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Big rig carrying sour cream, other dairy products overturns on Oregon highway

OAKRIDGE, Ore. – When a tractor-trailer rig loaded with 80,000 pounds of dairy products overturned on an Oregon highway southeast of Eugene, the main problem did not seem to be spilled milk but sour cream — lots and lots of sour cream. The Register-Guard of Eugene reports (http://is.gd/y0gRPT) that Oregon …

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Rosie Trial: A Case That's Misbegotten

How strange is theRosie O’Donnell trial with magazine publisher Gruner + Jahr? I’ll say this for it. Not since the folks at BMG Music, a subsidiary — like G+J — of Bertelsmann Inc. tried to force Clive Davis out of Arista Records have I seen anything like this. At Bertlesmann …

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Mercury Scare Rising

“Mercury threat to children rising,” blared a front-page Wall Street Journal article this week. “A report warning that emissions of mercury by coal-fired power plants and other industrial sources pose an increasing danger to young children has been delayed nine months, while the Bush administration struggles with how to handle …

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