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News Bits
- Marijuana is a serious cash crop in Washington state, ranking as the state'ss 8th most economically-viable agricultural commodity. And you thought people in Austin liked weed.
- Hundreds feared dead in Phillipines following massive landslide.
- Senate Republicans block Democrats' attempts to formally investigate
Big Brother'sBush's illegal wire tapping operation. - Iraqi Interior Ministry may be operating a death squad.
- That joke about ocean-front property in Arizona may be true sooner than we thought: Greenland's glaciers are melting into the sea twice as fast as previously believed.
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