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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=84473324&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Pay raises for North Dakota state workers should be more closely linked to the quality of their work, says a consultant who presented lawmakers with suggestions on Thursday for improving state government's compensation system.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=84473273&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A fire spokesman says 10 students participating in a cross-country race at a Los Angeles college have been taken to hospitals after suffering from heat-related illnesses.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=84473227&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A federal grand jury has indicted two Arizona prison escapees and a woman who allegedly helped them escape on capital murder and carjacking charges in the New Mexico deaths of an Oklahoma couple.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=84473224&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK North Korea introduced its heir apparent to the world Thursday, a chubby-faced young man with a serious expression, combed back hair cut high and tight on the sides and wearing a communist-style black suit.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=84473220&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Legislation to turn down the volume on those loud TV commercials that send couch potatoes diving for their remote controls looks like it'll soon become law.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=84473219&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Pakistan closed the Khyber Pass supply route for U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan after a coalition helicopter attack mistakenly killed three Pakistani soldiers at a border post Thursday, raising tensions in a vital relationship for both Islamabad and Washington.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=84473204&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is set to give up his influential national post Friday to begin a run for Chicago mayor, a job he has long coveted but won't win unless he persuades voters he's still one of them.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=84473088&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Pat Riley got a kiss from a 5-year-old girl with a yellow ribbon tied in her hair, then climbed the steps toward the cockpit of an F-15 fighter.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=84473086&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday signed seven major health care-reform bills, including legislation establishing a Web-based insurance exchange that will allow consumers to comparison-shop for coverage.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=84473085&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A regional official with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday commended Gov. Bill Richardson and the New Mexico Environment Department for trying to establish a greenhouse gas emissions cap and trade program.