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Luciano Pavarotti - “Nessun Dorma”
From Puccini’s Turandot. I picked this last year for Pavarotti’s birthday. Here’s one of his signature arias (and one of my favorites). No one hit it like this. He will be missed.

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My boyfriend, who was in the Air Force for 7 years, went crazy yesterday when he heard about the transporting of nuclear tipped weapons “MISTAKE.” I’m going to try and write this the best I can and hope it makes sense to you! Here’s what he said:
We cannot fly assembled nukes around this country [...]

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No politician should take a single cent from any lobbying group who is pimping for Israel. This is NOT ok.
Syria said Thursday that its air defenses opened fire at Israeli warplanes that had entered its airspace at dawn and forced them to leave, but Israel said they are unaware of any such an [...]

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By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN and DUFF WILSON
The New York Times
All right! I hear you snickering at the above headline. But SOMEBODY actually got paid to write it. - JS
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 - The political and personal drama of Senator Larry E. Craig took another turn today as a spokesman for the Idaho Republican said the [...]

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The Associated Press
“I mean…like….for sure…and I was all…” - JS
NEW YORK (AP) — You see a tabloid shot of Mary-Kate Olsen and think, “Why does she look so depressed?” Well, there’s a reason for that.
“I don’t want my picture taken,” the 21-year-old actress tells Entertainment Weekly magazine. “The only time I think it’s [...]

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CNN
To understand more about honey bee colony collapse, we invite you to listen to the June 25th edition of “Blue Herald Radio”, available in our podcast archives. Dr. Dewey Caron explains what the collapse is all about and the mystery behind it.
A virus found in healthy Australian honey bees may be playing a role in [...]

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First time ever……two Monday night games. I don’t know if I like that or not. I love Peyton Manning (not as much as I did before he attended the state dinner at the White House when the Queen was here), but I’m going with New Orleans tonight.
This weeks schedule:
Thursday, September
NO @ [...]

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CNN
Rescuers searched Thursday for survivors of powerful Hurricane Felix, which a Nicaraguan official said has claimed 48 lives, a death toll sure to climb.
Casualty reports have yet to come from at least 70 percent of villages and towns along Nicaragua’s swampy jungle coast, where Felix slammed ashore with 160 mph winds on Tuesday, said [...]

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By Edith Honan
Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A provision of the Patriot Act that requires people who are formally contacted by the FBI for information to keep it a secret is unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled on Thursday.
U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero sided with the American Civil Liberties Union, which brought the lawsuit and argued [...]

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By Deborah Zabarenko,
Environment Correspondent
Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More beetles and fewer spruce trees in Alaska, whiter coral and fewer scuba-divers in Florida and more wildfires in Arizona already show the impact of climate change on U.S. lands and waters, a congressional watchdog agency reported on Thursday.
But the federal agencies that manage over 600 million acres [...]

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