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display:inline !important;"> <a href="http://www.topichotlist.com/cgi-bin/pnwtentrylinker.cgi?http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/publicola/~3/eKz8PJTj9h8/" target="_blank" onmouseover="window.status=\'http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/publicola/~3/eKz8PJTj9h8/\';return true;" onmouseout="window.status=\'\';return true;" title="" style="border-style:none !important;">Sound Transit: Watch Out for Phone Snatchers</a> [Fri 3:38pm]</span></i><span class="pnwhotlistblogtitle nwphotlistblogtitle"><br /><a href="http://www.topichotlist.com/cgi-bin/pnwtlinker.cgi?http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/" target="_blank" onmouseover="window.status=\'http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/\';return true;" onmouseout="window.status=\'\';return true;" style="border-style:none !important;">Blog Town, PDX</a>: </span><i><span class="pnwhotlistentrytitle nwpwhotlistentrytitle"><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.topichotlist.com/cgi-bin/pnwtentrylinker.cgi?http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/BlogtownPDX/archives/2012/02/03/sl-letter-of-the-day-lesbian-teen-not-happy-with-her-parentsor-with-dan" target="_blank" onmouseover="window.status=\'http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/BlogtownPDX/archives/2012/02/03/sl-letter-of-the-day-lesbian-teen-not-happy-with-her-parentsor-with-dan\';return true;" onmouseout="window.status=\'\';return true;" title="" style="border-style:none !important;">SL Letter of the Day: Lesbian Teen Not Happy With Her Parents—Or With Dan</a> [Fri 10:29am]</span></i><br /><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr align="right"><td><span class="pnwhotlistmoretext"><i><a href="http://www.topichotlist.com/cgi-bin/pnwtlinker.cgi?http://www.topichotlist.com/th/topichotlist.shtml" target="_blank" onmouseover="window.status=\'Click for the full PNW Topic Hotlist\';return true;" onmouseout="window.status=\'\';return true;" title="Click for the full PNW Topic Hotlist" style="border-style:none !important;">View more entries...</a></i></span></td></tr></table></span><br /><span class="pnwhotlisttopicheader nwphotlisttopicheader"><div id="PNWT761script" class="headlines&btformat=CO&linebreaks=LI&width=98%&talign=L&bias=R&store" onclick="expandCollapseTopic(\'PNWT761\');return false;" title="Click to show/hide blog entries for this topic" style="display:inline !important;" onmouseover="window.status=this.title;this.style.cursor=\'pointer\';return true;" onmouseout="window.status=\'\';this.style.cursor=\'default\';return true;"><img src="http://www.topichotlist.com/th/images/plus.gif" width="13" height="9" border="0" style="border-style:none; 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