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• Nine fires in all were burning an area of more than 14 square miles as another day of sky-high temperatures and dry winds were expected Thursday, county officials said.
• The biggest concern was in San Marcos, where the new blaze broke out in the late afternoon, some 21,000 evacuation notices were sent to residents and a California State University campus with nearly 10,000 students in the middle of final exams was shut down at least through Thursday. At least five structures there were destroyed, authorities said, but it wasn't immediately clear how many were homes.
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• KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- The scars are fading now. The exit wound, a narrow, pink line that curves down the left side of her neck, is often hidden by her tangle of dark hair. The entry wound is smaller than a bottle cap.
• And the young woman who became a symbol of Ukraine's protests -- who tweeted "I am dying" after a sniper's bullet tore into her on a cold February morning, and was suddenly the focus of international attention -- sometimes wonders just what it all achieved.
• "So little has been accomplished," said Olesya Zhukovska, a 21-year-old hospital orderly from small-town Ukraine. She moved to Kiev when the protests broke out in late 2013, and spent months working as a volunteer medic in the sprawling protest camp that sprang up in the heart of the capital. "The blood that was spilled here, I really don't want it to be wasted. Because people are starting to forget."
• "I'm a realist," Zhukovska said, struggling for a way to describe how she sees her country today.
• It can be hard to be an optimist these days in Ukraine.
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• An Iowa woman jokingly calls it "Satan's handiwork." A California mom says she's broken down in tears. A Pennsylvania parent says it "makes my blood boil."
• What could be so horrible? Grade-school math.
• As schools around the U.S. implement national Common Core learning standards, parents trying to help their kids with math homework say that adding, sub

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