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Wednesday, December 29, 2004
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Depot leak raises design questions
December 29, 2004 in Idaho on Page A1 When a state project manager arrived to investigate a leaking pipe at a massive refueling depot this month, he was surprised by what he saw: a single-walled plastic pipe with …
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Shootout leaves man dead, CdA police officer wounded
December 29, 2004 in Idaho on Page A1 A 39-year-old vacuum cleaner salesman who apparently tried to grab a police officer’s gun two weeks ago, was shot and killed in a ferocious gunbattle that left a Coeur d’Alene …
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Insurgents strike Iraqi security forces
December 29, 2004 in Nation/World on Page A1 BAGHDAD, Iraq – With car bombs, assassinations and raids on police stations, insurgents killed at least 25 people, including Iraqi policemen and a deputy governor, across the volatile Sunni Triangle …
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Rebel attacks surge ahead of elections
December 29, 2004 in Nation/World on Page A1 BAGHDAD, Iraq – A powerful explosion in a house in west Baghdad killed at least 29 people and wounded 18, police said today. They described the blast as an ambush …
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Huge waves rip families apart
December 29, 2004 in Nation/World on Page A1 NAGAPPATTINAM, India – To save his only son, Vijay Kumar hugged the boy as hard as he could. But in the struggle against the horrific power of the waves, that …
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Death toll passes 58,000
December 29, 2004 in Nation/World on Page A1 JAKARTA, Indonesia – Rescuers battled to reach survivors in stranded villages, restore basic services and prevent the outbreak of deadly diseases across South Asia on Tuesday in the aftermath of …
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Lottery numbers
December 29, 2004 on Page A2 Tuesday’s Washington Daily Game: 5-1-7. Tuesday’s Washington Lucky for Life: 4-5-54-74.
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At least 3 killed as fierce storm pounds California with rainfall
December 29, 2004 in Nation/World on Page A2 LOS ANGELES – A powerful storm pounded California for a second day Tuesday, flooding freeways and desert roads, tossing boats ashore and triggering a rockslide that blocked Highway 1 on …
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‘Noodling’ now legal
December 29, 2004 in Nation/World on Page A3 COLUMBIA, Mo. – Next summer, it will be legal to plunge into some Missouri rivers and grab catfish by hand. Known as noodling or hogging, handfishing has been a misdemeanor …
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CIA deputy director to quit
December 29, 2004 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – The head of the CIA’s analysis unit is resigning next year, the latest top official to step down since Porter Goss became the agency’s director. Jami Miscik, deputy …
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FDA OKs drug for ‘pain beyond morphine’
December 29, 2004 in Nation/World on Page A3 The federal government approved a pain drug Tuesday that is an option for patients who have “pain beyond morphine.” The drug, Prialt, is the first in a new class of …
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Kids get a-round to milk
December 29, 2004 in Nation/World on Page A3 Yet another familiar school-days object may be going the way of the inkwell and the slide rule. Encouraged by a milk industry study that shows children drink more dairy when …
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Crashed copter’s ‘black box’ found
December 29, 2004 in Nation/World on Page A3 ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The “black box” data recorder from a Coast Guard rescue helicopter that crashed, killing six people, was recovered Tuesday as work got under way to remove fuel …
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Susan Sontag dies
December 29, 2004 in Nation/World on Page A3 Susan Sontag, one of America’s most influential intellectuals – renowned for the breadth of her critical intelligence and activism in the cause of human rights – died Tuesday of leukemia …
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Churches mobilizing to help disaster victims
December 29, 2004 in City on Page A4 When Rob McCann saw the devastation unfold on the television screen, his thoughts immediately turned to the victims – to the tens of thousands killed by the tsunamis, to the …
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Tsunami sweeps train off track, kills at least 802
December 29, 2004 in Nation/World on Page A6 TELWATTA, Sri Lanka – More than 800 people were killed when their train, the “Queen of the Sea,” was swept off the track by this week’s raging tsunami, police said, …
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Wounded officer on force only for a few months
December 29, 2004 in Idaho on Page A7 Michael Kralicek had only been with the Coeur d’Alene Police Department for a few months before a shooting early Tuesday left him critically wounded. Kralicek was admired for his friendliness …
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The choices: complain or get to work
December 29, 2004 in Business on Page A8 I heard this parable the other day: Three women walked into a public restroom to find the water running. They complained loudly and continuously about the horrible people who left …
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Consumer confidence jumps
December 29, 2004 in Business on Page A8 NEW YORK – Improving labor market conditions and cheaper energy prices led to a sharp increase in a widely watched indicator of consumer confidence in the economy in December, a …
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Enron continues march into oblivion
December 29, 2004 in Business on Page A8 HOUSTON – It was one of the more spectacular corporate bankruptcies ever: Enron Corp., once the seventh-largest company in the country, felled by intricate and illegal accounting tricks. But as …
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Federal agency issues patents for gold mine
December 29, 2004 in Business on Page A8 CHESAW, Wash. – A federal agency has issued mining patents to a company that wants to build a gold mine in Okanogan County, a move backers hope will give the …
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Toyota may bump DaimlerChrysler from Big Three
December 29, 2004 in Business on Page A8 DETROIT – Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corp. is on pace to unseat DaimlerChrysler AG as the third-leading U.S. seller of cars and trucks by the end of the decade, though …
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Verdict against AT&T trimmed
December 29, 2004 in Business on Page A9 ATLANTA – A federal appeals court upheld a jury’s finding that AT&T Corp. committed fraud by billing telephone gambling charges as long-distance fees, but reduced a damage award against the …
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Consumer report boosts stock prices
December 29, 2004 in Business on Page A9 NEW YORK – Wall Street resumed its year-end rally Tuesday, bolstered by a new report which showed consumer confidence had jumped sharply in recent weeks. All three major indexes reached …
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