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• 5. WHERE TAX REFORM IS HEADED
• Nowhere fast. The package seems destined to take its place in Congress' "do not disturb" corner with immigration legislation.
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• 6. FEDS REDESIGNING 'NUTRITION FACTS' LABELS ON FOOD PACKAGES
• Calories would be in larger, bolder type, and consumers would know whether foods have added sugars.
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• 7. WHO'S PROVIDING THE HIGH LIFE
• Global airlines are increasingly extending a perk to wealthy fliers: physical distance between them and everyone else. The idea is to provide an exclusive experience inaccessible, even invisible, to the masses in coach.
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• 8. RALLYING BEHIND 'EL CHAPO'
• Hundreds march in the streets in the western city of Culiacan, demanding that Mexican authorities free the boss of the powerful Sinaloa drug cartel, who they say provides jobs for the poor.
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• 9. WHY GALAXY IS LOOKING MORE CROWDED
• NASA's Kepler telescope confirms the discovery of 715 new planets outside our solar system.
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• 10. TV PERSONALITY JIM LANGE DIES AT 81
• He was the first host of the popular game show "The Dating Game."
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AP News in Brief
Gunmen seize government buildings in Ukraine's Crimea; pro-Western government formed in Kiev
• SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine (AP) -- Dozens of heavily armed gunmen seized control of local government buildings in Ukraine's Crimea region early Thursday and raised the Russian flag, mirroring the three-month protest movement that drove Ukraine's pro-Russian president into hiding last week.
• The moves escalated tensions in Ukraine, whose population is divided in loyalties between Russia and the West. Some 150,000 Russian soldiers carried out military exercises and fighter jets patrolled the border, as a respected Russian newspa (Continued on page 28)
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