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Salt Lake Tribune - Rosa Brooks: Did Bush fool us or did we fool ourselves?
So why did it take us so long to notice? Someday, historians will ponder our strange collective passivity in the face of Bush-Cheney madness. Why did the editorial boards of our major newspapers either parrot the administration line or raise [...]

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BBC ON THIS DAY | 7 | 2005: Bomb attacks on London
2005: Bomb attacks on London
A series of bomb attacks on London’s transport network has killed more than 30 people and injured about 700 others.
Three explosions on the Underground left 35 dead and two died in a blast on a double decker bus.
It was two [...]

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Hey! Last night we had a thoroughly compacted, gravel road with a clay base. As of 910am this morning, we suddenly have a strip of asphalt on our side of the street, and the steamroller has been going back and forth smoothing it down.
They started around 8am, I think, but it didn’t get noisy enough [...]

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