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• With support structures finally completed, the operation to tilt the wrecked Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia upright and float it off the reef it crashed into last year is underway this week.
• Five are dead and 350 remain missing as rescue and emergency crews in Colorado scour remote mountain locations looking for survivors from last week's flooding.
• Israel is cautiously optimistic about any Syrian chemical weapons deal, but remains adamant that the larger issue remains Iran's sponsorship of the Assad regime.
• Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summer has indeed withdrawn his name from nomination for Fed Chairman, calling the nomination proceeding he faced "acrimonious".
• A bipartisan bill to create a US "Science Laureate" similar to the US Poet Laureate has been scrapped by climate change denial groups furious the position would advance climate change awareness.