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Thursday, March 14, 2002
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House approves budget compromise
OLYMPIA -- House legislators approved a state budget early this morning on a 50-47 vote.
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End of session full of fury and ennui
OLYMPIA -- Bored lawmakers sat at their desks, playing computer games. Scores of lobbyists hovered outside the chambers, chatting on cellphones.
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N. Thurston juniors get second shot at WASL
LACEY -- State officials will allow high school juniors in North Thurston Public Schools to retake parts of the Washington Assessment of Student Learning next month.
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Bush: 'We're going to deal with' Saddam
WASHINGTON -- President Bush said Wednesday that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is a menace "and we're going to deal with him," and said Osama bin Laden -- a man he once said he wanted dead or alive -- has been reduced to a marginal figure in the war on terrorism.
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Allied forces: Battle in valley over
SHAHIKOT, Afghanistan -- U.S. and Afghan forces declared victory Wednesday in their campaign to cleanse this mountainous region of al-Qaida and Taliban forces, sweeping through the Shah-e-kot Valley and effectively ending the biggest and deadliest battle of the war for U.S. troops.
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Bush 'stunned' by INS visa gaffe
WASHINGTON -- President Bush delivered a stinging rebuke to the Immigration and Naturalization Service on Wednesday after the disclosure that the agency confirmed student visas for two of the Sept. 11 hijackers -- six months after they destroyed the World Trade Center.
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Implant in monkey links mind, machine
An experimental brain implant the size of an M&M has allowed a monkey to control a computer cursor by thought alone, Brown University researchers announced Wednesday.
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M's Anderson out for season
PEORIA, Ariz. -- Seattle Mariners pitcher Ryan Anderson will miss his second straight season because of an injured left shoulder.
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Football finals likely to be in Tacoma Dome this year
TACOMA -- The state high school football finals will likely return to the Tacoma Dome next fall, but if efforts to raise money for a new artificial surface are not successful the popular event may be in Seattle by 2003.
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House OKs conference center bill
OLYMPIA -- The state House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday that would give the city of Olympia an additional year to use state sales tax dollars to break ground on a conference center.
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Residents treasure scenic lake
TUMWATER -- The oasis of this lakeside neighborhood is a well-hidden secret in South Sound.
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