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In the past year,94 new storefront marijuana shops have opened in Los Angeles.The stores are legal under state law,which allows the sale of marijuana with a doctor's prescription.But they are illegal under federal law and subject to federal raids.

USA Today

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Kim Jong II is the world's leading buyer of Hennessy Cognac,says a congressional intelligence report.The North Korean dictator spends up to $720,000 a year on hennessy.

Newsday

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The Library of Congress plans to digitize only about 10 oercent of its 132 million historic documents,papers,letters and photos.It's simply too expensive to scan the vast collection and post it on the Web.

The New York Times

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The long-standing taboo against racial intermarrage is falling.About 7.5 percent of all marriages now ivolve partners of different races,a new report says.In 2005, there were 440,000 marrages between blacks and whites,1.75 million between whites and Hispanics,and 755,000 between whites and Asians.

Chicago tribune

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The number of Afghans involved in the opium trade jumped last year from 2 million to 3 million,the State Department reported.About 12 percent of Afghanistan's population now has a hand in drug production or trafficking.

The Washington Post

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It's always darkest before dawn. So if you're going to steal the neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it.

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Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7th of your life.

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The number of words in the Bible divided by the number of verses equals exactly 666.

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White Americans continue to live longer than blacks,but the gap is shrinking.a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found.Life expectancy for whites is 78 years,compared to 72.7 years for blacks

The Boston Globe

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On December 18, 1732, Benjamin Franklin began publication of 'Poor Richard's Almanac'.

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The number of Web pages dealing with God and religion is booming.Religion,in fact, is now nearly as popular an Internet topic as sex: A search for "sex" on Google returns about 408 million hits,a search for "God" yields 396 million.

The Washington Post

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More than one-third of Washington,D.C.'s residents are functionally illiterate,says a new federal report.The district's functional illiteracy rate is 36 percent,while the nation's is 21 percent.

Associated press

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Passport applications in the U.S. are at all-time high and are projected to jump by one third to 17 million this year.Officials say the crush of applications,which has caused lengthy delays in passport processing,was sparked by new rules requiring passports for travel to Canada,Mexico and the Carribbean.

Associted Press

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The greatest single block of marble is the fifty-ton slab over the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington, Virginia.

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El Paso is closer to Needles, California than it is to Dallas.

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Half of all American troop deaths in Iraq have been caused by explosives plundered from Saddam Hussein's weapons depots,according to a new report by the Government Accountability offices.Those depots--filled with hundreds of thousands of tons of shells,grenades,and other explosives--remained unguarded for months after the U.S. took control of the country.

The Boston Globe

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Rising to a height of 12,643 feet, Mount Humphreys north of Flagstaff is the state's highest mountain.