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<title>A platform for the partyless</title>
<description>On Tuesday, if history is any guide, several tens of thousands of Minnesotans will join others who are more or less like-minded politically for a biennial event known as the precinct caucus.  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:30:41 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Remember when this state had a primary</title>
<description>Last week they finally came -- Rick Santorum to Luverne, Mitt Romney to Eagan, and Ron Paul to Rochester, Chanhassen and Arden Hills. Anybody sighted a Newt?  The Republican presidential nomination  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:30:38 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>GOP has a better business tax idea</title>
<description>Thorough reform of the way Minnesota taxes businesses is at least a year away at the State Capitol. But for understandable economic and election-year reasons, the political itch is intensifying to  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:30:34 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Legislators need a sunshine break</title>
<description>The Legislature&amp;#039;s careful and limited use of private meetings to create safe space and the need for &amp;quot;sunshine&amp;quot; are not irreconcilable. We must have both. Sunshine should be the  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:30:29 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Don&amp;#039;t let a bad start stop solutions this session</title>
<description>The ugly partisanship displayed by Senate Republicans during the first days of this year&amp;#039;s legislative session was extremely disappointing. It belied their professed desire to work  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:30:25 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>A sex crime isn&amp;#039;t over if there&amp;#039;s a chance the perpetrator will be freed</title>
<description>It was in the 1970s, and I was 20 years old. On a cold November night, my friend and I were walking to our car in an adjacent parking lot in our small hometown in Minnesota, when a man jumped us  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:30:20 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>The most important election of a lifetime So say Gingrich et al.</title>
<description>As Gingrich faces Romney in Florida, he calls 2012 the &amp;#039;most important election of our lifetime.&amp;#039; Sometimes he compares its significance to the pre-Civil War era. GOP rivals like Santorum  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:54:07 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Super Bowl advertisers go after &amp;ldquo;second screens&amp;rdquo;</title>
<description>Provided by the Coca-Cola Co. and Wieden + Kennedy  A polar bear tries to catch his bottle of Coca-Cola before it falls to the ground. The &amp;quot;Catch,&amp;quot; ad will be aired during Super Bowl  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:43:25 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>On Valentine&amp;rsquo;s Day, show your love on a budget</title>
<description>Red tipped yellow roses are packaged for shipment to the U.S. for Valentine&amp;#039;s Day at the Sagaro Flowers SA facility in Bogota, Colombia, on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011. Colombia&amp;#039;s flower  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:43:12 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Facebook users get more than they give</title>
<description>Facebook&amp;#039;s base of daily users shot up 11.6 percent in the last quarter of 2010 -- but that growth rate dropped by nearly half at the end of 2011, to 5.7 percent. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma,  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:43:06 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>A&amp;lsquo;ohe hana nui ke alu &amp;lsquo;ia</title>
<description>Aloha kakou e na makamaka puni pa&amp;#039;ani popo pekupeku Koa Anuenue, mai ka mokupuni nui o Keawe a i ka moku ka&amp;#039;ili la o lalo e. &amp;#039;O ka Po&amp;#039;akolu nei ka la mua e hiki ai i na mea  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:31:15 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Standing In Defense Of Diet Coke</title>
<description>February 4, 2012   I would like to rise up today in defense of Diet Coke. All diet sodas, in fact. But Diet Coke happens to be my favorite. I like the stuff. Cracking open a can of it, or pouring  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:25:59 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Standing for what&amp;#039;s right</title>
<description>Roy Police detectives walk in front of Roy High School Jan. 26, 2012, in Roy, Utah.   Congratulations to Bailey Gerhardt for her bravery for possibly saving the lives of many of our precious youth  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:12:24 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>The winners and the losers</title>
<description>Loser-Winner: Groundhog Day is a time for silliness in Punxsutawney, Pa., which is pretty much the point of the whole Punxsutawney Phil shtick each year. The losers in this case are the news  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:12:10 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Cities need to better involve citizens</title>
<description>Do city elections matter? Are the voices of the people really heard? We are about to find out.  On Jan. 3, 2012, three council members were sworn in to the Salt Lake City government, two new and one  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:12:06 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Komen retreats in face of outrage</title>
<description>Brilliant blue skies and great weather at the 18th annual Susan G. Komen Denver Race for the Cure, Oct. 3, 2010. (Denver Post file photo) At a time when people routinely mistrust institutions, Susan  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:38:09 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Battle of the Potomac</title>
<description>In his State of the State speech this week, Gov.Martin O&amp;#039;Malleymade a provocative boast: &amp;quot;Because of your wise and balanced decisions about where to cut, and your smart decisions about  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:35:07 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Roar the right way</title>
<description>A few weeks ago we watched the BYU men&amp;#039;s basketball team play a  very good Baylor Bears team who came into the Marriott Center  ranked No. 6. It was a highly contested game and the crowd was   ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:54:19 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Homeownership isn&amp;#039;t all bad &amp;ndash; or good; EU is a model for peace</title>
<description>United States , being a renter doesn&amp;#039;t equate with being able to &amp;quot;easily move around.&amp;quot;Historically, a home does appreciate in value over time, and it also proves useful to those who  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:31:29 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Komen reversal a victory for common sense</title>
<description>What we said: &amp;quot;The Susan G. Komen foundation has made a highly regrettable - and transparently political - decision to cut off funding for Planned Parenthood.  Komen should reverse its  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:16:30 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>S.F. couldn&amp;#039;t compete with 49ers&amp;#039; Santa Clara deal</title>
<description>49ers will go forward with their plan for a new stadium in Santa Clara. Barring a major setback - such as construction delays, or a legal ruling against changes from the deal Santa Clara voters  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:16:23 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Letters to the editor, Feb. 4</title>
<description>&amp;quot;UCSF scientists take bitter view of sugar in food&amp;quot; (Feb. 2):  War on sugar is not a solution to America&amp;#039;s health problems.   Sugar comes in many different forms (honey, fruit juice,  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:16:09 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>&amp;#039;Crackdown&amp;#039; defined year in press freedom</title>
<description>The Arab Spring was the biggest story in the Middle East in 2011. Unfortunately, it&amp;#039;s still difficult to report on its aftermath in many of the nations most impacted by the pan-Arabic protest  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:45:59 -0500</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.startribune.com/">Star Tribune</source>
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<title>Here&amp;#039;s what&amp;#039;s really missing in academia</title>
<description>Traveling through my beloved former hometown of Minneapolis recently, I was appalled to pick up the Star Tribune and find an Opinion Exchange section cover article about missing conservatives in  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:45:53 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>We probably ought to care about the poor</title>
<description>The problem with Mitt Romney&amp;#039;s latest boneheaded statement -- &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not concerned about the very poor&amp;quot; -- isn&amp;#039;t the ammunition it gives political opponents eager to yank the  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:45:48 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Teach for America can&amp;#039;t do it alone</title>
<description>I was disappointed in many aspects of Jack Schneider&amp;#039;s Feb. 1 commentary (&amp;quot;No magic solution for schools&amp;quot;), which described Teach For America as aspiring to eliminate the achievement  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:45:42 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Tax vote limit too severe</title>
<description>Lawmakers&amp;#039; desire to limit how often a municipality can come at its residents for tax increases is understandable, maybe even commendable, but the latest effort to do that goes a little too  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:18:26 -0500</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.detroitnews.com/">The Detroit News</source>
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<title>Should Super Bowl game be moved to Saturday</title>
<description>Is there a particular reason the Super Bowl has to be on a Sunday, rather than, say, a Saturday, when you don&amp;#039;t have to go to work the next day? It could still be a &amp;quot;Super&amp;quot; Saturday  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:18:16 -0500</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.detroitnews.com/">The Detroit News</source>
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<title>Firestorm on birth control</title>
<description>Two of the top news stories this week have revolved around reproductive rights, though both raise far more troubling issues than a woman&amp;#039;s right to contraception or abortion.The more compelling  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:18:11 -0500</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.detroitnews.com/">The Detroit News</source>
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<title>Are charter schools the best solution</title>
<description>With respect to my UW colleague, Wayne Au misreads the evidence on charter-school research [&amp;#039;;The false promise of charter schools,&amp;#039;; Opinion, Jan. 31].  Au is correct that charter-school  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:03:06 -0500</pubDate>
<source url="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/">The Seattle Times</source>
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<title>Mother protests porn viewing at library</title>
<description>Regarding the mother who protested the viewing of pornography on the library computers in the public areas of the library, I support you. [&amp;#039;;Mother challenges viewing of Internet porn at  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:03:02 -0500</pubDate>
<source url="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/">The Seattle Times</source>
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<title>Marriage equality for same-sex couples editorial</title>
<description>Washington state is ready to offer marriage equality for LGBT and straight couples &amp;mdash; in both name and in practice [&amp;#039;;Lawmakers &amp;mdash; step up for same-sex marriage,&amp;#039;; Opinion, Jan.  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:02:58 -0500</pubDate>
<source url="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/">The Seattle Times</source>
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<title>Apple&amp;#039;s decision not to build in the U.S.</title>
<description>Although I agree with the sentiments expressed in Jon Talton&amp;rsquo;s piece criticizing Steve Jobs for not building Apple&amp;rsquo;s iPad in the U.S., the fact is, Jobs would have been fired if he did  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:02:54 -0500</pubDate>
<source url="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/">The Seattle Times</source>
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<title>The Seattle Times&amp;#039; support for higher education</title>
<description>Welcome to The Seattle Times&amp;#039; online letters to the editor, a sampling of readers&amp;#039; opinions. Join the conversation by commenting on these letters or send your own letter of up to 200  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:02:51 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Handicapping a Mitt Romney campaign against Barack Obama</title>
<description>Republicans are still getting accustomed to Mitt Romney as their nominee, writes Michael Gerson. Now Republicans are left to ponder the Romney-Obama  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:02:48 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>a discussion, not a lecture</title>
<description>There are many areas, including human rights, where China and the United States are grappling with common problems, writes Norm Page. In those common areas, we can build a common language that does  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:02:42 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>The lives of ordinary Americans</title>
<description>If you&amp;#039;re an American down on your luck, Mitt Romney has a message for you: He doesn&amp;#039;t feel your pain. Earlier this week, Romney told a startled CNN interviewer, &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:02:39 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>The intersection of &amp;#039;Obamacare&amp;#039; and undocumented immigrants</title>
<description>The Democrats&amp;#039; Affordable Care Act of 2010 &amp;mdash; aka &amp;#039;Obamacare&amp;#039; &amp;mdash; could hasten America&amp;#039;s journey toward a more orderly immigration program, writes Froma  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:02:36 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Matheson backs energy development in &amp;lsquo;telephone town hall&amp;rsquo;</title>
<description>(Al Hartmann | Tribune file photo)  U.S. Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, said the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act served a purpose in removing clear environmental threats, but now are being applied to  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:40:09 -0500</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.sltrib.com/">Salt Lake Tribune</source>
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<title>Attorney denies Utah man ran scam</title>
<description>The lawyer for a Fountain Green man accused of running a huge Ponzi scheme said Friday his client operated a legitimate business that was destroyed by zealous federal  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:40:01 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>The many sides of turning coins into cash</title>
<description>(Al Hartmann | Tribune File Photo)  Think of coins as an investment, and hold onto them as your own central bank. However, if you decide to cash them, research is the  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:39:54 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>U.S. jobless rate dips to 8.3% after hiring surge</title>
<description>(Charles Rex Arbogast | The Associated Press)  An auto worker assembles parts on the 2013 Dodge Dart at the Chrysler Plant in Belvidere, Ill., Thursday. Sergio Marchionne, chairman and CEO Chrysler  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:39:45 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Tax breaks for college costs</title>
<description>http://bit.ly/z3TIjp Internal Revenue Service &amp;raquo; Serves up details on the two key federal tax education credits, The American Opportunity Credit and Lifetime Learning Credit,  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:39:35 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Thousands of condo owners stuck in condos they can&amp;rsquo;t sell</title>
<description>(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune)  Pete and T. Kay Farley are trying to sell their Salt Lake City, Utah condo, but their project is not &amp;quot;FHA approved.&amp;quot; That means that basically, no  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:39:27 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>A sample of companies that are hiring, and why</title>
<description>Employers across a range of industries have stepped up hiring. The economy gained 243,000 jobs in January, the most since last April. The hiring spree helped lower the unemployment rate for a fifth  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:39:21 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Micron CEO&amp;rsquo;s death mourned in Utah, beyond</title>
<description>A small experimental plane piloted by the CEO and chairman of Micron Technology Inc. crashed after take-off Friday at the Boise airport, killing the head of the Idaho memory chipmaker who was  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:39:14 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Feds accuse Sandy man of tax fraud</title>
<description>Michael Lavery was charged with one count of presenting a false tax refund claim to the U.S. government and one count of structuring a currency transaction to avoid reporting rules, the Justice  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:39:07 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Dow up 157 points after strong jobs report</title>
<description>New York o A drop in the unemployment rate to its lowest in three years propelled the Dow Jones industrial average Friday to its highest close since before the 2008 financial crisis. The Nasdaq  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:39:01 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Super Bowl ads that generate buzz after the game</title>
<description>FILE - In this file screen shot provided by Volkswagen of America, a child actor portraying Darth Vader, uses the Force on a 2012 Volkswagen Passat, in a 2011 Super Bowl ad. Volkswagen charmed  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:38:52 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>What&amp;#039;s hot at SFGate.com, Feb. 5</title>
<description>1. UCSF scientists declare war on sugar in food  2. Peyton Manning as 49er makes sense, but not enough  3. Morford: Please do not eat this  4. North Bay girl died of &amp;#039;date rape&amp;#039; drug  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:38:48 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Facebook&amp;rsquo;s financial details raise red flags for some</title>
<description>Facebook&amp;#039;s base of daily users shot up 11.6 percent in the last quarter of 2010 -- but that growth rate dropped by nearly half at the end of 2011, to 5.7 percent. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma,  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:38:45 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>CLASS Act is dead, but Obama won&amp;#039;t repeal it</title>
<description>It says something about the brazen attitude of American politicians that Congress enacted a measure to create a program that was impossible to implement - and named it the CLASS Act. CLASS stands  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:38:39 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Utah venture capital conference set for Thursday</title>
<description>VentureCapital.org and the Wayne Brown Institute, a Salt Lake City-based group that helps entrepreneurs find venture capital funding. The event will run from 9 a.m. to noon at the Zermatt  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:38:37 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Drugs trump Afghanistan military concerns</title>
<description>France can&amp;#039;t seem to decide how quickly it will withdraw its troops from Afghanistan after a rogue Afghan soldier opened fire on unarmed French soldiers, killing four and wounding 15.  Over the  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:38:32 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Make animal farm humane</title>
<description>M assachusetts now stands at a crossroads regarding its agricultural policy. Two competing bills are pending before the Legislature that would address whether the state will permit some of the worst  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:24:49 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Media whitewashing Muslim violence</title>
<description>T he story is grisly: a husband and wife murdering their three young daughters, ages 19, 17 and 13, by drowning them along with their stepmother. The couple was assisted by their 21-year-old son.  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:24:47 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Tax facts vs. fiction</title>
<description>P resident Barack Obama, obsessed with raising taxes on &amp;quot;millionaires and billionaires,&amp;quot; ignores the facts of history. He told ABC&amp;rsquo;s Diane Sawyer last week that our country now has  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:24:45 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>A decision for Turkey</title>
<description>T he turmoil that continues to roil the Middle East could eventually determine whether Turkey falls to extreme Islamist rule.  The government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:24:43 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>The cost of conscience</title>
<description>WASHINGTON &amp;mdash; Two of the top news stories this past week have revolved around reproductive rights, though both raise far more troubling issues than a woman&amp;#039;s right to contraception or  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:07:22 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Of presidents and prime ministers who talk of faith</title>
<description>Obama in America and Cameron in Britain have spoken of how their Christian faith influences their approach to shaping society. The US presidential campaign is also skirting church-state issues. How  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:41:31 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Don&amp;#039;t blame Heritage for ObamaCare mandate</title>
<description>The US Supreme Court will put the middle issue to rest. The answers to the first and last can come from me. After all, I headed Heritage&amp;#039;s health work for 30 years. And make no mistake: Heritage and  ... </description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:56:43 -0500</pubDate>
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