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Stout Scarab - from The New York Times

2008-05-17T17:34:59Z

A Visionary’s Minivan Arrived Decades Too Soon Michael Furman 1936 Stout Scarab By Phil Patton Published: January 6, 2008 THE 2008 Chrysler Town and Country minivan offers a removable table and second row seats that turn 180 degrees to...

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Italian’s Detention Illustrates Dangers Foreign Visitors Face

2008-05-15T18:45:54Z

By NINA BERNSTEIN The New York Times Published: May 14, 2008 He was a carefree Italian with a recent law degree from a Roman university. She was “a totally Virginia girl,” as she puts it, raised across the road from George Washington’s home. Thei...

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Horses abandoned in West as feed prices rise

2008-05-14T06:40:21Z

Tue May 13, 2008 By Laura Zuckerman SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - In the classic Hollywood western, a cowboy portrayed by John Wayne gallops across the sagebrush steppe and rocky ridges of the American West with only his horse for a companion. What ...

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Judge dismisses case of woman who says veil cost her claim - MKII

2008-05-13T19:53:03Z

5/13/2008, 3:20 p.m. EDT By JEFF KAROUB The Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A lawyer representing a Muslim woman who sued a judge for dismissing her small-claims court case after she refused to remove her veil said he's prepared to appeal to the ...

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Judge dismisses case of woman who says veil cost her claim

2008-05-13T19:51:23Z

May 13, 2008 1:08 PM EDT DETROIT (AP) -- A federal judge in Detroit has dismissed the case of a Muslim woman who sued a judge for demanding she remove her veil in court. The judge ruled Monday against Ginnnah Muhammad's claims that her rights to...

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Texas authorities investigate more polygamy charges

2008-05-13T19:47:27Z

By ANGELA K. BROWN Associated Press Writer 13 May 2008 CLYDE, Texas (AP) -- Behind guarded, ornate gates at the end of a rural road, a self-proclaimed prophet warns his followers about the end of time and rails against a dangerous and unclean wor...

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Oust mayor, Granholm asked

2008-05-13T18:08:00Z

City Council also to pursue Kilpatrick's removal from office By Zachary Gorchow and Naomi R. Patton Free Press Staff Writers May 13, 2008 The Detroit City Council has just voted to launch a two-track effort to remove Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick from o...

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NY man sues US airline over flight spent in toilet

2008-05-13T18:02:47Z

by Edith Honan May 12, 2008 NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York man who says he was denied a seat on a five-hour jetBlue flight and was instead told to "hang out" in the plane's bathroom has sued the airline for $2 million, saying he suffered "extrem...

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U.N. frustration grows at Myanmar's junta over aid

2008-05-13T18:01:51Z

Mon May 12, 2008 By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS, May 12 (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon ratcheted up the pressure on Myanmar on Monday, saying he was extremely frustrated by the junta's slow delivery of aid to more than 1.5 mi...

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SOLAR ACTIVITY - from Spaceweather.com

2008-05-13T16:47:05Z

13 May 2008 Is something lurking just over the sun's eastern limb? Yesterday's impressive display suggests the answer is yes. Amateur astronomers in Europe and North America witnessed fountains of hot, magnetized gas surging over the eastern edge...

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