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• 7. HOPE RISES FOR US-IRAN THAW
• Obama and Rouhani have exchanged letters, and may meet briefly next week when the Iranian president attends the U.N. General Assembly.
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• 8. WHY CLARENCE THOMAS IS OFTEN SEEN BUT NOT HEARD
• The quietest of the Supreme Court's justices says his college nuns taught him the most important word he has ever learned: "Shhh!"
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• 9. PRINCE OF A GUY WORKS AT DAIRY QUEEN
• An employee sees a woman pick up $20 dropped by a visually impaired man and refuses to serve her until she gives it back. When she refuses, he gives the man $20 from his own pocket.
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• 10. WHO PROVES YOU CAN GO HOME AGAIN
• Andy Reid makes a successful return to Philadelphia as his new team, the Kansas City Chiefs, downs his old one 26-16.
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AP News in Brief
'I felt him breathe': Before memorable photos, a frantic escape from Navy Yard's Building 197
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- The first bang sounded distant and muffled. On the fourth floor, Bertillia Lavern assumed somebody downstairs was setting up for an event and had dropped a folding table.
• But when the bangs kept coming, Lavern recognized the sounds.
• Years earlier, before taking a civilian office job at Naval Sea Systems headquarters, Lavern was a Navy medical specialist. Known as a corpsman, she'd been on training operations with the Marines. She knew the snap of gunfire.
• The 39-year-old hit the ground and scurried under a desk with her supervisor in a nearby cubicle, she said. They stayed there silently as the shots continued.
• From that vantage point, the building's open floor plan allowed her to view the fifth floor, where she saw someone moving.
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