Monday, October 18, 2010
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More Corruption from
Congressional Black Caucus
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Human Events, by Lynn Wooley
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Posted By: StormCnter- 10/18/2010 4:39:18 AM
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U. S. Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson, a Dallas Democrat, is one of the nation�s foremost practitioners of old-style cronyism and race-based politics. But even though her current bid for a tenth term has drawn the notice of both Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin, most Americans have never heard of her. That should change. Like her colleagues in the Black Congressional Caucus, Maxine Waters and Charles Rangel, Rep. Johnson has landed in some ethics trouble. Specifically, Ms. Johnson awarded thousands of dollars in college scholarships
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TheDC Election Outlook: GOP
striding toward House takeover
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Daily Caller, by Chris Moody
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Posted By: StormCnter- 10/18/2010 4:32:37 AM
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With the election a mere two weeks away, it would probably take a party-wide Republican scandal of Nixonian proportions to keep next year�s House in Democratic hands. All major election handicappers are projecting that the GOP will gain control of the House in November, and some have even expanded the number of winnable seats for the party, a sign that there is little Democratic candidates can do other than pull down the sails and try to hold on for the storm. First, the quick numbers: Republicans need to net 39 seats to gain control.
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Owners of the Last B-29 Hope It
Doesn't Bomb in Its New Mission
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Wall Street Journal, by Peter Sanders
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Posted By: StormCnter- 10/18/2010 4:26:42 AM
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MIDLAND, Texas�By the end of World War II, nearly 4,000 Boeing B-29 Superfortresses had been built, most of them to rain bombs on targets across the Pacific Theater. Today, there's only one B-29 still flying, and she's nicknamed "Fifi." At a time when most vintage warplanes have retired to a quiet life on display in drafty museums, 65-year-old Fifi is embarking on a new mission: giving rides to paying enthusiasts and once again making the air-show rounds, which occasionally feature a simulated atomic-bomb attack. Fifi's current assignment follows a long journey back from near obsolescence.
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Environmental Welfare
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Big Government, by Phil Liberatore
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 10/18/2010 4:23:15 AM
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Many Californians live in California because they love the natural beauty that surrounds them at every turn. The beaches, the mountains and the desert are, in my mind, some of California�s greatest assets. There is nothing quite as satisfying as waking up on a morning like today and seeing the crisp outline of the San Bernardino mountain range capped in snow while enjoying 70 degree weather. If we are being honest, the weather and natural beauty are probably some of the only things keeping many Californians from fleeing the state because of high taxes, unemployment,
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Black Journo�s Tell Obama
They Don�t Want to Be �Pimped�
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Accuracy in Media, by Don Irvine
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Posted By: StormCnter- 10/18/2010 4:19:57 AM
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President Obama gathered a select group of black journalists and bloggers for an off-the-record meeting Monday to hear their concerns and to make sure they are in the fold as election day approaches. From the New York Times The White House is usually quite good at keeping a muzzle on the media after one of its off-the-record sessions with President Obama and senior members of his administration. But not this week. A group of black bloggers and journalists from outlets like Essence and BET were invited to the White House on Monday for a half-day of policy briefings by the president�s advisers.
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Wielding Two-by-Fours
Instead of Talking Points
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New York Times, by John Harwood
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 10/18/2010 4:10:48 AM
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SAN DIEGO � In Election 2010, there�s no time for subtlety anymore. Here in California and in much of the rest of the country, early voting has begun. Election Day itself arrives in 15 days. That has President Obama and fellow Democrats racing, this week and next, to outrun the Republican wave. And as they rip into Republican adversaries, they�re not mincing words. Take Senator Barbara Boxer, Democrat of California, who is battling Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard chief executive, in her bid for a fourth term.
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Poll: Enthusiasm gap favoring
Republicans no myth
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Associated Press, by Liz Sidoti
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 10/18/2010 3:59:44 AM
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WASHINGTON � The enthusiasm gap between Democrats and Republicans in the first midterm elections of President Barack Obama's presidency is no myth � and his party may suffer hugely in two weeks because of it. Just half of those who voted for Obama in 2008 say they will defiantly show up Nov. 2 while two-thirds of those who voted for Republican presidential nominee John McCain in the last election say they're certain to vote next month, according to an Associated Press-Knowledge Networks poll. The difference in the excitement level between the two parties is buoying Republicans,
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Obama targets key groups
in election's homestretch
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Associated Press, by Julie Pace
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 10/18/2010 3:57:25 AM
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COLUMBUS, Ohio � Heading into the homestretch of the midterm elections, President Barack Obama is targeting key Democratic constituencies as he tries to energize voters and build up Election Day turnout among his supporters. The groups Obama is targeting mirror those that helped him win the White House: young people, African-Americans and women. A crucial element of the president's strategy in the two weeks before the Nov. 2 election is finding a way to get first-time voters from 2008 to head back to the polls even though Obama's name isn't on the ballot.
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Iranian chocolate thief faces
hand amputation
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BBC News, by Staff
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Posted By: PageTurner- 10/18/2010 1:49:42 AM
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An Iranian judge has sentenced a man convicted of robbing a confectionery shop to have one of his hands cut off, Iranian media report. The judge also sentenced the man to one year in prison. Police arrested the man in May after finding $900 (�560), three pairs of gloves and a large amount of chocolate in his car, Fars news agency said.
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Man dies after hit with golf ball
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9 News [Australia], by Staff
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Posted By: PageTurner- 10/18/2010 1:42:00 AM
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US authorities say a man who was hit in the head with a golf ball at a Southern California country club has died. The San Bernardino County coroner's office said on its website on Sunday that 69-year-old Hiroshi Tango died in hospital on Saturday. On October 7, Tango was playing golf at Los Serranos Country Club in Chino when he was hit in the head by a ball.
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Meg Whitman targets Jerry
Brown's support for undocumented
students in Northern
California campaign stop
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Los Angeles Times, by Michael J. Mishak
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Posted By: PageTurner- 10/18/2010 1:33:29 AM
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Meg Whitman's statewide bus tour was in Northern California on Saturday, concluding a three-city swing at the Black Bear Diner in Redding, where she bought a stuffed teddy bear and ordered "Bob's Big Bear Burger" with cheese and fries, to go. Whitman's stop came as Sarah Palin stumped for Republicans in Anaheim, an appearance Whitman pointedly skipped as she tries to appeal to centrist, undecided voters. She sidestepped questions about Palin and kept the focus on her Democratic opponent, Jerry Brown.
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Woodpecker could alter
Calif. logging laws
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United Press International, by Staff
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Posted By: Photoonist- 10/18/2010 1:00:45 AM
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Sacramento - California's logging policy may hang on the fate of the black-backed woodpecker if environmental advocates have their way, a petition says. The Center for Biological Diversity and the John Muir Project of the Earth Island Institute recently filed a petition to protect the woodpecker under the state Endangered Species Act, the Sacramento (Calif.) Bee reported. They say salvage logging, the practice of harvesting burned trees, threatens the bird's survival because it depends on a habitat of burned forests.
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For the elderly, poverty
level doesn't cut it
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Los Angeles Times, by Alexandra Zavis
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Posted By: Photoonist- 10/18/2010 12:52:12 AM
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At the age of 80, Exaltacion Divinagracia thought that life would be easier. The petite widow still works part time at a nursery school. To keep the house she rented with her late husband, she has taken six roommates, all over 75. (Snip) Divinagracia takes home less than $13,000 a year, including public benefits. But according to the government's income standards, she is not impoverished. To get that designation a single person must live on $10,830 a year or less. Experts say the standard � which is used nationwide to assess need, determine eligibility for aid and measure the effectiveness
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Facebook in Privacy Breach
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Wall Street Journal, by Emily Steel & Geoffrey A. Fowler
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Posted By: Photoonist- 10/18/2010 12:47:47 AM
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Many of the most popular applications, or "apps," on the social-networking site Facebook Inc. have been transmitting identifying information�in effect, providing access to people's names and, in some cases, their friends' names�to dozens of advertising and Internet tracking companies, a Wall Street Journal investigation has found. The issue affects tens of millions of Facebook app users, including people who set their profiles to Facebook's strictest privacy settings. The practice breaks Facebook's rules, and renews questions about its ability to keep identifiable information about its users' activities secure.
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Deportation Program Grows
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Wall Street Journal, by Ana Campoy
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Posted By: Photoonist- 10/18/2010 12:44:12 AM
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Austin, Texas - A federal program that scans local jails for illegal immigrants is being expanded across the state, the latest front in the nation's battle over immigration policy. In the past two weeks, Texas became the first border state to fully deploy the Department of Homeland Security program, which is scheduled to be rolled out to all U.S. counties by 2013. The program automatically routes prisoners' fingerprints to the department, which tries to determine whether they are allowed to be in the U.S. (Snip) But immigrant groups and lawyers argue it is also singling out immigrants with no serious
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U.S. terror war in Yemen
frustrated by politics
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Associated Press, by Hamza Hendawi
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Posted By: Photoonist- 10/18/2010 12:40:59 AM
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San'a, Yemen - For nearly a year, the United States has waged a war against al Qaeda in Yemen, largely in deep secrecy. But the militants appear unfazed, and the fragile government of this poor Arab nation is pushing back against American pressure to escalate the fight. The regime of Yemen's longtime leader, President Ali Abdullah Saleh, is weak, dependent for its survival on the loyalty of unruly tribes and alliances with Muslim extremists. Yemeni authorities also fear too harsh a fight against al Qaeda will alienate a deeply conservative Muslim population where anti-American sentiment is widespread.
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Hoover Dam bridge is
America's newest wonder
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Arizona Republic, by Sean Holstege
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Posted By: Photoonist- 10/18/2010 12:37:08 AM
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It stands like a sentinel, watching in the wind over one of America's most treasured landmarks, the Hoover Dam. When the Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge opens to traffic later this week, it is expected to become an instant tourist attraction (Snip) �The highest and longest arched concrete bridge in the Western Hemisphere. �The second-highest bridge of any kind in the United States and 14th in the world. �The world's tallest concrete columns of their kind. But what sets the bridge apart most of all is the setting. It is perched 890 feet above the turquoise Colorado River, wedged between
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The case of the 20 missing Mexican
tourists doesn't add up
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Los Angeles Times, by Ken Ellingwood
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Posted By: Photoonist- 10/18/2010 12:29:54 AM
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Mexico City � It's one of the more puzzling episodes in a drug war heaped with unsolved cases: 20 Mexican men travel to Acapulco together and are kidnapped en masse as soon as they arrive. Two weeks later, there has been no trace of the men. Investigators have yet to announce any good leads, even though two others from the group were not taken. Against the backdrop of Mexico's extraordinary drug violence, it's tempting to write off the Sept. 30 disappearance as another grim skirmish between rival traffickers.
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Bumpy Road for Electrics
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Wall Street Journal, by Mike Ramsey
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Posted By: Photoonist- 10/18/2010 12:15:21 AM
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The auto industry is about to embark on a multibillion-dollar gamble: that battery-powered cars will become big sellers. More than 20 electric models are set to arrive at dealerships over the next three years, led by the Nissan Leaf and Chevrolet Volt due by December. The Obama administration is spending more than $5 billion in tax credits to buyers and subsidized loans and grants to auto makers and others to support the effort, with the goal of getting one million plug-in hybrids or all-electric cars on U.S. roads within five years. (Snip) But skeptics�including some executives at Ford Motor Co.,
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Keeping it in the family: Brown
seeks millions in earmarks
for daughters' client
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Florida Times Union, by Matt Dixon
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Posted By: td- 10/18/2010 12:12:28 AM
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Pearl Plaza is a nondescript shopping center in Northwest Jacksonville. A large parking lot scattered with a few dozen cars leads up to a handful of businesses, including a thrift store, sandwich shop and a branch location for a statewide public employees' union.
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Lisa Murkowksi funded by
'rent-an-Eskimo' racket
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Washington Examiner, by Timothy P. Carney
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Posted By: Photoonist- 10/18/2010 12:08:51 AM
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Sen. Lisa Murkowski's write-in candidacy is being funded by $100,000 contributions from a handful of Alaska corporations that have been handsomely subsidized by the federal government. These six-figure donors have pulled in billions of taxpayer dollars thanks to special legislative favors from Murkowski and her mentors (Snip) While the companies are technically owned by the natives, the taxpayer-funded spoils from these contracts accrue to the well-connected nonnative lobbyists, subcontractors, and executives in the "Alaska mafia" made up of aides, friends and donors of Stevens, the Murkowskis, and Rep. Don Young (R).
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Hamas will pay heavy price if
it attacks again, IDF source
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Jerusalem Post [Israel], by Yaakov Lappin
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Posted By: Photoonist- 10/18/2010 12:05:53 AM
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The IDF will respond with significantly more force than it did during Operation Cast Lead in the event of a major Hamas attack on Israel, a senior IDF source warned on Sunday. Any future large-scale operation against Hamas in Gaza would entail a broader ground operation, the source added, partly because Hamas is stocking up on a growing number rockets that threaten the Israeli home front. (Snip) The number of rockets and mortar shells fired from Gaza at civilian targets in Israel fell dramatically in recent years, from 3,276 in 2008 before the Gaza operation was launched, to 369 in
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Abbas: I won't resume talks
until building freeze renewed
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Jerusalem Post [Israel], by Herb Keinon
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Posted By: Photoonist- 10/17/2010 11:29:34 PM
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told an Israeli interviewer on Sunday that he had passed on four messages to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that he was willing to accept a �silent freeze� on building in the settlements to continue negotiations with Israel. Abbas told Channel 1�s Oded Granot that there was a worldwide consensus regarding the construction freeze, and reiterated that he would not resume peace talks until Israel renewed its settlement moratorium. �When Obama became president, he was the one who declared that the �settlement construction must be stopped.� The United States says it, Europe says it, the whole
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Ahmadinejad: Israel and its allies
are all on their way to hell
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Deutsche Presse-Agentur, by Staff
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Posted By: Photoonist- 10/17/2010 11:23:17 PM
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday said that Israel would "soon go to hell" and called on the West to drop support for the Jewish state. "Grounds are being prepared for the Zionist regime [Israel] to go to hell soon and any country supporting this regime will join it on its trip to hell as well," Ahmadinejad said in a speech in Ardebil in north-western Iran, carried live by the news network Khabar. (Snip) But he was careful to avoid expressions that could give the impression that Iran or Hezbollah would use Lebanese soil to attack Israel.
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The Wars That
America Forgot About
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New York Times, by Tom Brokaw
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Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/17/2010 11:19:10 PM
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IN what promises to be the most contentious midterm election since 1994, there is no shortage of passion about big issues facing the country: the place and nature of the federal government in America�s future; public debt; jobs; health care; the influence of special interests; and the role of populist movements like the Tea Party. In nearly every Congressional and Senate race, these are the issues that explode into attack ads, score points in debates and light up cable talk shows. In poll after poll, these are the issues that voters say are most important to them this year.
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Nurse pulls tooth from man's ear canal
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9 News [Australia], by Staff
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Posted By: Photoonist- 10/17/2010 11:17:22 PM
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A British man who endured agonising earaches for 33 years says he can finally sleep easy after doctors removed a tooth from his ear canal. Stephen Hirst said he went to hospital for one final attempt to diagnose the source of the pain when the nurse made the discovery, the Daily Express reports. "The nurse put a suction tube in my ear and cleaned it, then she had a go with a microscope probe (Snip) Mr Hirst, from Sheffield, said the pain in his ear was so intense he would often bang his head on the wall to distract himself.
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