<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Oklahoma</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/states/ok?nav=rss_nation/states/ok</link><description>Oklahoma</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Asbestos Trust Fund Plan Meets Resistance]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18586-2005Apr27.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ok</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18586-2005Apr27.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ok</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 18:06:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  A bill proposed by the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee that would set up a $140 billion trust fund to compensate people sickened by exposure to asbestos came under sharp attack from both sides yesterday.]]></description><author> Albert B. Crenshaw</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Snyder Rethinks Stance On Six Flags Investment]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16360-2005Apr26.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ok</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16360-2005Apr26.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ok</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 18:06:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Suddenly, owning a chunk of a money-losing amusement park company may not be such a terrible idea after all to Daniel M. Snyder.]]></description><author> Bill Brubaker</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Crusade For Competition]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9146-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ok</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9146-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ok</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 18:06:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  The Department of Justice has two blunt warnings for the American home real estate establishment:]]></description><author> Kenneth R. Harney</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[10th Anniversary of Bombing Observed]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2517-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ok</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2517-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ok</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 18:06:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[There was something very different about this anniversary, something less raw and painful, and something perhaps even uplifting. And that's the way it was intended.]]></description><author> Lois Romano</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Force of Fear]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64245-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ok</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64245-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ok</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 18:06:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A decade after the carnage in Oklahoma City, Washington can still feel the blast.]]></description><author> Benjamin Forgey</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.S. Extremist Groups Still Pose Threat]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64058-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ok</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64058-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ok</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 18:06:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The possibility for domestic terrorism remains strong because of "lone wolf" actors who may have associated with militia groups and remain committed and violent, according to authorities.]]></description><author> Lois Romano</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Executives Take a Turn As Pr. George's Principals]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55089-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ok</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55089-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ok</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 18:06:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Fifteen minutes before classes began yesterday, businessman Al Porter reported for duty as the honorary principal of DuVal High School in Lanham. Thomas Anderson, the real principal, whisked him into a closed-door meeting to hear a mother's concerns about her son's low grades.]]></description><author> Nick Anderson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Interactive Video Used To Train Officers for Iraq]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48355-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ok</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48355-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ok</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 18:06:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Gator Six is more dazzling than a PowerPoint presentation, yet not quite a video game. It's a collection of 260 video clips on two CDs that, in essence, serve as an interactive film of the Iraq war.<br><FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</b></font>]]></description><author> Jose Antonio Vargas</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope for Asbestos Bill Blossoms, Then Withers]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48253-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ok</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48253-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ok</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 18:06:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ As the legislative day dawned on Capitol Hill yesterday, an unexpected ray of hope arrived with it: A bill to resolve the asbestos crisis, pronounced dead a month ago, appeared to be alive once more.]]></description><author> Albert B. Crenshaw</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[GAO Criticizes FDA On Spermicide Labels]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45113-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ok</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45113-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ok</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 18:06:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The failure of the Food and Drug Administration to update warning labels on products containing the spermicide Nonoxynol-9 may increase the risk of contracting the AIDS virus among those who use the products, analysts at the Government Accountability Office have found.]]></description><author> Ceci Connolly</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mystery of Missing Inmate and Woman Ends]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32519-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ok</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32519-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ok</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 18:06:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  AUSTIN, April 6  --  Randolph Franklin Dial used to portray himself as the hero of his own novel, writing friends that he served in Vietnam as a member of Delta Force or that he was a CIA, Secret Service or FBI agent. He told others he was a hit man with Mafia connections.]]></description><author> Sylvia Moreno</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ethics Panel Finds Conflict With Senator's Job as Physician]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28320-2005Apr5.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ok</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28320-2005Apr5.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ok</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 18:06:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Republican Tom Coburn will fight the ruling, arguing that the panel's decision contradicts the Founding Fathers' desire for lawmakers to retain ties to their communities.]]></description><author> Jeffrey H. Birnbaum</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Senate Impasse Stops 'Clear Skies' Measure]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20314-2005Mar9.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ok</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20314-2005Mar9.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ok</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 18:06:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ President Bush's bid to rewrite federal air pollution laws ground to a halt in Congress yesterday when Republicans were unable to overcome objections in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee that the bill would weaken the central pillars of the nation's environmental protection framework.]]></description><author> Shankar Vedantam</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finding Life Lonely in the Center]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51838-2005Feb24.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ok</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51838-2005Feb24.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ok</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 18:06:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) is a most exotic and endangered species: a moderate in the United States Senate.]]></description><author> Dana Milbank</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common Cold Medicines Curbed]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36331-2005Feb18.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ok</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36331-2005Feb18.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ok</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 18:06:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In the 10 months since Oklahoma pharmacies became the first in the nation to keep popular cold  medications behind the counter and require identification to buy  them, seizures of illegal methamphetamine labs have fallen by 80 percent,  state law enforcement officials say.]]></description><author> Lois Romano</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Texans Divided  Over Plan for Toll Roads]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6370-2005Feb7.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ok</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6370-2005Feb7.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ok</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 18:06:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Called the Trans-Texas Corridor, it is the most ambitious highway project since the Eisenhower  administration introduced the interstate system in the 1950s, and experts are watching to see whether the plan could work in other states.]]></description><author> Sylvia Moreno</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rx for Doctors: A Dose of Humanity]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3130-2005Feb6.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ok</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3130-2005Feb6.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ok</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 18:06:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Urgent notice! Call your doctor immediately and demand to take that annual  physical today! Why? Because you won't hear the usual grumbling about medical malpractice lawsuits and thieving trial lawyers. The nurse won't be doing that    Nurse  Ratched  impersonation, demanding cash because your insurance isn't accepted.]]></description><author> Al Kamen</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satirical Groundhog Tales Breed a Devoted Following]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47876-2005Jan29.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ok</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47876-2005Jan29.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ok</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 18:06:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The winter of 1979 was a cold, hard one in Oklahoma City, especially for Megan Hicks. The ground had been frozen solid for two straight months, and Hicks was a brand-new mother, home alone for the first time and depressed. Unable to get it together to send Christmas cards as usual, she made it by early February -- Groundhog Day.]]></description><author> Michelle Boorstein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Readings, Lectures, Workshops and More]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43182-2005Jan27.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ok</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43182-2005Jan27.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ok</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 18:06:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[    Art and Crafts <br>   MATH AND THE MONA LISA: THE GENIUS OF LEONARDO  -- Thursday at 7 p.m. Artist, physics professor and author Bulent Atalay discusses how Leonardo da Vinci created the "Mona Lisa" and "The Last Supper." A book signing follows. Corcoran Gallery of Art, 500 17th St. NW. $20. 202-639-1770.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[KPMG Adds Federal Judge to Legal Staff]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25105-2005Jan20.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ok</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25105-2005Jan20.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ok</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 18:06:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Accounting giant KPMG LLP said Thursday it would hire U.S. District Judge Sven Erik Holmes to oversee its legal affairs, as the firm and the entire audit industry undergo unparalleled scrutiny from securities regulators and plaintiff lawyers.]]></description><author> Carrie Johnson  and Brooke A. Masters</author></item></channel></rss>