Thursday,  December 06, 2012 • Vol. 13--No. 141 • 22 of 30 •  Other Editions

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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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