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PRESS DIGEST - Washington Post - June 16

Sun Jun 15, 2008 11:41pm EDT

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Washington, June 16 (Reuters) - The Washington Post included the following items on its front page on June 16. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

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INDEX, Wash. - With little fanfare, Congress has embarked on a push to protect as many as a dozen pristine areas this year in places ranging from the glacier-fed streams of the Wild Sky Wilderness in Washington state to West Virginia's Monongahela National Forest.

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Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin plans to support a merger between XM XMSR.O and Sirius (SIRI.O), the sole U.S. satellite radio operators.

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When DMC Pharmacy opens this summer on Route 50 in Chantilly, Virginia, the shelves will be stocked with allergy remedies, pain relievers, antiseptic ointments and almost everything else sold in any drugstore. But anyone who wants condoms, birth control pills or the Plan B emergency contraceptive will be turned away.

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