Holiday travel tag spots gasoline price rise in city
Our View notes New York unleaded futures rose 1.3 percent while Garden City prices jumped 8.3 percent. NYMEX quoted 0.5657 to 0.5731 per gallon and local prices from 1.09 to 1.18. Residents complain of gouging but AG Stovall has not weighed in. The piece suggests market dynamics vs regulation and ends with a holiday caution.
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Carla Stovall
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Politicians clash over recession relief amid festive rhetoric
U S Representative Lloyd Doggett mocks Republican Christmas for pushing a broad relief bill. Democrats denounce it as too generous to business while Republicans claim obstruction of progress. In Buenos Aires riot police guard looted stores as six people die in ongoing turmoil amid deep recession. Illinois man David Lemak recalls his ex wife Marilyn Lemak, who was convicted in 1999 for smothering and drugging their three children.
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Thought for the Day by C S Lewis on friendship
A quotation from C S Lewis notes that friendship is not essential for survival yet enriches life, comparing it to philosophy and art as values that give meaning to existence.
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Supreme Court lets plants be patented under utility patents
The Supreme Court ruled 6-2 that plants can be patented under the 18th century utility patent law, barring farmers from saving patented seed for later use. The decision in Pioneer Hi-Bred International vs J.E.M. A. Supply upends PVPA protections and signals broad implications for seed prices, competition, and public research.
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Rewards for Justice turns moms toward stopping terror
Kathleen Parker riffs on the U S State Department Rewards for Justice program inviting tips that could earn up to 25 million dollars for thwarting attacks. The column poke s fun at ads asking can a woman stop terrorism and notes warnings about suspicious behavior, travel and daily life cues for identifying potential terrorists.
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Rewards For Justice
Rewardsforjustice.net
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History Highlights for December 20
Today is December 20 2001 the 354th day with 11 days left in the year. Notable events include the 1803 Louisiana Purchase transfer in New Orleans the 1790 start of the first successful cotton mill in Pawtucket Rhode Island the 1864 Savannah evacuation during Shermans March to the Sea the 1945 end of rationing effective 1946 the 1976 death of Chicago Mayor Daley and the 1989 U S invasion of Panama to remove Noriega.
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