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    Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
    Animal experts say premium pet food makes domestic animals more violent
    Published: July 5, 2000

    July 5, 2000 CINCINNATI -- When Libbie Jones curled up with her 3-year-old cat Max one night last fall, she never expected she would wake up the next morning blinded, bleeding, and desperately...

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    Sam of Son Unabomber victims sue to profit from their attacker's crimes
    Published: June 21, 2000

    SACRAMENTO -- They're calling it the Sam of Son battle, and it may invert a law originally designed to prevent criminals from cashing in on media coverage of sensational crimes. The key players are...

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    E-tailers Surf the Anti-Microsoft Wave
    Published: June 14, 2000

    June 14, 2000 SEATTLE -- Ask Robert Peabody, founder of the online shopping service eBuyitNow.com , what he was doing two weeks ago, and he laments, "We were calling our lawyers. It was...

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    For Baby Boomers, the Doctor Is in ... the Bathroom
    Published: June 7, 2000

    Dallas, Texas -- As members of the nation's largest and most influential demographic get within spitting distance of their golden years, new medical information appliances are becoming available to...

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    Fox to Air Presidential Pageant 2000
    Published: May 31, 2000

    Burbank, Calif. -- The Fox television network has announced it will air a prime-time pageant for would-be presidential candidates on Tuesday, July 4. The live event, which will be broadcast...

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    Community or Crime Syndicate? Feds bust online trading scheme
    Published: May 24, 2000

    May 24, 2000 Washington, D.C. -- When a team of federal agents stormed the suburban Virginia home of Miguel and Abi Guzman early one Monday morning, the neighbors suspected the worst. Recently...

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    Less Than Seven Zeroes
    The dot-com party circuit's dirty little secret
    Published: May 10, 2000

    May 10, 2000 SAN FRANCISCO -- "Look at that," announces veteran dot-com partygoer Tiffany Wren, "the CFO just puked all over the ice sculpture." Elsewhere a loud pop precedes a burst of mock...

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    Walking Tour of Mission Lofts Turns Housing Crisis Into History
    Published: May 3, 2000

    May 3, 2000 SAN FRANCISCO -- The sun is just starting to peek through the morning fog when the first group of tourists arrives at the designated meeting place at Bryant and Mariposa streets in...

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    Will the Next Pope Be Catholic?
    Published: April 26, 2000

    April 26, 2000 VATICAN CITY -- As Holy Week drew to a close, a lagging Pope John Paul II delivered the traditional Easter address to a crowd of over 150,000 pilgrims, tourists, and Romans. After...

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    Warming Up to Global Warming
    Published: April 19, 2000

    April 19, 2000 LOS ANGELES -- It's no longer a question of whether but rather when. While many plan to mark Earth Day with dire warnings that our environment is killing us, several industries...

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    Conservatives Help Fund Anti-WTO Rally
    Published: April 12, 2000

    April 12, 2000 WASHINGTON -- Joshua Greenberg was doing a simple accounting reconciliation when he happened upon a red flag in the books of the Global Justice Network. A longtime volunteer at...

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    Feminists Protest Gay Marriages
    Published: April 5, 2000

    April 5, 2000 SANTA MONICA -- While some gay activists are protesting the recent passage of an anti-gay marriage initiative in California, a feminist group has launched a movement questioning...

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    What's Red and White and Black all over: A leftist weekly insults a liberal black politician
    Published: March 29, 2000

    March 29, 2000 SAN FRANCISCO -- A local alternative weekly is in hot water with one of San Francisco's most famous residents. Celebrated actor Danny Glover has publicly denounced the San...

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    Because Pets Can't Vote: Pets.com sponsors nonhuman rights initiative
    Published: March 22, 2000

    March 22, 2000 SEATTLE -- As an American flag dissolves into a panoramic shot of a sunny day in the park, a woman's voice softly implores: "This November, cast a vote for your favorite dog." As...

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    Coup de Mardi Gras: A North Carolina town turns the world upside down with its carnival of the grotesque
    Published: March 8, 2000

    March 8, 2000 CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- It's the 30th anniversary of this highbrow hillbilly incarnation of New Orleans' annual orgy, and despite cloudy skies, more than 10,000 spectators have...

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    Live/Workfare: A Public Housing Resident Fights for the Right to Start a Home Business
    Published: March 1, 2000

    March 1, 2000 SAN FRANCISCO -- Shortly after two in the afternoon, Juanita Moore is facing the hardest task of her day. After a two-hour "exercise period" at nearby Dolores Park, she tries to...

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    New Way to Ease New Economy's Inflation Threat: Release Nonviolent Inmates
    Published: February 23, 2000

    February 23, 2000 WASHINGTON -- When U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan hinted last week that he would continue to boost interest rates to reign in record consumer spending and the...

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    Elian Conspiracy
    Published: February 16, 2000

    February 16, 2000 MIAMI -- Sources say the Federal Bureau of Investigation has arrested three suspects in conjunction with two seemingly unrelated attempts to take the life of Elian Gonzalez,...

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    Beer: It's What's for Dinner
    Published: February 9, 2000

    February 9, 2000 SAN FRANCISCO -- In February 1999, Fritz Golger attended the International Food Fair at the Marin Civic Center just north of the Golden Gate Bridge, in search of the...

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    Developer Proposes Controversial Way to Lower S.F. Housing Costs: "Haven't you people ever heard of apartment buildings?" New York émigré asks.
    Published: February 2, 2000

    February 2, 2000 SAN FRANCISCO -- Donald Raflek is a man on a revolutionary mission. The 32-year-old expatriate New Yorker and real estate developer spends his days and nights speculating...

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