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• NEW YORK (AP) -- Alex Rodriguez is allowed to play. Now we'll find out if he can anymore.
• Coming off his second hip surgery in four years, the 38-year-old third baseman finally made his season debut Monday night for the New York Yankees -- hours after he was suspended through 2014 by Major League Baseball as part of the Biogenesis drug investigation.
• The embattled slugger promised to appeal his penalty, which probably keeps him in pinstripes for the rest of this year. After that, who knows if he'll ever take the field again?
• So he's not banned yet, but maybe he's all but finished. At least as A-Rod the All-Star.
• "I just hope that there's a happy ending there somewhere," he said.
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• PARIS (AP) -- The country that gave us the words restaurant, bistro and cuisine is changing how it eats.
• For the first time in France, fast food overtook traditional restaurant receipts as the economic crisis deepened, and the share of people who pack a lunch for work is rising faster by the year. Meanwhile, lurid reports of the increasing number of traditional restaurants resorting to frozen pre-packaged meals to hold down their prices have shaken France's sense of culinary identity.
• French lawmakers have swung into action to protect their cuisine, which the government officially considers a matter of national pride -- even to the point of persuading UNESCO in 2010 to put French cuisine on its World Heritage List.
• "I don't want chefs replaced by microwaves," said Daniel Fasquelle, a lawmaker in the French Assembly who voted recently for a measure that would require restaurants to print "fait maison" -- or homemade -- on menus next to dishes that were created from scratch.
• Fasquelle said the legislation, which was approved in the lower house and goes to the Senate in the fall, is weaker than what he and other culinary warriors want but represents a step in the right direction. Fasquelle is part of a movement seeking to

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