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SEPTA Not Willing to Leaf Problem Alone

Last update: 9:38 a.m. EDT Oct. Crews are using three powerful high-pressure washers six nights a week to remove leaves and debris from the tracks. Slippery rail conditions occur every autumn whenever a passing train or trolley presses decayed leaves on the tracks against the rails. The crushed leaves produce an oily residue and when mixed with damp weather combine to form a slippery coating. SEPTA has equipped the high-pressure washers on three flatbed cars to combat delays. Copyright (C) 2008 PR Newswire. Stocks resume GDP-inspired rally to close solidly aheadHartford Financial loses half its market value on capital concernBernanke makes it official. We are JapanGDP falls 0.3% in third quarter on dive in spendingExxon Mobil's profit approaches $15 billion, setting new recordAmerican Express to cut 10% of work force, or 7,000 jobsU.S. Hartford Financial loses half its market value on capital concernIs Sun Microsystems dressing itself up for a sale?IRA savers don't have to wait o...
Originally from: http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/SEPTA-Not-Willing-Leaf-Problem/story.aspx?guid=%7BD82F9C82-5561-4728-A26C-EA37850636C4%7D

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The forgotten Ayers manifesto

The invaluable Zombietime blog has published excerpts from the 1974 short book/long pamphlet entitled Prairie Fire, published by the Weather Underground while they were in hiding as fugitives. I remember publication of Prairie Fire vividly, as it served to demonstrate the audacity and skill of these well-educated revolutionaries, able to thumb their noses at authority and remain "guilty as hell, free as a bird" (in the subsequent words of Ayers). Keep in mind that Ayers has never repudiated either his actions or his ideology of the past. Keep in mind that despite the Obama campaign's phony denials ("just a guy in the neighborhood", "kids go to the same school"), Obama worked closely with Ayers handing out tens of millions of dollars to radical educators who then failed to achieve any measurable iumprovement in education, because they were radicalizing students with Afro-centric doctrines, and other readical ideas instead of actually teaching the kids anythign useful.Zombietime points o...
Originally from: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/10/the_forgotten_ayers_manifesto.html

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