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Philadelphia Inquirer - The Eagles' defense, as Brian Westbrook accurately noted after Sunday's ugly 16-9 win over the New York Jets, has hoisted the laboring offense on its back and prevented a rocky 2-3 start from being disastrous. It's a defense that has been praised for ...

Philadelphia Inquirer - Playing defensive end at 5-foot-8 and 180 pounds, Chestnut Hill Academy's Henry Gilbert was asked if opposing linemen underestimate his abilities. "I think so," Gilbert said. "They sometimes look at me like I'm a little kid. They think they're just ...

Miami Herald - Northwestern's defense demands perfection from itself. Senior defensive captain Marcus Forston wasn't satisfied Friday night after his team gave up 12 late points to district rival American. ''We're trying to win every game, but we also don't want to ...

International Herald Tribune - GALVESTON, Texas : A 19-year-old man accused of putting his 2-month-old daughter in a microwave, causing burns to her face and hand, was insane at the time of the incident, his lawyer said. "This kid has voices talking to him, all kinds of other ...

Washington Post - The alternative minimum tax. It sounds horrible, doesn't it? And it has very bad press. The AMT was invented in 1969 as a way for the government to collect at least something from affluent people who had been a bit too successful at taking deductions ...

Reuters - ... reward signals. And they found a significant increase in this same chemical in humans with depression. It turns out that resilient mice produce a kind of protective response that allows them to recover from stress. Vulnerable mice lack this defense. ...

Miami Herald - He served one day in jail in September after a judge held him in criminal contempt of court for lying about having turned over critical DNA test results to defense attorneys. The attorney general's office took over the lacrosse case after Nifong ...

Washington Post - Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Iran's acquisition of nuclear weapons could set of an arms race in the Middle East. "The risk of an accident or a miscalculation or of those weapons or materials falling into the hands of terrorists seem to me to ...

CBS Sportsline - DENVER (AP) -Ben Roethlisberger wasn't tipping Pittsburgh's hand, just stating the obvious. The Steelers quarterback said he expects to give his right arm a bit of a rest Sunday when the Steelers (4-1) play the Denver Broncos (2-3). The Broncos are ...

Wall Street Journal - NEW YORK -- A federal judge in Manhattan delayed the trial of three former KPMG LLP executives and a onetime Sidley Austin LLP lawyer yesterday after disqualifying a defense lawyer in the tax-shelter case. U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan ...