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submitted by Gretchen Wright 83 weeks 2 days 19 hours 16 minutes ago
A moderate earthquake rattled parts of southeast England Saturday morning. There were reports of structural damage but no immediate reports of injuries.
Data from the U.S. Geological Survey said the 4.7-magnitude quake struck at 8:18 a.m., about 60 miles southeast of London.
Witnesses said cracks appeared in walls...(more)
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submitted by Gretchen Wright 54 weeks 5 days 6 hours 11 minutes ago
Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, buoyed by new polls and what his campaign sees as growing momentum, was in his element tonight when he pulled into San Francisco's Bill Graham Civic Auditorium for a campaign rally.
Thousands of people, most of them young, stood in a line that...(more)
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submitted by Gretchen Wright 54 weeks 5 days 6 hours 13 minutes ago
The Coast Guard was rocked by new developments Wednesday in the wake of the huge San Francisco Bay oil spill as the agency shoved aside its Bay Area disaster commander, began a wide-ranging probe of its actions after the accident and admitted it had mishandled drug...(more)
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submitted by Gretchen Wright for team Green Living 30 weeks 5 days 7 hours 47 minutes ago
Consumers in the United States and Britain are not only aware of global warming and threats to the environment, but are also worried about it and taking steps to change the way they live and what they buy as a result.
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submitted by Gretchen Wright 9 weeks 1 day 17 hours 31 minutes ago
Though Sarah Palin depicts herself as a pit bull fighting good-old-boy politics, in her years as mayor she and her friends received special benefits more typical of small-town politics as usual, an Associated Press investigation shows.
When Palin needed to sell her house during her last year...(more)
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submitted by Gretchen Wright 15 weeks 2 days 16 hours 47 minutes ago
The meeting between John McCain and Barack Obama today at Saddleback Church in Orange County will be brief -- a handshake and perhaps an exchange of pleasantries in between back-to-back interviews with the church's pastor, Rick Warren.
But for the 3,000 people in the audience and viewers...(more)
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submitted by Gretchen Wright 23 weeks 2 days 7 hours 59 minutes ago
Making ends meet on food stamps has never been easy for Cassandra Johnson, but since food prices began their steep climb earlier this year, she has had to develop new survival strategies.
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submitted by Gretchen Wright 5 weeks 3 days 7 hours 23 minutes ago
Scientists have succeeded in permanently erasing frightening memories in mice, an early step toward the development of treatments for people haunted by traumas they can't forget.
According to a study in the journal Neuron this week, researchers genetically manipulated the brains of mice to overproduce a key...(more)
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submitted by Gretchen Wright 81 weeks 2 days 18 hours 49 minutes ago
The man riddled with bullets as he sat in his car on a San Francisco freeway off-ramp is not cooperating with investigators trying to determine who shot him, police said Friday.
The 22-year-old man is recovering at San Francisco General Hospital after being shot Thursday with a...(more)
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submitted by Gretchen Wright 81 weeks 2 days 18 hours 50 minutes ago
California's high school graduation rate dropped to a 10-year low last year as a third of the Class of 2006 left without a diploma, according to state Department of Education numbers posted Friday.
Statewide, the graduation rate was 67 percent of the 423,289 seniors in 2006. That...(more)
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submitted by Gretchen Wright 81 weeks 2 days 18 hours 51 minutes ago
Two years ago, Robin Ashton, a seasoned criminal prosecutor at the Department of Justice, learned from her boss that a promised promotion was no longer hers.
"You have a Monica problem," Ashton was told, according to several Justice Department officials. Referring to Monica Goodling, a 31-year-old, relatively...(more)
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