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• "Today, I will make you one promise: I will try my best for you," she said.
• Suu Kyi, who arrived in Bangkok late Tuesday, left her luxury hotel and the skyscraper-packed capital Wednesday for the nearby town of Mahachai, home to Thailand's largest population of Burmese migrants. Thousands of Myanmar's downtrodden crowded around her and chanted: "Long Live Mother Suu!"
• "I had only seen her on TV and in newspapers," said Saw Hla Tun, who left Myanmar's Karen state seven years ago and earns a meager wage carrying heavy salt sacks on his back. "I couldn't hold back my tears when I saw her."
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New underground lab turns S. Dakota gold town into scientific hub in search for 'dark matter'
• LEAD, S.D. (AP) -- Nestled nearly 5,000 feet beneath the earth in the gold boom town of Lead, S.D., is a laboratory that could help scientists answer some pretty heavy questions about life, its origins and the universe.
• It's hard to spot from the surface. Looking around the rustic town, there are far more nods to its mining past than to its scientific future, but on Wednesday, when part of the closed Homestake Gold Mine officially becomes an underground campus, Lead's name will be known in scientific circles as the place where the elusive stuff called dark matter might finally be detected.
• Unimpressed? Consider this: It's sure to earn itself a reference on TV's "The Big Bang Theory."
• "This year, 2012, is going to be a very significant year because we get to turn the ... detector on and know very soon whether we have actually found dark matter or not," said Rick Gaitskell, a scientist with Brown University who has worked alongside dozens of scientists over the past few years to move forward with the Large Underground Xenon experiment -- or LUX -- the world's most sensitive dark-matter detector.
• For most people, dark matter is a term that made their eyes glaze over in science class. But for Gaitskell and scientists like him, it's the mystery meat of existence.
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Already saddled with college debt, students encounter another financial burden -- card fees
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- It took Mario Parker-Milligan less than a semester to decide that he was paying too many fees to Higher One, the company hired by his col (Continued on page 31)
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