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Fri­day, Feb­ru­ary 11, 2005: One from Col­umn A and one from Col­umn B. Let’s play!

ASSOCIATED PRESS — North Korea declared itself a de facto nuclear power Thurs­day, claim­ing in its strongest terms to date that it had “man­u­fac­tured nuclear weapons” to defend itself from the United States.

ASSOCIATED PRESS — A Hal­libur­ton Co. ship­ment of radioac­tive mate­r­ial that landed in New York in Octo­ber was lost in route to Texas and not found until Wednes­day, when it turned up in Boston. The Nuclear Reg­u­la­tory Com­mis­sion said it was not alerted until Tuesday.

Col­umn C (isn’t this fun!)

AMALGAMATED PRESS — Hal­libur­ton Co. on Thurs­day declared itself a de facto nuclear power. …

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