Nation and World
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Letters to the editorJul 31, 2007 11:00 pm - Vested interest in war ending badly On July 25, Jim Orme wrote a letter to the Fence Post, "Media's negative coverage of the war." It was a well-written letter. However,...
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Study: Lust beats love as cause of sex
Jul 31, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- After exhaustively compiling a list of the 237 reasons why people have sex, researchers found young men and women get intimate for mostly the same motivati...
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Today's birthdaysJul 31, 2007 11:00 pm - Today's birthdays Aug. 1 Nancy Lopez (45), LPGA Brad Faxon (46), PGA Bart Conner (46), Olympic gymnast Darryl Hall (41), NFL Pat Carter (41), NFL Gregg Jefferies (40), ...
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Letters to the editorJul 31, 2007 11:00 pm - Will we be food- dependent, too? When we started allowing our companies and corporations to move to India and China a few years back, little did we know that it would st...
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News Corp. board OKs deal to buy Dow Jones
Jul 31, 2007 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Rupert Murdoch edged closer to his goal of owning Wall Street Journal publisher Dow Jones & Co. as the board of his News Corp. media conglomerate signed off ...
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Police investigating tiny remains found in Md. turn attention to mother's bruises
Jul 31, 2007 11:00 pm - OCEAN CITY, Md. (AP) -- Investigators were trying to determine Tuesday why a woman accused of killing her baby had bruises on her body when she was found bleeding las...
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Murdoch appears to have votes to secure Dow deal
Jul 31, 2007 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Rupert Murdoch appeared to be on the verge of clinching a deal to buy Dow Jones & Co., reportedly lining up sufficient support Tuesday to take over stewardsh...
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British army ends mission
Jul 31, 2007 11:00 pm - BELFAST, Northern Ireland -- The British army marked a milestone of peacemaking Tuesday as it formally ended its 38-year mission to bolster security in Northern Ireland....
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U.S. hears Arab concerns
Jul 31, 2007 11:00 pm - SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt -- Visiting U.S. Cabinet officers, hearing blunt concerns from nervous Arab leaders Tuesday, assured them the U.S. will not abruptly withdraw troop...
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Today's birthdaysJul 31, 2007 11:00 pm - Cartoonist Tom Wilson (retired creator of "Ziggy"), 76; Fashion designer Yves Laurent, 71; Former Sen. Alfonse D'Amato, R-N.Y., 70; Rock singer Joe Elliott (Def Leppard)...