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Kids with Cancer Get Futuristic Chance at Saving Fertility

Barely 2 years old, Talia Pisano is getting tough treatment for kidney cancer that spread to her brain. She's also getting a chance at having babies of her own someday.

To battle infertility sometimes caused by cancer treatment, some children's hospitals are trying a futuristic approach: removing and freezing immature ovary and testes tissue, with hopes of being able to put it back when patients reach adulthood and want to start families.

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Medical Researchers Say Fetal Tissue Remains Essential

The furor on Capitol Hill over Planned Parenthood has stoked a debate about the use of tissue from aborted fetuses in medical research, but U.S. scientists have been using such cells for decades to develop vaccines and seek treatments for a host of ailments, from vision loss and neurological disorders to cancer and AIDS.

Anti-abortion activists set off the uproar by releasing undercover videos of Planned Parenthood officials that raised questions of whether the organization was profiting from the sale of fetal tissue. Planned Parenthood has denied making any profit and said it charges fees solely to cover its costs.

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Iran Carpet Industry Seeks Revival with Lifting of Sanctions

Iran's famed carpet weavers are busy at work following the country's historic nuclear deal with world powers, anticipating a boost in exports as sanctions are set to be lifted in the months ahead.

"The Persian hand-woven carpet is Iran's ambassador. I'm delighted that the ambassador is in the process of resuming work in the U.S.," exporter Jila Rassam Arabzadeh said this week. "The Persian carpet is like the Iranian flag, known all over the world. Let our flag fly."

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Some U.S. Rowers Fall Ill at 2016 Olympics Test Event

Thirteen rowers on the 40-member U.S. team came down with stomach illness at the World Junior Rowing Championships — a trial run for next summer's Olympics — and the team doctor said she suspected it was due to pollution in the lake where the competition took place.

The event took place amid rising concerns about the water quality at venues for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, now less than a year away.

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Michael Phelps Back on Top as Focus Turns to Rio Olympics

Michael Phelps already has far more medals than any Olympic athlete.

There is no longer any reason to doubt he'll have another massive haul in Rio.

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Venus Williams Ousted in 1st Round at Rogers Cup

After waiting out a lengthy rain delay, Germany's Sabine Lisicki defeated Venus Williams 6-0, 6-3 Monday in their first-round match at the Rogers Cup.

"I really had an off day," Williams said. "It was definitely a long wait and tough to not warm up. My opponent and I were under the same conditions, and she played really well."

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Monfils, Simon Earn Easy 1st-Round Wins in Montreal

Gael Monfils downed Italy's Fabio Fognini in straight sets 6-3, 6-1 on Monday as French players made a strong start to the Rogers Cup men's tournament.

Monfils broke Fognini's serve four times in their first round match and finished with seven aces to Fognini's three.

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Alabama Family Reunites with Dog Missing for 9 Years

An Alabama family drove to Colorado to be reunited with their dog Boozer on Saturday after a 9-year separation.

Boozer, now 10, had gone missing while the family was moving from Tennessee to Alabama.

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In King Kong, Boardwalk Amusement Pier Embraces the Kitsch

Snorting smoke and wearing an "I love Wildwood" T-shirt, King Kong again clings to a 60-foot lighthouse towering over the shore town's boardwalk. Eight vintage planes circle the gorilla, bringing riders 26 feet in air.

For most of the 1970s, the giant ape ride graced Morey's Pier, only to be removed in 1980. This summer, the ferocious beast returned to a New Jersey town known for embracing nostalgia and trumpeting its kitsch.

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Stinking Mats of Seaweed Piling up on Caribbean Beaches

The picture-perfect beaches and turquoise waters that people expect on their visits to the Caribbean are increasingly being fouled by mats of decaying seaweed that attract biting sand fleas and smell like rotten eggs.

Clumps of the brownish seaweed known as sargassum have long washed up on Caribbean coastlines, but researchers say the algae blooms have exploded in extent and frequency in recent years. The 2015 seaweed invasion appears to be a bumper crop, with a number of shorelines so severely hit that some tourists have canceled summer trips and lawmakers on Tobago have termed it a "natural disaster."

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