Nation and World
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Stocks fall despite GM earnings, consumer confidence
Jul 31, 2007 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Wall Street showed further signs of stability Tuesday, rising sharply on strong earnings at General Motors Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. even as investors ...
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Audit faults parishes
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Thompson's idea of law and order isn't like Marshall Dillon'sJul 31, 2007 11:00 pm - Both common sense and the law of averages escape presidential candidates, especially Republicans looking to assert their conservative bona fides. It's a shame that Fred ...
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FCC OKs ariwaves auctionsJul 31, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Federal Communications Commission Tuesday voted to shake up the wireless market by approving a set of ground-rules for a big airwaves auction that...
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Archaeologists in Rome dig up ancient tannery threatened by railway} works
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U.S. monthly death toll in Iraq at lowest point in 8 months
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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
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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...