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loss of shade and greenery in their neighborhoods. Museum officials have pledged to replant at least double the number of lost trees.
• But Friday brought nothing but good feelings as the shuttle became California's biggest star, the people its paparazzi.
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• LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Kevin Costner, Amy Poehler, Bryan Cranston, Zooey Deschanel, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and other Emmy-nominated actors celebrated their success at a series of parties around Tinseltown.
• Most began their evening at the Emmy Performers nominee reception Friday at the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles. That's where nominees received certificates acknowledging their acting achievements.

• The nominated actors posed for a class photo, with many proudly holding their certificates above their heads.
• "This is like graduation," said Elizabeth Moss, nominated for her work on "Mad Men."
• "You get to meet so many people you might not get to see at the Emmys," beamed the newly blonde actress.
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• NEW YORK (AP) -- Major League Baseball no longer has to worry about having a suspended drug cheat as batting champion.
• Melky Cabrera asked to be disqualified, and his request was agreed to Friday.
• With less than two weeks left in the regular season and Cabrera on track to win the National League batting championship, MLB and the players' association reached a deal on a one-season-only change in the rule governing the individual batting, slugging and on-base percentage champions.
• "To be plain, I personally have no wish to win an award that would widely be seen as tainted, and I believe that it would be far better for the remaining contenders to compete for that distinction," Cabrera wrote in a letter obtained by The Associated Press.
• "So too, the removal of my name from consideration will permit me to focus on my goal of working hard upon my return to baseball so that I may be able to win that

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