Black woman California's Assembly leader
upi.com     May 14, 2008            

LOS ANGELES, May 14 (UPI) -- The new speaker of the California Assembly, Democrat Karen Bass, has become the first African-American woman in U.S. history to lead a legislative body. Just one day after her swearing-in ceremony, Bass faced the beginning of negotiations with Gov. Arnold... [read full story]                

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Schwarzenegger terminates trans fats in California (AFP)

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LOS ANGELES (AFP) - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a new law Friday that will see artificial trans fats outlawed in restaurants across the most populous US state from 2010. Echoing a similar law in New York --...                

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New Technology Changes the Insurance and Financial Industry

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PDFeApps (Portable Document Format electronic Applications) is secure, downloadable PDF (Adobe Acrobat®) application technology in conjunction with a web based Document Management System for the submittal and retrieval of a...                

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NASA Unravels Mysteries Of Northern Lights

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