Group 1-"Up in the Mix!" Nov. 5, 2007

1 million pounds of beef recalled on e-coli fears
WASHINGTON - The giant agribusiness company Cargill Inc. said Saturday it is recalling more than 1 million pounds of ground beef that may be contaminated with E. coli bacteria.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15587340/#storyContinued

FOOTBALL SUFFERS 31-26 LOSS TO UC DAVIS IN 54TH-ANNUAL PEPSI CAUSEWAY CLASSIC
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Sacramento State football team rallied but fell just short in a 31-26 loss to UC Davis in the 54th-Annual Causeway Classic presented by Pepsi on Saturday in front of 13,073 fans at Hornet Stadium.
http://www.hornetsports.com/sports/football/release.asp?release_id=6855

Cutting-Edge Microchip Developed In Folsom
FOLSOM, Calif. -- Intel is ready to unveil a billion-dollar microchip that many consumers will use, but never know it.
http://www.kcra.com/news/14501571/detail.html?rss=sac&psp=news

Average price of gas rises to $2.96 per gallon
CAMARILLO, Calif. - The national average price for gasoline rose about 16 cents over the last two weeks, according to a survey released Sunday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21624402/

Egypt puts King Tut on public display
LUXOR, Egypt - King Tut's buck-toothed face was unveiled Sunday for the first time in public — more than 3,000 years after the youngest and most famous pharaoh to rule ancient Egypt was shrouded in linen and buried in his golden underground tomb.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071104/ap_on_sc/king_tut_s_mummy;_ylt=AqnlG_AIgxrAiL3XEMcnlOGs0NUE

World's coal dependency hits environment
TAIYUAN, China - It takes five to 10 days for the pollution from China's coal-fired plants to make its way to the United States, like a slow-moving storm.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071104/ap_on_sc/coal_the_dark_side;_ylt=Agt4t0U1gTeCuY7941oodqis0NUE

Food, water running low on Mexican coast
VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico -- Residents began running perilously short of food and water in Mexico's southern Gulf coast Sunday after a week of devastating floods that destroyed or damaged the homes of as many as half a million people.
http://www.sacbee.com/830/story/471989.html

Feds go after wildly successful medical pot sellers
"They're just a couple of nice kids from Berkeley who wound up being the victims of their own success."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/11/05/BA90T4PQP.DTL&tsp=1

MySpace Expands Ads Targeted to Profiles
The popular online hangout MySpace is expanding its program for letting advertisers target their pitches using personal details on users' profile pages.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/11/04/financial/f210330S88.DTL&hw=myspace&sn=002&sc=976

Devices Enforce Silence of Cellphones, Illegally
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 2 — One afternoon in early September, an architect boarded his commuter train and became a cellphone vigilante. He sat down next to a 20-something woman who he said was “blabbing away” into her phone.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/technology/04jammer.html?_r=2&ref=technology&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

The tide is turning for river renaissance
For years and years, Sacramento's urban waterfront has been a ribbon of disappointment.
While cities across the nation have embraced the magic of water with spaces alive and appealing, we have settled for patches of weeds, old gray warehouses and empty slabs of concrete along the shores of the stately Sacramento River.
http://www.sacbee.com/245/story/470611.html

Crash in fog leaves 2 dead
18 big rigs involved in the 108-vehicle pileup near Fresno that injures dozens.
FRESNO – In a horrific matter of minutes along a foggy stretch of Highway 99 south of Fresno, two people were killed and 41 others injured Saturday morning in one of the worst pileups in central San Joaquin Valley history.
http://www.sacbee.com/288/story/471044.html