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be sent back to their home countries but receive international protection.
• Many of the 50,000 young people who have arrived unaccompanied since last fall fled violence in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
• Would-be refugees and asylum seekers must navigate a complex system. Here are some answers to key questions about the process:
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• SEATTLE (AP) -- Surrounded by thousands of packages of marijuana, Seattle's top prosecutor sought some advice: Which one should he buy?
• A new day, indeed.
• Twenty months after voters legalized recreational cannabis for adults over 21, Washington state's first few licensed pot shops opened for business Tuesday, catering to hundreds of customers who lined up outside, thrilled to be part of the historic moment.
• The pot being sold at four stores in Seattle, Bellingham, Prosser and Spokane was regulated, tested for impurities, heavily taxed and in short supply -- such short supply that several other shops couldn't open because they had nothing to sell.
• Pete Holmes, Seattle's elected city attorney and a main backer of the state's recreational marijuana law, said he wanted to be one of the first customers to demonstrate there are alternatives to the nation's failed drug war.
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• BERTHOLD, N.D. (AP) -- 1st Lt. Andy Parthum spends his workday 60 feet below ground awaiting the order he hopes never arrives: to launch the most powerful weapon ever devised by man. He is a nuclear "missileer" -- an airman who does his duty not in the air but in a hole in the ground.
• On both counts -- the possibility of firing weapons that could kill millions, and the subterranean confinement -- a missileer lives with pressures few others know. It's not active combat, although the Air Force calls them combat crew members. Yet no one can exclude the possibility, remote as it may be, that one day a president will deliver the gut-wrenching order that would compel a missileer to unleash nuclear hell.

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