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Plan would narrow goals in Afghan war March 28, 2009 at 4:21 am President Barack Obama's plan to widen U.S. involvement in Afghanistan came after an internal debate in which Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. warned against getting into a political and military quagmire. With first woman in charge, St. Andrews is buzzing March 28, 2009 at 4:21 am For nearly 600 years, the University of St. Andrews has been presided over by a British male, and a Protestant at that. Now a Catholic, Irish-American woman has been named its president. Watching the stars with the eye of Galileo March 28, 2009 at 4:21 am Only two of the dozens of telescopes the revolutionary astronomer built in his lifetime survive. Neither of them had ever been out of Florence since Galileo's time, until this week. Sectarian tension on Bahrain's streets March 28, 2009 at 4:21 am The majority Shiite Muslims frequently complain that they are marginalized and discriminated against by the ruling Sunnis.