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Texans urged to call 2-1-1 now if they’ll need help in hurricane evacuation
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COLLEGE STATION - Hurricane Ike taught many lessons, but one that stands out is that you can’t plan too early for the evacuation of Texans with special m edical needs or who lack transportation. “...
Globalization is not so new
by Dr. E. Kirsten Peters
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I was throwing sticks for my dog into the Snake River on Sunday evening, watching a fully loaded ocean-going barge on the slack-water of the river. The barges move mountains of goods all around the...

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Cameras captured 'chilling' break-in at Fla. home (AP)

This 2005 picture shows Byrd and Melanie Billings with their children, 10 adopted and two biological, at their home in Beulah, Fla. Melanie is holding a photograph of their late child, Bailey. Investigators asked the public to be on the lookout Friday, July 10, 2009 for a red van they believe carried three men involved in the deaths of the Florida Panhandle couple who were shot in their rural home while eight of their children slept. (AP Photo/The Pensacola News Journal, Karena Cawthon)AP - Byrd and Melanie Billings had a growing brood of adopted children with autism, Down syndrome and other disabilities, and took care to make their nine-bedroom house a safe place for them, wiring it with surveillance cameras in every room.


Mon Jul 13 17:25:34 -0500 2009
Thunderstorms cause 5th delay for space shuttle (AP)

Space shuttle Endeavour stands ready on pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Cananveral, Fla., Monday, July 13, 2009. Endeavour is scheduled to lift off this evening on a mission to the International Space Station but unfavorable weather could scrub the launch.(AP Photo/John Raoux)AP - Thunderstorms have once again forced NASA to call off the launch of space shuttle Endeavour.


Mon Jul 13 17:47:19 -0500 2009
Hawaii condo buyers sue developer of Trump project (AP)
AP - The buyers of 11 luxury condominiums at the soon-to-open Trump International Hotel & Tower Waikiki Beach Walk have filed a lawsuit seeking to cancel their sales contracts.
Mon Jul 13 17:41:34 -0500 2009
Boston zoos may get funds after euthanasia scare (AP)
AP - Massachusetts lawmakers said Monday they would try to restore $4 million in state funds for two local zoos after operators suggested that without the money, animals might have to be destroyed — a claim the governor called a scare tactic.
Mon Jul 13 17:33:20 -0500 2009
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