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Despite cap on broken well, it's too early to celebrate
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President Barack Obama warned Friday that it's "way too early to be optimistic," and a top BP executive also cautioned against over-reacting to BP's latest effort to contain the oil that's been spewing from a broken well a mile under the Gulf of Mexico. » read more
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An ultralight aircraft laden with 275 pounds of marijuana lies crumpled in a field in Yuma, Arizona, where it crashed on May 30, 2009. Border Patrol agents said the pilot fled back over the border to Mexico
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Several times a week, drug smugglers somewhere along Mexico's border with the United States strap themselves into low-flying ultralight aircraft and take off with loads of marijuana. » read more
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