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Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney won an easy and expected victory in a high-profile Iowa Republican Party Straw Poll on Saturday, claiming nearly twice as many votes as his nearest rival.

Benazir Bhutto had been warned by President Pervez Musharraf and other Pakistani officials not to campaign so publicly, but she remained defiant. "I put my life in danger and came here because I feel this country is in danger," she said at the rally.

Bhutto's career in politics included serving twice as Pakistan's prime minister and spending eight years in exile. She was assassinated at a political rally just two months after returning to her home country.

Though historians aren't entirely sure what was served at the first Thanksgiving meal in 1621, chefs at the National Museum of the American Indian have developed a menu reflecting tribal culinary traditions.

Americans cut back on their spending in October by the largest amount since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Meanwhile, orders to U.S. factories for big-ticket manufactured goods plunged by the largest amount in two years.

Melissa Block and Robert Siegel read from listeners' letters and e-mails, including responses to stories on the Fortune Cookie Chronicles, the effects of chopsticks on the environment, and ... "sweet barking cheese"?

Many school-age kids have long since traded in their rocking horses and jump ropes for digital play. Commentator David Kushner describes why he thinks the Webkinz Web site is preparing children for life in a "virtualized society."

The Texas governor has dropped his new rules that had required all commercial trucks from Mexico to undergo extra inspections.

Young voters were everywhere in the Obama campaign. But did young people really turn out to vote in significant numbers? Heather Smith, executive director of Rock the Vote, tells Renee Montagne that young voters turned out in record numbers, voting for Obama about 2-1 over John McCain.

Jay Bahadur wanted to know firsthand how modern pirates live and operate, so he traveled to Somalia. He spent weeks meeting with pirates and government officials. He tells their stories, debunks myths and examines the rise of piracy off the Somali coast in his new book, The Pirates of Somalia.