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Michigan's 83 counties. Those four -- Oakland, Muskegon, Ingham and Washtenaw counties -- issued more than 300 marriage licenses to same-sex couples Saturday.
• DeJong said the threat of a stay was all the encouragement they needed.
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Paris mayor's race offers chance to reimagine city, with plans farfetched and feasible
• PARIS (AP) -- The Paris mayor's race will give the city a new leader for the first time in 13 years and is offering a chance to reimagine one of the world's top tourist destinations.
• No one -- neither Parisians nor visitors -- wants a complete transformation. It's not by accident that Paris barely looks different from the 19th century, when Emperor Napoleon III came up with a grand plan for grand boulevards and low, white stone buildings.
• But the two leading candidates in elections starting Sunday -- Socialist Anne Hidalgo and conservative longshot Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, known as NKM among the initial-loving French -- see room for improvement. Here are their visions:
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Michelle Obama hosts education roundtable in Beijing, walks the Great Wall with her daughters
• BEIJING (AP) -- U.S. first lady Michelle Obama told Chinese professors, students and parents on Sunday that she wouldn't have risen to where she was if her parents hadn't pushed for her to get a good education.
• Mrs. Obama made her comments before hosting a discussion about education on the third day of a weeklong visit to the country aimed at promoting educational exchanges between the U.S. and China. She also walked a section of the Great Wall with her two daughters.
• "Education is an important focus for me. It's personal, because I wouldn't be where I am today without my parents investing and pushing me to get a good education," the first lady said. "My parents were not educated themselves, but one of the things they understood was that my brother and I needed that foundation."
• She said she and her husband wanted as many young people as possible in the United States and the world to have access to education.
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