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Hilary Mantel attends the Costa Book of the Year awards in London, England.

By Annalisa Quinn

The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly.

5:38 am

Fri April 19, 2013

With Bird Flu, "Right Now, Anything Is Possible"

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A health worker collects pigeons from a trap at People's Square in Shanghai, China, earlier this month. So far, workers have tested more than 48,000 animals for the H7N9 flu virus.

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A worker disinfects a pigeon house Wednesday as a precaution against bird flu at XinRong dove-breeding factory in a suburb of Shanghai, China.

By Richard Knox

Originally published on Fri April 19, 2013 9:27 pm

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An international dream team of flu experts assembled in China today.

Underscoring the urgency that public health agencies feel about the emergence of a new kind of bird flu, the team is headed by Dr. Keiji Fukuda, the World Health Organization's top influenza scientist.

Before he left Geneva, Fukuda explained the wide-open nature of the investigation in an interview with NPR.

4:04 am

Fri April 19, 2013

Shots, Explosions Heard As Boston Manhunt Continues

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Police officers guard the entrance to Franklin Street in Watertown, Mass., where Boston Police say they have captured the second suspect in the marathon bombings.

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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the subject of the manhunt in Boston, in a photo released by the FBI. He's a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings.

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The Boston Regional Intelligence Center early Friday released this wanted poster showing Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, one of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings. He survived and firefight with police and was on the run.

By Mark Memmott

Originally published on Sat April 20, 2013 7:11 am

(We most recently updated this post at 11:10 p.m. ET on Friday. See this note about how we cover news such as this. For our running post about developments on Saturday, go here.)

2:46 am

Fri April 19, 2013

Post-Chavez Venezuela Grows More, Not Less, Polarized

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Supporters of Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Henrique Capriles protest in the area of Altamira, in Caracas, capital of Venezuela, on Monday.

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Supporters of Venezuelan President-elect Nicolas Maduro attend a meeting in Caracas on Monday.

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At the Li Car Ch market, the sign is clear: In this locale, talking politics is prohibited.

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Originally published on Fri April 19, 2013 8:37 am

Under the rule of its late president, Hugo Chavez, Venezuela became a nation sharply divided between those who supported his self-styled socialist revolution and those who opposed it.

But after a disputed presidential election in which Chavez's deputy was ruled the winner by a razor-thin margin, the country appears more polarized than ever.

2:46 am

Fri April 19, 2013

Losing A Leg, But Gaining A Sense Of Purpose

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Jack Richmond and his daughter, Reagan, visit StoryCorps in Knoxville, Tenn.

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Originally published on Fri April 19, 2013 9:30 pm

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In 1987, Jack Richmond was driving a forklift at work when the vehicle overturned onto him, crushing his leg below the knee. His daughter, Reagan, was just 2 months old at the time.

"Initially when they told me I would lose my leg, I was in denial and disbelief and kind of like, 'What, why? Can't you fix it?' " Jack tells Reagan in a visit to StoryCorps in Knoxville, Tenn. "But it just couldn't be saved."

"And you had a brand new daughter — me," says Reagan, now 25. "What were you thinking?"

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