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The billboard and press campaign, created by advertising agency Teran\TBWA and now running in Mexico, is a colorful map depicting what the Americas might look like in an "Absolut" -- i.e., perfect -- world.

PHILADELPHIA - After parachuting into Europe during World War II, battling along a strip of road called Hell's Highway in the Netherlands and surviving the freezing woods of Bastogne surrounded by German troops, William Guarnere and Edward Heffron do not consider themselves heroes.

DES MOINES, Iowa - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton is unveiling a sweeping health care proposal Monday that would require everyone to carry health insurance and offer federal subsidies to help reduce the cost of coverage.

One hazy morning in 1917 the senior mistress of Bournemouth High School For Girls stood up in front of the assembled sixth form and announced to her hushed audience: "I have come to tell you a terrible fact.

CAIRO, Egypt - Osama bin Laden appeared for the first time in three years in a videotape Friday released ahead of the 6th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, telling Americans they should convert to Islam if they want the war in Iraq to end.

BEIJING - Police in China's capital said Tuesday they will start patrolling the Web using animated beat officers that pop up on a user's browser and walk, bike or drive across the screen warning them to stay away from illegal Internet content.

"An adult moose emits about 100 kilograms of methane gas a year. But methane gas is much stronger than carbon dioxide, so to get the equivalent you have to multiply by 21," professor Odd Harstad at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences told AFP.

IQALUIT, Canada (AFP) - The last igloo in Canada's far north, which housed a family restaurant for 27 years, is set to be demolished to make room for offices, amid a flurry of economic activity in the remote Arctic.

The 52-year-old Snow, the father of three children, earns $168,000 as an assistant to the president but made considerably more as a conservative pundit and syndicated talk-show host on Fox News Radio. He was named press secretary on April 26, 2006.

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WEST SALEM, Ohio -- An Ohio man is using cardboard cutouts of his children to slow down motorists on his busy street.Related Content: Traffic Slowed By Cardboard Cutouts | Images The speed limit on Main Street in West Salem, Ohio, changes quickly from 55 mph to 35 mph before his home. However, many people never slow down.Frustrated father Mike Wood took some pictures of his children and blew them up. He then mounted the life-sized cutouts in his yard.So far, Wood said it has worked. Motorists have slowed down, and some have even yelled at Wood for letting his children play so close to the street.Wood uses real photographs to make the cutouts. He prints them on a high-resolution printer with outdoor ink and outdoor vinyl.Recently, Wood also made a cutout of a sheriff's deputy holding a radar gun.His idea has already been posted on some law enforcement Web sites around the country. He's now selling the signs for $60."If it can help save some kids or protect some kids, that's one of the best things for me," Wood said.

WEST SALEM, Ohio -- An Ohio man is using cardboard cutouts of his children to slow down motorists on his busy street.Related Content: Traffic Slowed By Cardboard Cutouts | Images The speed limit on Main Street in West Salem, Ohio, changes quickly from 55 mph to 35 mph before his home. However, many people never slow down.Frustrated father Mike Wood took some pictures of his children and blew them up. He then mounted the life-sized cutouts in his yard.So far, Wood said it has worked. Motorists have slowed down, and some have even yelled at Wood for letting his children play so close to the street.Wood uses real photographs to make the cutouts. He prints them on a high-resolution printer with outdoor ink and outdoor vinyl.Recently, Wood also made a cutout of a sheriff's deputy holding a radar gun.His idea has already been posted on some law enforcement Web sites around the country. He's now selling the signs for $60."If it can help save some kids or protect some kids, that's one of the best things for me," Wood said.

After years of development, three "special weapons observation remote reconnaissance direct action system" (SWORDS) robots have deployed to Iraq, armed with M249 machine guns. The 'bots "haven't fired their weapons yet," Michael Zecca, the SWORDS program manager, tells DANGER ROOM. "But that'll be happening soon."