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MetroWest Daily News Reuell: Yes, I'm up for a free launch I've been called many things in the (nearly) 30 years I've spent on this planet, much of which probably couldn't be repeated here.
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Reuters Business Nasdaq turns higher; focus on Fed meeting NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Nasdaq composite index turned higher while the S&P 500 and Dow pared early losses on Wednesday as expectations of another interest rate cut from the Federal Reserve helped investors overcome disappointment from Yahoo Inc's revenue outlook.
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New York Times Business Journal Communications June Revenue Up Publisher and broadcaster Journal Communications said its June revenue grew 1.3 percent as the prior-year’s results were weighed down by a litigation settlement.
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PeerFear Six Apart Buys Live Journal? It appears that Six Apart is going to buy LiveJournal: "Folks have been predicting a big year for mergers and acquisitions in 2005, and we are starting the year with a bang. I have learnt exclusively that Six Apart, the parent company behind hosted blogging service TypePad, and Moveable Type is about to acquire Live Journal, for an undisclosed amount. The deal is a mix of stock and cash, and could be announced sometime later this month, according to those close to the two companies. If the deal goes through, then Six Apart will become one of the largest weblog companies in the world, with nearly 6.5 million users. It also gives the company a very fighting chance against Google's Blogger an ...
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Boston Globe business Rivals: Microsoft hurts effort to fix security BRUSSELS -- Microsoft is working to hamstring software companies trying to overcome "inherent weaknesses" in Windows security, rival McAfee Inc. charged in a full-page ad in yesterday's Financial Times.
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Boston Globe business Biogen Idec reportedly mulling bid for Elan DUBLIN -- US drug company Biogen Idec is considering an all-share bid of more than 8.5 billion euros ($10.6 billion) for Irish peer Elan , a newspaper reported yesterday.
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Reuters Tech Sirius Mobile Video Service Now Planned for 2006 LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. said on Wednesday it is planning a children's video service for cars in 2006, a year later than it had expected, using software from Microsoft Corp.
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New York Times sports Williams to meet Klitschko for title British heavyweight Danny Williams , who knocked out Mike Tyson in the fourth round July 30, will meet Vitali Klitschko Dec. 11 at the Mandalay Bay hotel-casino in Las Vegas for the World Boxing Council version of the heavyweight title . . . Willie Randolph interviewed for the Mets' managerial job, and stressed that his many years with the Yankees ...
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Yahoo Sports Bengals' Palmer Wants to Play in Last Game (AP) AP - Carson Palmer doesn't want to watch the season end.
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Reuters Business Best Buy posts higher profit ATLANTA (Reuters) - Retailer Best Buy Co reported better-than-expected quarterly earnings on Tuesday, helped by strong international results and demand for notebook computers, flat-panel televisions and video games, pushing its shares up about 5 percent.
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Computerworld news Trouble in homicide: a network detective story A major metropolitan police department demeans the current IT staff and brings in a hot-shot contractor to install and run a network, but guess who saves the day in an emergency?
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CNET enterprise hardware news Carnegie Mellon signs up for robot space race The Google Lunar X Prize, a robotic race to the moon, has drawn its first contestant.
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The Register Virgin tells travellers to remove Apple, Dell laptop batteries Pack away those power cells Virgin Atlantic has become the third airline to restrict the use of Apple and Dell laptop batteries on its flights. Passengers who want to take their Inspirons, Lattitudes, iBooks, PowerBooks, MacBooks or MacBook Pros onto the carrier's planes are asked to remove the battery first.

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RedNova technology Veoh TV Offers Software for Online Video By GARY GENTILE LOS ANGELES - Veoh Networks Inc., a site backed by media mogul Michael Eisner, hopes to radically change how people watch video online, offering software that not only finds and plays programs from anywhere on the Web but also offers the look and feel of traditional TV.
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Reuters Sports Business as usual at Melbourne Park MELBOURNE (Reuters) - A day after police used pepper spray on an unruly section of the Australian Open crowd, calm and normal service was restored to Melbourne Park on Wednesday.
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RedNova technology Earnings Roundup By Deseret Morning News and wire reports Several companies, including some with Utah ties, reported quarterly financial results Thursday. Dell Dell Inc.
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Search engine watch Trademark Law – What Search Marketers Should Know, Part 2 Here we cover important tips and tactics by online intellectual property attorneys and legal counsels for the search engines, for both protecting your own trademark material and respecting the trademarks of others.
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Yahoo World Taliban Land mine Kills Nine Afghan Soldiers (Reuters) Reuters - A land mine blast killed nine Afghan soldiers near the border with Pakistan on Saturday in the bloodiest attack yet on Afghanistan's new army.
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New York Times Business Smaller Profit at Conoco, but a Gain for Occidental ConocoPhillips said refined fuel prices failed to keep pace with gains by crude oil, narrowing profit margins on gasoline and diesel.
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Reuters Business EU executive says eyeing alleged airfreight cartel BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission said on Friday it has contacted a number of companies regarding their alleged participation in an air freight cartel.
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The Register Sony set to shrink PSP No change to screen size, though Remember claims made in August 2006 that Sony is planning to redesign the PlayStation Portable ? It turns out they were true. Sony Computer Entertainment UK chief Ray Maguire yesterday confirmed a "smaller, lighter" version is on its way.

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The Washington Post sports MLB's New Drug Policy Baseball and its players' union announce they have reached agreement on a drug-testing policy that includes out-of-season testing and penalties for first offenses.
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Independent Racing: Bago's triumph restores French pride and his bruised <b>...</b> This was meant to be the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe of easy plunder, the 83rd running of the great race which had caught the home defenders asleep at the ramparts.
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Times Daily Summary: Wall Street's Major Indexes The Dow Jones industrial average posted its second straight triple-digit gain Wednesday, as a government oil inventory report sent crude futures tumbling.
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Yahoo Sports Sluman Hits Course-Record 62 at Chrysler (AP) AP - Golf finally felt easy to Jeff Sluman, and it wasn't hard to see why. From a fairway bunker on the 18th hole, he had to play a 20-yard hook to avoid the trees and reach the elevated green. His 7-iron stopped 16 inches from the cup for his ninth birdie, a course-record 62 and a two-shot lead in the Chrysler Championship on Thursday.
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Atlanta Journal Constitution (su Health Highlights: Dec. 18, 2004 A drug approved last year as a last-ditch hope for some lung cancer patients who didn't find relief from other forms of therapy has come up short in a large clinical trial.
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Yahoo World Singapore Zoo's most famous icon, orangutan Ah Meng, dies (AFP) AFP - Singapore Zoo's most famous icon, an orangutan who once hobnobbed with Britain's Prince Philip, popstar Michael Jackson and actress Elizabeth Taylor, has died, zoo staff said Saturday.
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Yahoo Sports The baby brother comes into his own (AP) AP - Move over, Peyton. Make room in the Manning family trophy case, Archie.
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New York Times Business Strategies: Is It Just a Strong Market, or the Bubble, Part 2? Current conditions certainly look different from those of March 2000. But several subsurface issues suggest that we shouldn’t be too sanguine.
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New York Times world Heart Therapy Strains Efforts to Limit Costs The nation’s most common cardiac malfunction is increasingly being treated with expensive procedures.
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CNET security news Alleged porn spammer settles with FTC Accused marketer of adult entertainment agrees to pay $465,000 to settle charges that company sent unwanted e-mails.
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Channel News Asia Microsoft warns Asian governments of potential Linux lawsuits SINGAPORE : Microsoft's chief executive Steve Ballmer warned Asian governments on Thursday that they could face patent lawsuits for using the Linux operating system instead of Windows.
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New York Times Science Study Says Glaciers Formed During a Very Warm Period Giant glaciers formed about 90 million years ago during a warm period when alligators thrived in the Arctic, researchers said, calling into question the belief that all ice melts in a “super greenhouse” climate.
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Melbourne Herald Sun Cardinals ready for own party THANKS to the widening obsession with "the curse of the Bambino" that supposedly has prevented the star-crossed Boston Red Sox from winning the World Series since 1918, the St Louis Cardinals were cast in the role of party poopers as the teams prepared to
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CNET News.com Apple loses top engineering, support executives Two Apple Computer executives have quietly left the company in recent weeks, including the Mac unit's head of engineering. Tim Bucher, who became head of Mac product engineering earlier this year, left the company on Nov. 15.
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Reuters Business Vuitton Loses Dooney-Bourke Trademark Bid NEW YORK (Reuters) - Louis Vuitton on Friday lost a bag battle to stop competitors from imitating its famous "LV" logo style when a U.S. judge refused to order Dooney & Bourke to stop marketing a line with its "DB" monogram.
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News24 France in dark after storm Paris - Some 40 000 French homes were still without electricity on Saturday, a day after a powerful storm lashed Paris and large areas of northern and eastern France killing six people.
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This is London Cancer drug blow for AstraZeneca DRUGS group AstraZeneca today suffered a massive setback after tests showed its blockbuster Iressa cancer treatment did not allow patients to live longer.
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Forbes Update 4: Tokyo Stocks Finish Mixed, Dollar Higher Tokyo stocks ended mixed Tuesday as investors grew cautious ahead of the US presidential election. The US dollar edged higher against the Japanese yen.
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RedNova science CITGO Petroleum and Subsidiary Found Guilty of Environmental Crimes To: LEGAL AFFAIRS EDITORS Contact: U.S. Department of Justice, +1-202-514-2007, TDD: +1- 202-514-1888 WASHINGTON, June 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A federal jury in Corpus Christi, Texas, found CITGO Petroleum Corp., and its subsidiary, CITGO Refining and Chemicals Co.
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New York Times Business Russia: Gazprom Skyscraper Denounced St. Petersburg residents spoke out against the planned construction of a 1,050-foot-tall skyscraper for the headquarters of the state energy company Gazprom at a public hearing.
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Boston Globe world 5 blasts rock Madrid gas stations after warning MADRID -- Five small explosive devices detonated yesterday at Madrid gas stations along busy highways after a telephone warning from the armed Basque separatist group ETA, officials said.
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NDTV.com Putin denies opposing India's veto power Russian President Vladimir Putin today said that he had been completely misinterpreted by the Indian press. Media reports had claimed that he was opposed to India's right to get veto powers in the UN Security Council.
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Reuters Business Talbots names Liz Claiborne president as CEO NEW YORK (Reuters) - Liz Claiborne Inc. President Trudy Sullivan is leaving the company to become the chief executive of Talbots Inc. , the apparel companies said on Friday.
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Yahoo World Mexican candidate ready for long battle (AP) AP - Leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Sunday he was digging in for a long battle to ensure his ruling-party rival is not declared the winner of presidential elections, calling on supporters to demonstrate in front of the court that ruled against his demand for a full recount.
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The Age Military rounds up protestors A Thai military commander said Tuesday about 1,300 people had been detained following a crackdown on protesters in the country's Muslim-dominated south.
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New York Times sports Peterson hopes to be handy Boston College's 35-21 romp over Colorado State last year in the San Francisco Bowl seemed to serve as Exhibit A of what can happen to a team that tries to hurry its quarterback back from a hand injury. Last year, the Rams went to their backup quarterback after starter Bradlee Van Pelt broke the index finger of ...
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RedNova technology Review: Robovacs No Match for Normal Vacuum Cleaners By MARK JEWELL BOSTON (AP) -- A new generation of robotic vacuums is ready to do battle with dirt, dust and dog hair with more cleaning power and cunning than their ancestors could muster. Faced with the usual obstacles - furniture, stairs, low-hanging bed skirts and stray socks - they intelligently and acrobatically extricate themselves from most tight spots and largely avoid getting stuck or sucking in what they shouldn't...
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China Daily Sinopec to privatize subsidiary HONG KONG: China Petroleum & Chemical Corp (Sinopec), Asia's largest oil refiner, confirmed yesterday that it would spend HK$3.846 billion (US$494 million) to privatize its subsidiary
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Boston Globe sports U.S.C.'s Star Receiver Will Not Be Reinstated Mike Williams learned Thursday that the N.C.A.A. had denied his request for reinstatement because of questions concerning his academic eligibility and amateur status.
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Yahoo Tech Microsoft launching online video service (AP) AP - Microsoft Corp. is hoping to tap the explosive popularity of online video sharing by joining startups and major Internet rivals with its own video service.
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Boston Globe business WellPoint chooses new CEO WellPoint Inc., the second-biggest provider of health insurance in the United States, said Larry C. Glasscock will retire as chief executive and be replaced by Angela F. Braly, an executive vice president since 2005.
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Reuters Sports Milan Clubs, Chelsea Eye Next Champions League Stage LONDON (Reuters) - Inter Milan, AC Milan and Chelsea all virtually sealed their places in the knockout phase of the Champions League on Wednesday by maintaining 100 percent starts with their third successive victories.
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RedNova technology Sprint Announces Adoption of ITIL(R) Framework for Managed Services Customers; CA's Process Maturity Assessment Confirms That Sprint Embraces ITIL Best Practices Sprint (NYSE:S), a leading provider of managed services responsible for mission-critical enterprise networks, announced today it has completed an assessment of its operations based on the IT Infrastructure Library(R) (ITIL).
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Indiana Gazette Militants Threaten to Kill Iraq Hostages BAGHDAD, Iraq - An al-Qaida linked group has threatened in a videotape to behead two Americans and a Briton within two days, and insurgents have carried out a new string of car bombings, killing at least 20 Iraqis and two American soldiers.
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Washington Times Karzai ahead in poll, violence continues Interim President Hamid Karzai held a strong lead in Afghanistan's presidential poll as the number of ballots counted passed the one million mark Monday.
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Yahoo Sports A-Rod Right in the Middle of Rivalry (AP) AP - Alex Rodriguez is just glad he ended up on this side of the rivalry. Third base, shortstop, doesn't matter — as long as he's a Yankee.
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Yahoo Politics Senate eyes closing caucuses for speed (AP) AP - New Democratic and Republican leaders, trying to break Senate gridlock, are planning secret "bipartisan caucuses" to speed up business.
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Yahoo Sports NBA Wrap: Stoudemire Helps Suns Overwhelm Heat (Reuters) Reuters - Amare Stoudemire collected 34 points and Shawn Marion added 26 points and 11 rebounds to help the red-hot Phoenix Suns crush the Miami Heat 122-107 in Tuesday's clash of the NBA's conference leaders.
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Motley Fool eBay's Grilled Cheese Diet You can't blame eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY). It has to deal with folks trying to sell everything from body parts to fake props of historical notoriety to Milli Vanilli CDs.
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New York Times world House Republicans Adopt Change That Would Benefit Delay New rules prevent Tom DeLay from having to step down as majority leader if he is indicted in an investigation in Texas.
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St. Petersburg Times Irish in talks with NFL's Weis By wire services. Notre Dame's search for a coach to replace ousted Tyrone Willingham appears to be nearing an end. According to the Chicago Tribune, the seven-member committee that voted to fire Willingham Nov.
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Reuters Sony Plans European Ad Blitz to Stifle iTunes Sony Corp. next week will launch a marketing blitz in Europe for its new Connect music download store, its latest effort to derail the
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RedNova technology Howard Stern to Join Sirius Satellite Radio Top-ranked shock jock Howard Stern says he is leaving Infinity Broadcasting Corp. to join Sirius satellite radio, beginning in January 2006, where he'll get the national audience he has coveted.
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CNET personal technology news Putting the Mac Mini in your dashboard After all, it'll fit. After floating the idea, a car restoration firm's site experiences skyrocketing traffic. Photos: The diminutive Mac Mini
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Yahoo Tech Man Held in England in Cisco Code Theft (AP) AP - A 20-year-old man has been arrested in England in the theft of the proprietary software blueprints used by Cisco Systems Inc.'s networking equipment, police and the company confirmed.
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New York Times world Candidates Portray Themselves as Champions of Middle Class President Bush and Senator John Kerry campaigned today in Wisconsin, yet another of those crucial swing states.
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RedNova general Turkey Gets Nod From European Union STRASBOURG, France - The European Union has recommend Turkey be put on the path to full membership, a historic move that could push Europe's borders to the Middle East and stoked fears among Europeans wary of bringing a poor Muslim country into the prosperous bloc. Reflecting widespread misgivings, the 30-member EU executive commission on Wednesday set tough conditions to prevent Turkey from backtracking on sweeping democratic and human rights reforms, prompting a sharp response from Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan...
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Yahoo Science Rebuilding is spotty along main highway (AP) AP - Scott Oliver didn't need government help to rebuild his beachfront property. Using his own money, he built a concrete compound to replace the wood-frame home Hurricane Katrina smashed to bits.
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Reuters Sports Rights image haunts China before Games: campaigner HONG KONG (Reuters) - China has executed far fewer people since being awarded the 2008 Olympics six years ago but the country's poor image on rights still threatens to mar the Games, a human rights campaigner said on Thursday.
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Yahoo Business Goldman quarterly earnings rise to a record (Reuters) Reuters - Goldman Sachs Group Inc. , the largest investment bank by market value, said on Tuesday quarterly earnings rose to a record, despite recent fears that mortgage market woes and flagging stocks would hurt results.
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Houston Chronicle China confronts lack of pipelines China will spend about $3.4 billion over two to three years laying thousands of miles of oil pipelines to help secure its energy supply in the face of soaring prices and demand.
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Reuters World Iraq's Allawi Issues Ultimatum to Falluja BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's interim prime minister warned the rebel-held city of Falluja on Wednesday it must hand over foreign militants, including America's top enemy in Iraq, or face a major operation to root them out.
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International Herald Tribune Avian flu jumps to pig herds in China HONG KONG A senior Chinese health official disclosed on Friday that her country had found a lethal strain of avian influenza among pigs at several farms, a discovery that could move the virus one step closer toward becoming a global problem for humans.
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New York Times Business A Hamptons for Hedge Funds The rise of Caribbean tax havens coincides with recent calls by American legislators for greater oversight and taxation of hedge funds.
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Economic Times Coke, Pepsi to list nutritional facts on labels NEW DELHI: Even Coca-Cola and Pepsi are turning calorie-conscious. With obesity concerns getting shriller by the day and the recent row over pesticide traces in soft drinks posing several challenges, the two
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The Washington Post world 'Che's Trail' in Bolivia Traces Guevara's Demise LA PAZ, Bolivia (Reuters) - Tourists and political pilgrimscan now follow "Che's trail" in Bolivia, which traces ErnestoGuevara's fatal attempt to export the Cuban revolution to oneof Latin America's poorest countries.
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Yahoo Business Finance head says economic outlook murky (AP) AP - To keep the global economy growing, finance ministers and central bank governors from the world's largest economies have to do a better job of working together to reduce widening trade imbalances and resolve other vulnerabilities, the head of the Institute of International Finance s
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New York Times Tech Bits: Sony’s Chief Says It Won’t Be Late Again Howard Stringer is willing to admit that Sony got some things wrong, but he says it won’t happen with OLED technology.
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RedNova science Cosmetics Cemicals ; MAN OF THE PEOPLE By eamonn holmes I READ an article this week about the hidden dangers in cosmetics, the chemicals used in them and what health problems they are linked to. Quite honestly it was pretty scary.
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Yahoo Politics Bush, Kerry Use Draft to Target Youth Vote (AP) AP - John Kerry says re-electing President Bush would create "the great potential of a draft." Not so, responds the incumbent: "The best way to avoid the draft is to vote for me."
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Wired Tech Browser Game: <cite>Redistricting</cite>, or How Elections Are Stolen Want to know how elections are really won and lost? Check out The Redistricting Game , which lets you screw around with Congressional districts just like real-life politicians.
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Toronto Star Last hurrah for Expos With a three-game set vs. Florida, Montreal bids adieu to its pro baseball team Hurdles exist, but relocation process now appears irreversible, by Richard Griffin.
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RedNova technology Beulah "Boo" Hall Hopkins DANBURY ---- Beulah "Boo" Hall Hopkins, 91, passed away Tuesday, December 12, 2006. Funeral services will be held at 12 noon Thursday, December 14, at Snow Hill United Methodist Church with the Rev. Doug Pryor and the Rev. David Childers officiating.
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BBC Sport Kenteris delight at protest Greek sprinter Kostas Kenteris said he was thrilled by the boos that greeted his absence from the 200m final. Kenteris, who won gold at the distance in Sydney, pulled out of the Athens Games after missing a drugs test in unexplained circumstances.
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The Motley Fool The Best Market in 2006 Will it return more than 900% this year, too?
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CBC News Nepalese rebels block roads to capital KATHMANDU, NEPAL - Maoist rebels fighting to topple Nepal's constitutional monarchy have cut off all land routes to Kathmandu, the capital of the Himalayan kingdom.
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The Motley Fool Berkshire Hathaway Hedging a Currency Disaster
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Reuters World Syria-Israel bombing incident shrouded in mystery JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Mystery still shrouds Syria's complaint that Israel bombed its territory but the incident has set nerves jangling across the Middle East, with commentators urging both sides on Friday against an escalation into war.
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New York Times Business S.& P. Home Price Index Continued to Fall in November Home prices in 20 metropolitan areas fell in November for the 11th consecutive month, as foreclosures and a slump in sales added to the glut of unsold properties.
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The Washington Post sports Nationals' Comeback Hits Rocky Road The Nationals overcome a two-run deficit in the eighth only to go on to lose to the Rockies, 10-5, after Colorado puts up five runs in the bottom of the same inning.
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Reuters Sports Beijing's "bird's nest" stadium to open in April BEIJING (Reuters) - The main stadium for next year's Beijing Olympic Games, the $400 million "bird's nest," will open to the public for the first time in April to host a test event, a state newspaper said on Thursday.
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Washington Post Business Freeport-McMoRan Bids for Phelps Dodge PHOENIX -- By bidding $25.9 billion for Phelps Dodge, Freeport-McMoRan is trying to boost its copper reserves the only way possible as precious metal prices soar.
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Yahoo Science L.A. Zoo rhinoceros headed to Indonesia (AP) AP - The first Sumatran rhinoceros born in captivity in more than a century will be moved from the Los Angeles Zoo to Indonesia this week to take part in a breeding program for the critically endangered species, officials said.
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The Washington Post sports Gibbs Sticks by Brunell Joe Gibbs is sticking with Mark Brunell at quarterback even though the Redskins' offense is one of the NFL's worst. "Right now, Mark's the guy," Gibbs said Wednesday.
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Yahoo Politics White House Wants to Cut FAA Budget (AP) AP - The Bush administration wants to trim the Federal Aviation Administration's budget for buying new air traffic control equipment at a time when more planes are in the air.
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Yahoo Sports Monday Night Football Tones Down Intro (AP) AP - The intro to Monday Night Football should result in no scrutiny this time for ABC and the NFL.
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Yahoo Business Jones to Buy Barneys in $400 Mln Deal (Reuters) Reuters - Mid-priced clothing retailer and maker Jones Apparel Group Inc. said on Thursday it was buying Barneys New York Inc. in a deal worth $400 million as a move to expand into luxury apparel retailing.
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Boston Globe sports World Track and Field Championships: A Newcomer Becomes World Champion Donald Thomas, a high jumper who took up the sport only 18 months ago, became world champion against the likes of veteran technicians Stefan Holm and Yaroslav Rybakov.
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Washington Post Falling Oil Prices Lift Dow to Six-Week High US stocks rose after crude oil prices extended their decline to a fourth day, easing concern that higher energy prices will hinder economic growth.
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