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• 9. MSNBC'S MARTIN BASHIR RESIGNS
• After his inflammatory comments about Sarah Palin, the talk-show host says he now wants his colleagues to "be allowed to focus on the issues that matter."
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• 10. HEISMAN HOPEFUL TO FIND OUT HIS FATE
• Jameis Winston, quarterback for top-ranked Florida State, will find out whether a prosecutor will charge him with sexual assault.
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AP News in Brief
Deadly NY train derailment highlights risk of highway hypnosis on long, monotonous trips
• NEW YORK (AP) -- It's sometimes called highway hypnosis or white-line fever, and it's familiar to anyone who has driven long distances along a monotonous route.
• Drivers are lulled into a semi-trance state and reach their destination with little or no memory of parts of the trip. But what if it happened to an engineer at the controls of a speeding passenger train?
• A man driving a Metro-North Railroad commuter train that went off the rails Sunday in New York, killing four passengers, experienced a momentary loss of awareness as he zoomed down the tracks, according to his lawyer and union representative, who called the episode a "nod," a "daze" or highway hypnosis.
• Their accounts raised questions about just how widespread the problem is in the transportation industry and what can be done to combat it.
• At the time of the crash, the train was going 82 mph into a sharp turn where the speed limit drops to 30 mph. That's when the engineer says he snapped out of it and hit the brakes, but it was too late. The train hurtled off the tracks, leaving a chain of twisted cars just inches from a river in the Bronx.
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Despite Gulf oil spill, BP looks to tap deeper, hotter, higher-pressure offshore oil fields
• HOUSTON (AP) -- BP's strategy after the Deepwater Horizon tragedy: Go deeper.
• BP is leading an industry-wide push to develop technology that can retrieve oil (Continued on page 19)
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