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WASHINGTON – To get larger college grants (search) to poor students, the Bush administration wants to shrink guaranteed aid to banks and end a popular loan program. President Bush’s budget will also propose raising federal loan limits for freshman and sophomore college students, Education Department officials told The Associated Press …

JERUSALEM – Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (search), a football fan, found time in her busy schedule of international diplomacy to watch a little of the Super Bowl (search). Rice, midway through an eight-day trip to Europe (search) and the Middle East, spent Super Bowl Sunday in Jerusalem, a third …

China’s top lawmakers want to make it a crime for doctors to detect an unborn baby’s sex for non-medical reasons, in a bid to combat the abortion of female fetuses, government-run newspapers reported Sunday. It is already illegal in China to use an ultrasound or other means determine if a …