CHARLIE NEUMAN / Union-Tribune Val Schneider filled out the screening application required to receive a flu shot as she waited in line yesterday in front of the Albertsons on South Mission Road in Fallbrook.

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Taking their best shot

Clinics swamped by people seeking flu inoculations

By Elizabeth Fitzsimons
STAFF WRITER

FALLBROOK – Diane Nelson made her way down the line, pleading with people who had been waiting for hours to give up their flu shot for her.

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By Dexter Filkins
NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Insurgents penetrated the heavily guarded governmental compound here yesterday, setting off a pair of bombs within minutes of each other in the Green Zone and killing five people, including at least three Americans, and wounding 20 others.

By Scott Shane
NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – A federal panel of medical experts studying illnesses among Persian Gulf War veterans has broken with several earlier studies and concluded that many suffer from neurological damage caused by exposure to toxic chemicals, rejecting past findings that the ailments resulted mostly from wartime stress.

By Toby Eckert and Finlay Lewis
COPLEY NEWS SERVICE

LAS VEGAS – With their debates behind them, President Bush and Sen. John Kerry turned up the heat on the campaign trail yesterday as they began what is shaping up as a suspenseful stretch run to win the White House.

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