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11.10.07

Congress Aims to Put Out Cigarettes
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Nov 10, 8:11 AM (ET)By CHARLES BABINGTON (AP) A Marlboro cigarette burns as it sits on a pack of cigarettes in this Jan. 31, 2007 file photo in... if (NAV_NS&&NAV_VER
11.08.07

Institute to Get Ancient Bible Parchment
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Nov 9 12:02 AM US/Eastern By REGAN E. DOHERTY Associated Press Writer JERUSALEM (AP) - The family of man who held a fragment of a more than 1,000-year-old manuscript of the Hebrew Bible for six decades as a good luck charm will present it to a Jerusalem institute next week, officials said Thursday. The parchment, about "the size of a credit card," is believed to be part of the most authoritative manuscript of the Hebrew Bible, the Aleppo Codex, said Michael Glatzer, academic secretary of the Yad Ben Zvi institute. It contains verses from the Book of Exodus describing the plagues in Egypt, ...
11.08.07

Cargo Ship’s Fuel Fouls Bay Area Beaches
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - An oil spill fouled miles of fragile coastline Thursday, sending environmentalists scrambling to save tarred marine life and leaving local officials questioning the Coast Guard's response to the ship collision that triggered the slick.About 58,000 gallons of oil spilled from a South Korea-bound container ship when it struck a tower supporting the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in dense fog Wednesday. The accident did not damage the span, but the vessel's hull was gashed, officials said.Tides carried a plume of heavy fuel beneath the Golden Gate Bridge and into the Pacific Ocean. By Thursday afternoon, oil had ...
11.08.07

Man Testifies O.J. Burst Into Hotel Room
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Nov 9 12:09 AM US/Eastern By LINDA DEUTSCH AP Special LAS VEGAS (AP) - A memorabilia dealer accusing O.J. Simpson of robbing him testified Thursday that the former football star burst into a hotel room with a handful of other men, including one wielding a gun, and carried off hundreds of collector's items. Bruce Fromong, one of two dealers allegedly robbed, said he had expected to meet with an anonymous buyer on Sept. 13, when Simpson arrived with others "in a military invasion fashion" and shouted that the items belonged to him."O.J. was screaming, 'This is all my s---. This all belongs to ...
11.08.07

Gates: Japan, Others Must Address NKorea
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TOKYO (AP) - Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned on Friday that Japan and its neighbors must do more to confront security problems in Asia, calling it one of the "last places on earth with the potential for a nuclear confrontation."It will take more than one or two countries to overcome the threats from North Korea and nuclear proliferation, Gates said in a speech at Sophia University that stressed the United States' continued commitment to Asia yet cautioned that other allies must step up."Japan has the opportunity—and an obligation—to take on a role that reflects its political, economic and military capacity," ...
11.08.07

California Sues EPA Over Auto Emissions
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California sued the federal government on Thursday to force a decision about whether the state can impose the nation's first greenhouse gas emission standards for cars and light trucks.More than a dozen other states are poised to follow California's lead if it is granted the waiver from federal law, presenting a challenge to automakers who would have to adapt to a patchwork of regulations. The state's lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency, filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., was expected after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vowed last spring to take legal action. "Our future depends on us ...
11.08.07

Cruise Ship Runs Aground in Virginia
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AP Posted: 2007-11-08 14:45:58 VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (Nov. 8 ) - A captain ran a small cruise ship with 66 people aboard aground in an isolated stretch of the Intracoastal Waterway early Thursday after it began taking on water, the U.S. Coast Guard said. The captain wanted to keep the 207-foot ship from sinking, Lt. Chris White said. There were no reports of injuries. 'The Situation Is Pretty Serious' Hyunsoo Leo Kim, Pilotonline.com / AP Hyunsoo Leo Kim, Pilotonline.com / AP Hyunsoo Leo Kim, Pilotonline.com / AP Coast Guard boats attend to a cruise ship Thursday after it ran aground in the Intracoastal Waterway near Virginia Beach, Va. ...
11.08.07

AT&T gave feds access to all Web, phone traffic, ex-tech says
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By Ellen Nakashima The Washington Post WASHINGTON — His first inkling that something was amiss came in summer 2002, when he opened the door to admit a visitor from the National Security Agency (NSA) to an AT&T office in San Francisco. "What the heck is the NSA doing here?" Mark Klein, a former AT&T technician, said he asked himself. A year or so later, he stumbled upon documents that, he said, show the agency gained access to massive amounts of e-mail, Web search and other Internet records of more than a dozen global and regional telecom providers. AT&T allowed the agency to hook into ...
11.08.07

The YouTube killer: eight die in schoolroom shooting massacre
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Pekka-Eric Auvinen poses with a pistol before embarking on a rampage that resulted in nine deaths, including his own As he posed online with his murder weapon, the killer struck an eerie echo of Cho Seung Hui, who made recordings of himself that he posted to the NBC American television network before killing 32 students at Virginia Tech university, in Blacksburg, last April. As Finnish police surrounded the school buildings in the town of Tuusula yesterday, students leapt to safety from windows and the killer turned the gun on himself. He was taken to hospital with critical head wounds where he died ...
11.08.07

Toy Containing ‘Date-Rape’ Drug Pulled
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AP Posted: 2007-11-08 09:52:36 Filed Under: Recalls WASHINGTON (Nov. 7) - Millions of Chinese-made toys for children have been pulled from shelves in North America and Australia after scientists found they contain a chemical that converts into a powerful date rape drug when ingested. Two children in the U.S. and three in Australia were hospitalized after swallowing the beads. With only seven weeks until Christmas, the recall is yet another blow to toy industry - already bruised by a slew of recalls this past summer. var mod_285645 = new pgGlbObject(); mod_285645.pgTotalImages = "21"; ...

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