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Texas authorities on Wednesday began looking for five indicted members of a polygamist sect, in a child sex-abuse case that the group’s spokesman alleged was a face-saving move by officials who lost a court battle over their seizure of hundreds of children from a sect-owned ranch.

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David Zaslav, president and CEO of the Discovery Channel, chats with the media upon his arrival for the annual Allen & Co.’s media conference Tuesday, July 8, 2008, in Sun Valley, Idaho.