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• 2. CALIF. FIREFIGHTERS MAKING HEADWAY
• While a huge blaze near Yosemite continues to grow in size, containment numbers are up.
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• 3. WHERE SPIN IS IN
• The transparency surrounding Bo Xilai's trial -- even though the outcome is a foregone conclusion -- likely shows China's PR machinery has become more sophisticated.
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• 4. OBAMA SALUTES AFGHAN WAR VETERAN
• The president bestows the Medal of Honor on Army Staff Sgt. Ty Carter for risking his life to save an injured soldier during intense fighting.
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• 5. WHY CHELSEA MANNING SPILLED PERSONAL SECRET
• The Wikileaker, formerly known as Bradley Manning, decided to announce that she wants to live as a woman only after the military publicly said that it would not provide hormone treatment, her lawyer says.
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• 6. TRANSPLANT PATIENT LEAVING HOSPITAL
• Ten-year-old Sarah Murnaghan spurred a national debate over donated organs this summer when she received two sets of lungs at a Philadelphia hospital.
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• 7. HOW NJ CASINOS HOPE TO END THEIR LOSING STREAK
• The strip club Scores is opening a satellite in the Trump Taj Mahal Casino -- a first during Atlantic City's 35 years of legal gambling.
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• 8. EX-PRESIDENT RECALLS ASSASSINATION TRY
• In a newly unsealed videotape, Gerald Ford describes the day in 1975 when Manson disciple Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme came at him with a gun.
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• 9. WHO'S SUING OVER A TELL-ALL
• Kate Gosselin accuses her ex-husband of stealing her hard drive and hacking her phone and computer to get material for the 2012 book.
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• 10. VENUS ADVANCES AT US OPEN
• Showing she's still got game, the 60th-ranked Williams upsets Wimbledon semifinalist Kirsten Flipkens.

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