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Sat, 02/12/2011 - 15:24 by Anter Prakash Singh
With a aim to bring the growing medical marijuana industry under greater control of state regulations and licensing, the Montana senator Dave Lewis has presented a rewritten version of his original bill.
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Fri, 12/24/2010 - 11:29 by Tim Beyers
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Sat, 12/11/2010 - 23:03 by Prince damin
Los Angeles -- Miley Cyrus' father says he was stunned by the recently surfaced video of his teenage daughter smoking from a bong at a Los Angeles party.
Cyrus fired off on Twitter Friday, saying he had just seen the images for the first time and "had no idea" the partying had taken place.
"Im so sad," the tweet said. "There is much beyond my control right now."
The New York Daily News said video cropped up a couple of months after the 18-year-old pop princess' parents, Billy Ray and Tish, announced their divorce.
A source told TMZ that despite her giggling and sometimes incoherent conversations, Miley was not smoking marijuana but rather Salvia, an herb that can have hallucinogenic effects.
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Sat, 12/04/2010 - 23:52 by Prince damin
Madrid -- The Spanish military is taking control of the country's air control towers as the government ordered striking air traffic technicians back to work Saturday.
The Spanish cabinet approved the measures by putting the country in a state of alert after a strike that began Friday shut down international and domestic flights, CNN reported.
Iberia, Spanair, KLM, Air France, easyJet and Ryanair had all canceled international flights at least through Sunday morning, leaving 250,000 travelers stranded. AENA estimated.
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Thu, 11/25/2010 - 05:52 by Prince damin
Halifax, Nova Scotia -- A federally sponsored report in Canada said fisherman could take greater control of the supply side of the lobster market.
The $400,000 report prepared by economists at Gardner Pinfold and presented to the Lobster Council of Canada said the industry could control the number of traps set or impose quotas for fisherman to regulate an industry that sees supplies flush and prices low early in the six-month lobster season.
When supply is high, the price drops. That means lobstermen are caught in a self-defeating cycle, because more trips means both higher costs for fisherman and smaller returns based on supply that outpaces demand.
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Tue, 11/02/2010 - 10:17 by Prince damin
Bethesda, Md. -- European scientists say they've identified a "cellular switch" that sends some genes out of control, a discovery that could lead to new disease treatments.
Researchers at the Institute of Medical Technology at the University of Tampere in Finland say the "switch," called an eye transformer, controls the flow of information from chemical signals outside of a cell to genes in the cell nucleus, a release from the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology said Monday.
When the eye transformer is turned off, the information pathway it controls, called the JAK-STAT, becomes hyperactive, causing the genes to go out of control.
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Fri, 10/15/2010 - 05:36 by Prince damin
Portland, Ore. -- A landscape architect hired to tend a two-acre urban lot in Oregon said the goats he brought in to control the lawn have been a hit with locals.
Brett Milligan, who was hired to tend the Portland lot by real estate agency Killian Pacific, said he brought in about 50 goats from Goat Rental NW of Damascus about two weeks ago and attention from the public has yet to die down, The (Portland) Oregonian reported Thursday.
"I thought things would kind of die down in terms of public interest, but it hasn't at all," Milligan said.
Georgina Stiner, president of Goat Rental NW, said interest in using goats to control grass has been growing recently.
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Tue, 09/14/2010 - 04:32 by Prince damin
Ottawa -- Canadian scientists say the country's government is trying to muzzle them, controlling what they say and who they talk to.
Scientists with Natural Resources Canada say they were told this spring they would need "pre-approval" from the office of Minister of Natural Resources Christian Paradis to speak with national and international journalists, Postmedia News reported.
Documents show the rules apply not only to contentious issues but benign subjects, such as floods that occurred 13,000 years ago, Postmedia said.
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Wed, 09/01/2010 - 10:46 by Prince damin
Kabul, Afghanistan -- Officials in Afghanistan said regulators seized control of the county's largest private bank, where a collapse would be an economic and political nightmare.
The Washington Post reported Tuesday that the Afghanistan Central Bank took control of Kabul Bank, which is partly owned by Mahmoud Karzai and Haseen Fahim, who are brothers, respectively, of Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai and Vice President Mohammad Qasim Fahim.
In addition, the bank manages the payroll for Afghan soldiers and police, which would mean a collapse could create disarray in the country's security infrastructure.
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Wed, 08/11/2010 - 05:56 by Prince damin
Greensboro, N.C. -- A North Carolina snake catcher says this year is a busy one for him as the cold-blooded reptiles, like everyone else, seek cooler air.
That means Steve Jankowski, owner of Critter Control of the Triad in Greensboro, has been getting more calls from people with copperhead snakes in their houses, he told The Dispatch of Lexington, N.C. Snakes, without internal heat regulation, become paralyzed and die if they get too cold or too hot.
The Carolinas Poison Center of Charlotte, N.C., reported last week that North Carolina leads the country in snake bites, with copperhead bites being the most common from venomous snakes. Last year, 228 people were bitten.
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Sat, 08/07/2010 - 22:28 by Prince damin
Las Vegas -- The founding family of Station Casinos Inc. likely will retain control of the Las Vegas-based company, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.
A family-backed group made the only qualifying bid in an auction for part of the company, and brothers Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta would gain control with final approval.
The Journal said Station Casinos is expected to have much of its $5.9 billion debt wiped out. The brothers had assumed $3.3 billion in debt when they took private the company their father founded with a single casino about a mile west of the Las Vegas strip in 1976.
Station, like other casino companies, has been struggling because of the economic downturn.
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Thu, 07/15/2010 - 10:38 by Pankaj Damin
Burlingham, Wash. -- Police in Washington state said a FedEx semi-truck driver lost control of his vehicle and crashed into a ditch when he choked on some spicy pork rinds.
Washington State Patrol Trooper Keith Leary said Edward Sutherland, 42, of Mount Vernon, choked on the pork rinds just after 11 a.m. Monday while driving the truck from Blaine to Burlington in Interstate 5, The Bellingham (Wash.) Herald reported.
Leary said the truck crossed the median into the northbound lanes of the interstate and came to a stop in a muddy ditch.
Sutherland, who suffered minor injuries to his foot and back but did not require treatment at a hospital, will be charged with driving with wheels off the roadway, Leary said.
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