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This week on the pop music charts, a film soundtrack has done something that no other soundtrack had done in nearly 30 years.

The U.S. Navy released its findings on two separate crashes involving destroyers that killed a total of 17 sailors this summer. "Both of these accidents were preventable," the Navy's top officer said.

A spokeswoman said that visitors wearing tampons will be offered pads.

The nation's largest toy retailer filed for bankruptcy in September but said it wants to motivate its top brass to turn around sales in the critical holiday shopping season.

Burns said his top priority as spy chief would be a rising China. He received strong bipartisan support in testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee and was widely expected to be confirmed.

For many weeks, the president said he would step away from managing his businesses, but he offered no evidence. Now documents are turning up, showing he no longer is listed as top executive.

After failing to win a single gold medal across all track events leading into Saturday, the U.S. men's team dominated in the 4x400 meter relay's final heat to the top spot on the podium.

Gasoline prices jumped nearly 10 cents a gallon in the last week, and forecasters say that drivers could see even higher prices as summer approaches. Prices typically rise in anticipation of the summer driving season, but in 2004, it was mid-May before prices topped the $2 mark. This year, $2-a-gallon gas is but a distant reflection in the rearview mirror; it's $3 a gallon we seem to be closing in on.

Host Michele Norris reads from our listener's letters sent to us over the past week. The letters comment on our profile of the Baghdad neighborhood of Amiriya, Michele's conversation with Dr. Michael Saag, one of the top researchers for AIDS, our profile of black preachers leaving the Democratic party, and reactions to our review of Donald Knaack's opera, Odin.

A Canadian company recently was named whiskey of the year — knocking Scotch brands from the top-five category. In the U.S., there's been a massive increase in single malts in particular.