chiefs will have to develop plans for allowing women to seek the combat positions, a senior military official said. (Continued on page 27)
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