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Hawaii's next big export: its trash to the mainland
HONOLULU – With sugar cane and pineapples fading, Hawaii's next big export to the U.S. mainland could be less sweet – 100,000 tons of trash a year.
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Miss Venezuela is crowned Miss Universe in Vietnam
Miss Venezuela was crowned Miss Universe 2008 in Nha Trang, Vietnam, yesterday in a contest marked by the spectacle of Miss USA falling down during the evening gown competition for the second consecutive year.
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Finding the balance
Experts at the Mayo Clinic offer these suggestions for balancing the demands of career and your personal life.
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President lifts ban on offshore oil drilling
WASHINGTON – President Bush yesterday lifted a presidential ban on offshore oil drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf that was implemented by his father, escalating a confrontation with Democrats in Congress over how to cope with soaring gas prices.
- Taliban used sheer force to surprise U.S. outpost
KABUL, Afghanistan – The Taliban insurgents who attacked a remote U.S. outpost in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday numbered nearly 200 fighters, almost three times the size of the allied force, and some breached the NATO compound in a coordinated assault that took the defenders by surprise, Western officials said yesterday.
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Tribunal charges Sudan's leader with war crimes
THE HAGUE, Netherlands – The prosecutor for the International Criminal Court sought an arrest warrant yesterday for Sudan's president on charges of waging a campaign of genocide and rape in Darfur, a high-risk strategy that could backfire against the people in the war-torn desert region.
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- Big Sur out of fire danger, but other areas threatened
SAN JOSE – A massive wildfire in Los Padres National Forest continued spreading northward and eastward yesterday, relieving the danger to the storied coastal town of Big Sur but forcing residents of another community to stay away from homes for a third day.
- Panel recommends state youth prisons be closed by 2011
SACRAMENTO – A state watchdog commission recommended yesterday that California phase out its antiquated juvenile prisons by 2011, replacing them with regional lockups run by counties.
- Prosecution has new witness who alleges threat by Spector
LOS ANGELES – The prosecutor in the Phil Spector trial has found a sixth woman who wants to testify that the music producer threatened her life, according to a new motion filed yesterday setting out facts strangely similar to those alleged in the 2003 shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson.
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2,500 cited by CHP for phone violations
SACRAMENTO – The California Highway Patrol has written more than 2,500 tickets to drivers who were talking on their cell phones without a hands-free device since a law banning the practice took effect July 1.
- Satirical cartoon on Obamas rebuked
NEW YORK – A satirical New Yorker magazine cover cartoon depicting Sen. Barack Obama and his wife as flag-burning, fist-bumping radicals drew outrage from the Democratic presidential candidate's campaign as it appeared on newsstands yesterday.
- EPA: Global warming poses grave risks to public health
WASHINGTON – Government scientists detailed a rising death toll from heat waves, wildfires, disease and smog caused by global warming in an analysis the White House buried so it could avoid regulating greenhouse gases.
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'Lack of recollection' stalls Tillman probe
SAN FRANCISCO – A “striking lack of recollection” by White House and military officials prevented congressional investigators from determining who was responsible for the misinformation spread after the friendly-fire death of Army Ranger Pat Tillman, a House committee said yesterday.
- Three British Muslims plead guilty in conspiracy to blow up airliners
LONDON – In a case that changed the face of air travel, three men accused of plotting to blow up trans-Atlantic airliners in 2006 have pleaded guilty to conspiring to set off bombs, but they denied targeting planes or attempting to cause injuries, prosecutors told a London court yesterday as one of Britain's most important terrorism trials neared its end.
- Turkey charges 86 in plot to overthrow government
ANKARA, Turkey – Prosecutors yesterday charged 86 nationalists, including former army officers and a best-selling writer, with plotting to overthrow Turkey's Islamic-oriented government, escalating a struggle between the ruling party's supporters and secular forces.
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S. Korea, Japan still dispute islands
SEOUL, South Korea – South Korea said yesterday it will recall its ambassador from Japan over a rekindled debate about disputed islands between the countries, as the new Seoul government seeks to lift its sagging popularity at home with an appeal to nationalism.
- Signs of normalcy slowly, quietly appearing in Iraq
BAGHDAD – The corkscrew landing is a rite of passage for travelers to Iraq, who feel the pull of gravity as the plane makes a rapid, spiraling descent to avoid ground fire.
- Iraqi native had no qualms fighting former countrymen as U.S. soldier
DALLAS – Army Spc. Razan Saied seems like an unlikely soldier. She once taught elementary school in her native Kurdistan, in northern Iraq. That was before she, her husband and their three children fled the Saddam Hussein regime a decade ago.
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Canada's federal court ruled yesterday that a U.S. Army deserter can be deported to the United States, rejecting his request for a stay to the order.
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