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            MSNBCstories[0] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34155969/ns/weather-", "Time to obsess about white Christmas", "In northern latitudes, the notion of a white Christmas takes on mythic proportions. But why is snow important to a holiday celebrating the birth of a man in the arid climate of the Middle East?", "");
          
            MSNBCstories[1] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34152406/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa", "Rains soak pilgrims at Islam's hajj pilgrimage", "Muslim pilgrims circle Islam's holiest site, the Kaaba, in traditional white robes, with new additions - umbrellas and face masks - at the opening of the annual hajj.", "");
          
            MSNBCstories[2] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34149285/ns/technology_and_science-science", "Lightning 'listening' network nearly complete", "The World-Wide Lightning Network promises to improve our ability to monitor thunderstorms and even predict hurricane strength.", "");
          
            MSNBCstories[3] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34143342/ns/us_news-life", "Winds could undo progress in Calif. wildfire", "Santa Ana winds fanned a fire across 60 acres of Southern California hills before firefighters reduced it Wednesday to a smoldering - but still dangerous - black scar.", "");
          
            MSNBCstories[4] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34128196/ns/weather-", "English flood victims return home", "Residents of flood-battered northern England are struggling back to work, school and homes after swollen rivers inundated roads and caused several bridges to collapse.", "");
          
            MSNBCstories[5] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34107174/ns/world_news-asiapacific", "Indonesia ferry sinks in storm", "Rescuers plucked a woman from choppy waters Monday, some 25 hours after she jumped from a crowded ferry that sank in a storm off Indonesia's Sumatra island.", "");
          
            MSNBCstories[6] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34080306/ns/weather-", "Storms disrupt travel around Reno, Nev.", "A winter storm with winds gusting to more than 80 mph is expected to leave as much as a foot of snow to the northern Nevada mountains.", "");
          
            MSNBCstories[7] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34045914/ns/weather-", "Parts of U.S. should see warmer December", "Warmer-than-average temperatures are forecast for the northern and western United States this December, the U.S. National Weather Service says.", "");