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• "Everything has pointed to the airplane having gone over the edge of that reef in a particular spot and the wreckage ought to be right down there," said Ric Gillespie, the founder and executive director of The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, the group leading the search.
• "We're going to search where it -- in quotes -- should be," he said. "And maybe it's there, maybe it's not. And there's no way to know unless you go and look."
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Mass. health care law, 6 years on, may point to successes and challenges ahead for federal law
• BOSTON (AP) -- Massachusetts has the nation's highest rate of residents with health insurance. Visits to emergency rooms are beginning to ease. More residents are getting cancer screenings and more women are making prenatal doctors' visits.
• Still, one of the biggest challenges for the state lies ahead: reining in spiraling costs.
• Six years after Gov. Mitt Romney signed the nation's most ambitious health care law -- one that would lay the groundwork for his presidential opponent's national version -- supporters say the Massachusetts law holds promise for the long-term success of Barack Obama's plan.
• Like the federal law it inspired, the Massachusetts law has multiple goals, among them expanding the number of insured residents, reducing emergency room visits, penalizing those who can afford coverage but opt to remain uninsured, and requiring employers to offer coverage or pay a fine.
• Supporters of the Massachusetts experiment are quick to point out its successes.
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Peru's big, ambitious low-cost program to provide students with laptops gets mixed grades
• LIMA, Peru (AP) -- Peru's equipping of more than 800,000 public schoolchildren in this rugged Andean nation with low-cost laptops ranks among the world's most ambitious efforts to leverage digital technology in the fight against poverty.
• Yet five years in, there are serious doubts about whether the largest single deployment in the One Laptop Per Child initiative inspired by MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte was worth the more than $200 million that Peru's government spent.
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