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1 hr ago | WAOW

Calif. governor pushes $11B water bond plan, dams

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a far-reaching water bond intended to rebuild California's crumbling water system and fund new dams to save up the precious resource for dry years.

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Related Topix: California, California Government, US Governors, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Life, Food, Vegetables, Friant, CA, Weather, Drought

5 hrs ago | WFMY 2 Greensboro

NC Health Officials: Two Pregnant Women Die Of H1N1

Health officials in North Carolina say two pregnant women were among five people who died of pandemic H1N1 flu or similar symptoms in one week.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Epidemic, Medicine, Influenza

Mon Nov 09, 2009

The West Australian

Dozens missing in El Salvador landslides

Rescue workers are searching through mud, rubble and debris for survivors after raging floods and landslides that have killed at least 136 people in El Salvador.

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Related Topix: Hurricane, World News, El Salvador, Weather, Hurricane Ida, Flood

ABC News - Brian Ross

Energy Prices Jump Even as Gulf Storm Weakens

Oil prices shot above $80 a barrel Monday as a weakened U.S. dollar created more turbulence in energy markets than a tropical storm heading into the Gulf of Mexico.

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Related Topix: Hurricane, Weather, Hurricane Ida

NBC 15 Online

Some Worry About Sales of FEMA Mobile Homes

The Federal Emergency Management Agency sold 1,047 units that had been stored at the Hope Municipal Airport for $7.2 million.

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Related Topix: FEMA, US News, Hurricane

Deseret News

Top editor leaves China magazine

The founder and editor-in-chief of a Chinese magazine known for pushing boundaries with the country's censors and chasing stories that could embarrass the government resigned Monday amid friction with her publisher, colleagues and the magazine said.

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Related Topix: Epidemic, Opinion

StarTribune

As H1N1 flu spreads, Afghanistan closes schools, fights rumors

The Afghan government has declared a state of emergency, closing schools, universities, wedding halls and even public bathrooms for three weeks to slow the spread of the H1N1 flu virus, which has killed 10 people in the capital in less than two weeks.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Afghanistan, Epidemic, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,

The Victoria Star

2 dead, 5,000 evacuated as annual monsoon flash floods hit northern Malaysia

Heavy rains triggered flash floods that killed two people and forced thousands to evacuate their homes in northern Malaysia, officials said Monday.

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Related Topix: Weather, Flood

Sun Nov 08, 2009

Ottawa Citizen

Canada should have abandoned flu shot to focus on H1N1 vaccine: critics

OTTAWA a ' With H1N1 now accounting for virtually all the flu being diagnosed in Canada, critics say Canada was wrong not to have halted production of the regular seasonal flu shots and switched production to H1N1 vaccine sooner.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Medicine, Influenza, Epidemic

MSNBC

6.7 magnitude Indonesian quake reported

A strong 6.7-magnitude earthquake has shaken Indonesia, the U.S. Geological Survey reported on Sunday.

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Related Topix: Southeast Asia, World News, Indonesia, Earthquake, Technical Services, Geology, Science,

Toronto Sun

Date with destiny

Roland Emmerich professes to be tired of blowing up the world. It's an ironic thought here, in the shadow of the Grand Tetons, the outer reaches of the Yellowstone Park super-volcano that some day will erupt in an extinction-level event.

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Related Topix: 2012, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Short, Independence Day, Thriller, Science Fiction Movies, Volcanic Eruption, Opinion

People's Daily Online

Moderate quake jolts Tibet; no reports of deaths

There have been no reports of casualties and building collapses after a moderate earthquake hit Xigaze Prefecture of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region early Sunday morning, local government sources said.

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Related Topix: Earthquake, China, Asia, World News

Free Republic

Bulletin Hurricane Ida Intermediate Advisory

NORTHWESTWARD... A HURRICANE WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE YUCATAN PENINSULA OF MEXICO FROM TULUM TO CABO CATOCHE.

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Related Topix: Hurricane, Weather, Hurricane Ida, North America, World News, Mexico, US Military, US Air Force, Washington, DC

Sat Nov 07, 2009

KOMO-TV Seattle

Weather Service says tornado hit Oregon coast

Authorities are saying that a tornado whipped through the coastal town of Lincoln City Friday night around 9 p.m. The severe weather tore roofs off vacation cottages and shattered windows on at least one parked car.

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Related Topix: Hurricane, Weather, Lincoln City, OR, Waldport, OR, Lincoln County, OR

News.com.au

Hundreds isolated by floodwaters

EMERGENCY services are helping residents on the NSW mid-north coast mop up after torrential rain, as 200 people remain cut-off by floodwater.

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Related Topix: Weather, Flood

Weekend Balita

Hillary to visit storm-hit RP

Clinton also announced she will join President Barack Obama during his visit to China from November 15-18, her second trip as chief diplomat to the country the Obama administration recognizes as a key global player.

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Related Topix: Hurricane, Hillary Clinton, US Politics, US News, Travel, Philippines Travel, Berlin, Germany Travel, El Salvador Travel, Germany Travel, Berlin, El Salvador Travel, Barack Obama

WSVN-TV Miami Beach

Venezuelans struggling with water shortages

While a drought has put Caracas under widespread water rationing for the first time in years, for Venezuelans in this hillside slum it's just more of the same.

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Related Topix: Weather, Drought, World News, Venezuela, Home Gardening, Home, Hugo Chavez

Kansas.com

Ida returns to tropical storm strength

This NOAA satellite image taken Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009 at 3:45 a.m. EST shows clear skies over much of the East as a high pressure system continues to dominate the area, bringing dry conditions.

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Related Topix: Hurricane, Weather

Fri Nov 06, 2009

WSMV-TV Nashville

Wildfire Season Begins With Plenty Of Moisture

With the drought conditions of the past couple of years washed away by above average rainfall this summer and autumn, the wildfire season has begun in Tennessee.

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Related Topix: Wildfire, Fire, Weather, Drought

The Boston Globe

Ida drenches Central America, might approach US

Former Hurricane Ida drenched Central America as a tropical depression on Friday and forecasters said it had some chance of regaining force and heading toward the U.S. Ida had winds of 75 mph when it hit the central Nicraguan coast on Thursday, but it quickly lost force as it slogged inland and winds were down to about 35 mph Friday morning, ...

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Related Topix: Hurricane, Weather, Hurricane Ida

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