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Friday morning, October 15, 2004

FEATURES

Just a cup of tea

The British are famous for their love of tea - they drink 62 billion cups a year between them, seven times as much per person as Americans. So it's no surprise that they're putting on the kettle to celebrate a special event in tea history, the centenary of the tea bag - an American invention which has helped sustain this $1.2 billion industry. Martin Stott reports.

A real fear factor ...

How do you train a spider to do what you want? Well, you could step on it. Or alternatively you could "blow on its bum." Our fearless correspondent Cash Peters hooks up with a Hollywood animal wrangler who is smitten with his students... but not yet bitten.


NEWSCAST

From Miami: At Wednesday's presidential debate, moderator Bob Schieffer said the single issue he's gotten the most email about is immigration. And yet the candidates have largely avoided the topic...

From Washington: Today in Washington the Freedom Foundation will award twelve Texas Girl Scouts the George Washington Honor Medal. Over the past four years, they've sent thousands of boxes of cookies to U.S. soldiers overseas.

From Washington: Lawmakers are home campaigning this weekend. But after the elections they've got some unfinished business to face -- like raising the nation's debt limit...

From New York: The Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq shut its doors four months ago. But new findings from a UN watchdog suggest questions about the Coalition's operations persist.

From New York: New York's Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has filed charges against the country's leading insurance broker...and named several providers in a bid rigging scandal.

From Los Angeles: Oil closed near $55 a barrel on the New York Exchange yesterday… The run-up was partly spurred on by worries that the U.S. has not stockpiled sufficient fuel for the winter.

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