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Sunday, January 29, 2006
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Healing Rooms offers hope for body and soul
January 29, 2006 in City on Page A1 The news struck her like a semi-truck at night, flinging Jeri Mainer into a pit of darkness, causing her life to spin out of control. It’s cancer, the doctor said. …
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Coaches meet for special training
January 29, 2006 in City on Page A1 The most important boundary in high school sports is no longer the goal line. Instead, the most important boundary is the one being drawn between high school coaches and their …
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Ungroomed ghost town
January 29, 2006 in Idaho on Page A1 NORDMAN, Idaho – A snowmobiler’s dream: Deep powder, sunny Saturday and miles of trails through some of Idaho’s prettiest cedar groves and mountains. But this winter, the snowmobile trailhead parking …
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Administration expanding secret drone missile program
January 29, 2006 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – Despite protests from other countries, the United States is expanding a top-secret effort to kill suspected terrorists with drone-fired missiles as it pursues an increasingly decentralized al-Qaida, U.S. …
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Narrower format, cleaner look newspaper will debut Monday
January 29, 2006 in City on Page A1 To our readers: Today’s paper is the last large-format edition of The Spokesman-Review. Beginning tomorrow, the newspaper will be produced in a 50-inch-wide format instead of the current 55 (for …
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Sheboygan looks to the sky
January 29, 2006 in Nation/World on Page A2 SHEBOYGAN, Wis. – Some people, as Robert Kennedy once said, are content to look at the world and ask why. But in Sheboygan, where untold thousands of tons of sausage …
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Frozen methane found off coast
January 29, 2006 in Nation/World on Page A3 LOS ANGELES – Scientists have discovered an undersea deposit of frozen methane just off the Southern California coast, but whether it can be harnessed as a potential energy source is …
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NRA-backed bill resisted in Wyoming
January 29, 2006 in Nation/World on Page A3 CHEYENNE, Wyo. – In the “Cowboy State,” where guns are present in more than half of all homes, an unlikely battleground is forming in the fight over the appropriate use …
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Ceremony honors seven who died on Challenger
January 29, 2006 in Nation/World on Page A3 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The children of the seven astronauts who died aboard shuttle Columbia three years ago received an avalanche of condolences from around the world, but one heartfelt …
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Hamas to keep opposing Israel
January 29, 2006 in Nation/World on Page A3 DAMASCUS, Syria – Days after Hamas’ victory in Palestinian parliamentary elections, the group’s exiled political leader vowed Saturday to continue a confrontation with Israel and suggested that the radical Islamic …
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Lee takes Directors Guild top prize for ‘Brokeback’
January 29, 2006 in Nation/World on Page A3 HOLLYWOOD – The Directors Guild of America on Saturday named Ang Lee best director of 2005 for his mournful western, “Brokeback Mountain.” The controversial film about the ill-fated romance between …
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9/11 grant recipients questionable
January 29, 2006 in Nation/World on Page A4 NEW YORK – Donald Trump, the Rockefeller Group and Ford Models were among the tycoons and huge corporations that received federal Sept. 11 recovery grants earmarked by Congress for small …
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New Bolivian leader roundly criticized
January 29, 2006 in Nation/World on Page A4 LA PAZ, Bolivia – In a country that’s forced three presidents from office in as many years, Bolivian President Evo Morales’ political honeymoon has ended less than a week after …
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NYC policeman shoots fellow officer
January 29, 2006 in Nation/World on Page A4 New York In a tragic case of mistaken identity, police shot and critically wounded an off-duty officer as he pointed a gun at a suspect outside a fast food restaurant …
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Senate is starting to check president’s power
January 29, 2006 in Nation/World on Page A5 WASHINGTON – After years of deferring to the Bush White House, the Republican-controlled Senate has begun pushing back, holding oversight hearings on topics ranging from President Bush’s response to Hurricane …
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His house still leveled, Lott chafes at slow aid after Katrina
January 29, 2006 in Nation/World on Page A7 PASCAGOULA, Miss. – Four days after Hurricane Katrina flattened 65,000 Gulf Coast homes, President Bush promised that at least one would rise from the rubble. Where Republican Sen. Trent Lott’s …
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Union-run school is at center of debate
January 29, 2006 in Nation/World on Page A10 NEW YORK – In a small, brightly decorated wing of a middle school in Brooklyn, an unusual experiment in the national debate over charter schools is taking place. The wing …
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Global warming debate heats up
January 29, 2006 in Nation/World on Page A10 Now that most scientists agree human activity is causing Earth to warm, the central debate has shifted to whether climate change is progressing so rapidly that, within decades, humans may …
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Collapsed roof kills 60, injures 141 in Poland
January 29, 2006 in Nation/World on Page A10 KATOWICE, Poland – The snow-covered roof of a convention hall in southern Poland collapsed Saturday with as many as 500 people inside for a racing pigeon exhibition, killing at least …
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Some fear emergence of Islamic state in Iraq
January 29, 2006 in Nation/World on Page A12 BAGHDAD, Iraq – Iraq’s prime minister shies from shaking hands with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Two male physicians are murdered for treating women patients. Nine men are shot dead …
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Pinochet daughter back in Chile, held
January 29, 2006 in Nation/World on Page A13 Santiago, Chile The oldest daughter of former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet returned to Chile on Saturday to face tax evasion charges after dropping a surprise bid for political asylum in …
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Activists still alive, but face new threat
January 29, 2006 in Nation/World on Page A13 BAGHDAD, Iraq – Kidnappers threatened to kill four Christian peace activists seized in November unless authorities released all prisoners held in Iraq, according to a report aired Saturday on Arabic …
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‘Peace mom’ Cindy Sheehan considering bid for Senate
January 29, 2006 in Nation/World on Page A13 CARACAS, Venezuela – Cindy Sheehan, the peace activist who set up camp near President Bush’s Texas ranch last summer, said Saturday she is considering running against Sen. Dianne Feinstein to …
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Central Americans in U.S. face uncertainty
January 29, 2006 in Nation/World on Page A15 MIAMI – Special temporary U.S. residency issued to thousands of Central Americans is due to expire in the coming months, and with the debate over immigration increasingly fierce, many immigrants …
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