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    BEIJING - If all goes according to plan, this fall a girl somewhere in China's Yunnan Province will tell her boyfriend she can't have sex with him. And he'll have an abstinence program from the United States to thank.
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    As depositors thronged branches of Afghanistan's biggest bank, Mahmoud Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a major shareholder in the beleaguered Kabul Bank, called Thursday for intervention by the United States to head off a financial meltdown.
    Regulators fell short in identifying and addressing problems, Bernanke says
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    AOL and Google announced Thursday a five-year renewal of their revenue-sharing pact, which will now include mobile search and online video, two areas that AOL chief executive Tim Armstrong called critical to the future of his company as it tries to revamp and return to profitability.
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    Education's less-than-certain windfall
    There's $10 billion for schools in the state aid bill Congress passed last month. But some school systems have reason to wonder whether they are going to see the money.
    New state tests coming to schools
    TODAY'S TAKE: The Obama administration is continuing its recent effort to make schools across states adhere to the same standards. On Thursday, Education Secretary Arne Duncan rolled out a plan to prepare common standardized tests for states to adopt. The new tests, which would replace existing state assessments, have already run into some political opposition.
    Rhetoric trumps realism in campaigns for governor
    There’s no shortage of reform ideas in this year’s gubernatorial campaigns. But there aren’t many specifics about how the huge budget gaps that exist in most states can be resolved.
    Pressure mounts over drilling moratorium
    TODAY'S TAKE: Oil companies -- and the Gulf Coast states that depend on them -- won a court victory Wednesday (Sept. 1) when a federal judge refused to dismiss a lawsuit challenging a temporary federal ban on deepwater drilling. Despite the BP oil spill, Louisiana and Texas are among the states that want drilling to resume as soon as possible, citing lost revenues and economic activity.
    LA: Oil platform explosion is in marked contrast with BP disaster in Gulf of Mexico
    An oil and natural gas production platform exploded in flames Thursday morning, sending 13 workers on board plunging into the Gulf of Mexico and touching raw nerves about the safety of offshore energy operations in the wake of the BP spill.
    US: U.S. asks educators to reinvent student tests, and how they are given
    Standardized exams — the multiple-choice, bubble tests in math and reading that have played a growing role in American public education in recent years — are being overhauled.
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