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MSNBC:
Rita strengthens to Category 5 hurricane  —  Storm on a course to Texas with wind speeds now up to 165 mph  —  Galveston residents wait to board buses to evacuate as Hurricane Rita heads for the Texas Gulf Coast Wednesday.  —  FREE VIDEO  —  • Houston warning
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Wall Street Journal:
Storm News Tracker  —  Updated regularly with news on the hurricane.  All times EDT.  —  5:25 p.m.: WSJ.com's Scott Patterson reports from New York.  The Dow industrials fell 103.49 points, or 1%, to 10378.03, a three-week low, under pressure from higher crude-oil prices as Rita moved into the Gulf of Mexico.
CNN:
Rita grows to Category 4 hurricane  —  Evacuations ordered ahead of major storm  —  MIAMI, Florida (CNN) — Authorities in Texas and along the storm-shattered coast of Louisiana braced Wednesday for Hurricane Rita, as the powerful Category 4 storm picked up strength in the Gulf of Mexico.
Smash / The Indepundit:
Uh-Oh  —  UPDATE: Rita is now a CATEGORY FIVE hurricane, with winds in excess of 165mph.  —  HURRICANE RITA is now a category four storm, with winds in excess of 140 mph.  This is roughly the same strength as Katrina when she made landfall.  Most projected tracks have Rita making landfall somewhere west …
Reuters:
Rita may be 'national disaster': oil CEO  —  SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Valero Energy Corp. (VLO.N: Quote, Profile, Research) Chairman and Chief Executive Bill Greehey said Hurricane Rita's impact on U.S. crude oil production and refining could be a "national disaster."
Mark Babineck / Reuters:
Texans evacuate as Rita strengthens
Discussion: NewsHog and Middle Earth Journal
Jesse J. Holland / Associated Press:
Roberts Picks Up Democratic Support  —  WASHINGTON - Chief Justice-nominee John Roberts, his confirmation secure, picked up support from fractured Senate Democrats on Wednesday as President Bush met lawmakers to discuss a second vacancy on the Supreme Court.
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ww2.scripps.com:
OIL FIRMS APPLY FOR FEDERAL PERMITS, LOOK TO SIMPLIFY EXTRACTION  —  Page: 1B  —  Memo: chakrabartyg@RockyMountainNews.com or 303-892-2976  —  Banner p.1A - OIL SHALE HEATS UP / 23 years after boom went bust, eight companies seek Colorado leases.  —  SEE END OF TEXT FOR INFOBOX  —  Edition: Final
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Austin Bay Blog:   A trillion barrels of oil?
Mark Tapscott / tapscottscopydesk.blogspot.com:
Before Able Danger and Mohamed Atta, There Was Murrah Building Bombing and Hussain Al-Hussaini; Journalist Uncovers OKC Links to 9/11  —  Captain Ed notes the Pentagon's decision yesterday to bar several military officials and intelligence analysts from testifying today before a Senate Judiciary …
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nationalenquirer.com:
BUSH'S BOOZE CRISIS  —  Faced with the biggest crisis of his political life, President Bush has hit the bottle again, The National Enquirer can reveal.  —  Bush, who said he quit drinking the morning after his 40th birthday, has started boozing amid the Katrina catastrophe.
Reuters:
Indonesia says bird flu outbreak an epidemic  —  JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia called an outbreak of bird flu in its teeming capital an epidemic on Wednesday as health and agricultural experts from around the world converged on Jakarta to help control the virus.
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Alan Sipress / Washington Post:
Indonesia Warns of Possible Bird Flu Epidemic
mars.jpl.nasa.gov:
Orbiter's Long Life Helps Scientists Track Changes on Mars  —  New gullies that did not exist in mid-2002 have appeared on a Martian sand dune.  —  That's just one of the surprising discoveries that have resulted from the extended life of NASA's Mars Global Surveyor, which this month began its ninth year in orbit around Mars.
Chris Clarke / Creek Running North:
It's Lurker Day!  —  I happen to know, from seeing the site statistics for this here blog, that I have a number of regular readers who - to my knowledge, anyhow - have never made comments or otherwise gotten in touch.  —  And that's fine.  Nothing wrong with that.
Rebecca MacKinnon / Global Voices Online:
It's Out!  Handbook for Bloggers & Cyberdissidents  —  Reporters Without Borders has given Global Voices a sneak peak at the Handbook For Bloggers and Cyberdissidents before its official Thursday release.  Click here to download the full PDF booklet.  Thanks to Julien Pain for his hard work on this project.
Los Angeles Times:
Crippled JetBlue Airliner Makes Emergency Landing at LAX  —  Despite flames while on the runway and faulty landing gear, which was turned at a 90-degree angle, the pilot of Flight 292 safely guided the craft to a successful stop.  —  A JetBlue flight with 145 passengers and crew …
interesting-people.org:
Subject: [IP] Cops scheme to frame journalist who criticized photo radar program [priv]  —  From: David Farber <dave@farber.net>  —  Begin forwarded message:  —  From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>  —  To: politech@politechbot.com  —  Subject: [Politech] Cops scheme to frame journalist …
Discussion: Boing Boing and Daily Pundit
Dwight / Hurricane Rita:
Bloggers: Riding the storm out?  Tell us what you see  —  Do you have a blog, live in the Houston-Galveston area and plan to ride the storm out?  —  If so, we'd like your help with an experiment in citizen journalism.  —  We're launching a blog this afternoon called Stormwatchers.
Discussion: Hugh Hewitt and Poynter Online

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