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Public Sees Blame to Share in Israel-Hezbollah Conflict
8-8-2006
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ABC poll
Americans find room to criticize both sides in the Israel-Hezbollah war: A majority said Hezbollah is mainly to blame for civilian casualties in Lebanon, given its location in civilian areas. But many also said Israel hasn't done enough to avoid
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Bush Administration
Americans Doubt That the U.S. Effort in Iraq Is Improving
8-8-2006
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ABC poll
A fresh wave of public skepticism confronts the Bush administration on current issues ranging from the unrest in Iraq to the ports deal and privacy rights at home. And when it comes to the Hurricane Katrina response or prescription drug benefits â€" do
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World News
Surgeons fought for hours to save Castro's life
8-8-2006
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Daily Telegraph
Doctors at the exclusive Cimeq hospital in western Havana are accustomed to handling the delicate health problems of Cuba's communist elite.
It was here last weekend, The Sunday Telegraph has learnt, that they battled for several hours to save
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Falkland Islands dispute heats up
8-8-2006
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Christian Science Monitor
It seems an unlikely scrap of land to squabble over. Treeless, remote, and blasted by the full fury of the South Atlantic, the Falkland Islands are home to less than 3,000 people, and thrilling only to those who love nature, big winds, and spectacula
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BattleBots
8-8-2006
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LiveScience.com
The Vecna BEAR robot (Battlefield Extraction and Retrieval Robot) is being developed as an adjunct to other rescue technologies for extracting combat casualties.
The BEAR bot has three main elements; hydraulic upper body, mobile platform and dynam
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Transportation
Monitoring cell phone travel near freeway cell towers gives traffic congestion report
8-8-2006
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LiveScience.com
A new service that measures radio signals beamed between your cell phone and cell phone towers could soon help speed up your commute.
IntelliOne Technologies, a company that specializes in using mobile phone network usage to measure roadway speeds
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Politics: Republican Campaigns
Law May Complicate Plans to Replace Ney
8-8-2006
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AP
The leading Republican candidate to replace scandal-scarred Rep. Bob Ney on the November ballot may be ineligible, party officials said, complicating GOP efforts to assure a smooth transition for the fall campaign.
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Property Rights
Judge OKs Camping Ban Near Bush Ranch
8-8-2006
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AP
Roadside camping and parking bans are constitutional, a federal judge ruled, blocking protesters from pitching tents or placing portable toilets in ditches near President Bush's ranch.
Protesters sought to make a smaller makeshift campsite tha
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DeLay Vows to Take Name Off Texas Ballot
8-8-2006
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AP
Former Majority Leader Tom DeLay said he is taking the necessary steps to remove his name from the November ballot, giving his party a chance to field a write-in candidate in hopes of holding the House seat.
Buffeted by scandal, DeLay said his Jun
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Military
Agency says another PC with veterans' data missing
8-8-2006
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Reuters
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs said that a desktop computer with personal data on as many as 38,000 U.S. military veterans had disappeared from Unisys Corp., a subcontractor.
Disclosure of the breach comes three days after authorities arr
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Science, Medicine and Technology
Elephants show capacity for compassion, scientists find
8-8-2006
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AFP
In a paper to appear in a scientific journal this month, researchers said they came to this conclusion after watching how elephants on a Kenyan game reserve behaved towards a matriarch who fell ill and died.
The dying elephant -- named Eleanor by
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Transportation: Air Travel
Safety a concern as drones catch on
8-8-2006
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USA Today
Crashes of drone planes flying over the USA are worrying pilots and lawmakers who fear that a surge in interest by federal and local agencies to use the unmanned aircraft could lead to danger in the skies.
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Science, Medicine and Technology
Seabird's flight plan: Entire Pacific Ocean
8-8-2006
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USA Today
If you think it's a long trip to the local supermarket, consider the sooty shearwater. This tiny seabird flies an astounding 40,000 miles in 200 days, covering the entire Pacific Ocean in search of food. It is the longest animal migration recorde
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World News
Congo Denies Alleged Uranium Shipment To Iran From 2005
8-8-2006
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AP
The Congolese government denied that a uranium shipment left its territory last year bound for Iran. "It's a great big lie," government spokesman said. "All our nuclear activities are under the control of the International Atomic E
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Space Travel and Exploration
Organic Molecules Found in Diverse Space Places
8-8-2006
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Space.com
A two-year survey of enormous interstellar dust clouds has turned up eight organic molecules in two different regions of space. One is a stellar nursery awash in light while the other is a cold, starless void.
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Hidden Star of Known Planet Found
8-8-2006
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Space.com
n 2003, astronomers discovered a planet outside our solar system by measuring the way light from a distant star warped around the new world's host star.
But it took two more years of telescope observations to actually see the host star. Using
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Anthropology
Bulgarian Archaeologist Unearths Dagger
8-8-2006
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AP
A 6-inch-long gold and platinum dagger believed to be 5,000 years-old has been unearthed in central Bulgaria, the archaeologist leading the excavations said Monday.
Archaeologist Martin Hristov said his team discovered more than 500 tiny golden ri
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Economy - Economics USA
The Mystery of Low Wage Growth
8-8-2006
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BusinessWeek
Perhaps the oddest and most depressing fact about the U.S. economy these days is the lack of real wage growth. The unemployment rate has been below 5% since December, and productivity growth is still looking strong. Yet wages and salaries, adjusted f
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Foreign Policy
Kremlin warns US arms sanctions could hurt ties
8-8-2006
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Reuters
The Kremlin branded US sanctions against 2 leading Russian arms exporters "an unfriendly act" and warned they could rebound on US-Russia relations. The US announced sanctions on 7 firms from Russia, India, North Korea and Cuba for selling r
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World News
Dubai's man-made island nears completion
8-8-2006
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AP
With 14,000 labourers toiling day and night, the first of Dubai's three palm-shaped islands is finally about to get its first residents.
The Palm Jumeirah, a 12-square-mile island group, is part of what's billed as the largest land-reclama
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Science, Medicine and Technology
Scientists Reverse Evolution, Reconstruct Ancient Gene
8-8-2006
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LiveScience.com
It's not Jurassic Park, but scientists have reconstructed a 530-million-year-old gene by piecing together key portions of two modern genes descended from it.
"We've shown some of the elements involved in the process of evolution by re
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Anthropology
Ancient Syrian Settlements Seen in Spy Satellite Images
8-8-2006
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Space.com
[Let's drop some bombs on it.] Spy satellite images taken in the 1960s and declassified in the 1990s have been used to find ancient settlements in Syria.
The sites are near the ancient fortress of Jebel Khalid, which was established in the wak
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Universe Might be Bigger and Older than Expected
8-8-2006
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Space.com
A project aiming to create an easier way to measure cosmic distances has instead turned up surprising evidence that our large and ancient universe might be even bigger and older than previously thought.
If accurate, the finding would be difficult
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Palestine -- Israel
Besieged Lebanese Turn to Internet
8-8-2006
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AP
Like many of her compatriots, artist Zena el-Khalil has turned to blogging on the Internet to express her longings and fears amid the fighting in Lebanon.
Writing from Beirut, the 30-year-old tells of wanting to have children and worries about Isr
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Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Ex-jailer pleads guilty - claims pattern of abuse at jail
08-08-2006
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SunHerald.com
A former jailer's guilty plea to crimes surrounding an inmate's fatal beating also claims a pattern of abuse by deputies at the Harrison County jail and cover-ups of their alleged crimes.
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Energy
Behind the Queens Blackout
08-08-2006
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by Bill Weinberg - www.villagevoice.com
There are those who take an opposite tack from the advocacy groups, seeing the Queens debacle as indicative of insufficient deregulation. Jim Lesczynski, the Libertarian Party candidate.
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Legislative Mischief
Bill introduced to ban cigarette sales thru the mail
08-08-2006
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Portsmouth(NH) Herald
(Remember, it's for the children) Sen. Susan Collins (aka Empty Skirt), has introduced legislation to help crack down on illegal sales of tobacco to children by banning the shipment of cigarettes and other tobacco products thru the US mail.
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Economy - Economics USA
Consumer Borrowing rises sharply in June
08-08-2008
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Newsmax
Americans increased their borrowing in June at a much faster pace than expected, with the rise led by higher credit card debt. The Federal Reserve reported that consumer borrowing rose at an annual rate of 5.7% in June, up sharply from a 3.3 % incre
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Military
US sells military hardware over the Net
08-08-2006
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Sunday Mail
American defence chiefs are selling millions of dollars worth of military hardware from Iraq and Afghanistan to the highest bidder over the internet. The items - which include rocket launchers and guided missile radar - can easily be used or adapted
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Police State
30 Million Spy Cameras in US
08-09-2006
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Newsmax
It sounds like something out of science fiction. Researchers at GE's sprawling research center, are creating new "smart video surveillance" systems that can detect expolsives by recongnizing the electromagnetic waves give off by object
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