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Patty Loveless
Blame it on Your Cheatin Heart

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Trail encounter
The Leonids are the debris of Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle. Every 33 years or so, the comet returns to the inner solar system and releases material that forms into a new dust trail. The Earth’s passage right through the centre of trails is associated with the most spectacular meteor displays (studies show that, as well as [...]

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MELBOURNE, Australia — A meeting of top financial officials from around the globe opened Saturday against a backdrop of 3,000 marching protesters, some of whom turned violent, pelting police with stones, bottles and smoke grenades.
Some 3,000 protesters marched on a downtown hotel where the Group of 20 meeting of finance ministers and central bankers [...]

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ATLANTA — Next year, Justan Holloway’s class schedule will look more like an action movie plot than an academic pursuit. The Savannah State University sophomore will study international terrorism, disaster planning, criminology, social psychology and Arabic.
Holloway plans to be among the first to enroll in the college’s new degree program in homeland security. The program [...]

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BEIJING — After years of denial, China has acknowledged that many of the human organs used in transplants here are taken from executed prisoners and that many of the recipients are foreigners who pay hefty sums to avoid a long wait.
Speaking at a conference of surgeons in the southern city of Guangzhou, Deputy Health Minister [...]

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Wooohoooo!

By Jennifer Byrd, Associated Press Writer | November 18, 2006
HELENA, Mont. –A Montana state senator has officially changed his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat, breaking a tie to give his new party a 26-24 advantage.
State Sen. Sam Kitzenberg filed the paperwork at the secretary of state’s office on Friday.
He said he had [...]

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Two recent news items have me pondering this question.

Doc’s appt. angers family planning group
ANDREW BRIDGES, AP Writer
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration, to the consternation of its critics, has picked the medical director of an organization that opposes premarital sex, contraception and abortion to lead the office that oversees federally funded teen pregnancy, family planning and [...]

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Why the shock? Is it not a disaster? Does anyone out there think it’s not?

(CNN) — British Prime Minister Tony Blair provoked a storm Saturday after apparently admitting that the invasion of Iraq by the United States and Britain was “a disaster.”
Blair gave the surprise assessment of his decision to go [...]

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CAIRO, Egypt Nov 18, 2006 (AP)- A previously unknown group has claimed responsibility for abducting a private security team of four Americans and an Austrian in southern Iraq, according to an Iranian-run Arabic-language satellite news station.
Al-Alam television posted a report on its Web site Saturday saying the group, called Islamic Companies, claimed responsibility for [...]

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