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• 8. WHY MOURNING FOR HO HO'S MAY BE PREMATURE
• Hostess and striking workers agree to resume bargaining, providing hope that the popular cake-maker won't shut down.
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• 9. A PUSH FOR WIDESPREAD, ROUTINE HIV SCREENING
• All Americans ages 15 to 64 should get an HIV test at least once, a health panel says.
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• 10. HOW SANTA FEELS ABOUT TABLET COMPUTERS
• Same as last year, the AP's Peter Svensson reports. Tablets are even better-made now -- and fierce competition has kept prices very low.
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AP News in Brief
Congolese rebels penetrate Goma, take airport, push toward Bukavu
• GOMA, Congo (AP) -- A rebel group created just seven months ago attacked the strategic provincial capital of Goma, home to more than 1 million people in eastern Congo, on Tuesday, seizing part of the city and the international airport, according to a rebel spokesman, residents and eyewitnesses.
• Explosions and machine-gun fire rocked the lakeside city as the M23 rebels appeared to push forward on two fronts: toward the city center and along the road that leads to Bukavu, another provincial capital which lies to the south. The rebels are allegedly backed by neighboring Rwanda, which the Rwandan government denies.
• "We already took the airport and part of the city," said rebel spokesman Col. Vianney Kazarama, reached by telephone on Tuesday. "We are now inside the city of Goma."
• An official at the United Nations peacekeeping base in Goma, who requested anonymity because she was not authorized to speak to the press, confirmed that the airport had fallen. A factory owner whose business faces the airport said he saw the rebels go onto the tarmac. By late Tuesday morning, he said that the shooting had stopped there and that the airport appeared quiet.
• Goma was last threatened by rebels in 2008 when fighters stopped just short of Goma. The United Nations has said that if Goma were to fall, a humanitarian catas (Continued on page 26)
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