IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (Yahoo News) 03/06/2013

Okla. residents opt to flee storms this time

Josh Stapleton, left, and Dan Garrett help to salvage furniture from their friends Fred and Joann Horn's home that was destroyed by the tornado Saturday, June 1, 2013 in El Reno Okla. (AP Photo/Nick Oxford)

Experts say it was a dangerous decision to make.

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4 firefighters killed in Houston fire mourned

An official looks over the damaged scene the day after four firefighters died, Saturday, June 1, 2013, in Houston. Four firefighters searching for people they thought might be trapped in a blazing Houston motel and restaurant Friday were killed when part of the structure collapsed and ensnared them, authorities said. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

The blaze was the deadliest in the 118-year history of the department.

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N.M. fights blazes; Calif. area evacuated

The Powerhouse Fire burning in the Angeles National Forest northwest of Los Angeles sends up a huge plume of smoke on Saturday, June 1, 2013. Smoke from the fire made visibility hazy in the San Fernando Valley, foreground. The blaze has burned thousands of acres of brush since it erupted Thursday afternoon near a utility powerhouse. (AP Photo/John Antczak)

Crews in New Mexico fought two growing wild blazes, while a shift in the wind prompted evacuation calls in California.

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Hagel mixes business and memories in Asia trip
It's been a bit of a walk down memory lane for the former infantry soldier.

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Jean Stapleton, TV's Edith Bunker, dies at 90
Stapleton was the counterpoint to Carroll O'Connor's Archie on "All in the Family."

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Angel evokes tragedies at service for N.Y. teen

"I like to show angels rising out of wreckage," said the artist.

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3-day-old harbor seal pup rescued on Long Island

In this photo provided by Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation, a female Harbor seal pup rests on a mat in the Riverhead Foundation facility at the Long Island Aquarium in Riverhead, N.Y. Riverhead Foundation biologists responding to multiple calls of a distressed seal, found her struggling against the surf and was transported her back to the Foundation’s marine mammal hospital. (AP Photo/Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation)

The pup was taken to a marine mammal hospital.

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Despite series of scandals, China backs Hong Kong leader

Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung listens to a question from a lawmaker in Hong Kong

Hong Kong leader Leung Chun-ying is facing fresh uncertainty over the political support he has from China.

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2 Mexico kidnap victims sons of drug traffickers

A man takes photos with his mobile phone of the facade of an after hours bar plastered with signs of missing people in Mexico City, Friday May 31, 2013. Anguished relatives said that on Sunday, May 26, eleven young people were kidnapped in broad daylight from an after-hours bar in Mexico City's Zona Rosa, a normally calm district of offices, restaurants, drinking spots and dance clubs. One sign reads:

Authorities have been searching desperately for motives in the crime.

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TV host's black war posters focus of Pa. exhibit

In this Thursday, May 30, 2013 photo, University of Pennsylvania professor and PBS History Detectives host Tukufu Zuberi speaks about an Italian 1942 broadside matted on canvas by Gino Boccasile during an interview with The Associated Press at the Black Bodies in Propaganda: The Art of the War Poster exhibit at the Penn Museum, in Philadelphia. The new museum exhibition presents 33 posters owned by Zuberi that were designed to mobilize Africans and African-Americans in war efforts, even as they faced oppression and injustice in their homelands. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

The exhibit examines how wartime propaganda has been used to motivate oppressed populations.

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First Facebook president Sean Parker weds in California

Founders Fund Managing Partner Sean Parker attends the eG8 forum in Paris

Billionaire Sean Parker, co-founder of music-sharing website Napster and the first president of Facebook, was married Saturday in Northern California, a representative for the couple said.

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Lutheran assembly elects first openly gay bishop

This undated image provided by ReconcilingWorks shows Dr. Guy Erwin, a premier scholar on Martin Luther, who was elected as Lutheran Bishop Saturday June 1, 2013 in Los Angeles. Erwin is Bishop of the Southwest California Synod of the Evangelical Church in America (ELCA). (AP Photo/ReconcilingWorks)

The election of Rev. Dr. R. Guy Erwin comes after a controversial rule change in 2009.

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More than 1,000 killed in Iraq violence in May

Iraqi security personnel inspect the site of a bomb attack in Baghdad

It was the deadliest month since the sectarian slaughter of 2006-07, the U.N. says.

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Protesters swarm Istanbul square after clashes
A crackdown on an anti-government protest turned city streets into a battlefield clouded by tear gas.

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Whirligig art creator Vollis Simpson dies at 94

In this Thursday, June 21, 2012 file photo, whirligig artist Vollis Simpson sits outside his shop in Lucama, N.C. Simpson, a self-taught artist famed for his whimsical, wind-powered whirligigs, has died. He was 94. Simpson's wife, Jean, told the Wilson Daily Times that her husband died in his sleep Friday, May 31, 2013. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

Where others saw trash, Simpson saw whimsical, wind-powered creations.

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Memorial held for Newtown gunman's mother

Family and friends arrive for a memorial service for Nancy Lanza on Saturday June 1, 2013 in Kingston, N.H. Lanza’s 20-year-old son, Adam Lanza, killed her at their home in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14 and then drove to Sandy Hook Elementary School, where he killed the children and six school employees before committing suicide. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

More than 100 family and friends gathered at a church in a small New Hampshire town.

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Despite mammoth blood discovery, cloning still unlikely

Despite the recent discovery of a stunningly preserved mammoth, the odds of scientists using it to clone a real-life mammoth anytime soon are still low, experts say.

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