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100% Contained

News – Every fall in Southern California, the warm Santa Ana winds kick up and we all brace for fire season. When a particular region is saved from the flames, the fire chief declares that the blaze is "100 % contained." Unless you live in SoCal, you can't imagine the weight that's lifted upon hearing those words.

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Submitted and Voted for on October 25, 2007 02:58pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 74 votes / 1 sink

The Bomb, or What Oregon Will Be Talking About At The Water Cooler

News – As nuclear attacks go, this one wasn't all that bad. For starters, it was live-blogged. But there were other reasons to be impressed. A real bomb was detonated at Portland International Raceway, producing a big, dramatic fireball; actors walked around playing radiation victims; and the Secretary of Homeland Security was in town! What's not to love? There was even fake media on hand, but that's such an oxymoron that I'm going to leave it alone.

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Submitted and Voted for on October 17, 2007 11:31am

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License To Pollute, or Why I'm Not Voting for Barack

News – The "cap-and-trade" solution to climate change is my new favorite thing. Recently hawked by presidential candidate Barack Obama, such legislation would charge companies for their greenhouse gas emissions. It would also put a cap on how much they could vent into the air. "If you're going to pollute," the proposal seems to say with a wagging finger, "well then, by God, we're going to make you pay for it!"

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Submitted and Voted for on October 11, 2007 05:00pm

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Time Is Running Out for Brother and Sister

News – Troy Anthony Davis and his sister, Martina Correia, are fighting for their lives. Troy faces death by lethal injection at the hands of the state of Georgia, and Martina has breast cancer. Their parallel battles against insuperable odds will remain an inspiring story--provided they live. Time is running out.

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Submitted and Voted for on October 10, 2007 03:21pm

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Interpol Hunts Suspected Pedophile

News – Interpol sought public help Monday in identifying a suspected pedophile, revealing a technique to unscramble digitally altered images to show the face of a man seen in Internet photos sexually abusing young boys in Vietnam and Cambodia.

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Submitted and Voted for on October 08, 2007 10:58am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 75 votes / 1 sink

Shock, fear and courage in Rangoon

News – As my plane touched down in rain-soaked Rangoon, I was unsure of what to expect. The military government had just done the unthinkable: opened fire at a protest led by unarmed monks, and no-one was quite sure what they would do next.

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Submitted and Voted for on October 08, 2007 10:52am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 98 votes / 6 sinks

Why I'm Not Voting for Hillary

News – When Hillary Clinton was first elected senator from New York in November 2000, I was living in Brooklyn and was still a huge Clinton Family fan. I'd voted for her husband twice, and now I voted for her. I was thrilled to have the incredibly smart ex-First Lady as my state's new senator. She was so savvy and politically experienced, poised, charismatic, and--a woman!

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Submitted and Voted for on October 08, 2007 09:48am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 81 votes / 2 sinks

Storms' effects weigh on Midwest

News – It could take electric utilities days to restore power to all customers left in the dark by this week's storms, officials said. Power was restored by Saturday morning to more than half a million customers in Illinois, but about 120,000 ComEd customers in northern Illinois remained without electricity, said ComEd spokesman Joe Trost.

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Submitted and Voted for on August 25, 2007 03:21pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 126 votes / 5 sinks

More Iraqis flee since troop rise

News – The number of Iraqis fleeing their homes has soared since the American troop increase began in February, according to data from two humanitarian groups, accelerating the partition of the country into sectarian enclaves.

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Submitted and Voted for on August 24, 2007 12:39pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 105 votes / 2 sinks

Senate To Hold Hearing On Utah Mine Collapse: Murray And Stickler Invited To Testify

News – The United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies will meet in open session at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, September 5, 2007 in Room SD- 124, Dirksen Senate Office Building.

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Submitted and Voted for on August 23, 2007 02:00pm

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Spy Chief Reveals Classified Details

News – National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell pulled the curtain back on previously classified details of government surveillance and of a secretive court whose recent rulings created new hurdles for the Bush administration as it tries to prevent terrorism. McConnell's comments _ made in an interview with the El Paso (Texas) Times last week and posted as a transcript on the newspaper's Web site Wednesday _ raised eyebrows for their frank discussion of previously classified eavesdropping work conducted under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, known as FISA.

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Submitted and Voted for on August 22, 2007 09:50pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 41 votes / 1 sink

Key activists arrested in Burma

News – Burma's military leaders have arrested at least 13 activists who staged a protest on Sunday against a sharp rise in fuel prices. Those held include at least seven top leaders of the pro-democracy 88 Generation Students group.

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Submitted and Voted for on August 22, 2007 04:05am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 144 votes / 9 sinks

Bush Takes a Step Away From Maliki

News – When President Bush and Nuri Kamal al-Maliki stood side by side in Jordan last November, the president proclaimed the prime minister "the right guy for Iraq."

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Submitted and Voted for on August 22, 2007 03:51am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 71 votes / 3 sinks

VIDEO: Netscape's New Orleans Voices: Ronald Lewis & The Lower 9

News – Netscape visits the Lower Ninth Ward and learns about The House of Dance and Feathers from founder Ronald Lewis.

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Submitted and Voted for on August 22, 2007 03:35am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 87 votes / No sinks

Federal mine safety official's credentials questioned

News – The families of the Crandall Canyon miner's aren't the only ones raising questions about the handling of the rescue effort. Many news organizations and blogs are also now asking questions about the governments role and the man chosen to lead the rescue effort, Mine and Health Safety Administrator, Richard Stickler.

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Submitted and Voted for on August 21, 2007 12:20pm

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