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By BABE WAXPAK
Scripps Howard News Service
Thursday, August 16, 2007

Dear Babe: I have a boxed set of cards titled "Baseball - The American Epic'' from Upper Deck with a Babe Ruth Bonus card.

Strouth a 'Rudy' in maroon

By JIM SOUHAN
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
Thursday, August 16, 2007

Desperate to become a part of the University of Minnesota football team, Tony Strouth stormed into new Gophers head coach Tim Brewster's office and started this exchange:

Strouth, shaking a bit: "Coach Brewster, I'm not going to take no for an answer."

Brewster, leaning back in his chair: "I'm not saying no."

Strouth, raising his voice: "I said I'm not going to take no for an answer!"

Strouth offered to run through the wall.

Cutler's short workday questionable for Broncos

By BERNIE LINCICOME
Scripps Howard News Service
Thursday, August 16, 2007

First impressions cannot be trusted, but they last the longest. So it must be concluded off one brief rehearsal that Denver Broncos quarterback Jay Cutler is the greatest thing since raspberry jam.

Meet a sushi master

By BOB SYLVA
Sacramento Bee
Thursday, August 16, 2007

Ray Yamamoto, an American born in Japan, the son of a defiant "no no boy" from the Tule Lake, Calif. internment camp, set foot in his ancestral homeland for the first time in 1980.

Targeting Iran's Revolutionary Guards

An editorial / By Dale McFeatters
Scripps Howard News Service
Thursday, August 16, 2007

The Bush administration is taking a calculated risk with its plans to designate Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps a global terrorist organization.

A road map for Sylvia's son

By JOSE DE LA ISLA
Scripps Howard News Service
Thursday, August 16, 2007

Real estate agent Sylvia Reyes and I were meeting for lunch. She provides advice to homebuyers with an evening radio program.

Her 13-year-old son, Carlos, an eighth-grader, came with her.

HPV vaccine prevents infection, doesn't cure it

By ANDRE PICARD
Toronto Globe and Mail
Thursday, August 16, 2007

The HPV vaccine prevents infection with human papillomavirus, but it doesn't provide any benefit to women who have already been exposed to the common, sexually transmitted infection, according to new research.

The study, published in Wednesday's edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association, is important because it underscores that, to be effective, vaccination should occur before children become sexually active.

Earlier research suggested that, in addition to blocking transmission, the vaccine could help women clear the infection and prevent the risk of cervical cancer, said Dr.

Stone markers invade Canadian parks

By REBECCA DUBE
Toronto Globe and Mail
Thursday, August 16, 2007

An invasive species is spreading through Canada's parks, leaving its mark on the landscape wherever it goes.

The culprit isn't the Asian long-horned beetle or the Baltic water flea ...

Women take money into account before having a baby

By BONNIE ERBE
Scripps Howard News Service
Thursday, August 16, 2007

Conventional wisdom holds that Americans possess an innate right to bear children, no matter how ill-equipped would-be parents are to raise those children.

Security vs. wasted time at border crossings

By GABRIELA RICO
Arizona Daily Star
Thursday, August 16, 2007

Officials from the U.S. Department of Commerce are trying to put a figure on the hours trucks spend idling in long lines at the southern ports of entry.

Washington, Adams and what's-his-name

An editorial / By Dale McFeatters
Scripps Howard News Service
Thursday, August 16, 2007

The U.S. Mint had a suspicion, well founded as it turns out, that Americans didn't know much about their presidents.

A look at aging bridges in many states

By KEVIN DIAZ and DAVID SHAFFER
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
Thursday, August 16, 2007

In a city of vintage bridges, Kent Harries sees nothing remarkable in the streaks of rust and rotting concrete on much of the Rankin Bridge.

"That's telling a story," says Harries, a University of Pittsburgh bridge engineer who has investigated collapses, pointing his binoculars at a rusty beam under four lanes of rush-hour traffic.

It's getting harder to deny that Petraeus is making progress

By CLIFFORD D. MAY
Scripps Howard News Service
Thursday, August 16, 2007

"The only thing this surge will accomplish is a surge of more death and destruction." That was the prediction of blogger and anti-war activist Arianna Huffington last December -- one month before the Senate unanimously confirmed Gen.

Safety commission wants lead out of products for kids

By JANE KAY
San Francisco Chronicle
Thursday, August 16, 2007

The federal agency charged with regulating toxic chemicals in household products is taking steps to ban lead in all children's toys in reaction to a second recall of popular toys within two weeks.

"We have begun the rule-making process to ban lead in all children's products," Maryanne McGerty-Sieber, a spokeswoman for the U.S.

So Yankees aren't finished after all

By BILL REYNOLDS
The Providence Journal
Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Back in early June, I wrote that the American League race was over, that the New York Yankees were as dead as a three-week-old corpse.

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A seven-month investigation into federal mortality records reveals hundreds of thousands of death certificates filed every year in the United States are wrong, meaning we don't really know what's killing Americans. A first-of-its-kind study also found that younger, well-educated and wealthy people are more likely to be autopsied when they die. More men than women are autopsied. And blacks, Hispanics, Asians and Native Americans are more likely to be autopsied than whites.

Autopsy rates differ by race, age, sex, education

Cause of death investigations often dead wrong

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Recycled Radiation

Thousands of everyday products and materials containing radioactively tainted metals are surfacing across the United States and around the world. But because of haphazard screening, an absence of oversight, and substantial disincentives for businesses to report contamination, no one knows how many tainted goods are in circulation.

Recycled radioactive metal contaminates consumer products

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The Doctor is Out

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