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A coalition of environmental, labor and trucking industry groups has asked a judge for an emergency stay of President Bush s decision to open U.S. highways to trucks from Mexico.The groups filed the request Monday, saying the federal government did
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To commemorate the centenary of the Great War, the diaries of 3,987 British soldiers have been digitized and made available online. They contain first-hand accounts of trench warfare, gas attacks 鈥?oh, and that time two cats and a dog were su
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