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three years to help landowners with identifying and marking infested trees. The program provides half the cost of removing trees. • The program helped 709 landowners in the past year as crews surveyed 115,000 acres and treated more than 215,000 trees on state and private land. •
10 Things to Know for Today The Associated Press
• Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and stories that will be talked about today: • 1. TURMOIL BUILDS IN EGYPT • The street fighting between supporters and opponents of Islamist leader Mohammed Morsi were the first clashes between rivals since last year's uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak. • • 2. WHY THE 'FISCAL CLIFF' DEADLINE ISN'T SET IN STONE • The Obama administration could delay some of the tax increases and spending cuts set to take effect at the end of the year. • • 3. 'FISCAL CLIFF' FIXES THAT AMERICANS FAVOR • People want to raise taxes on the rich -- but show little appetite for cuts to Social Security and Medicare, an AP poll shows. • • 4. A CONFLICT OF INTEREST FOR JAPANESE SCIENTISTS • Yuri Kageyama reports that experts who help set national radiation exposure limits had trips around the world to conferences paid for by nuclear plant operators. • • 5. POT IS LEGAL, BUT NOT IN PUBLIC • Washington State's law legalizing marijuana took effect, and some celebrated by violating the law, lighting up in public under Seattle's Space Needle. • • 6. THE FIRST AMERICANS TO GROW MARIJUANA • George Washington and Thomas Jefferson both grew hemp. • • 7. WHY ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IS DROPPING • Experts say a weakened U.S. economy and a graying Hispanic population caused the first dip in a decade.
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