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Apr 24 2009, AP

At about the time Foghorn Leghorn appeared on the Looney Toons drawing board in 1946, he began disappearing from America’s dinner tables.

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Preah Vihear:

Olabiyi Babalola Joseph Yai, president of Executive Council of UNESCO, points as he talks with Cambodian officials in the compound of Cambodia’s Preah Vihear temple in a world heritage site near the Cambodian-Thai border, about 245 kilometers (152...