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NATION IN BRIEF

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· NASA scientists began to lose hope of finding the missing Mars Global Surveyor after another probe orbiting above Mars failed to spot it. The $154 million surveyor was supposed to last only two years but continued to send data for almost a decade.

· SANTA ANA, Calif. -- Three members of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang were sentenced to life in prison for what prosecutors called decades of terrorizing some of the nation's most dangerous penitentiaries. A fourth member is recuperating from back surgery and has not been sentenced.

· NEW ORLEANS -- The New Orleans public defender's office has been ordered to hire 12 more lawyers to represent impoverished criminal defendants by Dec. 1. The chairman of the Orleans Indigent Defense Board said that her office does not have the money to comply with the order, issued by judges in the Criminal District Court.

· BRADLEY BEACH, N.J. -- A man was struck and killed by a commuter train sent to pick up NJ Transit passengers stranded after their first train hit and killed a woman, authorities said.

-- From News Services

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