Here is the Scripps Howard News Service NEWS budget for Friday, Nov. 21, 2008. If you have questions or comments, SHNS editors can be reached at 202-408-1484. For all SHNS content and archives visit our Web site at www.shns.com.WASHINGTONWASHCALL (Hoffman, SHNS) -- Washington Calling. WASHINGTON: Private plane security, finally ... Saluting law ... Cleaver-Issa-Blunt bill. Other items. 600.NATIONALTRUCKWOES (Katzanek, The Press-Enterprise) -- Despite falling gas prices, truckers are suffering. The weak holiday season means fewer deliveries. 550.CHOKINGHIGH (Spies, Raleigh News & Observer) -- There's a dangerous way to get a high that doesn't involve drugs: Choking yourself. Here are warning signs to see if your child is choking himself for the euphoric feeling that precedes blacking out. 400.DONKEYHOOPS (Santos, Tacoma News-Tribune) -- PETA and other animal rights activists come down hard on the practice of donkey basketball, a common fund-raising tool for many schools and churches. 600.HEALTH AND SCIENCEPLANKTON (Perlman,, San Francisco Chronicle) -- Vanishing Arctic sea ice brought on by climate change is causing the crucially important microscopic marine plants called phytoplankton to bloom explosively and die away as never before, scientists find. 600.INTERNATIONALPRISONLETTERS (Walton, Toronto Globe and Mail) -- Jailed for murder, a Canadian couple exchanged love letters. 650.BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGYLOWFARES (Walsh, SHNS) -- Airfares for travel near Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's have dipped on many routes in the past few weeks. In some cases, travelers can save hundreds of dollars from what they would have paid a month or two ago for the same tickets. 450. With LOWFARES-BOX.CRAFTYBUSINESS (O'Donnell, Winston-Salem Journal) - LEWISVILLE, N.C.: Here's one retailer who isn't worried about a decline in sales. The rubber stamp specialist knows that when times get tough, more people begin handcrafting items. 700. With photo: HARVARDBIZ (Pitts, Toronto Globe and Mail) -- Graduates of Harvard business -- which turns 100 this year -- have played central roles in the financial crisis. 700.IN THE WESTCAL-BANKRUPTCY (Lewis, Sacramento Bee) -- After one California town filed bankruptcy and two others considering the move, will more financially pinched municipalities consider the move? 600.
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