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denly seemed old.
• The Top 10 list, the ironic detachment, even the set at the Ed Sullivan Theater. Time doesn't stop for comedy legends, or superstars of any sort. Letterman, who announced Thursday that he will retire from late-night television sometime in 2015, had to feel it.
• CBS now faces the challenge of moving on in a reordered late-night world at a time the two Jimmys -- NBC's Fallon and ABC's Kimmel -- have a significant head start.
• When Jay Leno left in February, Letterman lost his foil -- the man whose victory in the competition to replace Johnny Carson two decades ago he never let go. Leno was someone who spoke his language, though, a generational compadre, and when he left, Letterman was alone.
• Fallon and Kimmel have a different style, more good-natured and less mocking of the entire concept of a talk show.
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• SEVASTOPOL, Crimea (AP) -- Every morning, Sergei Kislov takes the bus to the rundown outskirts of this port city for the methadone doses that keep him off heroin without suffering withdrawal. Now that Russia has taken over Crimea, the trips are about to end.
• "For a month and a half I won't be able to sit or sleep or eat," Kislov said. "It's a serious physical breakdown."
• Across the Black Sea peninsula, some 800 heroin addicts and other needle-drug users take part in methadone programs -- seen as an important part of efforts to curb HIV infections by taking the patients away from hypodermic needles that can spread the AIDS-causing virus.
• But Russia, which annexed Crimea in mid-March following a referendum held in the wake of Ukraine's political upheavals, bans methadone, claiming most supplies end up on the criminal market. The ban could undermine years of efforts to reduce the spread of AIDS in Crimea; some 12,000 of the region's 2 million people are HIV-positive, a 2012 UNICEF survey found.
• After years of rapid growth in the infection rate, the Ukrainian Health Ministry reported the first decline in 2012.
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