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By Maggi MillerSunday, October 28, 2007 Halloween and Austin have been intertwined for me ever since I arrived here in 1973, though I was long past the age of putting on a costume and asking for treats. I had even passed the teenage years when playing tricks had a special appeal.
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VAIAKU, Tuvalu — The sea has been good to Evi Tauaa. When he is hungry, he drags his nets though a turquoise lagoon so full of fish that he can catch hundreds in an afternoon as the sound of laughing children filters through the South Pacific air.
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Saturday, October 27, 2007 Most people driving along Lake Austin Boulevard take little notice of a sign poking from a large oak grove announcing the entrance to the LCRA. Yet vast political power is quartered in the five buildings clustered there.
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Saturday, October 27, 2007 CLEVELAND — Rosemary Palmer admits that if her son hadn't died in Iraq, she wouldn't be running for Congress against a politician who shares her anti-war views.
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Saturday, October 27, 2007 Major grumbling among conservatives about the Republican field. So many candidates, so many flaws. Rudy Giuliani, abortion apostate. Mitt Romney, flip-flopper. John McCain, Mr. Amnesty. Fred Thompson, lazy boy. Where is the paragon? Where is Ronald Reagan?
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Saturday, October 27, 2007 Recently, my kindergartener emerged from elementary school wearing a shiny red ribbon pinned to her sweater. It was flapping in the cool wind as I held her hand to cross the street, so I couldn't read the embossed gold words. "What's that ribbon for, sweetie?
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According to new guidelines, nurses could decide if patients should be resuscitated. Should they be given this responsibility?
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The Kremlin wants to avoid attention to its anti-democratic ploys.
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The health of millions of children who lack insurance cannot be held hostage to the president's visceral distaste for government and its essential role to protect the weak.
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The magic of the information age is that it allows us to know less.
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The Chinese Communist Party's left wing is being relentlessly marginalized.
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'Wwoofing' has become a new way to travel responsibly, combining activism and ecotourism.
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Don't forget Iraq; A step for cycling
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Friday, October 26, 2007 Al Gore's recent Nobel Peace Prize and Gov. Rick Perry's doubts about climate change have helped put the issue front and center in public discussion. It would be easy to relegate the issue to an entertaining squabble among environmentalists and politicians.
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Friday, October 26, 2007 We're off to see the wizard. No, not the one who lives at the end of the yellow brick road. This one might be said to live somewhere over the rainbow, as in the flag that symbolizes gay pride. Or hadn't you heard about Albus Dumbledore?
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Friday, October 26, 2007 For Mitt Romney, religion is a potential third rail. For the rest of the pack, it's a stairway to political heaven. Romney's Mormon faith is endlessly analyzed as a political obstacle.
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Friday, October 26, 2007 Washington is a city of monuments: The Mall features buildings, statues and walls commemorating big achievements (like saving the Union) and small ones (like inventing the screw propeller).
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Friday, October 26, 2007 The U.S. dollar index, which measures the greenback's strength against other major currencies, recently hit its weakest level since 1973.
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Rep. Michael McNulty will call it quits after ten terms in Congress, the Albany Times Union reports. McNulty, who is expected to announce his plans at an event Monday, becomes the first Democrat to announce he will not seek re-election....
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Residents of the Windy City, and football enthusiasts generally, are probably quite familiar with the phrase "Good Rex, Bad Rex." The phrase really captured the essence of the 2006 Chicago Bears. Their quarterback, Rex Grossman, would occassionally show signs of...
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NASA should release the results of its study on flight risks.
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Cheney seems to enjoy giving the impression that he is loony enough to pull off an attack on Iran.
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In light of what we know about Vladimir Putin, he is likely to find a way to continue in office as Russian President.
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The scandal over a major exhibition of Russian art may be a sign of a lamentable shift in Russia.
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On Saturday, the joint United Nations and African Union peace process will enter the long-awaited negotiations phase in Libya.
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