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dresses and smocks, pants and shorts, hats and shoes, even dangly earrings and bracelets. There's apparently no garment -- nor nail polish -- that can't be fashioned into something akin to a national banner.
• Although the sponsorship police at the International Olympic Committee can stop merchants from using the five Olympic rings, there's no trademark police on flags.
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• PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- In a show of technological wizardry, the robotic explorer Curiosity blazed through the pink skies of Mars, steering itself to a gentle

landing inside a giant crater for the most ambitious dig yet into the red planet's past.
• Cheers and applause echoed through the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory late Sunday after the most high-tech interplanetary rover ever built signaled it had survived a harrowing plunge through the thin Mars atmosphere.
• "Touchdown confirmed," said engineer Allen Chen. "We're safe on Mars."
• Minutes after the landing signal reached Earth at 10:32 p.m. PDT, Curiosity beamed back the first black-and-white pictures from inside the crater showing its wheel and its shadow, cast by the afternoon sun.
• "We landed in a nice flat spot. Beautiful, really beautiful," said engineer Adam Steltzner, who led the team that devised the tricky landing routine.
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• OAK CREEK, Wis. (AP) -- As worshippers prayed and meditated at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin on Sunday morning, about a dozen women were preparing food in the temple kitchen for a meal after services which are open to community members, regardless of religious affiliation.
• Then the shooting started, sending terrified congregants scrambling for cover.
• When the gunfire finally ended in a shootout between a gunman and police outside the temple in suburban Milwaukee, seven people lay dead, including the suspect, and three others were critically wounded in what police called an act of domestic terrorism.
• Satpal Kaleka, wife of the temple's president, Satwant Singh Kaleka, was in the

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