javascript to get paragraph of selected text in web page

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Published on 2009-05-10T14:04:39Z Indexed on 2010/03/28 22:13 UTC
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Hi,

After highlighting text, I would like to obtain the paragraph in which the selected text resides.

var select = window._content.document.getSelection();

Any pointers please?

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