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Friday, August 3, 2007
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Many area spans need work
August 3, 2007 in City on Page A1 The bridges are spread around the region. The Post Street Bridge in downtown Spokane.
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Medieval for a modern life
August 3, 2007 in Idaho on Page A1 HERON, Mont. – Deep in the Cabinet Mountains east of Sandpoint, a fairytale village is being hatched. The design looks straight out of a Brothers Grimm story – half-timbered houses, …
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Overstressed, underfunded
August 3, 2007 in City on Page A1 WASHINGTON – The bridge that lies crumpled in the Mississippi River is the latest link to fail in a national highway system rapidly deteriorating under the strain of ever-increasing traffic …
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Scientists: Plastics pose risk
August 3, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A1 In an unusual effort targeting a single chemical, several dozen scientists Thursday issued a strongly worded consensus statement warning that an estrogen-like compound in plastic is likely to be causing …
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Pulitzer winner named nation’s poet laureate
August 3, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A2 CONCORD, N.H. – Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic, who learned English as a teenage immigrant, will be the new U.S. poet laureate, the Library of Congress announced Thursday. Simic, who …
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Lottery numbers
August 3, 2007 in City on Page A2 Thursday’s Washington Daily Game: 0-0-9 Thursday’s Washington Keno: 1-7-8- 22-24-29-30-32-35-36-43- 44-55-61-63-64-67-72-78-80
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Ho-hum turnout for kazoo record try
August 3, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A2 NEW YORK – Members of a 1980s funk and disco group hit a sour note in their attempt to break the world record for the largest kazoo ensemble, falling short …
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Airport attacker dies of burns
August 3, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A3 A man critically burned after allegedly crashing an explosive-laden Jeep into Glasgow Airport died of his injuries Thursday, police said. Kafeel Ahmed, 27, had been in the hospital for a …
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Gates: U.S. misjudged Iraq politics
August 3, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A3 ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates – U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates acknowledged Thursday that the Bush administration underestimated the difficulty of getting a political truce in Iraq, where …
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Baghdad’s taps dry and temperatures high
August 3, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A3 BAGHDAD – Ahmed Aidan sells bottled water from his small grocery in a west Baghdad neighborhood, and he’s lucky he does. The capital is suffering through a water shortage, linked …
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Train wreck in Congo kills 100
August 3, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A3 KINSHASA, Congo – A passenger train derailed in central Congo and eight cars tumbled off the tracks, killing about 100 people and trapping some passengers in the wreckage, officials said …
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Rice encounters Arab skepticism
August 3, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A3 RAMALLAH, West Bank – Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice traveled a woefully familiar path Thursday as her motorcade went from downtown Jerusalem to the Palestinian stronghold of Ramallah, past checkpoints, …
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Senate passes lobbying, ethics reform
August 3, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A4 WASHINGTON – Acknowledging the public’s outrage over corruption scandals, the Senate gave final congressional approval Thursday to sweeping new limits and disclosure requirements on lobbying and pet-project spending. The 83-14 …
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Increase in child health plan heads to Bush
August 3, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A4 WASHINGTON – In what could be a major political setback for President Bush, the Senate voted late Thursday to increase funding by $35 billion for a popular health insurance program …
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Student convicted of killing principal
August 3, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A4 A high school student was convicted Thursday of fatally shooting his principal as homecoming festivities were about to begin last fall. The jury deliberated for nearly 6 1/2 hours after …
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Gunman kills newspaper’s new editor
August 3, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A4 OAKLAND, Calif. – The outspoken new editor of the Oakland Post was shot to death Thursday near a downtown courthouse in what police suspect was a deliberate hit. Chauncey Bailey, …
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Congress rushes toward recess
August 3, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A4 Actions as lawmakers work toward their August recess: FIRED PROSECUTORS – The Senate Judiciary Committee interviewed White House political aide J. Scott Jennings about the firings of federal prosecutors. It …
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Court backs insurers in Katrina flood case
August 3, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A5 NEW ORLEANS – Hurricane Katrina victims whose homes and businesses were destroyed when flood waters breached levees in the 2005 storm cannot recover money from their insurance companies for the …
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1915 bridge collapse
August 3, 2007 in City on Page A6 Spokane had its own bridge disaster, nearly a century ago. About 6 a.m. Dec. 18, 1915, the north span of the Division Street bridge collapsed into the Spokane River sending …
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Simple test for cervical cancer shows promise
August 3, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A9 LONDON – A cheap method to detect cervical cancer using vinegar, cotton gauze and a bright light could save millions of women in the developing world, experts reported today. The …
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Research sheds new light on babies’ ‘word spurt’
August 3, 2007 in Nation/World on Page A9 WASHINGTON – It’s called the “word spurt,” that magical time when a toddler’s vocabulary explodes, seemingly overnight. New research offers a decidedly unmagical explanation: Babies start really jabbering after they’ve …
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Panel formed to safeguard Journal’s integrity
August 3, 2007 in Business on Page A10 NEW YORK — The job of safeguarding The Wall Street Journal’s integrity after a takeover by Rupert Murdoch will fall to a panel that includes a retired newspaper columnist, a …
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NO HEADLINE
August 3, 2007 in Sports on Page A10 DOW13,463.33Up 100.96DOW YEAR Up 1,000.18NASDAQ2,575.98Up 22.11SILVER12.935Up 0.047S&P 5001,472.20Up 6.39OIL76.86Up 0.33AMEX2,273.49Up 17.69GOLD664.60Up 1.00
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China promises better product safety
August 3, 2007 in Business on Page A10 BEIJING — China said it would work with the United States to improve product safety amid a massive U.S. recall Thursday of plastic preschool toys made by a Chinese vendor, …
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