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...Irish parliament elected a conservative prime minister today, filling a month-old vacuum that threatened to derail the Northern Ireland peace process. John Bruton, leader of the Fine Gael party and the new P.M., is on the record as supporting the peace process that's been underway since September when the Irish Republican Army declared a ceasefire. Still, he has criticized the quick pace with which his predecessor, Albert Reynolds, embraced the IRA. Reynolds lost his seat in a scandal last month over the extradition of an alleged child-abusing Roman Catholic priest. Bruton was elected to head his country...
That's right, the annual Thanksgiving exodus is already underway, and some students are apparently willing to go to great lengths to get out of town...
Tailgating action is expected to get underway...
...said as much as 80 million gallons of oil may have spilled, while Russian officials say it was between 4.1 million and 17.6 million gallons. Meanwhile, representatives of Greenpeace, after touring the area, called the spill "a major ecological disaster" and said there were no signs of cleanup activity underway...
...Basically, we are doing this research because it's good for human health in a very profound way," he said. "By 2005, we expect to have the entire sequence of human DNA. This project has been underway for four years and we are both under budget and ahead of schedule...