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• For NY farmers, fracking means salvation — or ruin

  When Dan Fitzsimmons looks across the Susquehanna River and sees the flares of Pennsylvania gas wells, he thinks bitterly of the riches beneath his own land locked up by the heated debate that has kept hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, out of New York.

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• FOCUS: Five Facts That Put America to Shame

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  Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses ... I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" These words, from poet Emma Lazarus, were inscribed on the Statue of Liberty over 100 years ago. Today the golden door has a lock on it, paid for with record profits from the health  …

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• 5 Gender Stereotypes That Used To Be the Exact Opposite | Cracked.com

  Source: CRACKED.com

  The hardest stereotypes to break are the ones that are so old as to go all the way back to hunter-gatherer days. After all, how can you argue with biology? Women carry the babies, men have the upper body strength to tackle gazelles. Nobody made that up out of thin air. But if s …

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• Man Pleads Guilty to Killing Florida Panther

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  FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) - A 45-year-old Naples man has pled guilty in federal court to shooting and killing a Florida panther, which is a violation of the Endangered Species Act.

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• Ouch! Dog bites politician but she gets a vote

  A woman running for the Michigan Legislature was bitten by a dog while going door to door. The dog's distressed owner has made amends: Ann Doyle can put a campaign sign on his property.

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