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"It's a phenomenal success story. "And all it took was booting out dozens of fox-killing golden eagles, bringing back the bald eagles that were nearly wiped out decades before and killing some 5,000 feral pigs. The island fox was listed as an endangered species in 1994 . In July 2006, it took an average of about seven hours for emergency room patients to get a bed once they were deemed sufficiently ill to be admitted; by June 2008, it was about three hours . For Lewis, the 1st Amendment is the touchstone of democracy, but words scratched on a sheet of parchment are not enough to fulfill its promise . Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign fail to see the red flags in Hsu's contributions?Until this week, Clinton counted Hsu as one of her most prolific money bundlers. "We need to wrap our arms around this and put our collective heads together to try to resolve this