FURTHERMORE. . .

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AP - A fault line beneath Lake Tahoe could rupture at any time and
unleash a massive earthquake that triggers an underwater landslide and
sends 30-foot waves crashing into nearby parks, campgrounds, homes and
marinas, researchers said. Such an event along the West Tahoe Fault, the
biggest of Lake Tahoe's three geologic faults, could also send waves
over a dam that regulates water flow into the Truckee River, according
to research presented at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in
San Francisco. The West Tahoe Fault, which skirts the lake's western
shore and runs through Fallen Leaf Lake and beyond to the south, is
large enough to deliver a temblor of magnitude 7 or higher, according to
the researchers. However, it's unclear when a large quake might strike.
The last big earthquake along the fault appears to have occurred between
4,000 and 6,000 years ago, and the fault appears to produce major
earthquakes every 5,000 to 7,000 years, according to the researchers.

http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20061226/REGION/112260071

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REUTERS - Traces of cocaine can be found on 94 percent of banknotes in
Spain, a country that has one of the world's highest rates of users,
according to a study. . . Cocaine now sells for as little as $80 a gram,
or $7 a line, and it is regularly used by 1.6 percent of Spaniards. . .

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyid=
2006-12-26T133114Z_01_L24811304_RTRUKOC_0_US-SPAIN-COCAINE.xml

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ALBERT EINSTEIN ON SOCIALISM
http://www.monthlyreview.org/598einst.htm

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71 YEAR OLD DC-3 STILL FLIES
http://www.flightglobal.com/Articles/2006/12/22/Navigation/177/211161/
Dakota+skies+-+we+test+fly+the+venerable+Douglas+DC-3+seven+
decades+after+it+first.html

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BALLOT ACCESS - Law Professor James Gardner has written "Deliberation or
Tabulation? The Self-Undermining Constitutional Architecture of Election
Campaigns." It will be in the Buffalo Law Review and likely be in print
in the spring of 2007. The article points out that there is substantial
agreement, in philosophical discussions about election campaigns that
the purpose of election campaigns is partly to persuade voters to a
particular point of view. On the other hand, much ballot access
jurisprudence adopts the view that candidates who start out with a low
level of popular support should be kept off the ballot. These two
concepts are antithetical to each other. The article highlights the
contradiction. Rogers v Cortes, the Pennsylvania ballot access decision
issued by the 3rd circuit in September 2006, said that states have an
interest in keeping "non-viable" candidates off the ballot. The 3rd
circuit didn't explore the philosophical implications of its conclusion,
nor did it cite any authority for that view. The rehearing request for
Rogers v Cortes is still pending. If the rehearing request is granted,
attorneys for the political party-plaintiffs in that case can make good
use of Professor Gardner's excellent article.

http://www.ballot-access.org/

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KENNETH CHANG, NY TIMES - Leena K. Koivusilta and Ansa Ojanlatva, two
researchers at the [Finnish] University of Turku, looked through data
collected in a health survey of 21,101 Finns. Among the questions the
participants were asked was whether they owned pets. No matter how the
researchers sliced the data, they found that the pet owners looked, if
anything, sicker than pet-free people. Pet owners were more likely to
suffer from illnesses that included high blood pressure, high
cholesterol, ulcers, depression and kidney disease. They smoked more
(though drank less) than people who did not own pets. They were also
fatter, particularly the dog owners. In Finland, pet owners tended to be
poorer, less educated and older, and those factors, rather than pets,
probably explain the health disparity.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/02/science/02find.html?ex=1325394000&en=
30934bc0c0c6c986&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

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AP - Last year may turn out to be one of the deadliest on record for
pedestrians in South Carolina. . . In almost a third of the deaths, the
official cause was listed as "lying illegally in road." In those cases,
the pedestrian often had been drinking, safety officials said.

http://www.wcnc.com/news/southcarolina/stories/wcnc-010107-sc_
pedestrian.23b432a.html

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BLACK REPRESENTATIVE Elijah Cummings recalled that Gerald Ford voted for
the 1964 civil rights act and was opposed to the poll tax.

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LIFE IN THE FRINGE ECONOMY
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/45813/

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