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No time to rest; there's more soccer to play and another continent to conquer.

After the United States men's national team swept through its title defense in the just-concluded CONCACAF Gold Cup, Team USA is in Venezuela for Copa America against the best teams of South America.

In its Copa America opener, the U.S. plays fifth-ranked Argentina at 5:45 p.m. PDT Thursday. GolTV and Telefutura will broadcast the match live. On the Web, the match can be seen at www.ussoccer.com. In group play, Team USA also plays Paraguay on Monday and Colombia on July 5.

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Commerce City - Kyle Beckerman skateboards for fun and drives a luxury SUV to work.

He wears his hair in the dreadlocks he has been growing for more than two years while he has evolved into one of the best defensive midfielders in Major League Soccer.

This week, he will make his first appearance of consequence for the U.S. national team - he played a few minutes in a friendly against Denmark a few months ago - when the U.S. begins play in the Copa America tournament in Venezuela. It's not only a chance for him to obtain valuable international experience, it's an opportunity for him to impress new national team coach Bob Bradley as the next World Cup team begins to take form.

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DETROIT -- My doctor told me not to cancel my vacation just because I had blood in my urine, with no other symptoms. But do get checked, he said, as soon as you're back.

Besides, he said, ``You can trust the Danish medical system, maybe more than our own.''

Sixteen hours after our plane landed in Copenhagen, as I lay deep in the death-like sleep of the jet-lagged, a night visitor stabbed me in the back with a pick ax.

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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - An outbreak of distemper has killed 41 seal pups on a Danish island and scientists fear that thousands of animals could die if the disease spreads, the Danish Forest and Nature Agency said on Monday.

Agency officials have found the dead seal pups on Anholt, an island between Denmark and Sweden that hosts many of the 12,000 seals that live in the waters between the two countries.

"We are dealing with it as a severe outbreak but we don't know yet the full extent of it," said Henrik Lykke Sorensen, an agency official. "Until now we only found young seals born last year. We hope adults or at least those older than 5 years have an immune defense against the virus."

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LONG BEACH TOWNSHIP, N.J. - One man's source of electric power is causing an ill wind to blow in this seaside town.

Two of Michael Mercurio's neighbors have filed a lawsuit to stop him from using a windmill in his backyard that helps to heat and light his house. The suit contends the windmill is too noisy, creates shadows on their property and spoils their sleep.

In response, the township's board of commissioners discussed proposing an ordinance that would ban the building of windmills higher than 12 feet, except for decorative purposes. The board decided to table the ordinance after some residents spoke in favor of the windmills at a public meeting.

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