In Houston, federal Judge Eldon Fallon has begun meetings in the first potential post-Katrina class-action lawsuit, one involving the flooding and massive oil spill in St.

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The majority of people, she said, sent their Christmas cards by second-class post, but birthday and mother's day cards tended to be send first-class.

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