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Tuesday, October 07, 2003 

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An artist's conception of the two new stores that will open in the old Kmart plaza
to replace the closed Stage and Staples stores.

• Two great retail businesses ready to come to Lincoln

• Water main break

• Reduce fires with electrical safety steps

• World, national news

• Bush Tells Israel It Has the Right to Defend Itself

• N Korea wants Japan out of talks

• Recall day in California

• Illinois physicists share in Nobel Prize

• Professor at U. of I. gets Nobel for MRI

• More...

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• Judge should be allowed a private life

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• Weekly outlook
  Soybeans

• Agriculture news elsewhere

• Alabama farmers use ancient sea water to grow jumbo shrimp

• USDA Encourages Subsidies for Technology to Recycle Factory Farm Manure That Is Too Expensive + Doesn't Solve Pollution Problems

• More...

• 4-H windows

• Serving in the military  sponsored by American Legion Post 263

• Calendar of events

• Job hunt  (6)

• Classifieds (17)

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• Business news elsewhere

• Deere: UAW Workers Ratify 6-Year Contract

• Winter could bring higher energy bills

• More...

• Illinois State at No. 8 Southern Illinois game notes

• Sports news elsewhere

• U.S. still has a game left to cap remarkable run

• The ring's the thing

• CNNSI.com

• ESPN.com

• More...

• Personal tech news elsewhere

• Microsoft to alter Web browser

• Clinic: Text messaging can be addictive

• More...

• Consumer health news elsewhere

• Survey: False beliefs threaten cancer patients

• CPR Helps Quality of Life, Too

• Kids' Sleep Problems Tied to Behavior Problems

• More...

Yesterday's headlines:

• World-renowned presidential historian to head state presidential library

• 44th District update
  Low-income energy assistance

• Western corn rootworms in first-year corn

• New fertilizer application technology

• Mayfield's Mutterings: Cubs win! Cubs win! Cubs win!

• Lynx split volleyball matches in Decatur