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Yahoo Business Fed halted rate hikes on economy worries (AP) AP - Worries about short-term damage to the economy led Federal Reserve policymakers at their August meeting to halt a more than two-year-old interest rate-raising campaign.
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Guardian Don't mention the (Vietnam) war Resuming combat after the Republican convention, John Kerry seemed like the Japanese warrior who emerged from the jungle decades after 1945, convinced that the war was not yet over.
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CNN/SI Bayern seeks to bounce back at Juventus Bayern Munich need to shrug off their surprise Bundesliga defeat at the weekend when they face Juventus in a mouth-watering Champions League showdown on Tuesday.
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Topix.Net Europe Britons reach out to their Asian cousins THE strength of ties between the United Kingdom and Indian Ocean countries stricken by the tsunami emerged in the pattern of giving to victims of the disaster.
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Boston Globe world Palestinians consent to a coalition government JERUSALEM -- Palestinian leaders agreed yesterday to establish a unity government including the moderate Fatah party to replace the administration led by the Islamic militant group Hamas, a step that Palestinians hope will lead to the lifting of an international funding freeze that has crippled the government since Hamas took office in March.
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Repubblica Ancona, tra minacce e reticenze si allarga l'inchiesta sulla minore stuprata La procura vuole sentire oltre duecento persone che erano a conoscenza dell'episodio Intimidazioni contro la famiglia della ragazzina che ha denunciato gli abusi ripresi con un cellulare Ancona, tra minacce e reticenze si allarga l'inchiesta sulla minore stuprata (18:01 23/11/2006)
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New York Times world The Bonus: A Rise in the Number Wall St. Crunches the Most Year-end bonuses for investment bankers are expected to rise 10 percent to 15 percent from last year, executives and compensation experts say.
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New York Times Tech Product Placement on Reality TV Seems Somehow More Realistic It is typically easier to weave a product into an episode of a reality show like “American Idol” than into a scripted series like “Grey’s Anatomy” or “Two and a Half Men.”
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Reuters Top News Israel blocks Palestinian PM from returning to Gaza GAZA (Reuters) - Israel blocked Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh from returning to Gaza on Thursday after a visit abroad to prevent him bringing in money donated by Iran.
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Green Bay Press Gazette Fans dig Lambeau shoveling duties Dustin Mirr, 21, pushed a shovel around Lambeau Field wearing just snowboots, athletic shorts and a sleeveless T-shirt in 20-degree temperatures.
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Kataweb Calcio Milano, 13:35 - CALCIO, MILAN: 20 CONVOCATI PER MATCH CON FIORENTINA Sono 20 i giocatori convocati dal tecnico del Milan, Carlo Ancelotti, per la gara di domani sera con...
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Yahoo World Algerian group uses suicide bombers (AP) AP - When Algeria's Islamic militants dubbed themselves Al-Qaida in Islamic North Africa this year, it was more than just a name change: Fresh recruits also have been deployed in suicide bombings, a new tactic in the 15-year insurgency.
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Yahoo Sports Same-Old Pistons Face New-Look Heat (AP) AP - Pat Riley's experiment is about to be put to the test.
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Topix.Net Europe England wants its independence The United Kingdom should be broken up and Scotland and England set free as independent nations, according to a huge number of voters on both sides of the border. Comment
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New York Times world Iraqi Sunni Lands Show New Oil and Gas Promise New estimates of the amount of oil and natural gas on Sunni lands are likely to have significant political effects.
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Fides Italia VATICANO - "Sull'esempio del Beato Charles de Foucauld, i cristiani dei vostri Paesi siano testimoni credibili della fraternità universale che Cristo ha insegnato ai suoi discepoli!”: l’esortazione di Benedetto XVI ai Vescovi della Conferenza Episcopale Regionale del Nord dell'Africa VATICANO - "Sull'esempio del Beato Charles de Foucauld, i cristiani dei vostri Paesi siano testimoni credibili della fraternità universale che Cristo ha insegnato ai suoi discepoli!”: l’esortazione di Benedetto XVI ai Vescovi della Conferenza Episcopale Regionale del Nord dell'Africa Città del Vaticano (Agenzia Fides) - “La diversità delle situazioni umane ed ecclesiali dei vostri Paesi non Ú un ostacolo alla fraternità che avete a cuore di vivere nella vostra Conferenza Episcopale, trovandovi un sostegno apprezzabile per il vost...
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Ansa Foibe: Croazia vuole buoni rapporti Portavoce Zagabria riporta telefonata tra Prodi e Sanader
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iTunes Music The Future Starts Here - The Essential Doors Hits - The Doors The Future Starts Here - The Essential Doors Hits by The Doors
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Yahoo Europe Posh wowed by meeting 'Forrest Gump' at Hollywood party (AFP) AFP - David Beckham's wife Victoria told of how she was wowed by meeting Tom Hanks at a Hollywood party, which she said she may never "get used to", in an interview published on Wednesday.
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BBC News entertainment Bush branded an 'idiot' by Robbie Pop star Robbie Williams calls US President George Bush an "idiot" on a visit to Mexico.
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Reuters Business Oil eases toward $78 as Atlantic storm fades LONDON (Reuters) - Oil extended a retreat from record highs on Monday, sliding towards $78 a barrel after tropical storm Ingrid faded in the Atlantic and as concerns about the global credit squeeze took centre stage.
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KVIA FDA launches review of COX-Two inhibitors, warns caution on all <b>...</b> WASHINGTON The Food and Drug Administration has ordered a sweeping review of studies involving prescription painkillers like Celebrex and Bextra.
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Yahoo Health Thyroid Cancer Afflicts Thousands Yearly (AP) AP - In thyroid cancer, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist faces a disease that can be mild or very aggressive, depending on the type of cancer. The type affecting Rehnquist was not announced immediately.
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BBC UK Woman found in woodland strangled Police confirm a woman found dead in woodland near Ipswich was murdered by strangulation.
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WAVY-TV Investigation says bomb caused ferry blast that killed more than <b>...</b> MANILA, Philippines An investigation in the Philippines concludes that a deadly ferry fire in February was caused by a bomb, likely planted by the brutal Abu Sayyaf (AH'-boo SEYE'-yahf) group.
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RedNova science Townhouse Debate Sparks Spat Resident, Lawyer Trade Words; Matter Tabled By Jake Griffin Daily Herald Staff Writer Nearly two hours of neighborly debate about the fate of 6 acres of farmland wedged between two tranquil ponds in central Naperville devolved into several shouting matches at Tuesday's city council meeting.
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Reuters Top News Top two aides quit McCain's 2008 campaign WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican John McCain's top two aides quit his struggling presidential campaign on Tuesday, dealing a sharp blow to the Arizona senator and casting doubt on the future of his 2008 bid.
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The Register Keeping Bobbies ahead of the bunch Police 2.0 European Police Congress For two days this week, the Congress Centre in downtown Berlin was one of the safest places on earth. The GDR-style building was packed with policemen, army officers, and private and public security experts.

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BBC News world India win ends Aussie record bid India deny Australia a record 17th straight victory by dismissing them for 340 to win the third Test by 72 runs.
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Yahoo World Call of the wild next summer for Dolce and Gabbana, Ferre (AFP) AFP - Dolce and Gabbana and Gianfranco Ferre both heard the call of the wild for next summer, filling their ready-to-wear collections shown here on Friday with real and fake animal skins from big cats to crocodile, python and kangaroo.
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Yahoo Europe British medics worried by lack of dead bodies (Reuters) Reuters - When Austin Hymas got his first chance to dissect a full human body, he had to share it with five fellow trainee doctors.
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Kataweb Sport Genova, 18:55 - CALCIO, SAMP; MAROTTA: REINVESTIREMO I SOLDI DI QUAGLIARELLA "La Sampdoria ha offerto una cifra che mai aveva stanziato sino a oggi ma se Quagliarella dovesse pa...
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People's Daily Online Roundup: Northern Gaza witnessing endless war Real fighting and gun battles erupted Wednesday and mounted on Thursday between Palestinian militants groups and the Israeli army in the northern area of the Gaza Strip without seeing an end to it.
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Reuters Business Conditions set for Televisa cable buy MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican broadcaster Televisa will be allowed to buy a stake in cable company TVI only if it agrees to offer its popular free channels to competitors, Mexico's anti-trust agency said on Sunday.
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New York Times Movies The Ghost Down the Hall Is Scary in Spanish, Too “The Orphanage,” a diverting, overwrought ghost story from Spain, relies on basic and durable horror movie techniques.
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Boston Globe world Toll put at 7,000 in 1995 massacre Bosnia-Herzegovina BANJA LUKA -- Bosnian Serb forces killed more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica, a Bosnian Serb commission conceded yesterday in its final report on the 1995 massacre. Bosnian Muslim officials claim that up to 8,000 men and boys were killed at Srebrenica in July 1995, when Serb troops overran the UN-declared safe zone in Europe's worst ...
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CNN Celebrex to stay the market, for now The FDA says that although its decision is to not ban the drug, that possibilty is not ruled out. NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - The US Food and Drug Administration decided Friday not to recall Celebrex but it has not ruled out the possibility.
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Reuters World Strong Quake Jolts Manila, No Major Damage Reported MANILA (Reuters) - A strong earthquake jolted Manila and other parts of the northern Philippines on Friday night, prompting many to rush into the streets, but officials said there were no immediate reports of casualties or major damage.
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Forbes Video: All Eyes On The Grammy's Carrie Underwood may miss out this year as the fate of music's biggest night remains unknown.
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The Washington Post Top News The Sole Survivor The blood in his eyes almost blinded him, but the Navy Seal could hear, clattering above the trees in northeast Afghanistan, rescue helicopters.
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Kataweb Sport Firenze, 17:17 - CALCIO, FIORENTINA: 20 CONVOCATI PER IL ROSENBORG Allenamento mattutino per la Fiorentina in vista della gara di coppa Uefa con il Rosenborg. Al termi...
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BBC Europe EU 'blue card' to tempt skilled The European Commission is to propose a Blue Card to attract skilled immigrants, and rival the US Green Card.
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CNN Top News School bus crash kills 4 students Read full story for latest details.
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Repubblica E' morto Philippe Noiret monumento del cinema d'autore Aveva 76 anni, ed era malato da tempo. In mezzo secolo di carriera oltre 130 film, quasi tutti di grandi registi. In Francia come in Italia E' morto Philippe Noiret monumento del cinema d'autore Il cordoglio di Monicelli, che lo diresse in "Amici miei" e "Speriamo che sia femmina": "Un attore di qualità, di una razza in via d'estinzione" (20:51 23/11/2006)
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RedNova general Angels Top A's 5-4, Clinch AL West Title OAKLAND, Calif. - The Anaheim Angels capped a stirring comeback with one final rally, and now they're champions of the AL West for the first time in 18 years...
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Repubblica Cronaca "Un disastro puntare sugli inceneritori anche Bassolino ha sbagliato a fidarsi" Parla il ministro dell'Ambiente Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio "Dove si fa raccolta differenziata non c'Ú spazzatura per strada" "Un disastro puntare sugli inceneritori anche Bassolino ha sbagliato a fidarsi" di ANTONIO CIANCIULLO (08:57 28/05/2007)
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Turkish Press Renay International Transportation Company Withdraws From Iraq HATAY/MERSIN - Renay International Transportation Company, which Turkish truck driver Mithat Civi worked for, decided to withdraw from Iraq on Sunday.
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Forbes Update 1: London Exchange Rejects German Proposal The London Stock Exchange PLC has received and rejected a bid proposal from Germany's main stock exchange, Deutsche Boerse AG , the exchanges said Monday.
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Buffalo Business First Empire manufacturing up sharply in September Business at factories across New York state improved at an accelerated pace in the past month according to the Empire State Manufacturing Survey posted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Buffalo.
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Newsweek Top News Life as a Low-Wage Alzheimer's Caregiver Life in a residential Alzheimer's facility through the eyes of the low-wage workers who care for these vulnerable patients when their families can't.
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BBC - Front Page Lisa Marie sells Presley estate Elvis Presley's daughter Lisa Marie Presley agrees to sell 85% of his estate in a deal worth $100m (£51m).
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Yahoo Elections Daschle Faces Tough Test in Tight South Dakota Race (Reuters) Reuters - South Dakota truck driver Mark Monahan says he's had enough of Tom Daschle. So do top Republicans who have made the U.S. Senate's No. 1 Democrat a bull's-eye target for removal from the national scene.
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Reuters Myanmar Frees Prominent Political Prisoners Myanmar's junta freed at least two dozen members of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi's political party Friday during a mass release of 4,000 people detained "inappropriately
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The Washington Post world Bhutto Says She Will Return to Pakistan Oct. 18 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 14 -- Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party announced Friday that she will end eight years of exile Oct. 18 by flying home to the nation's largest city, although it remains unclear whether she will come back as friend or foe of the president, Gen....
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Khaleej Times United Vietnam prepares to welcome first US passenger jet since <b>...</b> HO CHI MINH CITY - Vietnam prepared to welcome on Friday the arrival of a United Airlines jumbo jet making the first passenger flight by an American carrier to the communist nation since the fall of Saigon in 1975.
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San Francisco Chronicle Ivan spreads its misery across the South as Florida digs out from <b>...</b> As Hurricane Ivan's remnants soaked the South on Friday and left a trail of destruction from the Gulf Coast to the Carolinas, Floridians once again are coping, cleaning up and coming together after being pummeled by a third devastating storm in five weeks
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BBC - Front Page Roads agency 'not beating jams' The Highways Agency is being too timid to end traffic congestion, says the public spending watchdog.
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Cincinnati Post Jets able to contain Rudi Rudi Johnson knew he was going to be a marked man before the season began. He found out how much so Sunday in the Bengals 31-24 loss to the New York Jets at the Meadowlands.
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BBC News health 'Lingering pregnancy fat' danger Women who put on or fail to shift excess weight after having a baby risk problems in future pregnancies, doctors warn.
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Aversion The Wait for ODB Autopsy Results The world will have to wait a while to learn the cause of rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard's unexpected death. Authorities said that the results of ODB's autopsy would take about a week to get back.
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Reuters Top News White House resolves CIA prisoner debate WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The transfer of 14 foreign terrorism suspects from CIA prisons abroad to the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, resolved a two-year debate in the Bush administration over its detention policy, The Washington Post reported on Thursday.
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Yahoo Health Toxin from fish causes illness in humans (AP) AP - Several outbreaks of ciguatera fish poisoning have been confirmed in consumers who ate fish harvested in the northern Gulf of Mexico, the Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday.
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Yahoo U.S. Marine describes Haditha death scene (AP) AP - An officer who saw the corpses of Iraqi women and children sprawled across a bed in a home said Wednesday in recorded testimony that he believed that "my Marines were doing the right thing" when they killed them.
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Time Business Gadget Showdown: Skype Wi-Fi Phones Newly released Skype devices that connect to Wi-Fi networks aren't portable like cellphones, but they can be handy at home
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Yahoo U.S. Manpower, weather help fire Nevada crews (AP) AP - Improved weather and more manpower helped fire crews hold the line against two fires burning more than 407 square miles in northeastern Nevada on Saturday.
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Washington Post Nation Report Examines Path to Failed New Orleans Levees The levee system that was designed to protect New Orleans, but failed catastrophically during Hurricane Katrina, was completed under severe financial and political pressure, including opposition from local officials and environmentalists, according to a federally sponsored report set to be releas...
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Seattle Times Intelligence-overhaul bill heads for vote White House and congressional leaders yesterday broke a logjam that has stymied major legislation to restructure the nation's intelligence operations by putting
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Yahoo Europe Ukraine's PM vows to stand and win in new runoff vote (AFP) AFP - Ukraine's pro-Russia Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich said he would stand in a new runoff presidential vote after the supreme court stripped him of victory in a bitterly contested November 21 poll.
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Yahoo World Iraq premier: U.S., Iraq share same goal (AP) AP - Iraq is the "tip of the bayonet" in the fight against terror, the country's premier said Monday, stressing that the same group responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks was behind the destruction of the minarets of a revered Shiite shrine last year in his country.
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Yahoo Politics GOP’s Whitehead Faces Runoff for Georgia House Seat, Foe to Be Determined (CQPolitics.com) CQPolitics.com - Republican Jim Whitehead, a former state senator, justified his front-runner ranking for Tuesday’s special House election in Georgia’s 10th District by finishing in first place.
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BBC - Front Page Hamas accuses rival of PM attack The Palestinian Hamas group accuses a key figure in the rival Fatah faction of trying to kill PM Ismail Haniya.
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CNET personal technology news 'Killing' gamers with kindness Festival-goers prowl New York streets Saturday in a street game you win by shouting out the right warm fuzzy.
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BBC science Crofters' legal vow on wind farm Opponents to a massive wind farm proposed for the Western Isles are threatening court action.
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Reuters Business Lilly profit rises as sales eclipse forecasts NEW YORK (Reuters) - Eli Lilly and Co on Tuesday said fourth-quarter profit rose on higher-than-expected sales of its medicines, including strong demand for its newer treatments for depression, diabetes and cancer.
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BBC News world A-levels show rise in top grades A-level results show more students passing and boys closing the achievement gap with girls.
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New York Times sports Report: Vick may be urged to sit out '07 NFL ESPN reported yesterday that the Falcons, the NFL, and the NFL Players Association might urge Michael Vick to voluntarily sit out perhaps the entire 2007 season. NFL senior vice president Joe Browne and NFLPA executive director Gene Upshaw disputed the report. "We don't know anything about a leave of absence," Browne said. Vick is under federal indictment for hosting ...
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RedNova general AOL Moves Beyond Passwords for Log-Ons NEW YORK - Passwords alone won't be enough to get onto America Online under a new, optional log-on service that makes AOL the first major U.S. online business to offer customers a second layer of security...
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Houston Chronicle Spurs shut down T-Wolves, Garnett SAN ANTONIO - The San Antonio Spurs found a good way to beat Minnesota: Take Kevin Garnett, Latrell Sprewell and Sam Cassell out of the Timberwolves' offense.
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NPR (audio) Cambodia's New King Ascends the Throne Description: In Cambodia, Norodom Sihamoni who accedes to the throne with an elaborate coronation, following the abdication of his father King Norodom Sihanouk.
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ABC News Cheney Has Common Cold, Adviser Says Vice President Dick Cheney waves as he and his wife Lynne leave the Washington University Hospital in Washington, Saturday, Nov. 13, 2004.
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CBS MarketWatch Strong US sales mark Campbell Soup's Q1 NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- Shares of Campbell Soup Co. rose more than 3 percent higher early Monday after the company reported solid first-quarter growth due partly to strong US sales and better marketing.
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Reuters Business Spitzer Charges Universal Life with Fraud NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer on Friday filed suit against Universal Life Resources (ULR), charging the life and disability insurance broker with taking fraudulent kick-backs for steering business to insurers MetLife, Prudential and UnumProvident.
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Ansa Spettacolo Concerto Fai, Accardo per Pirelli A Portofino il maestro ha suonato in ricordo di Leopoldo
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Reuters Top News U.S. General to Review Iraq Policy -- NY Times NEW YORK (Reuters) - A retired four-star U.S. general will travel to Iraq next week at the behest of the Pentagon to review the U.S. military's policy there, The New York Times reported on Friday.
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Yahoo Business Venezuela Sees Oil Prices Holding Steady (Reuters) Reuters - World oil prices should remain next year around current levels and OPEC's existing price target band should be raised because it has failed to reflect the market, Venezuela's energy minister said on Sunday.
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New York Times Business Saturday Interview With Ronald M. Shaich: Inspiration: Seeing Meat Put on Bread The chief executive of the Panera discussed his company’s no-longer-white-hot stock price and a recent Barron’s article.
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BBC Europe Ukraine appears set for new poll It looks likely that Ukraine will hold a new election as it awaits a supreme court verdict on electoral fraud.
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Guardian Top News Richard Williams: Hollow laughter at Twickenham Six Nations: Richard Williams on how England snatched defeat from the jaws of victory against France.
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Ansa Calcio Pernod: utile 2006-7 a 831 mln Grazie andamento attivita' in Asia e America
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RedNova general East Ky. Becomes Big Draw for Off-Roaders HARLAN, Ky. - Out-of-state license plates tell the story of eastern Kentucky's rising popularity among off-roaders...
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Arizona Republic Today's top stories College test anxiety: The new SAT college admissions exam has more high school students seeking test-prep help. B1. Mesa police changes: Nearly a year after four officer-involved shootings, the department has
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Reuters Top News Iraqis vow to fight al Qaeda after sheikh's death RAMADI, Iraq (Reuters) - Sunni Arab Iraqis and U.S. forces in Anbar province vowed on Friday to keep fighting al Qaeda after the assassination of a tribal leader who worked with Americans to create one of Iraq's few security success stories.
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New York Times sports All business on the course You know the mystery of Emu Oil, don't you? You don't?
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Kataweb Sport Suzuka, 08:12 - F1, GP GIAPPONE: PRIMA FILA FERRARI, MASSA IN POLE Prima fila tutta Ferrari al Gp del Giappone, penultima prova del mondiale in programma domani a Suzu...
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New York Times Movies Movie Review | 'Blood and Tears: The Arab-Israeli Conflict': Fighting Words “Blood and Tears: The Arab-Israeli Conflict” methodically traces the battle over turf from its biblical origins to the fragile present.
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Reuters Tech Egypt has only 40 pct Internet after cable fault CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt had only about 40 percent of its Internet capacity available on Thursday because of a disruption to an undersea cable that has also affected the Gulf region and south Asia.
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Reuters Business Wall Street opens flat, Fed auction news eyed NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks opened little changed on Wednesday on caution before the results of the Federal Reserve's $20 billion money-market stabilization effort. The results of the Fed's auction on Monday will be announced shortly.
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Yahoo World Security Guards Beheaded in Saudi Arabia (AP) AP - Three Saudi security guards were beheaded in northern Saudi Arabia on Sunday after being convicted of trafficking hashish and using government vehicles to transport the drug, the Interior Ministry said.
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Yahoo Sports Moss has 2 TDs as Pats romp past Bills (AP) AP - Tom Brady and Randy Moss team up for touchdowns as if they've played together all their lives.
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Reuters Health McDonald's to Pay $8.5 Million in Trans Fat Lawsuit SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - McDonald's has agreed to pay $8.5 million to settle a lawsuit over artery-clogging trans fats in its cooking oils, the company said on Friday.
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