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WOODBURY, Vt. – No one is sure when daily recitations of the Pledge of Allegiance fell by the wayside at Woodbury Elementary School. But efforts to restore them have erupted into a bitter dispute in this town of about 800 residents, with school officials blocking the exercise from classrooms over …

WASHINGTON – World leaders emerging from a financial summit in Washington pledged to continue taking “urgent and exceptional” action to revive the global economy Saturday, calling for increased cooperation and regulation to prevent the crippling crisis from repeating itself. President Bush, speaking after the meeting, stressed that the emergency summit …

Hundreds of thousands of baby boomer women who think they’ve found an antidote to aging in cosmetic facial fillers must be better informed of possible risks, government health advisers said Tuesday. A panel of independent advisers urged the Food and Drug Administration to revise the labeling to include the possibility …