Alberto Contador's contaminated-beef defense will again be put to the test after cycling's governing body decided Thursday to appeal the Tour de France champion's doping acquittal.

The International Cycling Union said it will go to the Court of Arbitration for Sport to challenge the Spanish cycling federation's decision not to ban Contador for his positive clenbuterol test.

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60 Minutes" anchor Mike Wallace, First Ladies Barbara Bush and Hillary Clinton, television journalist Tom Brokaw and- back in 1979- "Doonesbury" creator Garry Trudeau.

And over the years other Pennsylvania colleges have been touched by the words of Pulitzer prize winners, Oscar winners, famous comedians and rock and roll legends.

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Morocco's foreign minister warned Tuesday that the current "Arab spring" can quickly end if the transitions in Egypt and Tunisia don't lead to real democracy.

Foreign Minister Taieb Fassi-Fihri said he plans to tell U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at a meeting Wednesday in Washington that the Group of Eight major industrialized countries should launch a new initiative to ensure that democratic principles and institutions are entrenched in Tunisia and Egypt where long-time dictators were recently ousted.

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The Kansas City Royals' Billy Butler was ready for the challenge, facing Cy Young Award winner Felix Hernandez of the Seattle Mariners last week.

However, Hernandez struck out Butler in the first inning.

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s last line of defense against disaster a massive 300-ton blowout preventer sitting on the ocean floor was finally triggered. But it failed by inches.

No human was to blame for the blowout preventer's failure to stop the Gulf oil spill, according to a team of Norwegian undersea oil-equipment experts who spent six months investigating why the "fail-safe" device did not work.

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NATO ships began patrolling off Libya's coast Wednesday as airstrikes, missiles and energized rebels forced Moammar Gadhafi's tanks to roll back from two key western cities, including one that was the hometown of army officers who tried to overthrow him in 1993.

Libya's opposition took haphazard steps to form a government in the east, as they and the U.S.-led force protecting them girded for prolonged and costly fighting. Despite disorganization among the rebels — and confusion over who would ultimately run the international operation — coalition airstrikes and missiles seemed to thwart Gadhafi's efforts to rout his opponents, at least for now.

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