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Today is Friday, Aug. 25, the 237th day of 2006 with 128 to follow.

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BELOIT, Wis., Aug. 23 (UPI) -- Wisconsin's Beloit College has revealed its sixth annual "Beloit College Mindset List," describing the way the incoming class of freshman views the world.

Today is Thursday, Aug. 25, the 237th day of 2005 with 128 to follow.

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On this date in 1985, a 13-year-old American schoolgirl named Samantha Smith, her father and six others died in a Maine plane crash. Two years earlier, Samatha had made headlines when she wrote to Soviet President Yuri Andropov, asking him why he wanted t