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"Calling it 'swine flu' is a clear failure of our National Euphemism Regulatory Department. NERD should have labeled this flu, right off, as the 'Babe Bug.' Or maybe "Porky's Predicament."

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - An attorney for a tabloid publisher said Wednesday that he was frustrated by the federal government's failure to discuss who will pay to remove anthrax from the company's headquarters.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea urged Japan on Sunday to accept its Asian neighbors' demands and revise history textbooks that critics say whitewashes Tokyo's wartime atrocities.

PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) - An 8-year-old boy whose arm was reattached after a shark attack has made good progress, but may need more than a year to regain use of the limb, doctors said Sunday.

PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) - An 8-year-old boy whose arm was reattached after a shark attack developed kidney problems but was improving Monday, a surgeon said.

BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) - Leaders of the Sinn Fein party urged their allies in the Irish Republican Army on Monday to begin disarming to save the peace process in Northern Ireland.

PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AP) - President Vaclav Havel said Sunday that the failure of Czechs to come to terms with their country's past has prevented it from progressing.

MANKATO, Minn. (AP) - Minnesota Vikings right tackle Korey Stringer died Wednesday morning due to complications from heat stroke.