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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Thursday night's victories for Republican Mike Huckabee and Democrat Barack Obama in the Iowa presidential caucuses will bring increased attention to the candidates' trade proposals as they head off to New Hampshire for round two of the primary season. The loss of U.S. manufacturing jobs in states with early primaries will probably influence voters and may have longer-term implications in the race. Anxiety about the state of the U.S. economy, including a weak housing market and slowing jobs growth -- especially following Friday's anemic employment data -- is likely to influence voters' view of the U.S....

DENVER (AP) - Academic freedom has never completely protected professors who make unpopular statements. One was fired in 1960 for suggesting that premarital sex among students could be a good thing. Three decades later, a department chair was demoted for saying a Jewish conspiracy denigrated blacks in the movies. Now experts say the Sept. 11 attacks have put new fire in the battle over just where academic freedom ends and misconduct - or even treason - begins. University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill could be fired pending an investigation prompted by his 2001 essay suggesting some World Trade Center victims...

<p>LIKE the weather in Sacramento, the attempt to recall Gov. Gray Davis is getting hot.</p> <p>And the governor is starting to sweat.</p> <p>With the unveiling of ``Taxpayers Against the Recall,'' the initially quixotic attempt to unseat Davis achieved its first goal: It forced the governor to confront it.</p>