Peat Bogs
A peat bog is a type of wetland whose soft, spongy ground is composed largely of living and decaying Sphagnum moss. Decayed, compacted moss is known as peat, which can be harvested to use fo...
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The most interesting question in Clark County politics these days is a simple one: Can she survive? She is Lynette Boggs McDonald. Surviving is a two-part ordeal for the commissioner who may n...
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Arizona began allowing voters to register online in 2004. Three years later, Washington became the second state to do so.Given the migration to the Web of so many administrative tasks, like banking...
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A bill inspired by the Virginia Tech shootings is bogged down by objections over funding and who should be barred from buying a firearm.The bill would tighten requirements for states to share gun p...
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Toughening ethics laws, once a priority of Democrats, has bogged down in Congress as party leaders find their campaign promises colliding with lawmakers' re-election concerns. Two months have passe...
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The multibillion-dollar project to restore the Everglades has come to a near standstill, and the government can no longer estimate how much it will cost or how long it will take, the top federal of...
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The European Union said Wednesday it has given Poland a week to stop work on a highway running through a protected habitat in a test case of how new EU member states deal with environmental issues....
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Monday that new U.S. military moves in the Persian Gulf were prompted in part by signals from Iran that it sees the United States as vulnerable in Iraq."The Iran...
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London (dpa) - Six rain interruptions and an evening torrential
downpour put an end to Wimbledon's attempt to catch up a
badly-delayed schedule on Tuesday.
Fo...
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Partisan differences over taxes, spending and other matters stopped Senate debate on a $286 billion farm bill just as it got underway Tuesday, signaling that progress on the measure will be protrac...
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GENEVA, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Talks on opening up services from
banking to telecoms are virtually deadlocked at the World Trade
Organisation (WTO) in an increasingly bitter North-South row. A meeting ...
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