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1. Gabrielle Giffords watched her husband take off on the final flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavour. Mark Kelly took her wedding ring with him, as well as a note Giffords wrote him. Giffords was wearing Kelly's ring around her neck.

2. Supporters of IMF Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn say he's the victim of a smear¹ campaign. The critics say he has a long-term pattern of sexual misconduct. Strauss-Kahn appeared in a New York courtroom on charges that he sexually assaulted a maid in a hotel.

3. Water is spewing through a Mississippi River floodgate and crawling through the swamps of Louisiana's Cajun country. It's leaving much of the land under 10 to 20 feet of brown muck. The water will flow 20 miles south, and from there it will roll on to Morgan City.

4. Another potential presidential candidate is taking his name off the list. Donald Trump² says as much as he'd like to run for president, he's not ready to leave the private sector³. He says business is his greatest passion and there is no point running half-heartedly.