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Kataweb Calcio Roma, 19:17 - CALCIO, ROMA; TOTTI: SONO CONTENTO DI AFFRONTARE IL REAL Francesco Totti è contento di avere trovato il Real Madrid nel sorteggio per gli ottavii di C...
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Guardian New rules will slow down cars A wide-ranging package of new formula one technical rules has been announced by the FIA, motor racing's international governing body, to slow the cars in the interests of safety.
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Turkish Press Strong quake rocks north of Indonesia's Sumatra island JAKARTA (AFP) - A strong earthquake has rocked the northern tip of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, with residents reporting collapsed buildings and possible casualties.
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Reuters Entertainment Michael Jackson in Stable Shape at Calif. Hospital LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Michael Jackson was in stable condition and under observation on Wednesday at the California hospital where he was taken after suffering flu-like symptoms that suspended his child-molestation trial, a hospital spokesman said.
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BBC UK Paranoid driver killed three walkers A 32-year-old is detained indefinitely after admitting the manslaughter of three people he killed with a 4x4 vehicle.
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BBC - Front Page DUP 'impatient' over IRA weapons The DUP says that it is getting impatient with the IRA over the issue of decommissioning.
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New York Times Tech Bits: Sellers Give Negative Feedback on eBay Changes Sellers worry that their costs will rise and they will have less protection against malicious buyers.
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Boston Globe sports Pennington Is Going Longer: Seven Years for $64 Million Chad Pennington signed a contract extension Wednesday that is believed to include one of the largest bonuses given to a player in the N.F.L.
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New York Times Business Bank of England Offers New Infusion of Loans The central bank doubled the amount of emergency loans made available to British banks caught short in the global credit squeeze.
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Ansa Economia Poste: sindacati chiedono incontro Sollecitata apertura confronto su liberalizzazione
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Reuters World U.S. Ambassador in Syria Summoned Home for Talks WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday recalled its ambassador to Syria for urgent consultations to show its deep displeasure with Damascus following the killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri.
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Yahoo Sports Blue Jays, Wells near deal on extension (AP) AP - All-Star center fielder Vernon Wells and the Toronto Blue Jays are close to agreement on a $126 million, seven-year contract extension that would be the sixth-largest deal in baseball history.
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Yahoo U.S. Small plane hits Indiana home; 1 dead (AP) AP - A small plane crashed into a home near a southern Indiana airport Monday, killing at least one person on the plane, authorities said.
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ZDNet.co.uk Lycos antispam campaign bites the dust The controversial attempt to attack spammers by bombarding their web sites with traffic from thousands of individual PCs is over. After a week of heavy criticism of the company's plan to launch denial-of-service
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Ansa Italia Allarme bomba, volo atterra a Lione Due persone a bordo sono state portate via dalla polizia
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New York Times sports Lehman has field in a fog Soupy fog made it impossible to see the ball. And the way Tom Lehman is playing at the Buick Invitational, it might be hard for the rest of the field to find him.
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New York Times Arts Dismemberment Entree, Heaping Side of Screams “Saw IV” is bloody proof that Jigsaw may be dead, but his well of corporeal abuses has yet to run dry.
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Chicago Sun Times Woods makes it clear he's playing to win BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. -- When he was named US Ryder Cup captain almost two years ago, Hal Sutton considered one of his biggest missions to get Tiger Woods fired up for the matches.
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New York Times Arts Not All the News Was on the Rialto Much of the most interesting and enterprising theater in New York starts Off Broadway, even if it doesn’t necessarily stay there.
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Bloomberg Japanese Stocks May Gain, Led by Toyota, After Oil Price Drops Japanese stocks may rise after oil prices fell by the most in three months, allaying concern higher fuel costs will slow global economic growth.
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Penny Arcade News: The Spore Cult Tycho: I'm aware of Spore, but it's not a game I look around for in an active mode. Here is a preview of the game, for example, but I haven't read it so I don't know if it's good or not. I'm especially disinclined to read previews in particular, because I think it's a game that is likely to preview well. You aren't likely get past the novelty stage in am Official Press context - it's going to be pure discovery from beginning to end, wall to wall tendrils and eye stalks, ginning up hobbling quintapeds whose journey to the mailbox is difficult, if not impossible. The incredible outpourings of support for the game are themselves incredible to me, but what they've done is try to create a product whose potential is as raw as possible. We seem to value that ethereal quantity differently than most.
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Yahoo U.S. Gay marriage dealt defeat in California (AP) AP - A state appeals court upheld California's ban on gay marriage Thursday, a critical defeat for a movement hungry for a win after similar losses in two other states.
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Cincinnati Post Navy on a mission against Notre Dame Two score and one year ago, Navy defeated Notre Dame on the football field. It hasn't happened since. Today at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ, an undefeated Navy squad seeks to break that
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The Washington Post sports Phelps Adds to Total Michael Phelps wins his fourth gold medal of the Olympics in the 200-meter individual medley Thursday, leading the entire race.
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Yahoo Politics Edwards Emerges As Typical VP Candidate (AP) AP - Smooth, smiling John Edwards is sounding more like the traditional vice presidential candidate, calling President Bush a con artist and Vice President Dick Cheney a hypocrite, and all but labeling both Republicans liars.
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Wired Business Wi-Fi as a Health Hazard Sufferers of electromagnetic field sensitivity claim that the growing pervasiveness of wireless networks only exacerbates their condition. Skeptics discount their fears -- and their symptoms -- and the battle is joined. By Rob Beschizza.
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Yahoo Europe London shares close mixed (AFP) AFP - Leading UK shares closed mixed, following three days of decline, and were well off highs, after a rally on Wall Street faded.
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Pakistan News Service Pakistan Test Fires Ghaznavi Missile ISLAMABAD, Pakistan : Nov 30 (SADA) - Pakistan conducted a test of its nuclear- capable ballistic missile on Monday as part of efforts to boost its defenses, the state-run television reported.
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New York Times Candidates Hopscotch Through Battleground States in Final Bid Nursing their vocal chords and trying to keep up their energy levels, President Bush and Senator John Kerry sprinted through several battleground states on the eve of Election Day, even though
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Yahoo Europe "Don't Tase Me, Bro" tops '07 quote list (Reuters) Reuters - "Don't Tase Me, Bro", a phrase that swept the nation after a college student used it seeking to stop campus police from throwing him out of a speech by U.S. Sen. John Kerry, was named on Wednesday as the most memorable quote of 2007.
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ESPN Earnhardt Jr. wiser, seeking respect Chalk it up as one last youthful indiscretion for Dale Earnhardt Jr. Now he just has to hope it's not one of the most costly mistakes of his career.
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Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Iraq seeks tighter borders SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt -- Iraqi officials rejected Arab criticism of US actions in their country, as an international conference on Iraq's future opened Monday.
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Yahoo World India will not quit Australia tour: reports (AFP) AFP - India will not pull out of their bitter tour of Australia even if they lose their appeal over the three-match ban slapped on Harbhajan Singh, reports said Saturday.
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ESPN Evidence of apathy So, did Robin Van Persie deserve to get a red card for his tussle with Kieran Richardson? After viewing the incident a number of times from a series of different angles and hearing the views from a raft of
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New York Times sports Stuart hoping he has staying power Up on Monday morning. Down later Monday morning. Up on Tuesday morning. But there might not be another down anytime soon.
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BBC - Front Page Somali forces win airport battle At least six people die in fighting as Somalia's transitional government takes control of Baidoa airport.
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USA Today The crisis: Roots, repercussions Ukraine's political crisis has virtually paralyzed the country, brought hundreds of thousands of protesters into the streets and threatened to erupt into civil war.
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New York Times sports Grugger is first down hill in Bormio; Miller is 14th Austrian downhiller Johann Grugger won his first World Cup race yesterday on the course in Bormio, Italy, the site of next month's world championships, while overall Cup leader Bode Miller came in 14th.
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Reuters Sports Swimming: Fifth Gold, Seventh Medal for Phelps ATHENS (Reuters) - Michael Phelps won his fifth gold medal at the Athens Olympics Friday to claim a place alongside Mark Spitz as one of the greatest swimmers in Olympic history.
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CNET enterprise hardware news USB 3.0 brings optical connection in 2008 Universal Serial Bus will be overhauled with optical data links for a tenfold bandwidth increase, Intel promises. The spec is due in 2008.
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Yahoo Tech Apple's Retail Strategy Reinforces Brand (AP) AP - When Apple Computer Inc. opens its newest store Friday on the same New York shopping strip as Prada, Tiffany & Co. and Saks Fifth Avenue, it'll mark five years of a distinctive retail style that both reinforces the company's brand cachet and pays off handsomely.
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New York Times sports Pettitte source unveiled Andy Pettitte's father obtained the human growth hormone he supplied his son from a trainer who attended high school with the New York Yankees pitcher.
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BBC Europe Holocaust denier verdict upheld British historian David Irving has his conviction for denying the Holocaust upheld by the Austrian Supreme Court.
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Guardian Top News Sailor wins rape conviction appeal Court of appeal quashes conviction of Royal Navy rating jailed for rape of female colleague.
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Ansa Economia Ponte Stretto: Bianchi,non si fara' Ministro dei Trasporti visita nuova aerostazione a Catania
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San Francisco Chronicle Haslett downplays shouting match on team flight New Orleans coach Jim Haslett downplayed an altercation between quarterback Aaron Brooks and defensive end Charles Grant that took place on the team plane back from Arizona.
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Reuters Top News Space shuttle Discovery launched from Florida CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - The space shuttle Discovery soared into space on Saturday on a column of fire that briefly dispelled the darkness over the Kennedy Space Center in NASA's first night launch since the Columbia disaster.
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News Is Free Top News Bitter cold spurs dumpling madness On CNN
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Xinhua Tribal elders again fail to secure release of Chinese engineers The efforts to secure the release of two Chinese engineers failed for second time on Wednesday as leaders of the militants, holding hostages in Pakistan tribal region, have
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Yahoo World Laura Bush helps launch health center (AP) AP - First lady Laura Bush helped launch a screening facility in Saudi Arabia Tuesday as part of a U.S.-Saudi initiative to raise breast cancer awareness in the kingdom where doctors struggle to break long-held taboos about the disease.
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Concord Monitor World Cup skiing Miller wins sixth Cup race of season ESTRIERE, Italy - World Cup leader Bode Miller won a slalom yesterday to join Marc Girardelli as the only men to win races in all four disciplines in a season.
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RedNova technology Caught in the Web of Internet's Material World By Lee Randall REGULAR readers know I'm a great fan of the internet. I'm continually astounded by the wealth of data stored there and especially love the way one thing leads to another. It's a Mecca for anyone who enjoys meandering.
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BBC - Front Page Stars vie for Big Brother title Happy Mondays dancer Bez is favourite to win the new series of Celebrity Big Brother, which began on Thursday.
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Yahoo Entertainment Network Chiefs Leery of FCC Indecency Push (Reuters) Reuters - Efforts by the Federal Communications Commission to regulate indecency on broadcast TV have drawn sharp criticism from network entertainment chiefs.
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Ansa Benevento: rimossi blocchi stradali Tranne uno in localita' di Tufara Valle
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RedNova general 4 Die in Attack on Iraqi National Guard HQ BAGHDAD, Iraq - A mortar attack on an Iraqi National Guard headquarters north of Baghdad on Tuesday killed four guardsmen and wounded 80 others, the U.S. military said...
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New York Times sports Eagles hoping to fly under sound barrier One of the factors in Boston College's game at Virginia Tech next Thursday night will be the noise.
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The Scotsman China Power Transfer 'A Positive Step' Jiang, whose term was to have run until 2007, resigned at a meeting of the ruling Communist Party’s Central Committee that ended yesterday.
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ABC News Blasts at Egypt Resort Kill at Least 27 TABA, Egypt Oct. 8, 2004 - Rescuers Friday dug through the debris of a luxury hotel for victims of a series of bombs at resorts in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula that are popular with Israelis.
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National Geographic Society Shuttle Astronauts Prepare to Return Home. Astronauts prepared the shuttle Atlantis for the ride home, wrapping up "arguably one of the most successful docked missions we've had," according to one manager.
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RedNova technology 5 Locals Named All-American: Four WVC Field Hockey Players Selected By Lisa Sokolowski, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Times Leader Dec. 12--In a world that is dominated by the Internet, Wyoming Seminary's Kat Sharkey was thankful she didn't have to use it on Monday.
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Time World No Safe Harbor A Dutch ship has caused ripples in Portugal's abortion debate
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Yahoo Entertainment Warner shows to appear on ABC broadband player (Reuters) Reuters - The Walt Disney Co's ABC television network and Warner Bros announced an experimental deal on Thursday for four Warner-produced ABC shows to appear on ABC's Web-based broadband media player.
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The University of Hawaii Kaleo UN boosts budget for AIDS epidemic which the United Nations says is now host to 37.2 million adults around the world -- by recognizing World AIDS Day in Hawai'i.
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Yahoo Europe Bjorn fined for scathing attack on Woosnam (AFP) AFP - Snubbed Danish golfer Thomas Bjorn has been fined a "substantial sum" by the European Tour after a scathing attack on European Ryder Cup captain Ian Woosnam.
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Reuters Top News Results in key Senate races: Reuters poll WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats must gain six seats in the November 7 election to recapture U.S. Senate control, and they lead in three of the seven most vulnerable Republican-held states, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Thursday.
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CNET networking news RIAA ordered to cover suit target's legal fees Blog: In what appears to be the first such occurrence, the recording industry must pay more than $68,000 in attorneys fees to an Oklahoma woman whose case was dismissed last summer.
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Linux Journal Creating business cards with OpenOffice.org Writer Exchanging business cards is a rudimentary form of networking (the people, not the server kind). However, to get the most out of the exchange, you need a card that attracts attention and reflects the image or values you want to project. read more
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New York Times Business Square Feet: It’s Also the Texas Capital of Construction Critics of a building boom in Austin fear it will alter the character of the city, a place often prized by residents for its offbeat small-town vibe.
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BBC - Front Page Shevchenko goal rescues Blues point Chelsea are held to a 1-1 draw by Norwegian underdogs Rosenborg at Stamford Bridge in the Champions League.
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Yahoo World South Africa trounce Pakistan in cricket one-dayer (AFP) AFP - South Africa went on a batting rampage to set up a comprehensive 164-run win over Pakistan in the first one-day international at Centurion Park.
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Reuters Sports Green Bay's Favre adds yardage record to career NEW YORK (Reuters) - Record-setting Green Bay quarterback Brett Favre achieved another NFL milestone when he became the league's career leader in yards passing in the Green Bay Packers' 33-14 road victory over the St. Louis Rams on Sunday.
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Kataweb Sport Firenze, 15:53 - CALCIO, FIORENTINA: CONVOCATI PER PALERMO Il tecnico della Fiorentina, Cesare Prandelli, ha convocato 20 giocatori per la gara di domani a Pal...
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Reuters World Mongolian helicopter crash kills 14 ULAN BATOR (Reuters) - A helicopter on a firefighting mission has crashed in northern Mongolia, killing 14 people and critically injuring four of the eight survivors, the Mongolian government said on Monday.
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Yahoo Tech IBM Reports Strong Software, Services Results (PC World) PC World - IBM on Thursday provided more details of its robust fourth-quarter and 2007 financial performance, following an early preview of the figures on Monday.
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Ansa Calcio Nissan: utili in calo dopo 18 mesi Per ritardi commercializzazione nuove vetture.Titolo giu'
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Boston Globe world Libyans reach deal in case of accused foreign medics TRIPOLI, Libya -- A settlement has been reached to resolve the crisis over five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor sentenced to death in Libya for allegedly infecting more than 400 children with the AIDS virus, a foundation headed by the Libyan leader's son said yesterday .
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BBC UK Police 'backed' over NY shooting New York's mayor says he will support the city's police chief, after officers shot dead an unarmed black man.
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The Washington Post sports Garnett Sinks Rockets Kevin Garnett jumper with 8.3 seconds remaining lifts the Timberwolves to a 96-91 win over the Rockets on Thursday. Garnett finished with 20 points, 17 rebounds and nine assists.
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BBC News Protesters defy Labour security Protesters were able to disrupt Tony Blair's conference speech despite a multi-million-pound security operation aimed at preventing a terrorist attack.
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New York Times Arts Music: Podium Star, Ever Expanding His Horizons The 35-year-old conductor Vladimir Jurowski has features similiar to Rudolf Nureyev, and conveys his intentions with balletic fluency, applying accents that are minimal and precise.
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Ansa Spettacolo Buffon-Seredova: bebe' in arrivo In dolce attesa anche la coppia Nistri - Montezemolo
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RedNova technology Computer Knack Now a Business: Proprietor's Manner Puts Clientele at Ease By Jamar Younger, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson Feb. 1--Even though Marana resident Don Winfield knows a lot about computers, you won't find him trying to impress people with his vast technical knowledge.
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Kataweb Calcio Madrid, 12:47 - CALCIO, REAL MADRID: 6 SETTIMANE DI STOP PER ROBBEN L'olandese del Real Madrid, Arjen Robben, dovrà rimanere fermo per sei settimane a causa di u...
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Repubblica Aborto, il documento dei medici riapre lo scontro sulla 194 Il testo dei cattedratici riaccende il dibattito sull'interruzione di gravidanza Angius: "Profondo sdegno per l'aggressione a una legge giusta" Aborto, il documento dei medici riapre lo scontro sulla 194 (18:29 03/02/2008)
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Yahoo U.S. Tribal chief charged in immigration scam (AP) AP - The leader of an unrecognized American Indian tribe was charged Friday with scheming to sell tribal memberships to immigrants by falsely claiming the documents would make them U.S. citizens, a federal prosecutor said.
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Arutz Sheva Netanyahu Remaining in the Cabinet (IsraelNN.com) Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu a short ago announced he would not be implementing his ultimatum which would lead to his resignation from the cabinet.
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Reuters U.S. Toy makers and trade policy caused recalls: report WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A torrent of toy recalls this year is due in part to U.S. trade agreements encouraging American toymakers to cut costs by shifting production overseas, the watchdog group Public Citizen said on Wednesday.
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Repubblica Politica Fini al decennale di Alleanza Nazionale "Non lavoriamo al partito unico" Fini al decennale di Alleanza Nazionale "Non lavoriamo al partito unico" (14:11 30/01/2005)
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San Francisco Chronicle Nets guard Planinic has hand surgery New Jersey Nets guard Zoran Planinic had surgery on his broken left hand Thursday and will be out indefinitely. Planinic broke his hand in Wednesday's game against the Washington Wizards.
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Computerworld news Law firm turns to software to streamline case data searches When a balky and slow search system bogged down work at a California law firm, it checked out options from Google, Yahoo and others before settling on a solution from Recommind Inc.
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The Register HTC Advantage gets a facelift New and improved Handset manufacturer HTC has redesigned its existing Advantage device, upping the storage capacity to 16GB, overhauling the keyboard’s responsiveness and updating the UMPC's software.

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Yahoo Business ICBC to raise up to $19 bln in IPO: source (Reuters) Reuters - Industrial and Commercial Bank of China plans to raise as much as US$19 billion in what would be the world's largest share sale, valuing the country's top lender at a discount to its largest rivals, a source familiar with the deal said on Sunday.
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Reuters World Turkish warplanes strike 70 PKK targets in Iraq: army ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish warplanes struck some 70 Kurdish guerrilla targets in northern Iraq on Monday in the latest in a series of strikes, the General Staff said.
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China Post China bank advisor retracts statement on US Treasurys A central bank adviser quoted as saying the government had cut its holdings of US Treasurys backtracked Friday after the speculation helped push the euro to a new all-time peak.
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Reuters World Polls open as Jamaicans vote in close election KINGSTON (Reuters) - A handful of voters lined up early when polls opened for Jamaica's national elections on Monday as the Caribbean island heals from one hurricane, warily eyes another and frets over recent political violence.
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The Times OECD says Chancellor will have to raise taxes GORDON BROWN faces having to raise taxes or cut spending to curb burgeoning public borrowing, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development said yesterday.
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PCWorld news SanDisk Launches 16GB Video MP3 Player Apple's new iPod Nano has competition: The SanDisk SansaView plays video, displays photos, and receives FM radio signals.
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The Register Muslim clerics slam Koranic ringtones 'Un-Islamic' verses Indian Muslim clerics have condemned the use of verses from the Koran as mobile ringtones, Yahoo! reports.

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New York Times Business Biogen Takes Itself Off the Block After Failing to Sell High, and Shares Plunge 28% Investors in the biotechnology company Biogen Idec announced Wednesday that it had not received any definitive offers after putting itself up for sale two months ago.
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