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The Gulf Coast waits: Will it be another Katrina? (AP)
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AP - With a historic evacuation complete, and gun-toting police and National Guardsmen standing watch over this city’s empty streets, even presidential politics stood still Sunday while the nation waited to see if Hurricane Gustav would be another Katrina.
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Eiffel Tower’s Lights Are To Go Out
“The Eiffel tower is to lose its sparkle as thousands of its twinkling light bulbs are cut in a new green initiative, it has emerged.”
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The Gulf Coast waits: Will it be another Katrina? (AP)
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AP - With a historic evacuation complete, and gun-toting police and National Guardsmen standing watch over this city’s empty streets, even presidential politics stood still Sunday while the nation waited to see if Hurricane Gustav would be another Katrina.
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McCain Defends Sarah Palin as Some Alaskans Question His Choice (Bloomberg)
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Bloomberg - Aug. 31 (Bloomberg) — Senator John McCain defended Sarah
Palin, his vice presidential choice, as a “soul mate” who will
take on corruption in Washington, even as a growing chorus in the
Alaska governor’s home state questioned her credentials.
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Back-to-back storms leave Haiti farms reeling (AP)
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AP - Looking over his field of toppled banana trees, Jean Tilhomme Fontius said he had no choice but to raise prices on a staple fruit in this food-starved country after Hurricane Gustav battered his crop.
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Stonehenge ‘Was Hidden From Lower Classes’
“Archeologists have uncovered the remains of what they believe to be a 20ft fence designed to screen Stonehenge from the view of unworthy Stone Age Britons. “
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US braces for major storm hit on New Orleans (AFP)
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AFP - The United States girded for disaster Sunday as Hurricane Gustav plowed toward Louisiana, with over a million people fleeing the Gulf Coast and oil production all but shut off in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Gustav disrupts McCain’s Republican convention (Reuters)
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Reuters - Republican John McCain on Sunday
ordered political speeches canceled for his Republican
nominating convention on Monday to avoid a festive atmosphere
while Americans cope with Hurricane Gustav.
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Gulf oil output at a trickle ahead of Gustav (Reuters)
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Reuters - U.S. energy companies shut nearly all
offshore oil production and were racing to bring down
flood-prone Louisiana refineries on Sunday ahead of Hurricane
Gustav’s landfall, which could rival the wrath of 2005’s
Hurricane Katrina.
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Gustav no longer expected to reach Category 4 (Reuters)
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Reuters - Hurricane Gustav was no longer expected
to reach Category 4 strength before hitting the U.S. Gulf
Coast, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said on Sunday.
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