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• Coburn, nicknamed "Dr. No." for his voting record in the Senate, was supposed to serve through 2016. Instead, he'll step down in January 2015. He had already vowed not to seek a third term.
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A year into Cuba migration reform, islanders traveling in record numbers but no sign of exodus
• HAVANA (AP) -- Last February, Amalia Reigosa Blanco experienced for the first time the rush of an airplane taking off. She browsed the clothing shops of Italy's fashion capital, and strolled cobblestone streets echoing with an unfamiliar tongue. She learned what snow feels like.
• And then she came home.
• "I hope I can go on vacation again," said the 19-year-old language student, breaking into a broad smile as she recalled her first trip overseas, to visit family in Milan. "I'd love to see Paris."
• Reigosa was one of the first Cubans to take advantage of a travel reform that went into effect a year ago this week, when the government scrapped an exit visa requirement that for five decades had made it difficult for most islanders to go abroad. The much-hated measure was long justified as necessary to prevent brain drain as scientists, doctors, athletes and other skilled citizens were lured away from the Communist-run nation by the promise of capitalist riches.
• A year into the new law, Cubans are traveling in record numbers. Some have not returned, but there's no sign of the mass exodus that some feared. Dissidents are coming and going and raising their international profiles -- and money -- but there has been little impact on their limited ability to effect political change back home.
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Google's contact lens prototype could be new option for diabetics for monitoring glucose
• MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) -- Brian Otis gingerly holds what looks like a typical contact lens on his index finger. Look closer. Sandwiched in this lens are two twinkling glitter-specks loaded with tens of thousands of miniaturized transistors. It's ringed with a hair-thin antenna. Together these remarkable miniature electronics can monitor glucose levels in tears of diabetics and then wirelessly transmit them to a handheld device.
• "It doesn't look like much, but it was a crazy amount of work to get everything so (Continued on page 30)
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