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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49110)	9/19/2005 3:26:28 AM
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German conservatives win three-seat lead (Updated at 0530 PST) BERLIN: Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democrats have claimed a three-seat advantage in the German parliament after the general election, according to official results from the electoral commission on Monday.

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49110)	9/20/2005 7:19:28 AM
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Biography of the Day Upton Sinclair American novelist Upton Sinclair, born this day in 1878, wrote The Jungle (1906), a landmark work that aroused indignation at impurities in processed meats and helped bring about federal food-inspection laws. "Practically alone among the American writers of his generation, [Sinclair] put to the American public the fundamental questions raised by capitalism in such a way that they could not escape them." Edmund Wilson