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   <title>About.com US Government Info: What's Hot Now</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks - Copyrights]]></title>
            <link>http://usgovinfo.about.com/blcopyrights.htm</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Persons or organizations creating original works of authorship, typically register their copyrights to those works.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks - Patents]]></title>
            <link>http://usgovinfo.about.com/blpatents.htm</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The basics about U.S. patents and how to apply for them.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[About Unclaimed Money]]></title>
            <link>http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/moneymatters/a/unclaimedabout.htm</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Information for finding and recovering unclaimed property held by state governments.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Grants No Free Lunch]]></title>
            <link>http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/moneymatters/a/granttruth_3.htm</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Federal government grants are not a free lunch. Learn the truth about federal government grants.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Declaration of Independence]]></title>
            <link>http://usgovinfo.about.com/bldecind.htm</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Declaration of Independence Signatures High Resolution Images of the Declaration from NARA Easy to Print]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bridgestone/Firestone Tire Recall]]></title>
            <link>http://usgovinfo.about.com/blfirestone.htm</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Press release from Bridgestone/Firestone regarding the recall of 3.85 million tires.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Small Business Drives Economy]]></title>
            <link>http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/smallbusiness/a/sbadrives.htm</link>
            <description><![CDATA[What really drives the U.S. economy? No, it is not war. Small business -- firms with fewer than 500 employees -- drives the U.S. economy by providing jobs for over half of the nation's private workforce.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr.]]></title>
            <link>http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/uscourtsystem/a/alitobio.htm</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Biography of Associate Justice of the United States Samuel A. Alito, Jr.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Brief History of the Declar...]]></title>
            <link>http://usgovinfo.about.com/cs/historicdocuments/a/bldechist.htm</link>
            <description><![CDATA[A brief chronicle of events leading up to the official adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Illegal Fireworks Dangers]]></title>
            <link>http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/medicalnews/a/fireworks.htm</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Ah, the 4th of July, firecrackers, sparklers, M80 sticks of dynamite... No wait, M80s and similar unstable little bombs are illegal and extremely dangerous, according to ATF agents. Have a good time on the 4th, but don't blow yourself to bits doing it. Learn here how to recognize illegal fireworks.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Illegals Cost CA \$10.5 Billion]]></title>
            <link>http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/immigrationnaturalizatio/a/caillegals.htm</link>
            <description><![CDATA[In hosting America's largest population of illegal immigrants, California bears a huge cost to provide basic human services for this fast growing, low-income segment of its population.&#160;A new study from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) examines the costs of education, health care and incarceration of illegal aliens, and concludes that the costs to Californians is $10.5 billion per year.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[History of the Pledge]]></title>
            <link>http://usgovinfo.about.com/cs/usconstitution/a/pledgehist.htm</link>
            <description><![CDATA[As written in 1892, the Pledge of Allegiance didn't even include the words &quot;under God.&quot; Who wrote the Pledge and where did the constitutionally controversial reference to God come from? Read the brief history of the Pledge of Allegiance. ]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Airport Delay Reports from FAA]]></title>
            <link>http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/egov/aa053100a.htm</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Internet users can get near-real-time status
information for 40 major U.S. airports via this FAA Web site.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[File IRS Complaints Online]]></title>
            <link>http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/egov/aa052500a.htm</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Americans can now file complaints against employees of the Internal Revenue
Service via the Internet.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[IRS on the Rebate Checks]]></title>
            <link>http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/incometaxandtheirs/a/irsonrebate_2.htm</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The Internal Revenue Services has released theses details on the tax rebate checks to be issued to taxpayers in 2008.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Brief History of Labor Day]]></title>
            <link>http://usgovinfo.about.com/bllabor.htm</link>
            <description><![CDATA[A brief history of the Labor Day celebration in the United States.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Brady Handgun Control Act (complete text) - U.S. Government Info/Resources]]></title>
            <link>http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/bills/blbradyact.htm</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The Brady Handgun Control Act Public Law 103-159 H.R. 1025 - 103rd Congress Gun Control Online Debate]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Gun Control Laws in Canada]]></title>
            <link>http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/weekly/aa030500a.htm</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Gun ownership license laws proposed by President Clinton are already in effect in Canada.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Wisc Business]]></title>
            <link>http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/smallbusiness/a/wibusiness.htm</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Small Business Grants and Resources in Wisconsin]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Digital Television Transition]]></title>
            <link>http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/consumerawareness/a/dtvcoupons.htm</link>
            <description><![CDATA[If you own an analog TV -- a TV that is not connected to cable, satellite or other pay TV service -- it will stop receiving signals from all full-power TV stations in the United States at midnight on June 12, 2009. Here's what you can do about it, and how the government can help.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why Keep the Electoral College?]]></title>
            <link>http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/weekly/aa102200a.htm</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Why did America's Founding Fathers take the selection of the president out of the hands of the people with the Electoral College?]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Stephen G. Breyer Biography]]></title>
            <link>http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/uscourtsystem/a/breyerbio.htm</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Biography of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Stephen G. Breyer.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Missouri Business]]></title>
            <link>http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/smallbusiness/a/mobusiness.htm</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Small Business Grants and Resources in Missouri]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Federal Government and Job Search Application Forms]]></title>
            <link>http://usgovinfo.about.com/bljobapps.htm</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Federal Government Job Search & Application Forms Jump to the Application Forms The 3-Step Federal Job]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[SBA Expands SBAExpress Small Business Loan Lenders Network]]></title>
            <link>http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/weekly/aa073102a.htm</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Small business owners will enjoy significantly increased access to capital thanks to changes in the SBAExpress pilot loan program announced recently by the
U.S. Small Business Administration.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[U.S. Supreme Court Justices]]></title>
            <link>http://usgovinfo.about.com/blctjustices.htm</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Current membership = Justices - of the U.S. Supreme Court.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Federal Student Aid Primer]]></title>
            <link>http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/moneymatters/a/studentaid.htm</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Federal Student Aid Basics: Sources of Funding and How to Apply]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[INS to Hire 800 New Inspectors]]></title>
            <link>http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/weekly/aa011801a.htm</link>
            <description><![CDATA[U.S. government jobs take note: The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) has announced that it will be hiring over 800 new
immigration inspectors nationwide.]]></description>
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