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[description] Tomorrow in Baghdad, leaders from Iraq's feuding factions will announce an agreement designed to heal ethnic and sectarian strife. The deal, hammered out during meetings secret meeting in Helsinki, Finland was forged by key members from both Shiite and Sunni parties. We talk Padraig O'Malley, a University of Massachusetts-Boston professor who convened the talks. The first Protestants to come here seeking religious asylum? French Huguenots beat the Pilgrims by decades. The first European-born American? Baby boy Snorri, born a thousand years ago. The first trans-continental trek? Cabeza de Vaca, centuries before Lewis and Clark. The first American woman head-of- state? The Lady of the Lake, who ruled a vast 16th century empire east of the Mississippi. We'll talk with Tony Horwitz, author of "A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering The New World." Tourists are paying up to $10 thousand premiums for once in a life time experiences on their vacations. Travel expe

[description] Top stories from the Boston Globe for Jul 04, 2008

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[description] TORTURE CHART: The New York Times reports today that the same techniques that U.S. interrogators were trained to use on Guantanamo Bay detainees were once used by Chinese Communists to extract false confessions from American soldiers in the Korean War. We speak with New York Times reporter Scott Shane. VIEW FROM IRAQ : 29 year-old Marine Captain Seth Moulton has just returned from his fourth tour of duty in Iraq . Moulton volunteered to return to Iraq at the personal request of US Commander to Iraq , Gen. David Petraeus. While Moulton did make in-roads in defeating insurgents over the past year, it is unclear how long those local initiatives will last without continued US involvement. Moulton speaks candidly about his year in Iraq , where he fought insurgents, intractable Iraqi politicians and a burgeoning US military bureaucracy. CT SCANS: Tim Russert's recent death, at the age of 58, raised concerned among the millions of people in his age group about heart disease. They're ask

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[description] From Iraq: Capt. Christopher Robinson, Senior Master Sgt. Woodrow Carter, Master Sgt. John Williams and Senior Airman Doug Freeman.  All from Hanscomb Air Force Base.

[description] Just-released reports from the Defense of Department and the General Accountability Office see a real decline in violence in Iraq. But while the DOD sees positive trends in political, economic, and security developments, the GAO says that crucial measures the administration uses to demonstrate progress are wrong. And, the GAO goes on to assert that the US still lacks a meaningful strategy to move beyond the administration's troop surge. We'll speak with Demetri Sevastopoulo, Pentagon and Intelligence Correspondent for the Financial Times. Less than a week after a fragile truce took effect between Israel and Gaza militants, shots were fired today into Southern Israel. We check in with blogger, author, and commentator Bernard Avishai about the situation in Gaza, as well as the growing tensions between Israel and Iran over Iran's alleged nuclear facilities...and Israel's alleged "attack rehearsals" to destroy them. What now for the flooded residents of the Midwest? A nationally-r

[description] The Israeli human rights group, B'tselem, releases home video of an attack on Palestinian villagers by Israeli settlers. Viewers may find some of the images disturbing.

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[description] Pakistan says a U.S. airstrike left 11 of its troops dead at the Afghan border. The Pentagon released video disputing that claim.