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• It began as a glorious late summer's day -- clear blue sky, shorts and shirt-sleeve kind of weather. Sunlight twinkled off the acrylic glass at the Olympic stadium. Tourists lounged beneath the umbrellas of outdoor cafes, chatting and sipping beer.
• The scene in Munich's Olympic Park on Sept. 5, 1972, was idyllic -- except for a helicopter from the German border police circling over buildings of the nearby village where the athletes lived.
• If you shaded your eyes, squinted against the blinding sunlight and knew where to look, you could just make out the images of armed uniformed German police standing on the buildings. Turn away and the horror of what was unfolding seemed to disappear.
• Forty years later, the stark images of what became known as the Munich Massacre remain seared in my memory.
• Eight Palestinian gunmen from the Black September organization had broken into the Olympic Village. There they seized 11 Israeli athletes, coaches and officials in their apartments.
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• WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government is taking steps to help ensure that children who need CT scans and other X-ray-based tests don't get an adult-sized dose of radiation.
• Too much radiation from medical testing is a growing concern, especially for children, because it may increase the risk of cancer later in life.
• Wednesday, the Food and Drug Administration proposed guidelines urging manufacturers to design new scanners to be safer for the youngest, smallest patients -- and put new advice on its website to teach parents what to ask about these increasingly common tests.
• "We are trying to ensure that patients get the right dose at the right time, and the right exam," FDA physicist Thalia Mills told The Associated Press.
• The use of CT scans, which show more detail than standard X-rays but entail far

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