Harris stakes personal fortune on race
Thursday, March 16, 2006 Tamara Lytle - - Orlando Sentinel
| Rep. Katherine Harris used a national television audience Wednesday night to try to jump-start her faltering U.S. Senate campaign, announcing that she will pour $10 million of her personal fortune into the race.
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Bush touts Medicare drug plan
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
AP's JENNIFER LOVEN - - Orlando Sentinel
| President Bush campaigned Tuesday to boost the troubled new Medicare drug program that is the subject of a fierce election-year debate between Democrats and Republicans.
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Muslim Group to Call for Writer's Release
Saturday, January 21, 2006
AP's SAMEER N. YACOUB - - Orlando Sentinel
| BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A U.S. Muslim advocacy group arrived in Baghdad on Saturday to plead for the release of American hostage Jill Carroll, while an Iraqi official urged U.S. forces to free six detained Iraqi women in a bid to save the journalist.
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Are devices making us antisocial?
Saturday, January 7, 2006 Linda Shrieves - - Orlando Sentinel
| From children to adults, Americans are becoming enchanted with technology. Shoppers chat on their cell phones, stopping only to talk briefly to a cashier. On trips, children watch films on portable DVD players or play on their GameBoys instead of playing license-tag bingo. On airline flights, passengers watch movies on laptop computers, answer e-mails on their BlackBerries or watch episodes of Lost on their video iPods, rather than chatting with the person in the next seat.
So is tuning out the rest of the world good for us? Could we miss meeting our soul mate because we are too busy listening to our headphones?
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Witnesses heard no talk of bomb
Friday, December 9, 2005 MARK SCHLUEB - - Orlando Sentinel
| Rigoberto Alpizar may have just been scared.
As more details emerged about Wednesday's anxious moments aboard American Airlines Flight 924, it became increasingly apparent that the Maitland man killed by federal air marshals may have been fleeing in panic as he suffered the symptoms of bipolar disorder.
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Schiavo turns rage into TerriPAC
Thursday, December 8, 2005 Tamara Lytle - - Orlando Sentinel
| Michael Schiavo, who fought for years to remove his wife, Terri, from a feeding tube that kept her alive, has turned his anger about Congress's intervention into political action.
Schiavo announced Wednesday that he has opened TerriPAC to strike back at politicians who tried to keep his brain-damaged wife alive through congressional legislation he termed a "sickening exercise in raw political power."
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Bush, Putin to Try for Unity on Terror War
Friday, November 18, 2005
AP's TERENCE HUNT - - Orlando Sentinel
| Though their political relationship is strained, President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin are trying to speak with one voice about the war on terror and the campaign to stop North Korea's nuclear ambitions.
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Senate passes NASA budget
Wednesday, November 16, 2005 Tamara Lytle - - Orlando Sentinel
| NASA will get $16.5 billion to cover its moon mission, shuttle flights, a repair mission on the Hubble telescope and other costs, under a budget bill the Senate passed today by a 94-5 vote.
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Nation has moved on, but Wilma's woes linger
Wednesday, November 9, 2005 Maya Bell - - Orlando Sentinel
| Sixteen days after Hurricane Wilma's rampage across South Florida, the storm has faded to a footnote in the national consciousness. The camera crews left long ago, and the headlines are vanishing.
But for countless South Floridians, the misery continues with no end in sight.
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Drug plan fuels fears of gaps in coverage
Monday, November 7, 2005 Robyn Shelton - - Orlando Sentinel
| Florida's sickest and most vulnerable residents will have no choice in January but to join the new Medicare prescription-drug program, igniting worries that many could be left without the medications they need.
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Prosecutor, Judge in CIA Leak Probe Meet
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
AP's PETE YOST - - Orlando Sentinel
| The prosecutor in the CIA leak probe had a confidential lunchtime meeting with a federal judge Wednesday after a grand jury listened to three hours of testimony in the case that has ensnared top White House aides.
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Bladder Cancer Test Looks Promising
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
AP's LINDSEY TANNER - - Orlando Sentinel
| A simple, experimental urine test that checks for an enzyme that fuels tumors is an effective way to detect bladder cancer in early, curable stages, Italian researchers say.
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S. FLA.: Worst hurricane to hit Broward in 50 years
Monday, October 24, 2005
AP's CURT ANDERSON - - Orlando Sentinel
| Hurricane Wilma left a wide, messy swath of damage Monday as it sped across Florida with winds of more than 100 mph, shattering skyscraper windows, peeling off roofs and knocking out power to at least 3.2 million customers from Key West to Daytona Beach.
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Compromise could lead to drilling off Florida coast
Monday, October 24, 2005 Tamara Lytle - - Orlando Sentinel
| A compromise to allow oil and gas drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico will be announced today by U.S. House Resources Chairman Richard Pombo, who says the proposal meets all the requirements for support from Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.
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Physical activity exercises students' brains, bodies
Monday, October 24, 2005 Ashima Singal - - Orlando Sentinel
| Reese Witherspoon's character in Legally Blonde recognized the benefits of physical activity: "Exercise gives you endorphins. Endorphins make you happy."
Numerous studies have found that exercise can help youngsters achieve higher test scores, in addition to the obvious benefit of helping them keep fit. Nearly one in every three kids is overweight, according to the Children and Youth Legacy Report by the Healthy Community Initiative of Greater Orlando.
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Campaign takes on Florida gun law
Thursday, October 20, 2005 Beth Kassab - - Orlando Sentinel
| Tourists arriving at Orlando International Airport today will be the latest targets of a national gun-control group cautioning visitors about a new Florida law that, it says, makes people vulnerable to gunfights.
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Medicare recipients can expect ad barrage
Tuesday, September 27, 2005 Robyn Shelton - - Orlando Sentinel
| Seniors throughout Florida soon will be barraged with brochures, sales calls and informational mail from dozens of private insurers who will be offering Medicare's new prescription-drug coverage next year.
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High schools may face new truancy rule
Monday, September 26, 2005 Mary Shanklin - - Orlando Sentinel
| Students who think they can drop out of school at age 16 may have to think again.
Orange County School Board members are pushing for legislation that would increase the compulsory school-attendance age from 15 to 17.
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Nations fret over flu-drug supplies
Saturday, September 24, 2005
AP's PAUL ELIAS - - Orlando Sentinel
| A few years ago the maker of Tamiflu could hardly give it away. Now it can't be produced fast enough, as countries around the world clamor for it as the best hope of combating bird flu in people.
That has touched off a nasty dispute between two drug companies fighting for control of the pill's growing profits while demand outstrips supply.
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Blood-pressure study debated
Monday, September 5, 2005
AP's Emma Ross - - Orlando Sentinel
| A combination of newer medicines is better at lowering blood pressure and more effective at reducing the risk of heart attacks and strokes than the more traditional combination of drugs, major new research suggests.
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Can you hear me now?
Tuesday, August 30, 2005 DEBBE GEIGER - - Orlando Sentinel
| Catherine Strick didn't know she was losing her hearing until five years ago when she went for her annual physical and took a routine hearing test.
Now, the 44-year-old accountant readily admits she has trouble hearing and says people are quick to notice.
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Some schools lighten kids' loads by banning backpacks
Monday, August 22, 2005 Erika Hobbs - - Orlando Sentinel
| Alexander Cassese pitches forward as he slings the daily haul over his shoulders. Inside his backpack are five composition books, two three-ring binders, 13 green folders, an algebra workbook, a supplies case, a graphing calculator, a cell phone and his blue rubber ball.
"My grandma can't even lift it," said Alexander, a seventh-grader at Galaxy Middle School in Deltona.
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Shuttle Discovery back home
Sunday, August 21, 2005
AP's Marcia Dunn - - Orlando Sentinel
| Discovery arrived back at its home port Sunday atop a jumbo jet following a 5.8 million-mile journey through space -- the first by a shuttle in 2{ years -- and then a jog across the country.
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Afghan troops kill 28 insurgents
Tuesday, August 16, 2005
AP's DANIEL COONEY - - Orlando Sentinel
| Afghan security forces killed at least 28 suspected insurgents in a nationwide offensive against Taliban rebels and other militants intent on subverting crucial legislative elections next month, officials said Monday.
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How much are teachers worth?
Monday, August 15, 2005 Erika Hobbs - - Orlando Sentinel
| Just how much should teachers be worth?
At least $40,000 to start, the National Education Association argues. Last month, the nation's largest teachers union urged school districts to boost the average national starting salary by 34 percent, up from $29,733 -- a call that has sparked new debate about the value of teaching.
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FDA tightens access to acne drug
Saturday, August 13, 2005
AP's LAURAN NEERGAARD - - Orlando Sentinel
| The thousands of Americans who take the acne drug Accutane -- and people who prescribe and dispense it -- must enroll in a national registry, part of a major government program to tighten access to the medicine that causes birth defects.
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Critics Decry Roberts' Environment Record
Sunday, August 14, 2005
AP's JOHN HEILPRIN - - Orlando Sentinel
| Supreme Court nominee John Roberts once offered the National Mining Association some unpaid advice on how to intervene in other people's court cases. Two years later he was hired by the group to argue against a citizens group trying to stop coal companies from shearing off the tops of West Virginia's mountains.
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NASA Welcomes Home Astronauts From Mission
Wednesday, August 10, 2005
AP's PAM EASTON - - Orlando Sentinel
| Discovery's astronauts arrived to a rousing celebration Wednesday as nearly 700 people crowded an airplane hangar, waving flags and holding signs that read: "Welcome Home, Astronauts!"
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Shuttle will take new path back
Sunday, August 7, 2005 Robyn Shelton - - Orlando Sentinel
| Space shuttle Discovery's seven astronauts are homeward bound.
They'll spend today making final preparations, and then, if all goes as scheduled, swoop into Kennedy Space Center at 4:46 a.m. Monday.
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Bush will give OK today to sweeping energy bill
Monday, August 8, 2005 Tamara Lytle - - Orlando Sentinel
| President Bush today will sign the broadest changes to energy law since 1992, providing tax breaks for energy companies, promoting nuclear power and alternative fuels, and allowing an inventory of the nation's offshore oil and gas resources.
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King Fahd Buried in Unmarked Grave
Tuesday, August 2, 2005
AP's Salah Nasrawi - - Orlando Sentinel
| Muslim leaders and Saudi princes bade farewell to King Fahd on Tuesday, saying prayers in a packed Riyadh mosque and then burying him in an unmarked desert grave in keeping with the kingdom's austere version of Islam.
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NASA extends Discovery's mission
Sunday, July 31, 2005 Robyn Shelton - - Orlando Sentinel
| The crew of the shuttle Discovery is getting an extra day in space.
With future shuttle flights grounded indefinitely, NASA decided Saturday to extend the mission so Discovery's astronauts can spend the additional day transferring surplus supplies such as water, paper, pens and laptop computers to the international space station, which partly relies on the shuttle to keep it stocked.
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Specter Seeks Veto-Proof Stem Cell Margin
Sunday, July 31, 2005
AP's LIBBY QUAID - - Orlando Sentinel
| Despite a boost from the majority leader, there is not enough Senate support now to override a threatened veto if Congress tries to ease restrictions on embryonic stem cell research, a key proponent said Sunday.
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NASA grounds shuttles
Thursday, July 28, 2005 Michael Cabbage and Robyn Shelton - - Orlando Sentinel
| NASA effectively grounded the space-shuttle fleet Wednesday after learning that Discovery's external fuel tank shed large pieces of potentially damaging debris during liftoff.
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Discovery still a go
Tuesday, July 26, 2005 Michael Cabbage - - Orlando Sentinel
| Space shuttle managers will have one eye on the weather and the other on a temperamental fuel-level sensor as NASA makes its second attempt to launch Discovery this morning.
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Bense to decide on Senate race
Tuesday, July 26, 2005 Mark Hollis - - Orlando Sentinel
| The events of this week may determine just how heated Republican politics will get before the 2006 elections.
By week's end, the GOP of Florida might know if it will have to grapple with two top-of-the-ballot primary fights -- in the governor's race and for the U.S. Senate.
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Third Man Arrested in Failed London Attack
Monday, July 25, 2005
AP's MICHAEL MCDONOUGH - - Orlando Sentinel
| British police arrested a third man in connection with last week's failed attack against London's transit system and said Sunday they were trying to penetrate what they suspect is an al-Qaida network behind the plot.
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NASA Plans Launch Even if Problem Recurs
Monday, July 25, 2005
AP's Marcia Dunn - - Orlando Sentinel
| NASA plans to launch the first space shuttle flight in 2 1/2 years, even if it is plagued by the same fuel gauge problem that halted the previous countdown two weeks ago, officials said Sunday.
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NASA sets shuttle launch for Tuesday
Thursday, July 21, 2005 Robyn Shelton - - Orlando Sentinel
| NASA managers today set July 26 as shuttle Discovery's launch date, saying they feel confident that they understand the fuel-sensor problem that caused the agency to cancel last week's planned liftoff.
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Despite shortage, Army rejects some candidates
Sunday, July 17, 2005 Roger Roy - - Orlando Sentinel
| With the Army struggling to keep its ranks filled, Kevin Greene might seem like a recruiter's dream come true.
But at a time when the Army is facing an uphill battle trying to sign up new recruits, Greene is one of untold numbers of Americans who are willing, even eager, to join up but are turned away.
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Saddam to Face Trial; Attacks Kill 22
Sunday, July 17, 2005
AP's ANTONIO CASTANEDA - - Orlando Sentinel
| Suicide bombers killed 22 people in the Baghdad area Sunday, as insurgents stepped up a relentless campaign that claimed more than 90 lives a night before in a bombing near a Shiite mosque south of the capital.
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U.K. Bomb Probe Focuses on Chemist, Briton
Thursday, July 14, 2005
AP's BETH GARDINER - - Orlando Sentinel
| British and FBI officials investigating the London terror attacks focused Thursday on an Egyptian-born chemist who studied in the United States and an 18-year-old Briton of Pakistani descent believed to have set off the bomb aboard a red double-decker bus.
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NASA Seeks Shuttle's Loose Connection
Thursday, July 14, 2005
AP's Marcia Dunn - - Orlando Sentinel
| NASA's first step in trying to figure out what caused a fuel gauge to fail shortly before liftoff and keep space shuttle Discovery grounded is about as low-tech as it gets: The Wiggle Test.
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Death Toll Rises to 52 in London Bombings
Monday, July 11, 2005
AP's Matt Moore - - Orlando Sentinel
| Police raised the confirmed death toll in London's terrorist attacks to 52 as tense commuters returned to work Monday on the subway and bus network targeted by the bombers four days earlier.
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Gunmen Mount Attacks on Diplomats in Iraq
Tuesday, July 5, 2005
AP's Sinan Salaheddin - - Orlando Sentinel
| Gunmen ambushed two more top diplomats from Muslim countries Tuesday in apparent kidnap bids that seemed aimed at scaring off foreign governments and isolating Iraq from the Arab world. Pakistan responded by announcing the withdrawal of its ambassador.
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Ex-Hostages Say Iran Leader Was a Captor
Thursday, June 30, 2005
AP's RUSS BYNUM - - Orlando Sentinel
| A quarter-century after they were taken captive in Iran, five former American hostages say they got an unexpected reminder of their 444-day ordeal in the bearded face of Iran's new president-elect.
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U.S. Military to Expand Prisons in Iraq
Tuesday, June 28, 2005
AP's FRANK GRIFFITHS - - Orlando Sentinel
| The U.S. military said Monday it plans to expand its prisons across Iraq to hold as many as 16,000 detainees, as the relentless insurgency shows no sign of letup one year after the transfer of sovereignty to Iraqi authorities.
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Schiavo case fuels run for Senate
Thursday, June 23, 2005 John Kennedy - - Orlando Sentinel
| Just two days after Terri Schiavo's ashes were laid to rest, a leader of the fight to keep her alive launched a political challenge against one of the men he blames most for the severely brain-damaged woman's death.
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Senate favors Gulf oil, gas tally
Wednesday, June 22, 2005 Tamara Lytle - - Orlando Sentinel
| The Senate voted Tuesday to allow an inventory of oil and gas reserves in the coveted Gulf of Mexico, sparking predictions that drilling off Florida's coast would be next.
Florida's senators -- Democrat Bill Nelson and Republican Mel Martinez -- suffered a stinging defeat when their amendment to block the inventory failed 52-44.
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Poll shows off GOP's muscle in 2006 race
Wednesday, June 22, 2005 John Kennedy - - Orlando Sentinel
| Republican Charlie Crist and Democrat Jim Davis are their parties' front-runners to succeed Gov. Jeb Bush next year, with the GOP well-positioned to retain the Governor's Office, according to a statewide poll released Tuesday.
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Jennings: Candidate -- or not?
Sunday, June 19, 2005 John Kennedy - - Orlando Sentinel
| Long seen as an almost-certain contender to succeed Gov. Jeb Bush, Lt. Gov. Toni Jennings instead has kept her campaign engine idling even as two Republican rivals are racing away from the starting line.
With each passing day, it's looking more like she may stay there.
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Disney fights safety oversight
Sunday, June 19, 2005 Richard Verrier, Jerry W. Jackson, and Kimi Yoshino - - Orlando Sentinel
| Four days before a preschooler died after passing out on a popular simulator ride Monday at Walt Disney World, the company's top theme-park executive and two lobbyists visited the Capitol Hill offices of U.S. Rep. Edward Markey.
The three wanted to make the case that the kind of federal safety oversight the powerful Massachusetts Democrat is proposing for the theme-park industry is unnecessary because parks are safe and already regulated by most states.
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State to test hydrogen cars, stations
Sunday, June 19, 2005 Robert Perez - - Orlando Sentinel
| Hydrogen is colorless, odorless, tasteless and all around us, making up as much as 75 percent of the universe. It's in the water we drink and the food we eat. And soon, in Central Florida, it will be in our gas tanks, too.
Well, not quite everybody's tank.
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FBI Failed to Hire Mideast Terror Experts
Sunday, June 19, 2005
AP's JOHN SOLOMON - - Orlando Sentinel
| In sworn testimony that contrasts with their promises to the public, the FBI managers who crafted the post-Sept. 11 fight against terrorism say expertise about the Mideast or terrorism was not important in choosing the agents they promoted to top jobs.
And they still do not believe such experience is necessary today even as terrorist acts occur across the globe.
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Schiavo's Parents Not Swayed by Autopsy
Thursday, June 16, 2005
AP's MITCH STACY - - Orlando Sentinel
| An autopsy that found Terri Schiavo suffered from severe and irreversible brain-damage has done nothing to sway her parents' position that she deserved to live and may have gotten better with therapy.
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Video of Saddam's Questioning Released
Tuesday, June 14, 2005
AP's PATRICK QUINN - - Orlando Sentinel
| The tribunal that will put Saddam Hussein on trial released a video Monday showing the 68-year-old former dictator -- looking drawn and tired but dressed in a pinstriped suit -- being questioned about the killings of at least 50 Iraqis in a Shiite town.
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Insurgents in Iraq Go on Killing Spree
Sunday, June 12, 2005
AP's PATRICK QUINN - - Orlando Sentinel
| A former commando in the feared Wolf Brigade blew himself up after sneaking into the morning roll call at the unit's heavily fortified headquarters Saturday, one of a series of weekend insurgent attacks that killed at least 35 people including youngsters waiting to buy sandwiches and ice cream. Near the Syrian border, Marine airstrikes wiped out a band of 40 heavily armed militants.
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Witness: Al-Arian tried to recruit me
Friday, June 10, 2005
AP's MITCH STACY - - Orlando Sentinel
| An attorney for Sami Al-Arian on Thursday attacked the credibility of a former Islamic religious leader who claims the fired college professor once tried to recruit him to join a militant faction of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
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Army Headed to Recruiting Shortfall
Wednesday, June 8, 2005
AP's ROBERT BURNS - - Orlando Sentinel
| The Army appears likely to fall short of its full-year recruiting goal for the first time since 1999, raising longer-term questions about a military embroiled in its first protracted wars since switching from the draft to a volunteer force 32 years ago.
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Los Alamos Lab Whistleblower Beaten
Tuesday, June 7, 2005
AP's DEBORAH BAKER - - Orlando Sentinel
| A Los Alamos lab whistleblower scheduled to testify before Congress about alleged financial irregularities was badly beaten outside a bar -- an attack his wife and lawyer believe was designed to silence him.
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Prosecutor: Al-Arian shrewd
Tuesday, June 7, 2005 Pedro Ruz Gutierrez - - Orlando Sentinel
| A federal prosecutor on Monday described former college professor Sami Al-Arian and three other men facing terrorism-related charges as a shrewd group of intellectuals who led double lives for much of the past decade.
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Overhaul of Pension-Funding Rules Sought
Tuesday, June 7, 2005
AP's Glen Johnson - - Orlando Sentinel
| Fearing that airlines and other struggling industries could present the country with its next S&L crisis, Congress and the White House are pushing an overhaul of pension-funding rules that has been overshadowed by Social Security.
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Rumsfeld Urges China on Political Freedom
Saturday, June 4, 2005
AP's MATT KELLEY - - Orlando Sentinel
| Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld issued a blunt challenge to China at a regional security conference Saturday, saying Beijing must provide more political freedom to its citizens and questioning its recent military buildup.
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Florida recruiters scour U.S. for new teachers
Monday, May 30, 2005 Leslie Postal - - Orlando Sentinel
| Want teachers? Must travel.
Recruiters for Central Florida's school districts have crisscrossed the nation in recent months, making stops from Minnesota to Michigan to Maryland in search of teachers to work in local schools.
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Terror suspect was being watched
Tuesday, May 31, 2005
AP's ADRIAN SAINZ - - Orlando Sentinel
| Neighbors of a doctor accused of pledging his allegiance to al-Qaeda said Monday that they were aware federal authorities had been watching a home in their gated community but also said they knew little about the man and his family.
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Money Wasted on Unneeded Bases, Bush Says
Saturday, May 28, 2005
AP's JENNIFER LOVEN - - Orlando Sentinel
| Speaking out for the first time in favor of controversial base closings, President Bush said Friday the nation is wasting billions of dollars on unnecessary military facilities and needs the money for the war on terrorism.
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Gene therapy's impact on sports worries experts
Sunday, May 22, 2005 Rick Maese - - Orlando Sentinel
| Gene therapy is the medical community's attempt to manipulate existing genes to strengthen and change people's physical makeup and, potentially, their athletic performance.
Though gene therapy is in its early stages, the promise it holds for future medical advances is vast. Genes that cause cancers and other diseases might be eliminated. Others might be introduced to help stave off diseases.
And still others might be used for purposes other than their original intent.
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Priscilla Owen Confirmed As Federal Judge
Thursday, May 26, 2005
AP's JIM ABRAMS - - Orlando Sentinel
| Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owen won Senate confirmation as a federal appeals judge Wednesday after a ferocious four-year battle, a personal triumph that also marked a victory for President Bush in his drive to install conservatives on the nation's highest courts.
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Bush to Boost, Pressure Palestinian Leader
Thursday, May 26, 2005
AP's JENNIFER LOVEN - - Orlando Sentinel
| President Bush wants to boost the political fortunes of Mahmoud Abbas while also pushing the Palestinians' first democratically elected leader to tackle the tough job of dismantling Palestinian militant groups.
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