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Sarah Palin: The 'Joan of Arc' of Alaska politics
By TOM KIZZIA, Anchorage Daily News
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Sarah Palin was a hockey mom, small-town mayor and rising young Republican star in Alaska in 2003 when she ran afoul of her party's establishment over ethics reform and was cast into the political wilderness.
Swimmer endures 352 miles of Allegheny River for charity
By DANIEL MALLOY, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
PITTSBURGH -- By her own admission, Katie Spotz was no swimming star at her high school in Mentor, Ohio. In fact, she was one of the worst on the team.
"I'm slow," she said. "But endurance I can do."
ACLU takes case of woman who wants to offer pole-dancing class
By PAULA REED WARD, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
PITTSBURGH -- Stephanie Babines is trying to open a pole-dancing studio. It's the first thing a visitor will see on her Web site.
Babines, in a black tube top with long, blond hair caressing her shoulders, is grasping a gleaming stripper pole.
Her shirt is just high enough -- and her black pants just low enough -- to reveal a large tattoo on her lower back.
Judge: Defendant can't wear Army uniform in court
By ANDY FURILLO, Sacramento Bee
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Army National Guard Spc. James Roland Ambler III said his uniform put steel in his spine and transformed a life headed nowhere into one worthy of the tattooed inscription displayed on his inner forearms: "American Soldier."
Vets' group gets indestructible playing cards to troops
By ISAAC WOLF, Scripps Howard News Service
Care packages to soldiers overseas contain a lot of the stuff you'd see in a convenience store: Cookies, men's magazines and beef jerky.
But a veterans' group organizing care package campaigns at both the Democratic and Republican conventions has an item that's uniquely crafted for an arid war zone: Indestructible playing cards.
Indiana shareholders get unpasteurized milk
By DAN SHAW, Scripps Howard News Service
Although Indiana law forbids the sale of raw, unpasteurized milk directly to consumers, Gina Robinson Ungar manages to distribute it from her small Rose Hill Dairy to nearly 40 families.
Obama embodies growing visibility of mixed-race America
By DAVID OLSON, The Press-Enterprise
When Sen. Barack Obama takes the stage at the Democratic National Convention in Denver on Thursday night, he will be heralded as the first black candidate to accept a major-party presidential nomination.
Thousands of unvaccinated children enter schools
By LEE BOWMAN, Scripps Howard News Service
Hundreds of thousands of children are going to school this fall without protection from deadly diseases.
Fears of long-range side effects fuel vaccine debate
By LEE BOWMAN, Scripps Howard News Service
Barbara Loe Fisher has been fighting about the safety of childhood vaccines for three decades.
But the president of the National Vaccine Information Center says she's not opposed to vaccination so much as she's opposed to a "one-size-fits-all vaccine policy imposed by government health agencies."
Facts about common vaccines
By LEE BOWMAN, Scripps Howard News Service
By the time an American child is 12, most will have received up to 35 shots to protect against some 34 diseases. Public health officials say even though many of these diseases are now rare in the U.S., the viruses and bacteria that cause them are either still in common circulation or can be easily imported by travelers.


