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Green Bay Packers coach Mike McCarthy says a potential marketing contract for Brett Favre could benefit the star quarterback and the team. More vital, it also could resolve their standoff over Favre’s retirement. The marketing deal, worth a reported $20 million over 10 years, might end Favre’s bid to return just months after retiring, and presumably would keep him from reporting to Packers training camp when the team is not plotting for him to start. Favre confirmed he was considering the marketing deal to ESPN on Thursday. “Brett needs to stay a part of football,” McCarthy said after practice Friday morning. “Obviously, he’s a part of the Green Bay Packers. This is really something that’s been out there all along.”

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FREDERICK, Md. — Lebanon native Bruce E. Ivins was a juggler, a gardener, a church musician, a Red Cross volunteer — and a suspected multiple murderer, according to federal authorities. Anthrax-laced letters that killed five people and rattled the post-9/11 nation may have been part of the Army scientist’s warped plot to test his cure for the deadly toxin, officials said Friday, Aug. 1. Some people who knew the scientist scoffed at the government’s assertion that Ivins sent the anthrax letters. But court documents indicate the outwardly mild-mannered Ivins had a menacing side.

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KABUL, Afghanistan — Roadside bombs killed five NATO soldiers and a civilian in eastern Afghanistan on Friday, while a coalition of aid groups warned that violence is spreading to once-stable regions and forcing them to scale back humanitarian work.

The soldiers’ deaths marked a bloody start to the month in what has already been a deadly year for the separate U.S.-led coalition and NATO mission in Afghanistan, where an insurgency is raging nearly seven years after the fundamentalist Taliban regime was ousted.

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