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Visitors From Outer Space, Real or Not, Are Focus of Discussion in Washington

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The New York Times - 5/03/13, Andrew Siddons

WASHINGTON — While President Obama was promoting an immigration overhaul in Mexico, six former members of Congress gathered two blocks from the White House to consider what they see as the enforced government secrecy surrounding another kind of visitor: the kind who come from a lot farther away.

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Mike Gravel, a former senator from Alaska, above in 2007, appeared this week on a panel to discuss extraterrestrial life.

Cyprus Makes Plan to Seize Portion of High-Level Deposits

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The New York Times - 2/23/13, Liz Alderman and James Kanter

Cyprus’s president, Nicos Anastasiades, left, met with top Cypriot officials on Wednesday at the presidential palace in Nicosia. He was expected to fly to Brussels late Saturday for meetings. Petros Giannakouris/Associated Press

NICOSIA, Cyprus — With Cyprus facing a Monday deadline to avoid a banking collapse, the government and its international negotiators devised a plan late Saturday to seize a portion of savers’ deposits above 100,000 euros at all banks in the country, in a bid to raise money for an urgently needed bailout.

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