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...overflow into water supplies during heavy rainstorms, mixing dirty and clean water and sometimes requiring mandatory boiling to make contaminated tap water safe. A heavy rainfall preceded the majority of waterborne-disease outbreaks in the U.S. over the past 60 years, says Dr. Jonathan Patz of the University of Wisconsin at Madison...
...river. When I was relocating my family from one Chicago suburb to another, a moving-company worker appeared to be Japanese American, so I asked him if his father might be someone I know. He said it wasn't likely because his family lives on an Indian reservation in Wisconsin. Those observations aren't science, but for me they are proof enough...
...Three months after the New York Times broke the story outlining the program, it now appears that Democrats aren't unhappy about what Bush did; they just don't like the way he did it. Even Wisconsin Democrat Russ Feingold, who proposed to censure the President for his handling of the matter - and generated some unhappiness in his own party for doing so - has so far stopped short of saying the program should be eliminated...
Senator Russ Feingold has always been an unpredictable politician. One of the strongest supporters of campaign finance reform, the Wisconsin Democrat lived up to his principles in 1998, blasting ads that national Democrats were running for him in his state that were paid for by "soft money," the sort of campaign donation that Feingold worked successfully to outlaw a few years later. In 2001, he angered Democrats by supporting John Ashcroft?s nomination for attorney general - and then shocked everyone when he was the only Senator to vote against the Patriot Act in the days following the Sept. 11 attacks...
...brawl with 38 seconds left. The win allows the Golden Gophers to advance to its first straight Frozen Four and keeps their bid for a three-peat alive. On Saturday, ECAC regular-season champ St. Lawrence prevailed over Minnesota-Duluth, 1-0, in a goaltending duel. Later that night, Wisconsin held off upstart Mercyhurst by a 2-1 count in double overtime. The results mean that the all of the host teams, representing the consensus top four teams in the nation, survived to vie for the NCAA title this weekend. —Staff writer Jonathan Lehman can be reached...