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Ex-President Bush to spend Christmas in hospital

By RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTIAssociated Press HOUSTON (AP) - Former President George H.W. Bush will spend Christmas in a Houston hospital after developing a fever and weakness following a monthlong, bronchitis-like cough, his spokesman said Monday. A hospital spokesman had said the 88-year-old ex-

Ex-President Bush to spend Christmas in hospital

By RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTIAssociated Press HOUSTON (AP) - Former President George H.W. Bush will spend Christmas in a Houston hospital after developing a fever and weakness following a monthlong, bronchitis-like cough, his spokesman said Monday. A hospital spokesman had said the 88-year-old ex-

Traditions in Chad harm, kill underfed children

By RUKMINI CALLIMACHIAssociated Press MOUSSORO, Chad (AP) - On the day of their son's surgery, the family woke before dawn. They saddled their horses and set out across the 12-mile-long carpet of sand to the nearest town, where they hoped the reputed doctor would cure their frail, feverish baby

Final goodbye: Roll call of some who died in 2012

By BERNARD McGHEEAssociated Press Neil Armstrong would always be taking that first step onto the moon, and Dick Clark was forever "the world's oldest teenager." Some of the notables who died in 2012 created images in our minds that remained unchanged over decades. Sadly, for others an