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This still frame made of video shows a display of the Unha-3 rocket launch at North Korea's space agency's General Launch Command Center on the outskirts of Pyongyang, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012. North Korea's successful long-range rocket shot showed it can fire a rocket into space, but it has not worked out how to make a projectile return to Earth and hit a target_nor has it mastered how to put a nuclear warhead on a missile.
1. WHY NORTH KOREA'S ROCKET MAY NOT BE A THREAT YET
Experts say North Korea is still years away from developing nuclear missiles that could hit targets.
2. SYRIA'S CLOSEST ALLY SAYS ASSAD IS LOSING CONTROL
Russia's deputy foreign minister says the opposition may win the civil war.
3. WHAT OREGON MALL SHOOTING SUSPECT SAID ON FACEBOOK
"I may be young but I have lived one crazy life so far," Jacob Tyler Roberts wrote.
4. HOW THE PRINCESS'S NURSE DIED
A coroner says Jacintha Saldanha, who answered a hoax call about the Duchess of Cambridge, was found hanging in her room.
5. CONCERT FOR NEW YORK CITY 2.0
Legends from Paul McCartney to The Who sang to benefit Sandy victims, repeating performances from a 9/11 concert in 2001.
6. INTERN IN U.S. SENATOR'S OFFICE ARRESTED
Federal officials say the 18-year-old Peruvian is in the country illegally — and is a registered sex offender.
7. AN AILING PRESIDENT
Venezuela's government says President Hugo Chavez may not recover from cancer surgery in time for his inauguration in January.
8. CHANGING DIRECTION ON IPHONE
Apple returned Google Maps' app to the iPhone after Apple's own mapping software caused widespread complaints.
9. THE MOST QUAKE-PRONE TOWN
More than 170 tremors were felt in five weeks in Navidad on the Chilean coast.
10. HOW A FAN BUILT A HOUSE FOR BILBO BAGGINS
Inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien's "Hobbit" books, a lifelong fan's Pennsylvania cottage uses 18th-century stone and a Spanish cedar, iron-hinged door.
Dec 13, 2012 at 3:24 p.m.
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Rush is finally inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. That's great news to offset the bad news. Well deserved and a long time coming for the Canadian trio.
Dec 13, 2012 at 2:09 p.m.
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Once again the littlegirl-like United States bites its fingernails over North Korea but only picks on those it is in no danger from.
Dec 13, 2012 at 1:18 p.m.
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#5 I saw some of the 12/12/12 concert. The Rolling Stones look like they are in their 80's. It was hard to watch.
Eric Clapton on the other hand is holding his age well.
Best line by Mick Jagger, (paraphrase) 'biggest gathering of aging British Rockers ever in one place.'
Dec 13, 2012 at 12:36 p.m.
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Why can't the Gazette put hotlinks to each of these top 10 to the actual news?
Dec 13, 2012 at 12:23 p.m.
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The deficit must have been number eleven behind Bilbo's house.
Dec 13, 2012 at 7:57 a.m.
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Not sure how this missed the top 10, new RECORD deficit spending for November.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/U...
Dec 13, 2012 at 7:44 a.m.
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1. "Experts"? Experts in what? Public relations? Nice message to calm the public. I suppose we'll know when they are capable of hitting targets AFTER they hit one? Or do you think they will send us an email telling us when they are succesful? Maybe they will even run an ad in the gazette?
Dec 13, 2012 at 7:36 a.m.
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NJ senator, a democrat, has an intern who is an illegal AND a registered sex offender. Don't these guys check onto backgrounds before they are hired?
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