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Fighting to halt AIDS
Friday, December 2, 2005
ANN PEPPER - - Orange County Register
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LAKE FOREST - Nearly 1,700 church leaders from around the United States and 17 other countries are packing the sanctuary at Saddleback Church this week for a groundbreaking, faith-based drive to help the 40.3 million people hit hardest by the global HIV/AIDS crisis.
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Election roundup: Propositions defeated
Wednesday, November 9, 2005
RONALD CAMPBELL - - Orange County Register
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Orange County voters gave Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger a bit of good news on a gloomy election night, delivering big margins for all four of his initiatives.
On a night when his four propositions lost statewide, Orange County piled up margins of 60,000 or more for every one of Schwarzenegger's measures.
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As went the president, so goes the governor
Sunday, November 6, 2005
Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson - - Orange County Register
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Bush's successful 2004 campaign focused on the already faithful. Will it work for Schwarzenegger?
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Hearings may highlight clash
Sunday, November 6, 2005
DENA BUNIS - - Orange County Register
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In your face, Supreme Court.
That's essentially what Congress said to the high court the other day when it passed a bill to "correct" the eminent domain ruling the nine justices handed down in June.
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O.C. reaction mixed on Alito nomination
Monday, October 31, 2005
DENA BUNIS, JOHN McDONALD, and MARTIN WISCKOL - - Orange County Register
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President Bush nominated veteran judge Samuel Alito today in a bid to reshape the Supreme Court and mollify his conservative allies. Ready-to-rumble Democrats warned that Alito may be an extremist who would curb abortion rights.
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Miers nomination process has many heads spinning
Sunday, October 23, 2005
DENA BUNIS - - Orange County Register
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When thinking about the events this past week surrounding the nomination of Harriet Miers to be the next associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, the image of Linda Blair in "The Exorcist" – her head turning around and around – keeps popping up in my brain.
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House GOP on its worst behavior, Democrats say
Sunday, October 16, 2005
DENA BUNIS - - Orange County Register
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It's getting hotter and hotter on the floor of the House these days. And it has nothing to do with the temperature in the Capitol building.
Democrats have been complaining for - well, for years – about the way the Republicans use their power as the majority. But lately the GOP has given them some pretty blatant ammunition for their complaints.
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Border declarations
Saturday, August 27, 2005
DENA BUNIS, Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson, and COLLEEN ROBLEDO - - Orange County Register
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The governors of Arizona and New Mexico this month declared states of emergency over the hardships their states are enduring from illegal immigration. Since then, debate has raged in California over whether Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger should do the same.
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Ballot won't identify Gilchrist as Minuteman Project founder
Friday, August 26, 2005
DENA BUNIS - - Orange County Register
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California Secretary of State Bruce McPherson has ruled that Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist cannot have his leadership of that group under his name on the 48th Congressional District special-election primary ballot.
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Feinstein retiring? You wish, chairman
Sunday, August 21, 2005
DENA BUNIS - - Orange County Register
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It's not often that a political candidate can look to the opposition party to say almost as many nice things about her as her own.
Unless she is Dianne Feinstein.
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Cox says he's out of politics
Saturday, July 30, 2005
DENA BUNIS - - Orange County Register
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As of 6 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time on Tuesday, Christopher Cox will no longer be a member of the House of Representatives.
And the man confirmed by the Senate on Friday as the first congressman ever to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission does not plan to run for office again.
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Santa Ana Democrat ekes out Mouse bill
Sunday, July 24, 2005
DENA BUNIS - - Orange County Register
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It's understandable that a lot of negotiating and drafting and redrafting goes on before Congress can pass a bill that changes health care or Social Security or the tax code. After all, bills like that really do affect the daily lives of tens of millions of people.
But congratulating a mouse for living 50 years? You'd think that would be a no-brainer.
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Cox gets hearing Tuesday
Saturday, July 23, 2005
DENA BUNIS - - Orange County Register
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Rep. Christopher Cox will face the members of the Senate Banking committee on Tuesday for a confirmation hearing on his nomination as the next chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Low-key Cox thrust into limelight
Sunday, July 17, 2005
DENA BUNIS - - Orange County Register
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He has a reputation as a deliberative man, someone who carefully measures his words, who doesn't act in haste.
He hemmed and hawed over a run for the U.S. Senate before deciding not to. When Orange County was embroiled in debate over the future of the Marine base at El Toro, he walked a fine line, trying to please both sides. He agonized for weeks over whether to seek a federal judgeship in the face of opposition from California Sen. Barbara Boxer, finally taking his name out of contention.
Yet some of Rep. Christopher Cox's most important life decisions have been made in the blink of an eye.
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Cox discloses financial records
Wednesday, July 13, 2005
DENA BUNIS - - Orange County Register
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Rep. Christopher Cox's personal net worth appears to have grown dramatically in just one year, based on financial-disclosure forms released Tuesday by the Bush administration.
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Different formulas on table
Thursday, June 23, 2005
DENA BUNIS - - Orange County Register
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Republicans attempting to defuse the most explosive issue in the Social Security debate - private investment accounts - Wednesday unveiled plans to use the retirement plan's surplus to fund such accounts, not payroll taxes.
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Cloning work forges ahead
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
AP's Emma Ross - - Orange County Register
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Scientists have cloned human embryos for the first time using eggs matured in a laboratory - a technique that may help therapeutic cloning become a viable option for growing patients' own replacement tissue to treat diseases.
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Court cracks down on death sentences
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
AP's HOPE YEN - - Orange County Register
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The Supreme Court threw out yet another sentence for a death row inmate Monday, issuing a warning to state courts in a 17-year- old Pennsylvania case that shoddy defense work wouldn't be tolerated.
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Senate offers $290 billion highway bill as compromise solution
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
AP's JIM ABRAMS - - Orange County Register
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Senate negotiators Monday proposed a compromise plan for a long-term highway bill, hoping to break an impasse that has stalled action on the bill for nearly two years, aides said.
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Keeping track of Congress
Saturday, June 18, 2005
DENA BUNIS - - Orange County Register
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It's the money season in Congress.
The House will consider several appropriations bills next week – measures to fund defense, health and human services and to run the legislative branch.
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Lawmaker wants illegal immigrants out of census
Sunday, June 19, 2005
JENNIFER A. DLOUHY - - Orange County Register (Hearst News Service)
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When the 435 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives were last distributed among the states after the 2000 census, widespread population changes led to shifts in a dozen seats - with northern states such as Michigan and Wisconsin generally losing out to the South.
Rep. Candice Miller, a second-term Republican from Michigan, wants to stop that from happening after the next decennial census, in 2010.
But her solution is an explosive one on Capitol Hill: She wants to keep illegal immigrants and other non-citizens from being counted when it comes to congressional representation.
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Crowd grows for likely House contest
Friday, June 10, 2005
DENA BUNIS - - Orange County Register
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Political activists expect state Sen. John Campbell to make it official today that he will seek the 48th Congressional District seat if Rep. Christopher Cox becomes the new chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Campaigns for Cox’s seat well under way
Wednesday, June 8, 2005
DENA BUNIS - - Orange County Register
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Republicans already in the running to replace Rep. Christopher Cox in the 48th Congressional District estimate that the GOP primary could easily be a million-dollar race.
And the field is growing.
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State marijuana law stays
Tuesday, June 7, 2005
JIM RADCLIFFE - - Orange County Register
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The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling strengthens federal law pertaining to the prosecution of medical marijuana, but it isn't likely to result in more Orange County residents getting arrested for using medical marijuana if they follow California's provisions.
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Boxer agrees to introduce Cox
Saturday, June 4, 2005
DENA BUNIS - - Orange County Register
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Sen. Barbara Boxer will introduce fellow Californian Rep. Christopher Cox when he goes before the Senate Banking Committee in his quest to become the next chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
But the Democratic senator has not yet said whether she will vote to confirm the Newport Beach Republican.
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Cox vows to back 'full and fair disclosure'
Friday, June 3, 2005
DENA BUNIS - - Orange County Register
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For Rep. Christopher Cox, R-Newport Beach, chairing the Securities and Exchange Commission is a job he seems to have been preparing for his whole public life.
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Ackerman wants Cox's seat
Friday, June 3, 2005
MARTIN WISCKOL and JOHN GITTELSOHN - - Orange County Register
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State Senate Republican Leader Dick Ackerman became an early favorite to succeed Rep. Christopher Cox, as Ackerman stated his intention Thursday to run for the coveted GOP seat if Cox is confirmed as Securities and Exchange Commission chair man.
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Centrist Coalition racks up a victory
Sunday, May 29, 2005
DENA BUNIS - - Orange County Register
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Are there some new sheriffs in town?
Many on Capitol Hill were shaking their heads last week when they took a look at the gang of 14 that came up with a last-minute way to avoid all-out judicial nomination warfare on the floor of the United States Senate.
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Bill will target borders, job sites
Friday, May 27, 2005
DENA BUNIS - - Orange County Register
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Two Republican senators who will play key roles in the immigration debate released a blueprint Thursday of how they want the federal government to crack down on illegal immigration.
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House to weigh code changes for military on sexual assault
Friday, May 20, 2005
DENA BUNIS - - Orange County Register
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It would be easier to press sexual-assault charges in the military under a provision of the defense-authorization bill that's headed to the floor of the House next week.
Rep. Loretta Sanchez, D-Santa Ana, has waged an 18-month battle to update the Military Code of Criminal Justice to include such aspects of sexual assault as date rape, acquaintance rape and sexual extortion.
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Terms set for Medicaid payments
Tuesday, May 10, 2005
DENA BUNIS - - Orange County Register
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Beginning today, hospitals that treat illegal immigrants in their emergency rooms for free will be able to apply for federal money to help defray some of those costs.
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Medicaid rules announced
Tuesday, May 10, 2005
DENA BUNIS and BERNARD WOLFSON - - Orange County Register
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Hospitals in California and other border states are walking a fine line – they want to get paid for the emergency care they give to the undocumented under the Medicaid reform bill that takes effect today, but they don't want to become immigration police.
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Citizens take immigration issue to D.C.
Sunday, May 1, 2005
DENA BUNIS - - Orange County Register
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It's spring in Washington. That brings school tour buses and citizen lobbyists.
This past week among those seen roaming the marbled halls of Capitol Hill office buildings were visitors with one thing on their minds – to get Congress to crack down on illegal immigration in this country.
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Long-winded lawmakers
Tuesday, April 26, 2005
DENA BUNIS - - Orange County Register
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If the Republican Senate leadership thinks it has it bad contending with Democrats filibustering a group of President George W. Bush's judicial nominees, they should have tried running the Senate in the early years.
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Immigration lines drawn
Saturday, April 30, 2005
JOHN GITTELSOHN, DENA BUNIS, SARAH TULLY, and MARTIN WISCKOL - - Orange County Register
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's comments this week in support of the "Minuteman Project" – volunteers patrolling the U.S.-Mexico border – has stirred up controversy. Here's the story behind the debate, and the reaction to the governor's remarks.
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House drafting Homeland plan
Friday, April 29, 2005
DENA BUNIS - - Orange County Register
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Rep. Christopher Cox's homeland security committee passed a $34.2 billion authorization bill for the new department just before midnight Wednesday.
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Congress rethinks security funding
Sunday, April 24, 2005
DENA BUNIS and JOHN McDONALD - - Orange County Register
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California has Disneyland, the Golden Gate Bridge, the nation's busiest port complex and a pile of military bases – not to mention numerous major sports facilities and cultural venues.
But when it comes to getting federal funds for the emergency personnel who would be the first to respond to terrorist attacks, only six other states get less money per resident than the Golden State does.
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No easy route on Moussaoui
Sunday, April 24, 2005
AP's PETE YOST - - Orange County Register
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Now the real trouble begins as the case of Zacarias Moussaoui hurtles toward a conclusion and the life of the admitted terrorist conspirator hangs in the balance.
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Obesity can start in toddler-hood, doctors now say
Tuesday, April 19, 2005
AP's JAMIE STENGLE - - Orange County Register
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Warning that the path to obesity can start during toddler-hood, pediatric experts say parents should make sure 3- and 4-year-olds get an hour of active play each day along with five fruits and vegetables.
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Rohrabacher feels for, supports DeLay
Sunday, April 17, 2005
DENA BUNIS - - Orange County Register
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Rep. Dana Rohrabacher in the middle of a political fight? Making controversial statements?
What else is new? But this time the colorful Huntington Beach congressman isn't railing against his colleagues for ignoring illegal immigration or beating up on some foreign communist government.
He's coming to the aid of his leader - Tom DeLay.
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Poll finds wide support for immigration changes
Friday, April 8, 2005
DENA BUNIS - - Orange County Register
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Three-quarters of U.S. voters would support an immigration-reform proposal that includes registration for undocumented immigrants, temporary work permits and a path to eventual legalization and citizenship, according to the results of a new nationwide survey by a bipartisan team of pollsters.
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Lawmakers quickly drop Schiavo issue
Sunday, April 3, 2005
DENA BUNIS - - Orange County Register
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As quickly as Congress was thrust into the middle of the Terri Schiavo case while on its spring recess, that's how fast lawmakers hope to put the drama behind them when they return this week.
Talking to a few of our members of Congress while they were attending to district business or taking a holiday last week, one thing was clear – they'd rather be talking about almost anything else.
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Dueling rallies at the border
Monday, April 4, 2005
MICHAEL CORONADO - - Orange County Register
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One gathering was a raucous, horn-blowing celebration of Americana - state flags whipping in the desert wind, country music blasting from pickups.
The other was a mourning. Women, dressed in all black, holding small white crosses while standing silent in a single-file line.
This was how two very different sides, impassioned with purpose, protested U.S. immigration and border policies on a breezy, blue-skied Saturday.
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Bill would ban lead in candy wrappers
Tuesday, March 29, 2005
JENIFER B. McKIM - - Orange County Register
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A Los Angeles congressman has filed federal legislation that would ban lead from candy wrappers and is criticizing U.S. regulators for failing to act more quickly to protect children from tainted treats.
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Local lobby weighs in on Schiavo debate
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
THERESA WALKER - - Orange County Register
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There's no neutral ground in the legal and moral fight over Terri Schiavo's life, says the Rev. Lou Sheldon of the Anaheim-based Traditional Values Coalition.
The grass-roots group rallied more than 1 million supporters through e-mails and contacted "higher-end donors" with letters in the mail. The goal: to persuade lawmakers to intervene to keep the Florida woman on a feeding tube.
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Border burden
Monday, March 21, 2005
MICHAEL CORONADO - - Orange County Register
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O.C.'s Jim Gilchrist wrought trouble for himself with Minuteman Project, but he's not backing off plan to counter illegal crossings.
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Cheney: No retreat
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
DENA BUNIS - - Orange County Register
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Vice President Dick Cheney believes it's going to take a "national consensus for action" to persuade Congress to reform the Social Security system, and he told The Orange County Register on Monday that the administration has no intention of backing down from this fight.
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Simple test might show heart risk in women
Tuesday, March 15, 2005
AP's CARLA K. JOHNSON - - Orange County Register
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A simple and inexpensive test for elevated white-blood-cell counts could be used to predict heart disease, a study of more than 66,000 women suggests.
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Carona eyes U.S. law for O.C. problem
Thursday, March 10, 2005
DENA BUNIS - - Orange County Register
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Sheriff Mike Carona is close to finishing a plan that would allow deputies to use federal immigration laws to help get career criminals off the streets of Orange County communities and keep them off.
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Study links 'passive' smoking to breast cancer
Thursday, March 10, 2005
AP's BETH FOUHY - - Orange County Register
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Scientists at an influential state agency have completed a draft report linking second-hand tobacco smoke to breast cancer, a finding that could lead air-quality regulators to strengthen the state's indoor smoking laws.
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New SAT is writing history
Wednesday, March 9, 2005
FERMIN LEAL - - Orange County Register
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Some students are anxious over essay, but educators say not to worry, majority of the test is unchanged.
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Anti-smoking drugs moving ahead
Wednesday, March 9, 2005
AP's MATT APUZZO - - Orange County Register
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Researchers are racing to develop a potentially lucrative drug that would make smoking as treatable as erectile dysfunction, high cholesterol and acid reflux disease.
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First detailed census report on Arabs in U.S. released
Wednesday, March 9, 2005
AP's GENARO C. ARMAS - - Orange County Register
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People of Arab descent living in the United States tend to be better-educated and wealthier than other Americans, the Census Bureau says.
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Iran, Russia close deal
Tuesday, March 1, 2005
AP's ALI AKBAR DAREINI - - Orange County Register
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Iran and Russia ignored U.S. objections and signed a nuclear fuel agreement Sunday that is key to bringing Tehran's first reactor online by mid-2006.
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First U.S. president not best, by George
Monday, February 21, 2005
AP's Will Lester - - Orange County Register
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When Americans rate their greatest president, they do not agree on who tops the list, but rank a half-dozen chief executives ahead of the nation's first one.
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Governors to fight cuts in Medicaid spending
Sunday, February 20, 2005
AP's ROBERT TANNER - - Orange County Register
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Governors of both parties are uniting to oppose President George W. Bush's proposed cuts in Medicaid while also pushing for much larger changes, arguing that soaring costs have forced a fundamental re-examination of the program, which provides health care to 52 million poor, elderly and disabled.
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Concealed firepower
Tuesday, February 8, 2005
GWENDOLYN DRISCOLL - - Orange County Register
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Orange County residents frustrated with California's restrictive gun laws are heading to Nevada to get "Concealed Weapons Permits." At least one casino finds that mixing risky business with pleasure makes good economic sense.
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The budget proposals
Tuesday, February 8, 2005
DENA BUNIS - - Orange County Register
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When it comes to the federal budget, President George W. Bush has control over less than half of his $2.6 trillion proposed spending plan.
About $1.4 trillion is for so-called mandatory outlays, spending that's written into federal law, for such programs as Social Security and Medicare.
Each one of the president's discretionary spending proposals will be scrutinized and most likely altered by congressional committees and the full House and Senate.
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Children who survive cancer show resilience
Monday, February 7, 2005
AP's LINDSEY TANNER - - Orange County Register
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Cancer doesn't doom youngsters to a miserable childhood, new research suggests, finding that after treatment many are just as happy and well-adjusted as those who never had the illness - sometimes more so.
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Congress will trade in pork futures
Sunday, February 6, 2005
DENA BUNIS - - Orange County Register
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Fans of "West Wing" here chuckle at many of the lines delivered by the fictional White House staff on the popular television show.
One that has always rang true to me was when Josh – for the non-"West Wing" groupies, he's the president's deputy chief of staff – said that having to deal with Congress made him sick.
That's generally how those two branches of government feel about each other. The White House wishes it didn't have to get congressional approval of the things it wants to do and Congress really hates it when the president tries to tell it what to do.
There's usually no time of year that that sentiment is more evident than budget time.
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Sharing spotlight at speech
Wednesday, February 2, 2005
KELLY SNOWDEN - - Orange County Register
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Most State of the Union addresses are relatively predictable statements of a president's agenda. Every speech, however, does contain at least one surprise: who will be sitting with the first lady in her balcony box and hailed as an American hero.
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Sisters turn combined 200
Sunday, January 30, 2005
AP's MATTIAS KAREN - - Orange County Register
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They have lived for 200 years between them, but Sweden's oldest twins had never seen anything like this before.
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Expatriate holds high hopes for vote
Saturday, January 29, 2005
VIK JOLLY - - Orange County Register
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By casting his vote at El Toro on Friday, Ahmed Altoma hoped to further erase his native Iraq's dark past. And he wants Iraqi Shiites to have what he says is rightfully theirs: a big share of power.
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Boss now targets workers' weight
Thursday, January 27, 2005
Reuters' ANDREW STERN - - Orange County Register
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The owner of a Michigan company who forced his employees to either quit smoking or quit their jobs said Wednesday he also wants to tell fat workers to lose weight.
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Marine bases await word on deaths
Thursday, January 27, 2005
MICHAEL CORONADO - - Orange County Register
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OCEANSIDE – Families and friends in this seaside community are bracing for the worst possible news - that the 30 Marines and one Navy sailor killed in a helicopter crash Wednesday morning could be their own.
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Small study shows Plavix ulcer risk
Thursday, January 20, 2005
AP's JEFF DONN - - Orange County Register
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Plavix, a heart drug billed as an easy-on-the-stomach substitute for aspirin as a blood thinner, instead showed a much higher risk of recurrent ulcers in a small but provocative study.
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Candy claims likely sugarcoating
Wednesday, December 8, 2004
AP's BETSY TAYLOR - - Orange County Register
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Here's a novel way to sell candy: Tell people it's good for them.
That's the strategy of Bissinger's Handcrafted Chocolatier, a long-established, upscale chocolate company based in St. Louis.
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Air Force Academy commanders faulted in rape scandal
Wednesday, December 8, 2004
AP's JOHN J. LUMPKIN - - Orange County Register
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Air Force Academy commanders over the past 10 years failed to recognize and deal with the seriousness of sexual assaults against female cadets, according to the Pentagon's inspector general.
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Hail from the chief
Wednesday, December 8, 2004
GWENDOLYN DRISCOLL - - Orange County Register
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Camp Pendleton Before an estimated 5,000 cheering Camp Pendleton Marines, President George W. Bush paid homage to the military base, which has lost more troops in Iraq than any other U.S. military installation.
But he also warned that the "time of sacrifice" is not over.
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You name it, voters wrote it in
Monday, December 6, 2004
RONALD CAMPBELL - - Orange County Register
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This just in: Hillary beat Bill on Nov. 2.
Of course, one or two people did finish ahead of the Clintons in Orange County presidential voting.
Mickey Mouse, "M Mouse" if you want to be formal, got 10 write-in votes. Arnold Schwarzenegger - aka Swartsenegger, Shwartzneggar and Arnold S - got 19, beating Jesus Christ by two.
And Sen. John McCain got 87, the most votes of anybody who met the highly technical requirement of actually being alive.
Go ahead and laugh. But nobody in the Registrar of Voters Office (except maybe the Nobody who got two votes) is laughing. They had to count 1,219 write-ins that legally are meaningless.
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Sickle-cell study halted when kids suffer stroke
Monday, December 6, 2004
AP's DANIEL YEE - - Orange County Register
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A study aimed at determining if some children with sickle-cell anemia could be weaned off blood-transfusion therapy has been halted because two young patients who stopped getting the procedure suffered strokes and others developed a high chance of strokes.
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U.S. cybersecurity still lacking
Sunday, December 5, 2004
BOB KEEFE - - Orange County Register (Cox News Service)
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Nearly two years ago, the government laid out far-reaching plans to extend homeland security past airports and borders to that increasingly important backbone of the economy, the Internet.
The technology industry, weary of e-mail viruses and fearful of a terrorist attack on the World Wide Web, applauded the Bush administration's National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace as a sign the government was finally getting wise about Internet security.
Yet since then, the government - at least publicly - has done little to protect the Internet from disruptions that could cost the economy billions. The National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, mean while, is stalled like a computer that needs to be rebooted.
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Farmland water fight brewing
Thursday, December 2, 2004
AP's JULIANA BARBASSA - - Orange County Register
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A plan to increase freshwater pumping from the San Joaquin-Sacramento River delta is pitting Central Valley farmers thirsty for more water for their crops against environmentalists and delta farmers who fear the move will undermine fishery and water-quality restoration.
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Condom limits draw criticism
Wednesday, December 1, 2004
AP's David Crary - - Orange County Register
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Criticism of condoms and restrictions on access to them are undercutting the fight against HIV/AIDS in countries ranging from Nigeria to Peru to the United States, Human Rights Watch said in a report Tuesday.
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Hysterectomies no longer automatic
Tuesday, November 30, 2004
MAYRAV SAAR - - Orange County Register
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The last two decades have seen a groundswell of demands from women who are pushing back against the automatic recommendation that they get hysterectomies. As a result of their demands – and of the growing ranks of women gynecologists – alternatives have come into their own in the past 10 years. Obstetrician-gynecologists predict an eventual decrease in the rate of hysterectomies performed.
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Santa Ana man keeps up fight for medical pot
Tuesday, November 30, 2004
TERI SFORZA - - Orange County Register
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In Orange County, medical-marijuana activists are watching the Supreme Court case closely, hoping that their right to possess and use the drug with a doctor's permission is affirmed once and for all.
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Mighty highs in 2004
Tuesday, November 30, 2004
GARY ROBBINS - - Orange County Register
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A puny robot named Spirit had barely touched down on Mars in January when NASA chief Sean O'Keefe strode into a press conference at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and playfully growled, "We're back!"
O'Keefe was desperate for good news. The space agency's reputation was damaged by the explosion of the space shuttle Columbia, which killed seven astronauts, and the loss of NASA's last two Mars explorers.
The shuttles have yet to begin flying again. But 2004 has turned out to be a historic year for NASA - and for entrepreneurs and companies that proved there's plenty of ingenuity in the private sector.
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Kids get new spin on reading
Sunday, November 28, 2004
AP's LUKAS I. ALPERT - - Orange County Register
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It used to bug Georgina Smith every time she drove by the Clean Rite Center Laundromat in one of Brooklyn's tougher neighborhoods. She'd look inside and see children - lots of them - sitting around, playing video games or watching TV.
Not once did Smith ever see one of them with a book.
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FDA checking timing of Bayer risk disclosure
Saturday, November 27, 2004
AP's Diedtra Henderson - - Orange County Register
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In a move that could lead to a criminal investigation, the government is checking its records to determine whether drug maker Bayer AG was forthcoming about safety concerns with its cholesterol-lowering Baycol drug that surfaced within months of its hitting the market.
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U.S. opposes some passport security locks
Saturday, November 27, 2004
AP's LESLIE MILLER - - Orange County Register
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The Bush administration opposed security measures for new microchip-equipped passports that privacy advocates contended were needed to prevent identity theft, government snooping or a terror attack, according to State Department documents released Friday.
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Federal funds on the way
Tuesday, November 23, 2004
DENA BUNIS - - Orange County Register
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It's 14 inches tall and represents $388 billion in federal spending. And detailed in its pages are more than $25 million worth of projects for Orange County.
From money to help pay for a Bowers Museum wing to funds for a resting place for former President Nixon's official papers at his Yorba Linda library to millions of dollars for highway improvements and water projects.
The so-called omnibus spending bill approved Saturday is one way Congress tangibly shows constituents what their federal government does for them.
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UCI stem-cell progress reported
Tuesday, November 23, 2004
MAYRAV SAAR - - Orange County Register
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UCI researchers could begin clinical trials by 2006 of a possible treatment for spinal- cord injury using human embryonic stem cells, according to a Menlo Park company involved in the research.
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Bush vows to push guest-worker plan
Tuesday, November 23, 2004
BOB DEANS - - Orange County Register (Cox News Service)
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SANTIAGO, CHILE – President George W. Bush wrapped up a weekend summit with Asia- Pacific leaders Sunday, vowing to press a guest-worker plan to give temporary legal status to millions of Mexicans illegally in the United States.
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Nebraska senator rejects Cabinet post
Friday, November 19, 2004
JUDY HOLLAND - - Orange County Register (Hearst News Service)
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Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., has turned down a Bush administration offer to become secretary of the Department of Agriculture, congressional sources said Thursday.
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Groups seek clearer border death toll
Sunday, November 7, 2004
AP's ANDREA ALMOND - - Orange County Register
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Flying low over the Sonoran Desert, Border Patrol agents spotted a skeleton sprawled in the brush.
The harsh terrain along the southern edge of Arizona is a busy trafficking corridor for illegal immigrants and the remains could have been from a person who died while trying to sneak into the United States. But busy Interstate 8 runs nearby and it also could have been a slain U.S. citizen, a suicide, a runaway.
The Border Patrol is facing criticism for the way it counts the dead along the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border.
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Money didn't ensure election
Saturday, November 6, 2004
AP's Malia Rulon - - Orange County Register
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Of the 22 candidates who each spent more than $1 million of their own money trying to win their first election to Congress, only one made it.
The lesson, say analysts, is that ready cash is less important than experience and whether voters perceive wealthy candidates as "one of them."
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Love, American style, conquers political rifts
Monday, November 1, 2004
TERI SFORZA - - Orange County Register
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To survive, there must be ground rules.
No groaning. No huffing or puffing. No grunting or gasping or moaning, no eye- rolling, no wisecracking, no wondering aloud if you're the only person in the house with a brain, and certainly, no screeching in frenzied rage.
This is absolutely vital to preserving some semblance of wedded bliss through this, one of the most bitter and divisive presidential elections in history, when you're in a mixed marriage. Democrat married to Republican. Republican married to Democrat.
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Infertile couples wrestle with stem-cell research
Saturday, October 30, 2004
MAYRAV SAAR - - Orange County Register
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Four microscopic cells.
Four cells that could go on to become a baby. Four cells that could guide disease research. Four cells that could end up discarded or frozen perpetually in time.
The four undifferentiated cells that make up the early stages of an embryo have divided the nation about the origins of life and the relative merits of scientific research.
But couples who have longed for children see something more than a hot-button political issue in those four cells: They see hope – for themselves and for others. They see potential – for life and for cures. And they see tremendous responsibility.
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Ill Arafat exposes power vacuum
Thursday, October 28, 2004
AP's KARIN LAUB - - Orange County Register
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Yasser Arafat's latest health crisis has exposed how unprepared the Palestinians are for their leader's death, making a chaotic transition period all but inevitable.
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'The Morning Read:' Campaigning absentee
Monday, October 25, 2004
JOHN GITTELSOHN - - Orange County Register
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There are two Tom Umbergs.
One is a Democratic candidate for state Assembly who lets his wife do all the talking. He appears at campaign fund-raisers as a life-size, cardboard cutout - frozen in midstride, jacket casually slung over his shoulder, looking like Harrison Ford in "Air Force One."
The other Tom Umberg is a colonel in the Army Reserves, called to duty in August to join a team prosecuting "enemy combatants" interned at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
While on duty, Umberg's friends and foes are waging a campaign without a candidate.
The two Tom Umbergs - the colonel and the candidate - are not supposed to cross paths.
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Showing moxie, Army couple wed by proxy
Friday, October 8, 2004
GWENDOLYN DRISCOLL - - Orange County Register
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On her wedding day, Sonya Carlon stood in the Orange County Clerk-Recorder's Marriage Office in Santa Ana and said "I do" to the least likely person: her dad.
Carlon's father, Mitch, acted as a substitute or "proxy" for her fiancé, Marc Jones, 29, a U.S. Army military police officer stationed more than 7,000 miles away at Bagram Air Base near Kabul, Afghanistan.
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Candidates' strong medicine
Wednesday, October 6, 2004
MAYRAV SAAR - - Orange County Register
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Voters who contend with the rising cost of health care and soaring prescription-drug costs are listening intently to what incumbent George W. Bush and challenger John Kerry have to say about medical issues.
The candidates have stated their positions often. Here are some questions to better illuminate the differences between each party's platform.
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Kerry pivots, shifts play to home court
Saturday, October 2, 2004
JAMES KUHNHENN - - Orange County Register (Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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Bolstered by instant polls proclaiming him the winner of Thursday night's debate and good reviews in the media, Sen. John Kerry on Friday pivoted from criticizing President George W. Bush's Iraq policy to domestic issues that his advisers believe will resonate better with hard-core Democrats and undecided voters.
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Plutonium from U.S. is bound for France
Wednesday, September 22, 2004
AP's ELAINE GANLEY - - Orange County Register
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Plutonium from U.S. nuclear warheads - enough to make nearly 20 Hiroshima-style bombs - is headed for France aboard armed freighters and a new life as commercial fuel that will ultimately light American homes.
But environmentalists fearful of terrorist attacks, accidents and the fuel itself, known as MOX, want to stop the shipment - a test run for a larger post-Cold War program to help the United States and Russia disarm.
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Bogus classes reaped big funds
Sunday, September 19, 2004
MARLA JO FISHER - - Orange County Register
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At least 10 former or current community college employees are on trial or under criminal investigation in Southern California, accused of inflating enrollment to reap a total of more than $2 million in state education money.
In these cases, officials allegedly concocted off-campus classes that were to be administered by private companies and artificially inflated enrollment or never held the classes.
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California gold rush
Saturday, September 18, 2004
RONALD CAMPBELL - - Orange County Register
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Newport Beach businessman Bahman Fakhimi gave $2,000 to an Oregon politician this year. So did his wife. His father and his brother added $2,100 more.
The recipient: Portland businesswoman Goli Ameri. She has raised nearly $50,000 in Orange County, mostly from fellow Iranian immigrants like the Fakhimis.
She is also, like a handful of other congressional candidates around the nation, raising a lot of money in California. California donors have given $15 million this election season to people they can't vote for - congressional candidates in other states, an Orange County Register analysis shows.
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Mexican ID cards escape ban
Wednesday, September 15, 2004
DENA BUNIS - - Orange County Register
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The House beat back an attempt by some lawmakers Tuesday to bar banks from accepting Mexican identification cards as proof of identity.
After a spirited debate framed in terms of whether these documents make the country more vulnerable to terrorism, lawmakers upheld the use of the so-called Matricular Consular cards, issued by the Mexican government mainly to illegal immigrants, by a vote of 227 to 177.
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'We never even saw the capsule'
Thursday, September 9, 2004
GARY ROBBINS - - Orange County Register
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Movie stunt pilot Cliff Fleming of Newport Beach couldn't believe what he was hearing Wednesday as he flew his helicopter high above the desert floor in Utah, waiting to use a high-tech pole-and-hook to grab the Genesis spacecraft's sample capsule out of midair.
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Blast underlines challenge in Fallujah
Tuesday, September 7, 2004
AP's Kim Housego - - Orange County Register
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The force of the blast that killed seven Marines and three Iraqi servicemen on a dusty stretch of wasteland nine miles north of Fallujah wrecked two Humvee vehicles and hurled the suicide car's engine far from the site, witnesses and military officials said.
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Suit by kids' nudist camp tossed
Thursday, August 12, 2004
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