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Wednesday, November 26, 2003 

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A new sign of hope for this Thanksgiving holiday?  These pictures may not look like much.  They are in fact piles of coal.  Not just any coal, however: these piles of coal are for restarting the LDC power plant. [Pictures by Bob Frank]

• When neighbors are more than neighbors
  A Thanksgiving story

• Food drives help feed local families

• Local singer's holiday dreams are of Nashville

• Stay safe: Watch for deer while driving

• Blagojevich sends strong message to drug companies that threaten consumers by limiting supplies to Canada

• World, national news

• Iraqi Attacks on Americans Start to Ease, Bremer Says

• Top Iraqi fugitive's family captured

• U.N. Agency Censures Iran for Nuclear Past

• Travel season gets going ... and going ... and going

• Analysts: Seniors’ drug costs to rise

• More...

• Relief from a leading holiday dilemma: chocolate

• Home and garden news elsewhere

• Thanksgiving Help Center

• Thanksgiving centerpieces that say 'welcome' without a lot of extra work

• Thanksgiving Centerpiece Idea: Pine Cone and Twigs

• When New World Plants Were a Marvel

• More...

• 'Genealogy for the First Time'

• Book reviews elsewhere

• Blair, Clinton, Bush and the 'Special Relationship'

• Hanssen, the spy with two faces

• Pioneering doctor missed chance to save women in childbirth

• From Doig, a melancholy 'Pygmalion' on the prairie

• More...

• Movie reviews elsewhere

• 'In America'

• Superheroes in Snow, and Some Cold Blue Eyes

• 'Bad Santa'

• 'The Cooler'

• More...

• Serving in the military  sponsored by American Legion Post 263

• Calendar of events

• Oasis update

• 20th annual Bald Eagle Appreciation Days set

• Travel news elsewhere

• Alabama: MLK home now open to tourists

• Catching rays

• More...

• 1982-85 reunion highlights special Bradley events

• Illinois basketball parking update

• Sports news elsewhere

• Dozens Offer a Kidney to Mourning

• CNNSI.com

• ESPN.com

• More...

• NEED A JOB? FIND IT HERE!  (3)

• Classifieds (4)

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• Business news elsewhere

• Consumer sentiment up in November

• More...

• Personal tech news elsewhere

• 250 new video games in time for holidays

• NBC - Digital Expansion?

• More...

• Health news elsewhere

• Feast on Holiday Fare Safely

• Health Highlights

• Global AIDS, HIV marching on

• Starting cholesterol-lowering drugs in hospital has advantages

• More...

• Law news elsewhere

• Campbell apologizes after drunken driving arrest

• Malvo was good child, relatives and acquaintances testify

• More...