International: 1. By day, Kira Plastinina is like most 15-year-old girls. She goes to a Moscow high school, albeit an elite Anglo-American school, and she has a messy locker. During study halls she gossips with her girlfriends about boys and homework and shopping and celebrities. At lunch she picks at the food in the cafeteria, "the only thing that's edible are the potatoes," she told ABC News.
Once school is over, though, Plastinina's other life begins and it's definitely not the life of a typical teenager. She has become something of a fashion mogul, like Liz Claiborne or Tommy Hilfiger. With the help of her wealthy father, she has opened a chain of clothing stores across Russia (more than 30) and she is scheduled to launch stores in America later this year.

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Well that is a big deal for a girl who is just 15. I would think that would be really cool if you already knew what your career was going to be. Although the down fall of it would be that she really can't be a kid she has to have her head on straight and make sure she focuses. Plus she has her school work and it sounds like she has a lot of work to do for her business. That is just amazing that she persues all of that.

2. The main street in San Giorgio a Cremano wraps around the base of Mount Vesuvius, a volcano that occasionally rumbles to life sprinkling Naples and other small communities like San Giorgio with volcanic dust.
But it's not ash that covers these towns now. It's trash. Tons of smelly trash have been left in large piles every 100 yards or so in populated areas.

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That is DISGUSTING! Ew. who would want to live in that kind of enviroment. Can't the people do something and maybe try and clean up the town. Quit complaining about it and do something about it that is what they need to do. Get over it and make a better enviroment for the people. People are getting sick from that and it is wrong to just be living like this. It's just disturbing that no one would do anything about this situation.

National: 1. In sharp contrast to his tough talk about ethics reform in government, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., approached a well-known Illinois political fixer under active federal investigation, Antoin "Tony" Rezko, for "advice" as he sought to find a way to buy a house shortly after being elected to the United States Senate. On the same day Obama closed on his house, Rezko's wife bought the adjacent empty lot, meeting the condition of the seller who wanted to sell both properties at the same time.
Rezko had been widely reported to be under investigation by the U.S. attorney and the FBI at the time Obama contacted him and has since been indicted on corruption charges by a federal grand jury in a case that prosecutors say involves bribes, kickbacks and "efforts to illegally obtain millions of dollars."

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Well Obama should hav known this before he even met with the guy or even friends with him. If your going to be getting into the Senate type of thing you need to check out the people you are going to be getting involved in because there are a lot of crazy people out there and will do anything to hust people. That was a bad move on Obama I think.

2. The woman whose empathetic question — "how do you do it?" — sparked uncharacteristic emotion Monday from Sen. Hillary Clinton ended up voting for Sen. Barack Obama in the New Hampshire primary. Marianne Pernold Young, 64, a freelance photographer from Portsmouth, N.H., told ABC News that while she was moved by Clinton's emotional moment, she was turned off by how quickly the New York senator regained her "political posture." "I went to see Hillary. I was undecided and I was moved by her response to me," Pernold Young said in a telephone interview with ABC News. "We saw 10 seconds of Hillary, the caring woman."
"But then when she turned away from me, I noticed that she stiffened up and took on that political posture again," she said. "And the woman that I noticed for 10 seconds was gone."

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That is good that the women noticed that on Hilary because you have to be real if your going to be a senator you can't be fake with the people. Yea it was good that she was showing emotion but you have to mean that emotion. You can't have something and then throw it away two seconds later. She doesn't really want to work for the people she wants to run the people. That is not how someone is going to win!