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8 years later, New York remembers 9/11 attacks
Friday, 09.11.2009, 09:11am
New York City remembers the eighth anniversary of the September 11,
2001, terror attacks where 2,752 people died and stunned the world. New
York City held a moment of silence at 8:46 a.m. ET, the time when the
first hijacked plane crashed into the World Trade Center's North Tower.
A third moment of silence is scheduled at 9:37 a.m.
when the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, was struck by another plane
hijacked by al Qaeda.
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Web goes nuts for Crasher Squirrel
Wednesday, 09.09.2009, 03:03pm
Melissa and Jackson Brandts knew right away that the photo from their
recent trip to Canada was a good one. After submitting it to National
Geographic magazine's online "Your Shot" contest, the Minnesota
couple's photo is set to grace the pages of the magazine's November
issue. It's appeared on the Web sites of news outlets around the world,
and the squirrel -- now dubbed "Crasher Squirrel" -- even has its own
Wikipedia entry of the same moniker
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American teen takes U.S. Open by storm
Tuesday, 09.08.2009, 08:01am
Seventeen-year-old Melanie Oudin has been handing out upsets at the
U.S. Open to some of the sport's biggest female stars, including
Russian aces Elena Dementieva and Maria Sharapova. On Monday, she beat
13th seed Nadia Petrova to make the quarterfinals and inspire those
cheering at her training center near Atlanta, Georgia.
Beneath seven flat-screen TVs and one large pulldown screen, members
of the Racquet Club of the South gathered Monday to watch and celebrate
one of their own.
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Pot farms getting closer to tourist spots
Thursday, 09.03.2009, 04:00pm
Drug traffickers are planting millions of marijuana plants on U.S.
public lands ever closer to tourist sites, guarding their plots with
heavy weaponry, federal authorities say.
"We destroy
their plants and they come back, sometimes to the same spot, and
replant," said U.S. Forest Service Special Agent Russ Arthur.
Across the nation, pot sites linked to cartels have been found in 15 states as far north as Washington, Arthur said.
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Viral Web site mocks Wal-Mart customers
Thursday, 09.03.2009, 09:16am
It's a blog where people post, and make fun of, pictures of
out-of-shape, poorly dressed and otherwise awkward people shopping at
Wal-Mart. And, in less than a month, with no marketing to speak of,
it's become the toast of the Internet.
It's a blog where people post, and make fun of, pictures of
out-of-shape, poorly dressed and otherwise awkward people shopping at
Wal-Mart.
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2 George Washington Bridge guards fired for sleeping on job
Wednesday, 09.02.2009, 09:45am
Two George Washington Bridge security guards photographed sleeping
on the job have been fired, according to the Port Authority of New York
and New Jersey. A bicycle
tour operator who commutes daily over the bridge from New Jersey to New
York snapped photos of the two guards on different occasions, and the
photos were published on a New Jersey local news Web site.
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Cooler temperatures may help in battling California blaze
Tuesday, 09.01.2009, 06:03am
Cooler temperatures Tuesday could help firefighters slow down a
fast-moving, deadly wildfire that has charred more than 105,000 acres
in Southern California.
Two
firefighters lost their lives Sunday trying to get control of the
Station Fire, which is burning through steep and rugged terrain in the
Angeles National Forest. This area north of Los Angeles has not seen a
major fire in more than 60 years.
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California wildfires claim lives of 2 firefighters
Monday, 08.31.2009, 07:52am
Fire officials late Sunday identified two firefighters who died
accidentally while battling a fast-spreading wildfire in Los Angeles
County. Capt. Tedmund
Hall, 47, and Spc. Arnaldo Quinones, 35, were in a vehicle that "went
over the side" on Sunday afternoon, according to the Los Angeles
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Opposing groups protest outside abortion doctors clinic
Sunday, 08.30.2009, 08:15am
A woman walked slowly toward the door of the abortion clinic when a nearby protester screamed, "Don't kill your baby!"
But the
shouts on this day were drowned out by women's rights groups who
gathered at the Abortion & Contraception Clinic of Nebraska in
Bellevue, just south of Omaha.
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Doctor performed 60000 abortions
Saturday, 08.29.2009, 12:51pm
"I feel safer
on an airplane than I do in my clinic," Carhart said, sitting at his
desk in his windowless office in Bellevue, Nebraska.
"You try to
think about every way an attack could happen. You try to do all you can
to prevent it, but obviously Dr. [George] Tiller thought he was safe in
church."
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In late April, WHO announced the emergence of a novel influenza A virus.
This particular H1N1 strain has not circulated previously in humans. The virus is entirely new.
The virus is contagious, spreading easily from one person to another, and from one country to another. As of today, nearly 30,000 confirmed cases have been reported in 74 countries.
This is only part of the picture. With few exceptions, countries with large numbers of cases are those with good surveillance and testing procedures in place.
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