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1. Jones, Marion (Time.com)
   Provides a short biographical statement about why this person was influential in the year 2000, according to Time magazine. 12-00

2. People of the Year 2000 (Time.com)
   Provides short biographical statements about ten people who were influential in the year 2000, according to Time magazine. Includes Kofi Annan, Yasser Arafat, Ehud Barak, Hillary Clinton, Elian Gonzalez, Eminem, Shawn Fanning, Vicente Fox, Richard Hatch, Judge Penfield Jackson, Marion Jones, John McCain, Wen Ho Lee, and Jack Welch. 12-00

3. African American Biographies (WETA - ExploreDC.org)
   Presents profiles of famous African Amerians, including Marian Anderson, Benjamin Banneker, Marion Barry, Mary McLeod Bethune, Edward Brooke, Anna Cooper, Frederick Douglass, Charles Drew, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Duke Ellington, Charles Houston, Langston Hughes, Sharon Pratt Kelly, John Mercer Langston, Alain Locke, Thurgood Marshall, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Hugh Price, A. Philip Randolph, Addison Scurlock, Mary Church Terrell, Walter Washington, Anthony Williams, and Carter Woodson. 5-01

4. Coal Mining Safety (ABC News)
   "The 1968 coal mine explosion in Marion County, W.Va., which killed 78 men, prompted Congress to pass the Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969. Since then, the rate of fatalities has dropped dramatically, according to the Federal Mine Safety and Health Administration. Twenty-eight coal miners died in 2004, a steep decline from the industry's deadliest year, 1907, when 3,242 employees were killed." 01-06

5. -04-07-06 Counties: ES&S Electronic Ballots Rife With Mistakes (IndyStar.com)
   "Marion County Clerk Doris Anne Sadler blasted a voting machine company this morning saying it supplied error-filled ballots for next month's primary election."
   
   "Meanwhile, clerks in Johnson and Hancock counties, also are upset with the company because it did not deliver absentee ballots in time and failed to program touch screen voting machines." 04-06

6. -10-08-07 Three Win Nobel in Medicine for Gene Technology (New York Times)
   "Two Americans and a Briton won the 2007 Nobel Prize in medicine today for developing the immensely powerful 'knockout' technology that allows scientists to create animal models of human disease in mice."
   
   "The winners, who will share the $1.54 million prize, are: Mario R. Capecchi, 70, of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City; Oliver Smithies, 82, of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill; and Sir Martin J. Evans, 66, of Cardiff University in Wales." 10-07

7. Four Men Rush into a Burning School Bus (WESH.com)
   "Four men made some heroic rescues when a Marion County school bus was engulfed in flames after being hit by a big rig on Tuesday." 09-08

8. Editorial: Stimulus Package for Seniors (U.S. News)
   "How about the reinvention of our communities to fit the needs of an aging population? That's an infrastructure program even more important than repairing bridges, sewers and roads. By spending billions of dollars to stimulate the economy today, we will improve the way society supports our parents and grandparents tomorrow. Let's call it the Sustainability for Seniors Act (think of it as the new SSA)."
   
   "According to two academics, Maurizio Antoninetti and Mario D. Garrett, 'Communities are not prepared for an aging population, especially in the areas of transportation, housing, land-use planning, public safety, parks and recreation, work force development and volunteerism/civic engagement.' 02-09