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• Thousands march as Japan shuts off nuclear power

  Thousands of Japanese marched to celebrate the switching off of the last of their nation's 50 nuclear reactors Saturday, waving banners shaped as giant fish that have become a potent anti-nuclear symbol.

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• Mad cow case found, but meat supply deemed safe

  U.S. officials announced a case of mad cow disease in a dairy cow in California. It is only the fourth such case detected in the U.S. since the first case was identified in 2003.

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• Downtown Fort Lauderdale Welcomes First-Ever Net-Zero Energy Building

  Source: US Solar Institute

  US Solar Institute becomes Fort Lauderdale, FL's first downtown, commercial building to consume less energy than it produces. Fort Lauderdale, FL Florida's US Solar Institute (USSI) recently became Fort Lauderdale's first-ever downtown commercial building to earn the "Net-Zero …

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• Watergate figure Charles Colson has died at 80

  He was described as the "evil genius" of the Nixon administration, and spent the better part of a year in prison for a Watergate-related conviction. His proclamations following his release that he was a new man, redeemed by his religious faith, were met with more than skepticism by those angered at the abuses he had perpetrated as one of Nixon's hatchet men.

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• Ted Nugent agrees to plead guilty in illegal kill

  Rocker and wildlife hunter Ted Nugent has agreed to plead guilty to transporting a black bear he illegally killed in southeast Alaska.

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