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Tempted to cast a write-in vote for Bart Simpson in Tuesday s primary election Please, don t do it, say Vermont elections officials, who warn that such ballot-box frivolity can make tabulating votes costlier and more time-consuming.
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With the shiny new span of the Bay Bridge complete, California is now in the throes of a second, parallel construction project鈥攐r deconstruction project, really. The old Bay Bridge span, some 58,000 tons of steel and 245,000 tons of concrete, must come down. This week, officials decided that some of the bridge steel will be set aside for public art in the Bay Area. The old span, 77-years-old and decidedly not earthquake safe, is still made of valuable parts. Since its demolition began least year, steel from the bridge has been sheared to size and shipped off to mills here and abroad. Groups of local artists, however, have been petitioning to keep some of the steel here for art, so that a small piece of this once towerin
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