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• 7. POPE DEFENDS THE WORK OF "SLUM PRIESTS"
• On his first anniversary as pontiff, Pope Francis supports the work of priests who work in the slums of Buenos Aires, saying their work is not ideological, "it's apostolic."
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• 8. WHY COLLEGE WANTS TO PAY STUDENTS TO TAKE A YEAR OFF
• Tufts University is hoping to remove financial barriers that keep cash-strapped students from taking a "gap year" after high school, offering to pay for housing, airfare and even visa fees that can often add up to $30,000 or more.
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• 9. DEVOTED BRITISH SOCIALIST DIES AT 88
• Tony Benn, who renounced his aristocratic title rather than leave the House of Commons, is remembered as a "champion of the powerless, a great parliamentarian" after a political career that spanned five decades.
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• 10. WHERE LADY GAGA FINDS INSPIRATION
• The pop provocateur began her appearance at the South By Southwest music festival at an Austin, Texas, barbecue spot, pretending to roast herself on a spit like a gutted pig as her dancers basted her.
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AP News in Brief
India expands search for missing jet as hunt shifts west to Indian Ocean
• KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- The international search for the missing Malaysian jetliner expanded westward Friday toward the Indian Ocean amid signs the aircraft may have flown on for hours after its last contact with air-traffic control nearly a week ago.
• A U.S. official told The Associated Press that the Malaysia Airlines plane sent signals to a satellite for four hours after the aircraft went missing early last Saturday, raising the possibility the jet carrying 239 people could have flown far from the current search areas. It also increased speculation that whatever happened to the plane was a deliberate act.
• If the plane had disintegrated during flight or had suffered some other catastrophic failure, all signals -- the pings to the satellite, the data messages and the transponder -- would be expected to stop at the same time. Experts say a pilot or pas (Continued on page 29)
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