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It's been a rough week for airlines — and for travelers. American Airlines grounded thousands of flights and Frontier became the fourth airline in two months to declare bankruptcy. Aviation expert George Hobica talks to Andrea Seabrook about what passengers can do to protect themselves.

President Bush is scheduled to announce Thursday that the length of tours for troops serving at war will be shortened from 15 months to 12 months.

German researcher Gerhard Ertl has won the 2007 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Ertl developed new methods for studying the "surface chemistry" that is critical to everything from catalytic converters for cleaning up auto exhaust, to the chemical reactions that created the hole in the ozone layer.

Olympic track and field star Marion Jones has pleaded guilty to lying to federal investigators about using steroids. The three-time Olympic gold medalist also announced her retirement from the sport on Friday. Michele Norris has an update.

Finalists for the National Book Awards were announced Wednesday in Philadelphia. Some well-known authors, such as Christopher Hitchens and Edwidge Danticat, are nominated. But the list also includes several debut authors. Winners will be named in mid-November in New York City.

A House committee votes to condemn the killing of 1.5 million Armenians in Turkey in World War I as an act of genocide. But the government of Turkey opposes the resolution — as does the Bush administration, which warns that relations with a key ally could be damaged.

In the wake of a House committee vote to label as genocide the deaths of more than 1 million Armenians at the hands of Ottoman Turks a century ago, Turkey's ambassador to the U.S. was recalled for consultations. He will be gone for a week or 10 days, a foreign ministry official says.

Leonid Hurwicz of the University of Minnesota, Eric Maskin of Princeton and Roger Myerson of the University of Chicago share the prize. They were honored for laying the foundation of mechanism design theory.

Chinese leader Hu Jintao promises to make communist rule more inclusive and better spread the fruits of China's economic boom during a nationally broadcast speech to China's Communist Party congress.

Akron Public Schools officially welcomed its new superintendent during a press conference Tuesday, after the Board of Education approved a contract Monday night.