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Post-Hurricane Energy Costs Lift Consumer Prices
Los Angeles Times - 4 hours ago The 1.2% rise last month is the biggest since 1980, but economists say the damage won't last. By Joel Havemann, Times Staff Writer. WASHINGTON � Hurricanes Katrina and Rita cut a swath of destruction through

The birdies and the bees
San Diego Union Tribune - 53 minutes ago By Tod Leonard. Good thing, too, for Michelle Wie, because the 16-year-old's time in front of the tube � and the possession of some mental presence beyond her years � helped her enormously yesterday in

Iraqis Turn Out for Vote
Washington Post - 29 minutes ago By John Ward Anderson and Jonathan Finer. BAGHDAD, Oct. 15 -- Large numbers of Iraqi voters ignored sporadic outbreaks of violence and voted Saturday in a constitutional referendum that would increase the role

NASA aims for May 2006 for next shuttle launch
Reuters AlertNet - 16 hours ago By Deborah Zabarenko. WASHINGTON, Oct 14 (Reuters) - NASA aims to launch the next space shuttle in May 2006, after fixing a persistent problem with falling debris -- the same problem that doomed shuttle Columbia and grounded the remaining three-ship fleet.

Russian police round up Muslim men
Seattle Post Intelligencer - 2 hours ago By MIKE ECKEL. NALCHIK, Russia -- When Zarema Valgasova last saw her son, he was semiconscious and bleeding profusely from a badly broken arm with cigarette burns on his body - the result, she says, of police torture after his arrest.

FAA: More controllers at JFK, LaG
New York Daily News - Oct 13, 2005 BY WARREN WOODBERRY JR. As air traffic in the New York area skies grows heavier, the Federal Aviation Administration yesterday announced plans to hire 38 additional air-traffic controllers for Kennedy and LaGuardia airports.