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• It was not immediately clear which side bore the brunt of the latest unrest, but terrified Muslims, who make up about 30 percent of Meikhtila's 100,000 inhabitants, stayed off the streets Friday as their shops and homes burned as angry Buddhist residents and monks tried to stop firefighters from dousing the blazes. Riot police crisscrossed the town seizing machetes and hammers from anxious Buddhist mobs.
• At least five mosques were torched and thousands of Muslims have fled their homes, escorted away by police to two makeshift camps. Some Buddhists, meanwhile, have sought shelter at local monasteries.
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Highly illogical: IRS training video that parodies 'Star Trek' apparently lacks training value
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nobody's going to win an Emmy for a parody of the TV show "Star Trek" filmed by Internal Revenue Service employees at an agency studio in Maryland.
• Instead, the IRS got a rebuke from Congress for wasting taxpayer dollars.
• The agency says the video, along with a training video that parodied the TV show "Gilligan's Island," cost about $60,000. The "Star Trek" video accounted for most of the money, the agency said.
• The IRS said Friday it was a mistake for employees to make the six-minute video. It was shown at the opening of a 2010 training and leadership conference but does not appear to have any training value.
• The video features an elaborate set depicting the control room, or bridge, of the spaceship featured in the hit TV show. IRS workers portray the characters, including one who plays Mr. Spock, complete with fake hair and pointed ears.
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NASA official says flash of light reported across East Coast sky likely a 'meteor event'
• NEW YORK (AP) -- East Coast residents were buzzing on social media sites and elsewhere Friday night after a brief but bright flash of light streaked across the early-evening sky --in what experts say was almost certainly a meteor coming down.
• Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environmental Office said the flash appears to be "a single meteor event." He said it "looks to be a fireball that moved roughly toward the southeast, going on visual reports."
• "Judging from the brightness, we're dealing with something as bright as the full (Continued on page 34)
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