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Amtrak drops opposition to EJ&E sale
Associated Press WriterAmtrak has dropped its opposition to the hotly debated sale of a suburban Chicago railway line even as a dispute emerges over a track through Illinois' capital, where another company also hopes to improve the flow of its freight-train traffic. Amtrak...Tags: Chicago, Joliet, Illinois, Railway Transportation, Transportation
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Courtney's Undercard A Better Bout
Tuesday night I took in the fights. At New London's Garde Arts Center I watched freshman Congressman Joe Courtney mix it up with GOP brawler Sean Sullivan. Later I looked on as Barack Obama waltzed John McCain around the ring for a few desultory rounds....Tags: Barack Obama, John McCain, Sarah Palin, Joe Courtney, Tom Brokaw
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La. losing ground in fight against storms
Chicago Tribune correspondentPOINT CELESTE, La. — About 40 miles farther inland from here, around the periphery of one of America's most vulnerable major cities, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is engaged in a furious $15 billion construction effort to rebuild the ring of...Tags: Hurricanes, Fishing, Hurricane Ike, Hurricane Gustav, Tropical Storms
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Ask Mark Gonzales
If the last two seasons' abysmal swoon and record doesn't speak for itself, how can we Sox fans help get Mr. Reinsdorf to terminate Messrs. Williams and Guillen? Williams just took Guillen off the hook. Give me a break ... what has Ozzie done to...Tags: Music Theater, Lance Broadway, Jermaine Dye, Major League Baseball, Johan Santana
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Trees, breeze, wheeze, sneeze
Newsday Staff WriterHey, you with the red eyes and the hanky. If you feel like allergies have plunged you into new depths of misery this spring, you're not alone. Pollen counts double and triple the usual levels for this time of year have caused an upswing in the number...Tags: New York, West Islip, Health and Safety at School, Long Island
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We asked for it
president of the Blue Frontier Campaign and author of the forthcoming "Blue Frontier -- Dispatches from America's Ocean Wilderness." He also edited "The Ocean and Coastal Conservation Guide."THERE'S A 9/11 waiting to happen in the oceans if we let it," retired Adm. James Watkins, chairman of the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy, warned two years ago. With Hurricane Katrina, we let it happen. A huge natural disaster was hugely magnified by...Tags: Barbara Boxer, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Hurricanes, Ecosystems, Tropical Weather
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Modernism, take 2: tweaking the cliché
Special to The TimesWhen people think of Palm Springs, says Mark Davis, owner of the city's first store devoted to midcentury Modernism, they picture a butterfly roof house, a rock fireplace, the classic 1956 Eames lounge chair, the Nelson bubble lamps. What they no...Tags: Miami Beach, House and Home, Design Within Reach Incorporated, Design and Engineering, Eero Saarinen
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2003 Hall of Fame voting
The Associated Pressx-Eddie Murray 423 x-Gary Carter 387 Bruce Sutter 266 Jim Rice 259 Andre Dawson 248 Ryne Sandberg 244 Lee Smith 210 Rich Gossage 209 Bert Blyleven 145 Steve Garvey 138 Jim Kaat 130 Tommy John 116 Jack Morris 113 Alan Trammell 70 Don...Tags: Darryl Kile, Don Mattingly, Elections, Steve Garvey, Eddie Murray
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Anna Marie Island's Harrington House: Whole year is like a holiday
special correspondentI did not get the chance to see the official White House Christmas tree this year but I was present when a look-alike was decorated on the Gulf Coast, in Holmes Beach, at my favorite beachfront bed-and-breakfast, the Harrington House on Anna Maria Island....Tags: Florida, Michigan, Holidays, Sean Murphy, Wisconsin
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