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New Strain Of Jet Lag Devastates Airline Industry

New Strain Of Jet Lag ATLANTA—Already hard hit by labor strife and escalating fuel costs, the commercial airline industry faces a new crisis: an epidemic of jet lag caused by a powerful strain that is highly resistant to regular remedies like catnaps.

Airlines have set up napping-triage centers in major airports in response to ...

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Gaza Pullout

In an effort to reinvigorate the Middle East peace process, Israel fulfilled its pledge and withdrew from the Gaza Strip. What do you think?


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This Week’s Horoscopes

Virgo: You're still young, but eventually, you will learn that wearing sandals is no way for a man to go through his life on this earth.

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Leaving Hollywood

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  • ST. LOUIS—City fathers claim the new system of weights and anchors will prevent the city's famous Gateway Arch from blowing over in the breeze quite so often.
  • NYSSA, OR—Townspeople experienced a real-life 'boy who cried wolf' scenario this week when, after ignoring repeated lupine- overpopulation warnings from the state's Department Of Natural Resources, 17 locals were killed and eaten.
  • NACOGDOCHES, TX—The Nacogdoches Center For Violence Against Women closed its doors today after repeated protests from the Nacogdoches Center For The Prevention Of Violence Against Women.
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This Day In History

August 23, 1927

August 23, 1927

Sacco, Vanzetti Executed For Murder, Italian Descent

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