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...Coburn, a Republican Senator from Oklahoma, has a problem with the $106 billion bill the Senate is working on that would help pay for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, preparation in case of a breakout of avian flu, rebuilding of the Gulf Coast following Hurricane Katrina - and many tangentially related projects. Well, actually, the first-term Senator has at least 19 concerns. He called $176 million in the bill to refurbish a retirement home in Mississippi for veterans an "arbitrary sum." Another $10 million to equip fishing boats with logbooks to record data on how much they fish they...
...oilfieldworkers. com are touting jobs for $100 a day, with no experience needed. Is gushing oil too icky for you? Hate living in camps outdoors? Oil companies are looking for cooks and medics too, say the ads. At oilfield jobs ok.com the come-on is for 700 jobs in Oklahoma, paying $20,000 to $60,000, with benefits, flex hours and job training. "Great opportunities for hardworking guys like you!" says...
Payzant, whose experience as an educator has included five superintendencies across the country—in cities ranging from San Diego to Oklahoma City—and the position of assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education in the Department of Education in the Clinton administration, said that he was excited about returning to the school in a new role...
...timely and challenging issue” of global warming. Other contestants overwhelmingly relied on what Keating called “First Lady issues,” focusing on soft topics such as increasing women’s leadership. The platform issue of the current Miss America, Jennifer Berry of Oklahoma, is “building intolerance to drunk driving and underage drinking,” according to the Miss America website. Rogers said she believed that while the issues of the other contestants were important, global warming was the most pressing. “If we don?...
...announced by the Pentagon on April 4, and dubbed "Divine Strake," is designed to determine how a bomb might penetrate fortified underground bunkers. It will be the biggest open-air chemical blast ever conducted at the Nevada Test site - 280 times more powerful than the explosion that destroyed the Oklahoma City federal building in 1995. "The concern of downwind communities is ?Here we go again,?" said plaintiff Stephen Erickson of the Salt Lake City-based Citizens Education Project. Though not a nuclear test, Erickson is afraid the huge blast "could kick up radioactive dust from previous nuclear testing," and claims...