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 In our last edition, the Daily Probe erroneously reported that President Gore
 solved the nation's energy problems through incentives to make SUVs as fuel
 efficient as other cars and to encourage the use of energy efficient light
 bulbs, saving the country the equivalent of 10 times the amount of oil
 available in the Alaskan Wildlife Reserve and the need for more than 30 new
 electrical power plants.  This was a typographical error.  The story should
 have reported that Vice President Cheney has called for the use of ground up
 poor children as lubricants in new oil refineries to be built on the present
 sites of various inner-city health clinics.  We apologize for any confusion.

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