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NRA is restless despite its political clout
ST. LOUIS — These should be good days for the National Rifle Assn. The nation's leading gun group enjoys immense political power and has effectively muted the debate about the use of firearms in America. Under its leadership, gun rights advocates...
Tags: Jared Lee Loughner, Politics, Justice and Rights, Elena Kagan, Civil Rights
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Consumer Confidential: Best cities for singles; video game sales
Here's your fortunate-son Friday roundup of consumer news from around the Web:
--Are there better cities for singles? Our friends at Kiplinger's Personal Finance crunched the numbers and found that there are, based on such stats as how many households...Tags: Gaming, Consumers, Video Games, Services and Shopping, Entertainment
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David S. Broder dies at 81; Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist
David S. Broder, one of the nation's leading political reporters and a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1973 for distinguished commentary about the Watergate scandal, has died. He was 81.
Broder, a longtime columnist at the Washington Post, died Wednesday at...Tags: Politics, Pulitzer Prize Awards, U.S. Army, Journalism, Awards and Prizes
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Doris J. Dungey dies at 47; She wrote a highly regarded blog on the mortgage industry meltdown
Doris J. Dungey, an influential blogger who under the pseudonym Tanta wrote about the failing U.S. mortgage industry, died of ovarian cancer Nov. 30 at Ohio State University Medical Center in Columbus. She was 47. Dungey wrote for Calculated Risk, a...Tags: The Ohio State University, Education, Columbus, Falls Church (Falls Church, Virginia), Death
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Insurers learn to pinpoint risks -- and avoid them
Times Staff WriterNEWARK, CALIF. — Hemant Shah is in the business of creating catastrophes. The computers at Shah's Silicon Valley company, Risk Management Solutions Inc., contain mathematical models of every U.S. disaster from the 1812 earthquake that toppled...Tags: Hurricane Andrew (1992), National Hurricane Center, Science and Technology, Homes, Disasters
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Salvaged in style
Times Staff WriterCARRIE CARR knows a good piece of trash when she sees it. Take the kitchen cabinet that she salvaged from an apartment building under renovation and turned into a glass-fronted display case. Or the living room piece — "my gangsta coffee table,"...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Furniture, Real Estate Sales, Services and Shopping, Design and Engineering
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From supporting actor to star, Richard Jenkins steps up in 'The Visitor'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterTHERE is no such thing as a Richard Jenkins movie, though he's been in more than 70 of them. Even in his best-known role -- as the mortuary paterfamilias, Nathaniel Fisher, on the HBO series "Six Feet Under" -- Jenkins was dead, haunting the characters...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Six Feet Under (tv program), Wesleyan University, Drama (genre), Step Brothers (movie)
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Farm pollution
The May 7 online editorial "Congress should reign in crop insurance" noted that the Senate's farm bill does not require land-stewardship practices in exchange for crop insurance subsidies. This is cause for alarm given agriculture pollution is a top cause...Tags: Agriculture, Springfield, Dick Durbin, Mark Kirk, Science and Technology
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Police investigate possible connection between Lauren Spierer, murder suspect
The Bloomington Police Department said they are investigating if a man accused of murdering several women in southern Indiana is linked to missing Indiana University student Lauren Spierer. Bloomington police said a detective has been assigned to...
Tags: Health and Safety at School, Indiana University, Police Investigations, Abusive Behavior, Sex Crimes
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Midwest fest lineup: From the Bard to bacon
Summer's on the way, and with it come festivals and fun. From beer and wine festivals to celebrations of the Bard and bacon, there's something for everyone.
Here's a sampling of events in the Midwest from Memorial Day to Labor Day:
Illinois
June 2-3 &#...Tags: Labor Day, Festive Events, Bacon, Bix Beiderbecke, Blues (genre)
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Disney's newest ship to arrive in Brevard
The Walt Disney Co.'s fourth cruise ship, the Disney Fantasy, is scheduled to sail into Port Canaveral on Tuesday, having been christened last week in New York.
The second ship in the company's $1.8 billion, two-ship expansion, the Fantasy will join...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Personal Data Collection, U.S. Department of State, Interior Policy, Brevard County
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Radar Eyes: They love melody, chaos, cassettes
The drums, as Sonic Youth might say, pound an expressway through your skull. The bass forcefully walks the divide between rhythm and melody. Guitars throw a curtain of dirt over everything, and then smear it around. Beneath all the mayhem, melodies emerge...Tags: Alsip, Music, Entertainment, Disappears (music group), Arts and Culture
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