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Sex line answers calls for stamps
The Associated PressPeople calling a federal phone number to order duck stamps are instead greeted by a phone-sex line, due to a printing error the government says would be too expensive to correct. The carrier card for the duck stamp transposes two numbers, so instead of...Tags: Nature, Natural Resources
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Simsbury To Teach Students How To Deal With Bears
Courant Staff WriterMost kids know the classic tale of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears," but children here will soon learn what to do when faced with the real deal. New bear safety seminars, school officials say, are a necessity in this bustling suburb, where black bears...Tags: Natural Resources, Soccer, Animals
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Florida Power & Light Co. gets approval for power projects
South Florida Sun-SentinelFlorida Power & Light Co. got the green light Thursday for three natural gas projects estimated to cost $3.3 billion and prevent the release of 83,000 tons of greenhouse gases. Florida Public Service Commission members approved the projects in Palm Beach...Tags: Energy Resources, Natural Gas, Florida Power & Light, Natural Resources, Riviera Beach
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Oil shale plans unveiled
Federal officials are releasing a final plan for opening nearly 2 million acres of public land in Wyoming, Utah and Colorado to commercial oil shale development.
The Bureau of Land Management finalized the plan on Thursday, a month later than planned...Tags: Natural Resources, Credit and Debt, Economic Policy, Government, National Government
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State plan for Catskills limits mountain biking
The state Department of Environmental Conservation is banning mountain biking from about half of the 292,000-acre Catskill Forest Preserve. The protected preserve cannot be logged, developed or sold. The DEC says the new master plan generally will...Tags: Windham (Windham, Connecticut), Natural Resources, Forestry and Timber
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Floods impact fish
Sentinel Staff WriterIn the wake of Tropical Storm Fay, two words that are even more annoying than "hunker down" have become "flowing waters." Since the incredible amounts of rain dropped throughout Central Florida, and with more expected with Hanna and potentially two other...Tags: David Rogers, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Bodies of Water, Hurricane Fay, Fishing
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Facebook not just for college kids anymore
The Baltimore SunAre you on Facebook? No? You're not? 'Cause you're too old? Now that's just silly. Two years ago, the social media Web site changed from college students-only to something anyone could join — no matter how many gray hairs they might have....Tags: Conservation, Morgan Freeman, Clint Eastwood, Elections, Sociology
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Sarah Palin, as governor, takes on energy companies
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersDays after she was sworn in as governor, Sarah Palin began to clean house at the department of natural resources, firing and demoting several top officials and eventually appointing a new director at the agency that oversees the energy companies that...Tags: Regional Authority, ConocoPhillips, Business Enterprises, Local Elections, Elections
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McCain's challenge: Distance from Bush
McClatchy NewspapersSen. John McCain today gets what one political scientist calls a Hubert H. Humphrey moment. Forty years ago, Humphrey's ties to an unpopular president from his own party bogged down his presidential campaign. Late in that 1968 campaign, Humphrey...Tags: Iowa, Alaska, Barack Obama, Lyndon B. Johnson, Boeing Co.
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Hillary Clinton's holdouts are still on the loose amid calls to stand down
Now that the Democratic National Convention is over, have all the PUMAs gone back to their dens? Is it safe to jog in the mountains or are rabid, ravenous Hillary Rodham Clinton supporters still crouching in the chaparral, patiently waiting until...Tags: Natural Resources, Barack Obama, John McCain, Hillary Clinton, Forests
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Song, natural beauty draw visitors to Suwannee
Associated PressFANNING SPRINGS, Fla.—Drawn by an old familiar song, growing numbers of travelers are seeking out the tea-colored waters of the Suwannee River. And galvanized by the song, environmentalists and legislators are fighting to keep the stream unspoiled...Tags: Everglades, Water Restrictions, Georgia, Academic Progress, Music
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Fur alternatives sought for palace guards' hats
LONDON After meeting with animal-rights activists, the British military said yesterday that it will study alternative materials to replace the bearskin hats worn by the soldiers who guard Buckingham Palace. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals,...Tags: Nature, Natural Resources, Conservation, Animals, Endangered Species
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