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<description><![CDATA[John McCain stands at the pinnacle of a career defined by a singular ambivalence about his own ambition.    

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<title>The Long Run: Convention Moments Chart a Complicated Relationship With the Bushes</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Gov. Sarah Palin will now have to appeal to audiences that are not necessarily as primed to adore her.    

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<description><![CDATA[Like other distinctions about the biggest, wildest, coldest state, being governor there is just flat different.    

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<title>Political Memo: Two Conventions With No Shortage of Contrasts</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The contrast in racial and ethnic demographics is perhaps the most visible difference between the Republican convention and last week’s Democratic conclave.    

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<description><![CDATA[Until she spoke up for herself, no defense could make up for Ms. Palin’s conspicuous absence from the screen.    

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<title>Palin&#x2019;s Hometown Friends Enjoy the Show</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Folks who knew Gov. Sarah Palin best settled in on a couch to watch her give the most important speech of her short career.    

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<title>Old Friends in the Media See a New Side of McCain</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/us/politics/04media.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Republican convention has included some of the most intense attacks against journalists by a campaign in memory.    

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<title>National Briefing | Immigration: Rabbis Endorse Certification Plan</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The organization of Reform rabbis endorsed a movement to create an additional certification for kosher food that would show that the producer met ethical standards for the treatment of workers.    

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<title>National Briefing | Southwest: Texas: Judge Pleads Not Guilty</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/us/04brfs-JUDGEPLEADSN_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Promising a “horde of witnesses” in his defense, a federal judge pleaded not guilty to charges that he had groped a former case manager and tried to force her into a sexual act.    

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<title>National Briefing | New England: Rhode Island: Another Fire Settlement</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/us/04brfs-ANOTHERFIRES_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The owners of a nightclub where a 2003 fire at a Great White concert killed 100 people have reached a tentative $813,000 settlement with survivors and relatives of those killed.    

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<title>National Briefing | Rockies: Utah: Mine Collapse Case Goes to Prosecutors</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Federal mining officials have asked prosecutors to decide whether criminal charges are warranted in the deaths of nine people in last year’s collapse of the Crandall Canyon mine.    

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<title>Brain Cells Observed Summoning a Memory</title>
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<description><![CDATA[For the first time, scientists have recorded individual brain cells fetching a spontaneous memory.    

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        Only 48% of California high schools meet federal standards, even with easier measure</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Results released this morning show that about 500 high schools reported meeting federal goals only because their passing marks were based on much higher exit exam scores.
                        
                    
                    
                        At least 500 California high schools met this year's federal academic targets that were released this morning only because the state uses easier standards for high schools than for elementary and middle schools, a Times analysis has found.]]></description>
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        California revives program to buy water from farmers</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The state's reserves are low after two dry years. The water bank program will shift resources from the Sacramento Valley to needy Southern California agencies.
                        
                    
                    
                        SACRAMENTO -- Saying California's water reserves are all but gone, state officials on Thursday announced the revival of a dormant 17-year-old program to buy water from Sacramento Valley farmers and sell it to the thirstiest Southern California water agencies in case this winter brings a third year of skimpy precipitation.]]></description>
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        2 climbers badly injured in accident at Suicide Rock in Idyllwild</title>
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<description><![CDATA[One climber was knocked unconscious and stranded on a ledge. The other fell nearly 100 feet. Fellow climbers assisted firefighters in the rescue, which was hampered by pelting hail and rain.
                        
                    
                    
                        Two Orange County rock climbers are recovering after an astonishing accident in which one fell as much as 100 feet and the other was knocked unconscious  when she smashed her face into the cliffside at Suicide Rock in Idyllwild.]]></description>
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        Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick accepts plea deal, will resign</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The 38-year-old 'hip-hop mayor' admits to felony charges related to an affair with a top aide. He'll serve 4 months in jail, pay the city $1 million and lose his law license.
                        
                    
                    
                        Ending a seven-month political soap opera that has consumed Detroit, Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick pleaded guilty today to felony charges related to his affair with a top aide and will resign as part of the agreement struck with prosecutors.]]></description>
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        Care providers in crisis as budget impasse drags on</title>
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<description><![CDATA[If there is no spending plan by the end of the month, the state will owe $12 billion to government service providers who by law cannot be paid in the absence of a budget.
                        
                    
                    
                        Fallout from the state's longest budget standoff on record is rippling through California, with scores of healthcare providers on the brink of bankruptcy, schools and community colleges scaling back offerings and contractors struggling to hang on.]]></description>
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        With homeowner in doghouse, bobcats move in</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A family of feline squatters has moved into a foreclosed home in Lake Elsinore. Residents of the Tuscany Hills development first noticed the bobcats about a week ago.
                        
                    
                    
                        Taking advantage of a slump in local real estate, a family of bobcats has moved into a foreclosed Lake Elsinore home, lolling about on fences and walls and riveting an entire neighborhood.]]></description>
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        As McCain prepares to accept GOP nomination, Obama asks what happened to issues</title>
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<description><![CDATA[While John McCain visits GOP convention hall, Obama fires back at Sarah Palin, saying Republicans 'spent a lot of time talking about me' but not about 'problems that ordinary Americans' are facing.
                        
                    
                    
                        Republican John McCain accepts his party's nomination in a prime-time speech tonight, one day after his vice presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, gave a boost to his candidacy with a speech attacking Democrat Barack Obama.]]></description>
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        SEIU, beset by spending scandal, places a senior manager on leave</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Service Employees International Union says two lower-ranking staffers have lost their jobs because of allegations that others in the Los Angeles local were retaliated against.
                        
                    
                    
                        The Service Employees International Union today announced that it had placed a senior manager at its biggest California local on leave and that two lower-ranking staffers had lost their jobs, because of allegations that other employees were retaliated against in connection with a widening spending scandal.]]></description>
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        Bernard Parks wants to paint target on taggers&#x27; parents in Los Angeles</title>
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<description><![CDATA[He plans to introduce an ordinance similar to a law recently approved by Los Angeles County supervisors authorizing civil damages for parents of children who commit graffiti vandalism.
                        
                    
                    
                        Parents of children who commit graffiti vandalism in Los Angeles could be held liable for civil damages under a plan proposed today by City Councilman Bernard C. Parks.]]></description>
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        2 Orange County white supremacists to be arraigned in beating</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The D.A.'s office says the men committed a hate crime attack in Seal Beach against another man who identified himself as half-Salvadoran.
                        
                    
                    
                        Two self-proclaimed Orange County white supremacists are to be arraigned this week for an alleged hate crime attack in which they beat and stomped a man until he was unconscious.]]></description>
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<title>Yahoo shares tumble; market value at $12 billion below Microsoft offer</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Yahoo's stock dove to its lowest level in nearly five years today, magnifying the challenge facing the Internet company as its management...]]></description>
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<title>CD Forum founder and head to step down</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Stephanie Ellis-Smith, the founder and executive director of the CD Forum, announced she will step down from her post in June 2009.]]></description>
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<title>U.K. report triggering new FAA rules for some Boeing 777s</title>
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<description><![CDATA[U.S. regulators will tell airlines to quickly make changes aimed at preventing ice from building up in fuel lines of Boeing 777s, which...]]></description>
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<title>Machinists, Boeing meeting at Disney resort in Florida</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Any tentative agreement must be ratified by 50 percent of Machinists voting to avert strike.]]></description>
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<title>Machinists at Boeing reject contract; strike on hold for 48 hours as mediator steps in</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Machinist voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to reject what Boeing said was its last, best offer. But union leaders agree to give the company 48 hours to do better.]]></description>
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<title>Authorities piece together details of deadly rampage</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The solitude in the tiny town of Alger may partly explain how it happened that a killer was able to stalk the Skagit County community Tuesday, moving among the homes where he killed a sheriff's deputy, a pair of construction workers, a middle-aged woman and an older man.]]></description>
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<title>Jobless claims post surprise jump; worker productivity soars</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The number of newly laid off workers seeking unemployment benefits jumped unexpectedly last week, the government said today, reversing three...]]></description>
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<title>Stocks plunge 3% on retail, jobless reports</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Wall Street plunged today, sending the Dow Jones industrials down more than 340 points as retailers and the Labor Department added to the...]]></description>
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<title>Deputy, 2 other shooting victims remembered fondly</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Three people who were slain during Tuesday's shooting rampage in Skagit County were fondly recalled by friends, relatives, colleagues and acquaintances.]]></description>
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<title>Bumbershoot crowd was smaller, but thirstier</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Bumbershoot news: Attendance was down for 2008, but drink sales were up. And the Monotonix concert on Monday got shut down due to crowd surfing.]]></description>
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<title>Extra buses during viaduct closure</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Bus service will increase as soon as next year to compensate for closures at the Alaskan Way Viaduct, where the state plans to rebuild the...]]></description>
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<title>American Airlines may cut another 469 jobs at U.S. airports</title>
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<description><![CDATA[American Airlines has told 469 employees at airports in five U.S. cities that they may lose their jobs in November as the airline continues to cut back on flights.]]></description>
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<title>Man trying to stop theft of pickup killed in Pierce County</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A 33-year-old man who tried to stop the theft of his 1998 Dodge Ram pickup was run over and killed early today in Pierce County.]]></description>
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<title>Amtrak ridership hits record high</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The high price of gas has increased ridership on Amtrak to record levels, according to the Washington State Department of Transportation.]]></description>
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<title>Wash. Supreme Court upholds Hanford pipe fitters verdict</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Washington state Supreme Court has upheld a $4.8 million verdict in favor of 11 pipe fitters who claimed they were fired for raising safety concerns at the Hanford nuclear reservation.]]></description>
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<title>Palin slams Obama, D.C. insiders</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The "hockey mom" hit the national stage Wednesday night with a series of body checks. Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, Sen. John McCain's surprise pick...]]></description>
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<title>Comcast to appeal FCC Web traffic ruling</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Comcast is appealing an FCC ruling that the company is improperly blocking customers' Web traffic, triggering a legal battle that could...]]></description>
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<title>Watching the Seahawks at Qwest Field</title>
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<description><![CDATA[By bus Regular Metro transit service: More than 15 transit routes pass within three blocks of the stadium and operate at least every 30...]]></description>
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<title>Women voters key to Burner-Reichert race in 8th District</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The two candidates in the 8th Congressional District, Darcy Burner and Dave Reichert, are competing for women's votes in a tight race.]]></description>
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<title>Man found dead in Renton parking lot</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Police are investigating a fatal shooting in Renton.]]></description>
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<title>Texas drops half of cases from polygamist sect raid</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Child by child, Texas authorities are acknowledging that many of the children seized during a raid on a polygamist sect's ranch can safely live with their parents or guardians. So far, 235 children's custody cases have been dropped.
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<description><![CDATA[Wall Street dove sharply lower, sending the Dow Jones industrials down over 340 points as retailers and the Labor Department added to dismal economic news. Oil prices dipped to $107.89.
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<title>Kids found in filthy apartment to remain in foster care</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Four children found living alone in a filthy northwest Harris County apartment last month will remain in foster care at least until next month, a judge ruled today.
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<title>Comcast appeals FCC ruling on blocking of Web traffic</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Comcast Corp. is appealing an FCC ruling that the company is improperly blocking customers' Web traffic, triggering a legal battle that could determine the extent of the government's authority to regulate the Internet.
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<title>Police ID victim in southeast Houston stabbing</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A man discovered stabbed to death in a southeast Houston apartment has been identified as Frank Hawkins, 54, police said today.
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<title>Navy recruiter accused in La Marque child sex case</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A Navy recruiter who is stationed at a Texas City mall has been arrested on accusations that he sexually assaulted two girls, starting when they were 6 years old.
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<title>Victim of Port accident ID&#x27;ed as northeast Houston man</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A man who died in a traffic accident at the Port of Houston has been identified as a northeast Houston resident.
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<title>Jesse Jackson hospitalized for severe stomach pains</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Reverend Jesse Jackson is being treated today at a Chicago hospital after experiencing severe stomach pains.
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<title>Two-alarm SW Houston fire damages four apartments</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The first commanders on the scene quickly called for a second alarm and more equipment at the complex on El Camino del Rey this morning.
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<title>Shuttle moved to pad, but storms may change plans</title>
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<description><![CDATA[NASA moved the space shuttle Atlantis to a coastal launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida today, seizing the opportunity for the lengthy operation after Tropical Storm Hanna steered away from the Atlantic shoreline.
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<description><![CDATA[Thomas Joseph Byrne, 40, of The Woodlands, who worked as a supervisory special agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration's Houston office, died Saturday in a New Orleans hospital from injuries he suffered in an assault and robbery Aug. 28, officials said.
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<description><![CDATA[Nanette Lewis' lawsuit mirrors one filed by the attorney general of Massachusetts and another by the city of Baltimore.
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<description><![CDATA[Some Southeastern states declared emergencies and officials urged residents to head inland today as Tropical Storm Hanna headed toward the Atlantic Coast.
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<title>Study: Climate change likely made storms even stronger</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Scientists say the research is noteworthy, because it uses only satellite observations.
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<title>New Orleans evacuees in dark but grateful to be home</title>
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<description><![CDATA[While storm-ravaged Louisiana continued to cope with massive power outages, flooding and extensive wind damage to homes and buildings, residents of its signature city and the small towns nearby jammed the state's highways Wednesday to get back home.
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<description><![CDATA[The Rev. Raymond Lee Farley didn't want to believe the couple — his friends — sitting in the pews at his church could be responsible for the death of his teenage son.
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<title>$13M fund for Houston flood projects: &#x27;Historic&#x27; or &#x27;hyped&#x27;?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mayor Bill White called the move a "historic step," but City Controller Annise Parker disagreed, saying the creation of the fund was "nothing more than a statement of principle."
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<description><![CDATA[Coach Guy V. Lewis admits he was skeptical the first time he heard about Hakeem Olajuwon, a 7-footer from Nigeria who at the time was just a prospective University of Houston student.
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<description><![CDATA[The Astros climbed to within 6&frac12; games of the lead in the National League wild-card race, finishing off a surprising sweep of the Chicago Cubs with a 4-0 victory Wednesday night at Wrigley Field.
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<title>Justice: So much for easing Texans&#x27; Slaton into mix</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Steve Slaton may be Gary Kubiak&#8217;s toughest decision in this opening game.  Where and when does he throw the rookie running back into the mix? What&#8217;s the line between daring and foolish?
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<description><![CDATA[Mathew Knowles adds his two-cents about Solange's interview and how he thinks Houstonians should treat them.
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<title>Get schooled on the latest slang: &#x27;Bromance&#x27;, anyone?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[If  the words "guyatus" or "Priustoric" sound foreign to you, it's time to brush up on your hip speak.
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