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updated 3:55 p.m.EDT, Sun April 3, 2011

'Widespread cracking' found where hole opened on airliner

An initial inspection found "clear evidence that the skin separated at the lower rivet line," an NTSB official says. The 5-feet-long hole forced an emergency landing of a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737. FULL STORY

• Passengers describe scary flight

Crisis in Japan

• Three-day search finds 69 bodies
• Utility under increasing pressure
• Chemical, sawdust used to plug leak

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• Shrine bombing kills 41 in Pakistan
• Greene: He made first cell phone call
• U.S. officials condemn Quran burning
• Patients bring bedbugs to hospitals
• 'Solarball' uses sun to clean water
• Ticker: Palin prediction turns heads
• Man attacked at baseball game
• Report: Liz Hurley seeks divorce People
• 'Hop' tops weekend box office EW
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Japanese boat captain rode tsunami

"Here was my boat and here was the [tsunami] wave," says Japanese fisherman Susumu Sugawara, holding one hand low and the other stretched high above his head as he tells his remarkable story of survival. FULL STORY

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• Nigerian election pushed back a week
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