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http://www.newsindex.com This one's quick and useful, especially for everybody's-got-it topics. Occasionally, I've had to weed through some off-the-mark results, but it offers a good cross-section of newspapers and is worth a stop.
http://www.lexisnexis.com If you work at a newspaper or other media outlet, chances are pretty good that the office library has an account at this for-a-fee site. For those who don't have access at the office, Lexis Nexis recently set up a credit-card system. You can register an account with your own credit card and pay for what you download on a per-piece basis. If the fees look too steep, you still may find this site useful--find the article, then look for other sources on the Web where you can read it for free.
http://www.northernlight.com This for-a-fee site offers searches of the Web, newspapers and a variety of other sources in its "special collections" file. It zeroes in on the topic fairly well. It's worth a stop.
http://www.electriclibrary.com This one also charges a fee, but some libraries offer free access to their patrons at their Web sites or at their brick-and-mortar locations.
http://www.findarticles.com Here you'll find one of the few engines I've seen that focus specifically on magazines. The site says it pulls information from "more than 300 reputable magazines and journals." (Alas, you'll have to turn elsewhere for the disreputable ones.)
http://www.moreover.com I've seen this site linked in multiple places, but I've been less than impressed. It's quick, but it generates off-the-mark results and isn't easy to navigate. Worth a look, but not among my first stops.
http://www.opinion-pages.org/ This site, operated by Monty Kersell, offers a lengthy list of commentary sites from the United States, Canada and around the world. Links are provided for newspapers large and small, as well as alternative publications that aren't as widely circulated.
http://newslibrary.com Here you can search dozens of newspapers across the country all at once, or search by state or region. I've found that breaking up the national search into small bits is more reliable. Many of the papers are part of the Knight-Ridder chain, but you'll find some independents and papers from other chains in the mix. You have to pay about $2 to actually read the articles, but on a few occasions I've also had luck backtracking to the newspaper's Web site and perusing the original for free.
http://www.washingtonpost.com I include The Washington Post's URL because it has links to its own archives and to the AP's archives on its front page. I've found it to be
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