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• Authors of a new study say far too many kids are getting codeine, despite recommended limits and the fact that better options are available.
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• 8. BOXER WHO FOUGHT INJUSTICE DIES AT 76
• Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, exonerated of murder charges after 19 years in jail, dies in Toronto.
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• 9. LAND GRABS IMPERIL AFRICA'S ELEPHANTS
• Political and military elites are seizing protected areas in one of the continent's last bastions for elephants, a nonprofit group's new report says.
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• 10. IN COLO., '4/20' POT HOLIDAY TRIES TO GO MAINSTREAM
• What started as a defiant gathering of marijuana activists years ago now has an official city permit, since the state legalized recreational use of the drug.
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AP News in Brief
SKorean president calls actions of sunken ferry's captain, some crew 'unforgivable, murderous'
• JINDO, South Korea (AP) -- South Korean President Park Geun-hye said Monday that the captain and some crew members of the sunken ferry committed "unforgivable, murderous behavior," while criticism of her own government's handling of the disaster grew.
• The captain initially told passengers to stay in their rooms and waited more than half an hour to issue an evacuation order as the ferry Sewol sank Wednesday. By then the ship had tilted so much it is believed that many of the roughly 240 people still missing could not escape.
• Park said at a Cabinet briefing, "What the captain and part of the crew did is unfathomable from the viewpoint of common sense, unforgivable, murderous behavior." The comments were posted on the website of the presidential Blue House.
• Park said instead of following a marine traffic controller's instructions to "make the passengers escape," the captain "told the passengers to stay put while they themselves became the first to escape."
• "Legally and ethically," she said, "this is an unimaginable act."
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