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                                         Wednesday November 22, 2006
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 NJ Politics 

• UMDNJ puts top doctor on leave A world-renowned doctor at the state’s medical
  university has become the latest to fall victim to the widening repercussions over an illegal
  patient referral scheme now under federal investigation Star-Ledger
   
• Feds raid union offices led by a key Jersey Democrat Federal agents raid the offices
  of a West Caldwell union long headed by Assemblyman Thomas P. Giblin, part of what
  sources said is an ongoing corruption probe into the union and the politically active family
  that has run it for decades Star-Ledger  

NJ Environment       

Who would a NJ potato farmer guide in the big parade? 

• Princeton scientists energized by energy reactor plan Scientists at the Princeton
  University Plasma Physics Lab will be providing key components and technical expertise
  for an international research project that could change the world's energy supply, the top
  U.S. energy official says AP  Trenton Times  

PA Politics

• New law expands sex-abuse sanctions Rendell is expected to sign the measure,
  a response to the grand jury report on abuse of children by clergy Inquirer

PA Environment    

• Rendell's mercury rule stays alive Gov. Rendell's proposal to cut toxic mercury
  emissions from PA's coal-fired power plants by 90 percent survives an effort to derail
  it in the Senate last night AP
   

• Ethanol plant builders undeterred by opposition The proposed facility would
  operate 365 days per year, churning 50,000 bushels of corn per day into ethanol,
  using a process similar to making grain alcohol Citizens Voice  Times Leader

New York/Nation/World  

NY miners dig the de-icer of choice
 

For 120 years, the American Rock
Salt mine in Mount Morris, NY has
been supplying the salt used to
de-ice roads in much of the north-
eastern United States-- some
18,000 tons of salt each day
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 Gannett News Service photo/Carlos Ortiz


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