Today in History milestone roundup of 1890s events
Highlights include Sioux leader Sitting Bull and 11 others killed in a Grand River clash in 1890, Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 performed in 1893 at Carnegie Hall, 1938 Jefferson Memorial groundbreaking, 1939 Gone With the Wind world premiere in Atlanta, 1948 Alger Hiss indicted, 1961 Eichmann sentenced to death, and 1965 Gemini 6A and 7 near-miss in orbit.
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Sitting Bull
Grand River
S.D
Antonin Dvorak
New World
New York
Carnegie Hall
Jefferson Memorial
Washington, D.C
Atlanta
State Department
Alger Hiss
New
York
Adolf Eichmann
U.S
World in Brief: Kabul hotel blast and other global items
An Afghan government official says a mid morning blast at the Heetal Hotel in Kabul damaged a hotel frequented by foreigners with casualties uncertain. Also Wells Fargo plans 10.4 billion in new stock to repay bailout funds while Citi to repay 20 billion. US groups sue over Bush era email retention and Baghdad car bombs kill four near the Green Zone. Arctic ice may be nearly gone in summers as early as 2014 per new modeling cited by Al Gore.
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Afghanistan
Heetal
Kabul
Wazir Akbar Khan
Mohammad Zahir Azimi
Defense Ministry
Wells Fargo
Citigroup Inc
Citigroup
Baghdad
U.S
Army
Brian Wierzbicki
Arctic Ocean
al Gore
U.N
Democrats May Drop Medicare Expansion In Bill Talks
Democrats weigh discarding a Medicare expansion from landmark health care legislation to secure late December passage. Liberal backers press the expansion as a substitute for a government run program while Senator Lieberman and several colleagues oppose the move.
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Medicare
Senate Democrats
Joe Lieberman
Conn
Obama urges bankers to lend more and back regulation
President Obama urged top bankers to boost lending to small businesses and back an overhaul of financial regulation to support the fragile recovery. He framed it as a shared fate as regulators push for safer capital cushions, while banks say they face conflicting Washington signals. Bank chiefs pledged higher lending and restraint on compensation, with Bank of America promising $5 billion more in 2010 and JPMorgan Chase adding $4 billion.
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Washington
Barack Obama
White House
America
Obama
Wall Street
U.S. Bancorp
Richard Davis
Davis
Financial Services Roundtable
Bank of America
Kenneth Lewis
Jpmorgan Chase & Co
Federal study shows teen marijuana use decline stalls
A U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse report based on 47,000 eighth, tenth and twelfth graders finds marijuana use among teens stalled after a decade of decline. Researchers say attitudes toward harm may be softening amid medical marijuana debates and note a slight uptick from 12.9 percent to 14.3 percent between 2007 and 2009.
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Detroit
University of Michigan
National Institute On Drug Abuse
Kerlikowske
Office of National Drug Control Policy
Lloyd Johnston
Journal-World Contact Info For News And Staff
The Journal-World lists department contacts for local news city and county government Kansas University Lawrence schools consumer affairs sports arts and entertainment letters obituaries health transportation photo reprints and staff emails for Dennis Anderson Caroline Trowbridge Ann Gardner Tom Keegan Jon Niccum and Jonathan Kealing.
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Ijworld.com
Kansas University
Lawrence
Dennis Anderson
Jonathan Kealing
Jkealing
Ljworld
News Partners and contact lines for 6News and LJWorld
News Partners 6News lists Cody Howard directory and Mediaphormedia Dan Cox plus Chris Bell Tony Berg for advertising and subscriptions details. Classified ads line provided with web address. Subscriptions contact 832 7199 with delivery hours and redelivery guarantee if missed.
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Howard
Sunflowerbroadband
Mediaphormedia
Dan Cox
Dcox
Jworld.com
Chris Bell
Cbell
Jworld
Tony Berg
Ljworld
Ljworld.com
Poll responses on hybrid cars and aggressive driving
Today s Poll reports that 71 percent do not drive, 44 percent favor cautious driving, 32 percent say they follow the rules, 14 percent push to get through, 5 percent rush others, and 3 percent do not drive. Visit LJWorld.com for more responses and to vote.
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Ljworld.com
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