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A silver lining in financial meltdown - gas prices in free fall

Oct. 30, 2008
After a brutal summer at the gas pump, California's average price for a gallon of regular is likely to fall below $3 per gallon this week, dragged down by the nation's crumbling economy. Prices are in free-fall throughout the state and the nation. California'...
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Vietnam Veterans Memorial Commemorated in Washington
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A U.S. Air Force B-52 flies over the Vietnam Veterans Memorial during commemoration of 50th anniversary of the war on May 28, 2012 in Washington, DC. President Barack Obama is at the base of the wall left center. More than 58,000 names of the servicemen who were killed or missing in the war are engraved on The Wall. The B-52 bomber was used extensively during the Vietnam War. UPI/Pat Benic