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CSMonitor U.S. Criminal lineups get a makeover Researchers and defense lawyers call for reform of a tool they say is rigged against the innocent.
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Reuters Top News Consumer Confidence Hits 7-Month Low in October NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. consumers turned more glum in October, beset by everything from soaring energy prices to relentless violence in Iraq and the increasingly bitter end of the presidential election campaign.
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RedNova general Yankees Take Game 1 of ALCS Over Red Sox NEW YORK - Mariano Rivera showed up just in time to save the New York Yankees. Rivera got Boston's Kevin Millar to pop out to strand the tying run at third base in the eighth inning, then finished out a thrilling 10-7 win for the Yankees in Tuesday night's opener of the AL championship series...
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Forbes British Airport Owner TBI OKs Takeover British airport operator TBI PLC said Wednesday it has agreed to a takeover by Spanish transport and communications company Abertis and Spain's national airport authority Aena.
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Yahoo Sports UCLA's hot shooting too much for Oregon (AP) AP - UCLA put together two strong halves and avoided the kind of collapse that cost the fifth-ranked Bruins in their previous game.
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CNN Top News Harvard drops early admissions Read full story for latest details.
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BBC News world Annan to meet Iran's top leaders Kofi Annan is to meet Iran's president and supreme leader for talks likely to cover Iran's nuclear programme.
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Reuters Tech Sony to launch slimmer PSP in September CULVER CITY, California (Reuters) - Sony Corp. will launch a slimmer model of its PlayStation Portable handheld game player in September, the company said on Wednesday, in its latest attempt to ignite demand for its game hardware and compete better with Nintendo Co. Ltd.
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Reuters Top News EU to offer Serbia fast track to candidacy: draft BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders are set to offer Serbia a fast track to candidacy for membership of the bloc and pledge to step up preparations for a police mission to stabilize Kosovo, a draft statement for Friday's EU summit said.
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RedNova science Commission Gives Advice on Sentencing By ANGEL RIGGS World Capitol Bureau Members say the governor's approval shouldn't be required in all parole cases. OKLAHOMA CITY -- The governor's approval should not be required in certain parole cases, members of the Oklahoma Sentencing Commission recommended Thursday.
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Los Angeles Daily News Bush nominee Goss offers bleak look at the CIA Rep. Porter J. Goss of Florida said on Tuesday that rebuilding the CIA would take more than five years and that American spies needed to be encouraged to take more risks.
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Afgha.com Taming the Lion of Herat On this third anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on American soil, a bold action by the leader of the transitional government of Afghanistan indicates the hard decisions that are still to be taken before victory can be announced in the war against
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The Washington Post sports U-Va. Upsets Arizona Highly touted freshman Sean Singletary scores 15 points, leading Virginia to a 78-60 victory against No. 10 Arizona.
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Topix.Net Europe Govt economic council to propose motorway truck toll by mid-2005 PRAGUE- The Czech government's economic council will propose by June of the year electronic toll which trucks in the Czech Republic should start to pay in 2006, Transport Minister Milan Simonovsky told ...
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Reuters Top News China says product safety push a complete success BEIJING (Reuters) - China declared on Monday that its four-month campaign to ensure food and product safety had been a total success, with all goals being met months before Beijing hosts the Olympics and 600 companies banned from exporting toys.
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Yahoo World Six insurgents, one soldier killed in Afghanistan fighting (AFP) AFP - Six Taliban militants and an Afghan army soldier have been killed in clashes across insurgency-hit Afghanistan over the past few days, the Afghan defence ministry said.
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Reuters World Annan presses Kenyan rivals to end bloodshed NAIROBI (Reuters) - Former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan set Tuesday as a target for Kenya's government and opposition to name negotiators to try to end tribal violence in which more than 800 people have been killed.
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Reuters Top News World Mormon Church leader Hinckley dies at 97 SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (Reuters) - Gordon B. Hinckley, the world leader of Mormons who presided over a period of intensive growth for the religion, died on Sunday at the age of 97, officials said.
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CNET News.com This week in phishing As online shopping gets into full swing, phishers are setting up fraudulent e-commerce Web sites and simply waiting for victims using Google and other search engines to find them.
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Chicago Sun Times Sears goes to Lands' End to boost Web site Sears Roebuck and Co. goofed its rollout of Lands' End apparel in Sears stores, but it's counting on winning the online war with Lands' End's unique shopping technology.
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Yahoo Politics Clinton's brother near legal settlement (AP) AP - A lawyer for the brother of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said he's confident he can avoid a trial next week and settle a lawsuit that accuses Tony Rodham of failing to repay debts to a Tennessee carnival operator.
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KataWeb Sport La nuova sfida di Luna Rossa Un nuovo socio, la Telecom di Marco Tronchetti Provera, per dare l'assalto alla Coppa America. De Angelis chiama accanto a sÚ uno dei più forti timonieri del mondo, l'australiano James Spithill. GENOVA - Gli
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CollegeSports.com Sobrero Markgraf And Boxx One Win Away From Olympic Medals Former Irish soccer stars to play with Team USA in Monday's semifinals vs. Germany (Aug. 23, 10:00 am South Bend time on MSNBC); Gonzalez and Mexico fall to Brazil in quarterfinals.
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Yahoo Europe Banned Ferdinand fighting fit for return (AFP) AFP - England international Rio Ferdinand, coming to the end of an eight-month ban for failing to take a drugs test, said he has been training hard under Manchester United's new fitness coach for his return to action next month.
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Time Top News Libby Thinks NBC News May Hold Key Attorneys for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby believe that NBC News holds a key to clearing him of perjury and obstruction charges in the CIA leak case
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CNET security news AT&T adds parental control options to cell phones AT&T has added a new set of parental control options to their mobile phone service. For a monthly fee of $4.99, the "Smart Limits" service brings together infomation about parental control features across AT&T's wireless, wired, broadband and video servi
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RedNova general 'Chicago,' 'Cabaret' Lyricist Ebb Dies NEW YORK - Fred Ebb, who wrote the lyrics for such hit Broadway musicals as "Chicago" and "Cabaret" as well as the big-city anthem "New York, New York," has died of a heart attack. Ebb died Saturday at his home, said David McKeown, an assistant to composer John Kander, Ebb's longtime collaborator...
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Reuters Top News First suspect in court over Britain car bomb plot LONDON (Reuters) - An Iraqi-trained doctor appeared in a London court on Saturday in connection with failed car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow.
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Reuters Top News N.Korea agrees atom "containment" with IAEA: report VIENNA (Reuters) - North Korea has agreed to "containment and surveillance" measures by International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors to verify a shutdown of its nuclear arms program, an IAEA report said on Tuesday.
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News-Daily.com Delta to cut 7,000 jobs The kind of changes planned at Delta Air Lines, changes that include the loss of up to 7,000 more jobs, reflect needed change throughout the industry, a Clayton College and State University professor says.
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New York Times Tech Microsoft Acquisitions Head Bruce Jaffe to Leave Microsoft has announced the resignation of its head of acquisitions, Bruce Jaffe, two days after the company bid $1.2 billion for enterprise search expert Fast Search & Transfer.
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Reuters Top News Battles rage at Lebanon camp, 4 soldiers die NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon (Reuters) - Al Qaeda-inspired militants killed four Lebanese soldiers on Thursday in fierce battles at a Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon, security sources said.
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Boston Globe sports Woods Shows Off His Skills, but Not as a Host At Sherwood Country Club Friday, six golfers shot a 67 only to discover that their rounds of five under par were only good enough to put them five shots farther behind their genial host.
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InfoWorld news Eclipse exec cites dynamic language inclusion, .Net rivalry ( InfoWorld ) - The Eclipse Foundation has established itself as a premier open source software tools project. The organization has gained support from vendors ranging from IBM (which helped found Eclipse in 2001) to Borland Software, BEA Systems, and seemingly every other major player in the software industry except Sun Microsystems and Microsoft. The EclipseWorld 2006 show in Cambridge, Mass. last week afforded those using Eclipse technologies a chance to get updated on the latest developments at Eclipse. InfoWorld Editor-at-Large Paul Krill attended and interviewed Mike Milinkovich, Eclipse executive director, about the state of Eclipse and subjects ranging from dynamic languages to rivalries with Sun and Microsoft.  InfoWorld: Where is Eclipse headed and what new technologies are on the horizon? Mike Milinkovich: That’s a open-ended question. When I look at the broad initiatives that are going on within Eclipse, a couple of things come to mind. First is continued growth and adoption around our Rich Client Platform, and that’s something that we expect to see continued emphasis on. We’re seeing more projects joining Eclipse around extending RCP in various areas, so that’s good news for RCP. And as we talked about in our press release earlier this week, we’re very pleasantly surprised about the growing adoption and awareness of RCP. A couple of other things in just sort of broad terms [include] more support for multiple languages. Eclipse has always been focused on being a platform for the development of language environments, and we’re seeing some really interesting new developments, some of them within Eclipse and some of them in commercial products. In the commercial products space, Adobe is in the process of building and releasing its Flex Builder 2.0, which is an Eclipse-based development environment for ActionScript, which is their language for the Flex servers. And within Eclipse, in the next quarter we’re planning on having the first release from the PHP IDE project, which we think is really exciting. PHP [Hypertext Preprocessor] is a really important language both for enterprise development but [also for] Web development in general, and having Eclipse tooling available for PHP is something that we’re pretty excited about. IW: That leads right into my next question. Do you see more support for dynamic programming languages? You have PHP, you have the AJAX projects. Do you see more for some of the other languages that are out there? Ruby, Perl, Python? MM: Well, yes. Within the Eclipse ecosystem you can find Eclipse plug-ins and tooling for virtually every single dynamic language you can think of. There’s Eclipse tools for Ruby, RadRails is a project... These are not projects at Eclipse, but they’re open source projects which are based on Eclipse
 RadRails is an open source project based on Eclipse for building an IDE for Rails, which is the Ruby framework. And you have PyDev for Python, which is a fairly popular. This is another example of a plug-in, which is available from an open source project outside of Eclipse but is based on Eclipse
. For virtually every dynamic language you can imagine, you can find Eclipse plug-ins to help enable development for it. And that really resonates back with what we were talking about previously about Eclipse being a platform for building development tools. That’s really the fundamental mission of the Eclipse platform. So within Eclipse, as I mentioned, we have the PHP tools. We also have the AJAX Toolkit Framework, and so this provides sort of added compiled debug for JavaScripts running inside the browser, so it provides an AJAX developer a very nice development environment for use with Firefox in building AJAX applications. And there’s quite a few different AJAX frameworks out there, and it supports Dojo, Open-Rico and Zimbra currently, and I think they’re definitely planning on adding more in the future
 And again, lastly I would mention the Rich AJAX Platform, which is a new project just getting started at Eclipse for providing an AJAX runtime that’s based on the Eclipse component model for developers who want to use that style of development for building AJAX applications. IW: Which leads to my next question: Do you think there’s kind of an overlap in some Eclipse projects? You have the Eclipse Rich AJAX Platform, there’s also an AJAX Toolkit Framework. I know for the time being you have data tools in the Web tools Platform Project, you also have a separate Data Tools Platform Project. Do you think there’s a lot of overlap going on or is it just based on which vendor proposes which project without too much thought given to consolidation? MW: It’s a little bit of both. So within Eclipse as an open source community, we are willing to tolerate some overlap; let the projects work things out over time. And so far that’s actually worked out pretty successfully. In the particular examples that you just raised, I don’t see overlap. The AJAX Toolkit Framework and the Rich AJAX Platform, they don’t overlap. They’re two very different things. The first one, ATF, is focused on the needs of developers looking for tools for building AJAX applications. And the second one, RAP, is a runtime environment, a runtime framework, for building AJAX applications. And on the other example, with Web tools and data tools projects, initially there was some overlap, but that’s actually probably almost a poster child for project cooperation at Eclipse, because as data tools came to be and started to work, the Web tools guys moved their data connection layer and adopted the technology coming from data tools. IW: Is Eclipse de-emphasizing Java and refocusing on some of the other languages that we talked about? Is it focusing on some of the scripting languages as well as on .Net while de-emphasizing Java? MM: I wouldn’t say we’re de-emphasizing Java. As Eclipse is growing and there’s more projects joining the fold, there are more resources to take on more languages and more platforms. Now, almost every Eclipse project writes its code in Java. We’re clearly heavy users of Java. But in terms of Java being the only platform or language that we support within Eclipse, that’s never been the vision for Eclipse. It’s always been about supporting as many languages and as many platforms as we can find people willing to work on projects for. IW: There's been some talk in the industry that Java is kind of yesterday’s technology. Sun wouldn’t like to hear that, but do you see it that way at all? MM: I kind of frankly take that stuff with a grain of salt. You know, there’s this constant hype machine within the high-tech industry that the next shiny new thing is going to be the grand vision that’s going to do everything that has never been done before. What my observation is, is that Java is now getting to the point where it’s clearly mature enough and stable enough to meet the needs of mainstream enterprise development and I think that’s a good thing. Maturity isn’t something to be ashamed of. It’s something that the people that are talking about the shiny new things should treat with respect. IW: I guess there’s kind of a trend toward putting the virtual machine on other languages. MM: Yes, and I think that’s a great idea. Well, I think what you’re saying is there’s a trend toward opening up the JVMs (Java Virtual Machines) to make it easier to support other languages. And I think that’s a great idea. IW: Why? MM: Because the programmers want more than one language, but there’s so much work and talent that’s been invested in the runtime infrastructure that’s part of the Java platform, that reinventing all of that technology for another language doesn’t make any sense. You want to have a particular problem, which can be expressed more easily in a language other than Java, that’s great. But you don’t want to throw the baby out with the bath water. I mean you still want to be able to use this highly-tuned and mature runtime platform from companies like BEA and IBM and JBoss and Oracle that have spent years perfecting this middleware infrastructure for Web applications. You don’t want to throw that out just because you want [to] program in another language. IW: How much money would you estimate is being generated by Eclipse-based software or is it still the main attraction to Eclipse is it’s all free? MM: I wish we actually had good numbers on trying to estimate the size of the Eclipse ecosystem. I’m quite confident that it’s in the billion-dollar range and probably more, but we just don’t have the hard numbers in terms of sizing that market. Unfortunately we haven’t been able to get an analyst to actually spend the time to quantify those numbers. But what you said about the attraction to Eclipse being free, the economics of the Eclipse model is a little bit different than that, because the Eclipse community as a whole is almost uniquely focused on enabling a commercially profitable ecosystem or market around the free platform. So yes, we do provide open source tools and frameworks from Eclipse and those are provided for free. But we definitely are motivated across the Eclipse ecosystem to see people and companies make money from the Eclipse platform. IW: What’s going on with Eclipse as far as application lifecycle management? Some of that’s on the agenda here, but could you maybe give a synopsis of what’s going on there? MM: Sure. There’s several different projects going on at Eclipse in the area. Serena is leading a project called ALF, Application Lifecycle Framework, and Compuware is leading a project called Corona. And these are both projects that are in fairly early days, they’re both in incubation. But application lifecycle management is an area where we see definite growth at Eclipse, but it’s going to take some time for these projects to mature and really hit their stride. IW: What’s the difference between Corona and ALF? MM: ALF is really focused on providing the technology for choreographing tools across multiple developers, and Corona is more focused on making it easier to integrate tools within a single workbench environment or within a single desktop environment. [There are subtle differences], but there actually are important differences for developers. IW: Like what? MM: You ask this every time we talk. [I am] just trying to think of a way to make it really simple to explain. I mean think if it as ALF is focused on choreographing tool integration across a whole team. Corona is more focused on making it easier for one developer in his particular environment to do his job. IW: This next question is about something you mentioned -- I guess it must have been last year -- at a conference in San Francisco. You talked about how you don’t really need salespeople anymore. And I just met with a company (Genuitec) that’s basing its technology on Eclipse and they don’t have any salespeople. Do you see that as a trend where software companies, particularly open source software companies, don’t have salespeople because they don’t see the need? Do you see anything happening there? MM: I think that over time things are changing. What you’re really talking about is what is the channel by which people acquire software? There’s multiple ways you can acquire software. You can download it and use it, whether it’s for free or for purchase. You can buy it packaged or you can deal with a direct sales force and deal with people. Historically, enterprise software has been sold through the direct sales force channel, and I do believe over time, we’re starting to see success in open source software products in areas that have been traditionally the realm of the direct sales force. I’m thinking of things like SugarCRM and Compiere and open source products like this. And those environments or those products have very, very low cost of sales, so as customers get more used to that, to being successful with that kind of software acquisition, I think that over time, yes, there’s going to be fewer and fewer software salesmen. IW: Here’s the standard question that I kind of usually ask last. Is anything going on as far as Sun joining Eclipse or merging NetBeans and Eclipse? MM: Nope, absolutely not. IW: No talks in the last year, two years? MM: I bump into (Sun executive) Simon Phipps at conferences and have a drink with him once in a while
. IW: There was one Java project that I guess Sun was working on with Eclipse. MM: There was a Sun committer working on -- it was actually on the base Eclipse platform to enable it for Solaris x86, as I recall correctly. So it was getting Eclipse running on one of their operating system platforms. IW: But there’s no further movement since then? MW: No. And [in the] conversations I’ve had with Sun, they’ve made it pretty clear that they’re not really interested in doing anything other than continuing to push their NetBeans strategy. IW: What do you think of their being two kind of rival camps? Is it good for competition? MM: Well, we’re certainly not shy of competition, and frankly we’re winning. IW: They seem to say differently. MM: Oh, good for them. I got the numbers, they don’t. IW: Who do you see as your main rival, NetBeans or Windows .Net? MM: We clearly and have always felt that Eclipse is about enabling competition with Microsoft. IW: How have you fared there? MM: Actually, we started five years ago and I would say that starting from zero, the growth of Eclipse over the past five years has been absolutely phenomenal. It’s been wonderful to see the development community embrace Eclipse the way it has over the last five years. IW: Is there anything else you wanted to mention? MM: Actually I just want to probably just close with reinforcing about RCP. To date, Eclipse has always been very much focused on tooling and being a tools platform, but what we’re I think really seeing now is RCP, Rich Client Platform, becoming a very important runtime infrastructure for application developers and ISVs who want to build multi-platform applications running on the desktop. And I think that’s a very important niche for Eclipse and something that we expect to see continuing to grow. SEE ALSO: Eclipse chief talks up projects, awaits Sun and Microsoft
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ANSA DAL MONDO CORDOGLIO, DOLORE MA ANCHE POLEMICHE ROMA - Il giorno dopo l'ecatombe nella scuola Numero 1 di Beslan, in Ossezia del Nord, e la furiosa reazione di Mosca alla richiesta di spiegazioni da parte della presidenza di turno olandese dell'Ue, l'Europa da Maastricht oggi ha ribadito ma anche
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Xinhua Crude oil prices rise to above US$55 a barrel World oil prices rose to a new record high above 55 US dollars a barrel Friday, stirring fears of 60-dollar-a-barrel New York crude, as concerns about the global supply of heating
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RedNova science Environment: Healing the Ozone Layer Will Take Decades By Stephen Leahy* - Tierramrica TORONTO, Sep. 20, 2006 (IPS/GIN) -- Another giant ozone hole has opened up over the Antarctic, while evidence mounts that 20 years of international efforts have finally helped the atmosphere to start to heal itself.
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Reuters Murdoch Says Wants Standstill Pact with Malone News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch on Tuesday said he can live with Liberty Media Corp. being a large shareholder of the media conglomerate if Liberty Chairman John Malone
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The Washington Post Top News Adventurer Is Reported Missing Steve Fossett, a tycoon-turned-record-seeker who became the first person to circumnavigate the globe in a balloon, vanished Monday while flying a single-engine plane over rugged terrain in Nevada, authorities said.
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Yahoo Business NYSE unveils $10 billion plan to buy Euronext (Reuters) Reuters - The New York Stock Exchange unveiled an 8 billion euro ($10.2 billion) share and cash bid for Euronext on Monday, countering a rival proposal from Deutsche Boerse just a day before a meeting where Euronext shareholders will decide on the future of the bourse operator.
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Syfy.com Kidman, Crowe make perfect casting coup in 'Eucalyptus' Russel Crowe is reportedly very excited about his new movie Eucalyptus as it has an all star cast of three Oscar winners including Nicole Kidman, Geoffrey Rush and himself.
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Bloomberg SABMiller Venture to Buy Lion Nathan's China Brewers (Update1) SABMiller Plc, the world's second- largest brewer, said its Chinese venture agreed to buy three unprofitable breweries in China from Lion Nathan Ltd.
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Reuters World Sarkozy backs U.S.-India nuclear deal NEW DELHI (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy, seeking to cement political and business ties with a booming India, voiced support at the start of an official visit for New Delhi's controversial nuclear deal with the United States.
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Ansa Spettacolo Dorelli di nuovo in teatro a Milano Con 'I ragazzi irresistibili', nel ruolo un tempo di Matthau
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Chicago Sun Times Arafat's death could bring new chance for peace Yasser Arafat was in intensive care Saturday in a French hospital, as former US envoys said his death would open up opportunities for peace, especially if pragmatic Palestinian leaders emerge.
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Yahoo Europe Insignia of Emperor Maxentius unearthed (AP) AP - Archaeologists have unearthed what they say are the only existing imperial insignia belonging to Emperor Maxentius — precious objects that were buried to preserve them and keep them from enemies when he was defeated by his rival Constantine.
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The Register BEA thinks modular for lightweight SOA platform Three products, one architecture BEAWorld 2006 BEA Systems is making modules of its middleware, in a move to help developers build services oriented architectures (SOAs).

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Boston Globe business Greenberg denies push to buy Times Co. stock The New York Times Co. stock jumped 7.5 percent yesterday, its biggest gain in almost six years, on reports that billionaire Maurice "Hank" Greenberg , former chairman of insurance giant American International Group, was snapping up shares of Times Co. in a bid to challenge its two-tier ownership structure.
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RedNova technology YouTube Coming to Cell Phones, Co-Founder Says By The Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan - YouTube co-founder Steve Chen said on Saturday consumers in many parts of the world will have access to the popular video-sharing Web site on their mobile phones by next year.
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BBC UK IBM frees 500 software patents Computer giant IBM says 500 of its software patents will be released into the open development community.
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sportal.com.au Sluman's sensational start A course-record opening 62 has powered American Jeff Sluman to the lead in the Chrysler Championship in Florida, while Aussie Steve Leaney is five shots back.
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RTE News New French finance minister named Nicolas Sarkozy has resigned as France's finance and economy minister to concentrate on his new job leading the ruling UMP party of President Jacques Chirac.
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Yahoo Health Think Wasabi Clears Your Sinuses? Think Again (Reuters) Reuters - Many people believe the sushi-seasoner wasabi clears their sinuses, but new research presented this week suggests that the spicy green paste may do the opposite.
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Kataweb Sport Roma, 18:50 - CALCIO, LAZIO; ROCCHI: CONTRATTO? HO FINITO LE PAROLE Tommaso Rocchi parla a Radio Radio del contratto con la Lazio non ancora rinnovato: ''Il contratto? ...
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BBC News Business Chief executive leaves NorthWest The chief executive of the world's fifth-largest airline, NorthWest Airlines, has resigned to take over at a healthcare insurer.
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The Washington Post Top News Attack Kills 1, Wounds 11 at Base Outside Iraqi Airport BAGHDAD, Sept. 11 -- Insurgents fired rockets or mortars Tuesday at a sprawling U.S. base near Baghdad's international airport, killing one person and wounding 11 soldiers, the U.S. command said.
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The Washington Post sports The Pluck of the Irish Returns Through 15 games as Notre Dame's coach, both Tyrone Willingham and Charlie Weis had the same 11-4 record and had just been beaten soundly by Michigan. Both encountered Michigan State in their 16th game, but that's where the similarities end.
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Topix.Net Europe Barratt American purchase completed Barratt American Inc. has officially become an independent home-building company, the new owners announced Monday.
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Yahoo Business Economy More Sluggish Than First Thought (AP) AP - Weighed down by high energy prices, the economy was even more sluggish than initially believed during the second quarter. But Federal Reserve policy-makers believe the pace will pick up in coming months, something President Bush is counting on as the election approaches.
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BBC - Front Page Stone of Destiny row revealed Church of England authorities were livid when the Stone of Destiny was moved from Westminster Abbey.
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Kataweb Sport New York, 08:35 - BASEBALL, MAJOR LEAGUE: NEW YORK BATTE BOSTON Risultati delle gare del campionato americano di baseball (MLB) disputate nella notte. In maiuscolo ...
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New York Times world Pataki Urges Huge Cuts in Health Care to Close Budget Gap The $105.5 billion budget proposal for New York state also included an increase of $526 million in public school spending.
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Yahoo Elections Behind Nevada casino walls is a political fight (Reuters) Reuters - A key back-room battle in the contest to nominate a Democratic presidential candidate is raging far from the gaze of TV cameras in places like the workers' cafeteria of the Mirage Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip.
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The Register mmO2 looks set for maiden dividend Earlier than expected
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Washington Post Tech Forecast: Plenty of Activity On the Weather Blog Front If it's possible to love something just because it could visit torrents upon the Washington region, fling hail from the skies and swell streams into rivers, then Jason Samenow is smitten.
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Xinhua Most Britons want legal smoking age to be raised Four out of five Britons wanted the legal smoking age to be raised from 16 to 18 years in a bid to deter young people from taking up the habit, the result of a poll suggested Monday.
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Kataweb Calcio Roma, 13:04 - CALCIO, COPPA ITALIA: LA PROGRAMMAZIONE TELEVISIVA Questa la programmazione televisiva delle gare di andata degli ottavi di finale della Coppa Italia T...
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BBC UK DR Congo's Bemba to stay abroad Congo's opposition leader Jean-Pierre Bemba will not be returning from Portugal due to safety concerns, aides say.
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Ansa Tromba d'aria in Friuli, 8 feriti Violenti temporali colpiscono pianura friulana
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Reuters World Georgia opposition vows court move to win recount TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgia's opposition vowed on Tuesday to press on with street protests and mount a legal challenge to a presidential election which it says incumbent Mikhail Saakashvili rigged in his favor.
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Reuters Israeli Troops Kill 5 in West Bank Clashes-Witnesses Israeli troops killed at least five Palestinian militants in the West Bank city of Nablus on Wednesday, witnesses said. A military spokeswoman confirmed operations were under way but declined to comment on casualties.
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Reuters Entertainment TV hosts return to work as union targets Oscars LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Late-night TV comedians Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien said on Monday they will resume taping their shows on January 2, and cross picket lines if necessary, after nearly two months off the air in support of striking film and television writers.
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BBC - Front Page Smoking killing millions globally Smoking killed almost 5 million people around the world in 2000, researchers have calculated.
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New York Times Business As Stewart Enters Prison, Her Company Refurbishes Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia is focused both on life without Ms. Stewart and on life once she returns.
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BBC UK Big ice shelf's disappearing act Sediments extracted from the Antarctic sea floor show the world's largest ice shelf has disintegrated and reappeared many times in the past.
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Yahoo Entertainment INTERVIEW: NBC Hopes for Recovery After Early Losses (Reuters) Reuters - Jeff Gaspin wears a lot of hats at NBC Universal.
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BBC UK Eurotunnel 'saved' by investors Eurotunnel investors back a restructuring plan that could save the firm from bankruptcy.
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People's Daily Online China enters crucial time for AIDS prevention: vice-premier Chinese Vice-Premier Wu Yi said on November 25 that the country has entered a crucial time for AIDS prevention and urged everyone to work to stop the spread of the disease.
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BBC UK Live - Tour de France stage four The Tour continues south on the 193km stage four from Villers-Cotterets to Joigny.
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BBC News world India-Pakistan flights to double Pakistan and India agree to double the number of weekly passenger flights between the two countries.
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Ha'aretz Palestinian accused rapist shot dead in custody Masked gunmen shot dead an accused rapist on his way to court in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Tuesday in the latest sign of a growing Palestinian breakdown of law and order.
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NEWS.com.au Star witness attacked ANGRY supporters of Abu Bakar Bashir have attacked a star prosecution witness as he testified in court that the radical cleric was the leader of terror group Jemaah Islamiah.
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News-Leader.com Election 2004: Bush, Kerry go on the attack with ads President Bush claims John Kerry doesn't known what his position is on the war, while the Democrat accuses Bush of having no plan in Iraq â€-ueling television ads setting the
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Katu.com Veteran Portland pitcher sent to Royals in four-player deal The San Diego Padres have traded Portland Beavers right-handed pitcher Dennis Tankersley to the Kansas City Royals as part of a four-player deal that was announced today.
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ABC Online Google share price falls short of predictions Internet search giant Google has priced its long-awaited initial public offering (IPO) at just under $120 a share, far below initial expectations.
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BBC News world Warning on stealthy Windows virus PC users are being warned about a password-stealing virus that hides deep inside Windows.
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USA Today NASA sets Swift launch for Saturday Swift's new launch date is Saturday, if NASA, Boeing and the Air Force can replace and test components of the rocket in time. The gamma-ray observatory's
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New York Times As Hawks Circle, All Sides Seek Compromise Government officials, environmental advocates and a representative of a luxury co-op building have agreed to meet tomorrow to discuss new lodgings for Manhattan's most famous homeless couple
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Jerusalem Post EU to start conditional entry talks with Turkey The European Union's executive commission is expected to recommend on Wednesday that Turkey begin entry talks for membership in the bloc, but with stringent and long-term conditions attached.
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BetaNews.Com Sony May Pull Out of Cell CPU Production for PS3 One of Sony’s senior executives, Executive Deputy President Yutaka Nakagawa, is quoted by several US and Asian press sources as saying that, in the interest of finding cost savings, his company is considering exiting the production end of the Cell processor business. Cell processors are produced by an alliance between Sony, IBM, and Toshiba.
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Reuters Business Cingular Opposes Nextel on Swap Costs WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cingular Wireless has urged U.S. communications regulators to reject a request by rival Nextel Communications Inc. NXTL.O to lower the cost of its plan to swap airwaves with the government, which is aimed at reducing interference with public safety communications.
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Yahoo Entertainment Dodd Introduces Federal Shield Law (Editor and Publisher) Editor and Publisher - NEW YORK Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) on Friday introduced a federal shield law that would provide an "absolute protection" for confidential sources. The legislation is in response to a slew of recent court actions demanding reporters reveal sources.
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BBC UK Laos hosts annual Asean meeting South East Asian leaders are joined in Laos by officials from six regional powers for this year's Asean summit.
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BBC UK Apple's Jobs to unveil 2005 plans Apple fans will find out what the future holds for the firm when boss Steve Jobs unveils his 2005 plans.
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Boston Globe sports Cubs' Forecast Turns Cloudier by the Moment With Friday's loss to Atlanta, the Chicago Cubs' chances for a wild-card berth in the National League grew so dim as to become nearly invisible.
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The Industry Standard AOL to cut 700 jobs America Online Inc. (AOL) plans to lay off 700 employees, about 5 percent of its US workforce, by the end of the year, several news organizations reported Tuesday.
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BBC Europe World marks web safety day Efforts to make the net less risky for children are being marked by the fourth Internet Safety Day.
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Grand Forks Herald Penn National to acquire Argosy in $1.4 billion deal CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Penn National Gaming Inc. is acquiring Argosy Gaming Co. for $1.4 billion cash in an effort to turn itself into the nation's third-largest operator of gambling properties.
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