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| The return of some sort of precipitation to the forecast after a nearly two-month absence, offering respite from fires that continue to burn local forests and cloud skies with smoke |
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| A definitive and happily uneventful end to the 2012 presidential election, with no drawn-out legal battles, recount drama or hanging chad nightmares |
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Women continuing to break through the political glass ceiling, with 19 female senators in the 113th congress, the most in U.S. history
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Humans being singled out as the cause of two large Colorado wildfires, including this summer’s devastating Weber fire, near Colorado Springs, and 2011’s Ruby Canyon Fire, near Loma
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Another Noreaster setting its sights on the already ravaged East Coast
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| The nearly $6 billion estimated to have been spent nationally on political advertising trying to sway voters in a race that basically boiled down to 50-50 |
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