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Senate turns to partisan fight over student loans WASHINGTON (AP) 5/6/2012 The Senate is the newest arena in the election-year face-off over federal student loans, and both sides are starting out by pounding away at each other. With Congress returning from a weeklong spring recess, the Senate plans to vote Tuesday on whether to start debating a Democratic plan to... Read more... |
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Pa. gas drilling brought $3.5 billion in 2011 PITTSBURGH (AP) 5/6/2012 Marcellus shale gas wells in Pennsylvania generated about $3.5 billion in gross revenues for drillers in 2011, along with about $1.2 billion in West Virginia, according to an analysis by The Associated Press. But experts say that a sharp drop in wholesale prices over the last year means that in the future much more money will be made - and more jobs created -by petrochemical companies that process | | the gas into other industrial and consumer compounds. The Marcellus is a gas-rich rock formation thousands of feet underground in large parts of Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, and West Virginia. Over the last five years, advances in drilling technology made the shale accessible, leading to a boom in production, jobs, and profits - and a drop in natural gas prices... Read more... |
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Could "Grilled Meat" chips be popular in the US? NEW YORK (AP) 5/6/2012 Chocolate dog food. Old garden hose. Weirdly fishy. Take a panel of seven foodies and ply them with with exotic versions of popular American snacks from around the world, and these are the reactions you get. Tentative nibbles and scrunched noses. The taste testers gathered recently at the headquarters of The Associated Press in New York and represented varying levels of | | culinary pedigree. They included food bloggers, famed French pastry chef Jacques Torres and Marilyn Haggerty, an 85-year-old North Dakota newspaper columnist whose high praise of the Olive Garden went viral earlier this year. A New York fourth-grader and self-proclaimed junk food aficionado rounded out the group. The spread of international snacks didn't consist of any barbecue-flavored... Read more... |
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