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More Clues About Hazards From Laundry Detergent Pods

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A label warns parents to keep Tide laundry detergent packets away from small children.

By Scott Hensley

There's now a deeper look at young kids who got sick after eating or otherwise messing around with those laundry detergent pods that look a lot like candy.

Doctors from two poison control centers and the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention have analyzed more than a thousand incidents involving people exposed to the pods and other kinds of laundry detergent.

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Thu October 18, 2012

Immigration Arrest Near School, Sparks Protest In Detroit

By Eyder Peralta

Immigrant rights groups rallied in Detroit, yesterday, after Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials arrested one man and questioned another when they were on their way to drop their kids off at school.

Michigan Live reports:

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Thu October 18, 2012

Aging Gracefully By Sticking 'All Together'

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Five friends decide to move in together as an alternative to retirement-home living in the French-language dramedy All Together.

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The arrangement is not without its challenges — including tensions surrounding a long-ago romance — but the characters are at least spending their golden years among those they love most.

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Like the characters in this year's indie feel-good The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel — British pensioners who decide to spend their autumn years living communally and on the cheap in India — the French seniors of the charming yet melancholy All Together face aging in a time of banking crises and austerity measures.

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Thu October 18, 2012

To Shrink Rents, SF Considers Shrinking Apartments

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The development firm Panoramic Interests is building about two dozen "micro-apartments" in San Francisco. The company is poised to offer even smaller units if the city approves a proposed new minimum size of 220 square feet.

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Spaces must serve double duty in micro-units — like the dining table above that converts into a Murphy bed.

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Spaces must serve double duty in micro-units — like the dining table above that converts into a Murphy bed.

By Stephanie Martin

Originally published on Thu October 18, 2012 7:32 pm

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In many large cities, like Dallas, Phoenix and even parts of Chicago, $800 a month is enough for a clean one-bedroom apartment, decked out with a living room, washer and dryer — and maybe even a pool, in a larger complex.

But if you want to live alone in San Francisco, getting those amenities at that price is practically a pipe dream. With the region's resurgent high-tech industries luring many well-educated, well-paid workers to the Bay Area, the average rent for a studio apartment in the city now runs around $2,000.

4:04 pm

Thu October 18, 2012

Colombia, Rebel Group Will Continue Peace Talks In Cuba

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Colombia's government head of negotiators Humberto de la Calle (second to the left), speaks next to the delegation members prior to boarding a plane to Oslo, Norway, on Tuesday.

By Eyder Peralta

After a first round of historic peace talks, the Colombian government and members of the rebel Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia have agreed to continue peace talks in Havana, Cuba.

It was just this summer that President Juan Manuel Santos acknowledged for the first time that the two groups were engaged in "exploratory talks" aimed at bringing the longest war in the Western Hemisphere to an end.

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