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Sports: Titletown Fans Let Their Jubilation Flow: “From Loserville to Titletown: Tampa rejoiced the Tampa Bay Lightning’s ascent to NHL champs from hockey doormats.”

Sports: Flame-Resistant To The End: “Would this ever end? The shots kept coming, the clock kept ticking, and breaths kept getting shorter and shorter as the Lightning tried to protect a one- goal lead and win the Stanley Cup. ”

USA: Yahoo! News - The ‘Super Size Me’ Guy Has Become a Big Cheese: “Only in America could a guy take a movie that cost a mere $65,000 to produce and use it to embarrass and wig out a multibillion-dollar international corporation. But that’s just what Morgan Spurlock has done with ‘Super Size Me,’ the Sundance sensation that has already taken in $6.2 million from a tiny number of theaters. ”

USA: Yahoo! News - Polystyrene Foam Becoming Boating Hazard: “
‘It’s like Stonehenge in plastic,’ said Philip Tremblay, spokesman for the state Department of Natural Resources’ solid waste management division.
Across the nation, lakes have struggled to get rid of the algae-spotted chunks. Now entrepreneurs are working on ways to recycle the material into products such as wood preservative and a pothole filler. ”

USA: Yahoo! News - REAGAN’S SHAMEFUL LEGACY by Ted Rall: “Reagan, like Bush 43, technically served in the military yet studiously avoided combat. Both men were physically robust, intellectually inadequate, poorly traveled former governors renowned for stabbing friends on the back — Reagan when he named names during McCarthyism. Both appointed former generals as secretaries of state and enemies of the environment to head the Department of the Interior. Both refused to read detailed briefings, worked short hours, behaved erratically in public appearances, ducked questions about sordid pasts, and relied on Christianist (the radical right equivalent of Islamist) depictions of foes as ‘evil’ and America, invariably as embodied by himself and the Republicans, as ‘good.’ Based on intelligence as phony as that floated to justify the war against Iraq (news - web sites), Reagan bombed Muslim Libya. ”