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• 6. US PROTESTS AS IRAN PUTS A MONKEY INTO SPACE
• The State Department says the mission is "directly relevant" to long-range ballistic missile development.
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• 7. TRANSPLANT SURGERY FOR SOLDIER WHO LOST FOUR LIMBS
• Brendan Marrocco will speak later today about his double-arm transplant.
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• 8. WHY THE DUTCH QUEEN IS ABDICATING THE THRONE
• Beatrix is ending her reign after 33 years to pass the crown to her eldest son, Willem-Alexander.
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• 9. HOW TO HAVE A FUNERAL FOR A CADAVER
• At an Indiana medical school, relatives attend memorials around the flower-covered tables where their loved ones were dissected.
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• 10. FROM KATRINA TO THE SUPER BOWL
• New Orleans hosts its first Super Bowl in 11 years and gives football fans a look at its comeback from the 2005 storm that left it in shambles.
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AP News in Brief
No alarm, no escape: Focus turns to Brazil nightclub's safeguards after deadly fire
• SANTA MARIA, Brazil (AP) -- There was no alarm, no extinguishers, no sprinklers and almost no escape from the nightclub that became a death trap for more than 200 Brazilian college students.
• As investigators began poking through the rubble and families mourned their dead, questions abounded as the university city in southern Brazil tried to understand how the Sunday morning blaze that killed 231 people could have been sparked in the first place, then rage rapidly out of control.
• Why was there only one door available for exit and entry? What was the flammable material in the ceiling that allowed the conflagration to move so quickly? And, more pointedly, why was a band playing at the club allowed to use pyrotechnics inside the building?
• Police were leaning toward the band's pyrotechnics as the cause of the blaze (Continued on page 28)
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