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Top Stories: Despite the common enemy, Syria's opposition is not a united block. Vladimir Putin will soon resume control of a country that has changed a lot since he first became president in 1999.
Opinion: A member of President Obamas' auto task force in 2009 says Mitt Romney is "dead wrong" about the auto bailout and that GM and Chrysler would not have survived without it. The international community needs to implement "no-kill zones" and drone patrols (and not arm the rebels) to end the violence in Syria.
Politics: Mitt Romney leaned a lot of political lessons from his mother, who ran and lost a campaign for Senate in 1970.
Science: Conservation efforts for sandhill cranes in Wisconsin have worked so well that the birds may have to be hunted to control their numbers. There was a tiny horse from pre-historic times that weighed as little as eight pounds, and may have shrank in response to global warming 56 million years ago.