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The oldest known pair
of Levi's jeans (circa
1880s) was auctioned on
eBay and purchased by U.S. Congressman Cary Condit announced The economic slowdown that
Levi & Strauss Co. for plans to run for reelection, despite the began in 2000 spread throughout
a record $46,532, the public calling for his resignation after he was the economy in 2001. The Sept.
highest price ever paid implicated in the disappearance of 24-year- 11 attacks shut down major finan­
for a pair of blue jeans. old intern Chandra Levy. cial markets for several days, and
October saw the highest job
losses in 21 years, with 415,000
positions cut. In December, the
Fed cut interest rates for a
record 11 th time within
the year.

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AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill AP Photo/Rick Bowm er AP Photo/Center for Shark Research at Mote Marine Lab/Heather Sariego
/
A U.S. Senator
A Summer news was full of shark attack
__A TV Producer Norman James Jeffords shook stories, beginning with the near-fatal attack on
.ear purchased a 1776 origi­
8 the Senate balance 8-year-old Mississippi native Jessie Arbogast,
nal copy of the Declaration
who had his arm surgically reattached after
by switching from
of Independence for $8.14
million to take on a show- Republican to Dem­ being bitten by a shark off the Florida Gulf
ind-tell tour of American ocrat. His defection Coast.
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Schools. The tour included gave the Democrats
;®i Fourth of July star-studded majority control for
eading of the document in the first time since
iW Philadelphia. 1995.

◄ D o you th in k it sh o u ld be illegal
off the wire! to use cell p h o n es w h ile d rivin g ?

Y E S 30%
resident Bush awarded New York governor
9 Native American "code George Pataki signed a 70%
ilkers" with the Gold bill into law banning the
ongressional Medal of use of hand-held cellular talk on my phone when driving
lonor for developing an phones while driving, (Do or Don't)
nbreakable code that making New York the first (Survey results compiled from the responses of 2000 students
ontributed to a U.S. vic- state to pass such a law. across the U.S.)
>ry in World War II.