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...leader and one of the top commanders in its war on narco traffickers sent shockwaves through the government of President Felipe Calderón, already reeling from an increasingly bloody fight against the powerful drug cartels. While officials could not immediately confirm the cause of the crash, Transport Secretary Luis Tellez said it appeared to be an accident rather than a bomb because much of the plane remained intact. Still, soldiers rapidly descended on the airport from which the aircraft had departed, in the western state of San Luis Potosi, where the officials had been holding a meeting on security...
...century after Fidel Castro took power in Cuba, younger and more moderate Cuban-Americans are coming to the fore in Miami - and their votes could be critical to whether or not Obama upsets McCain in Florida, the nation's largest swing state. One of the young volunteers waiting to transport elderly Obama voters is Hector Martinez, 21, a film major at Miami-Dade College who feels an uncanny bond with Obama...
...called open-face machines (in which all of the options are arrayed in one large display), voting can take each person just a few minutes. In 2004, Ohio voters, using open-face electronic machines, spent two to five minutes voting. But those machines are expensive to buy and transport. This Tuesday, it will take voters 7 to 13 minutes, Allen estimates, because of new voting machines that are not open-face. Voters must scroll down these screens to reach the bottom of the options, and that adds time...
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