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Boston Globe world Jeanne's floods kill 691 in Haiti GONAIVES, Haiti -- Blood swirled in knee-deep flood waters as workers stacked bodies outside the hospital morgue yesterday. Carcasses of pigs, goats, and dogs, and pieces of smashed furniture floated in muddy streams that once were the streets of this battered city...
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Philippine Daily Inquirer World Bank: RP fiscal woes threaten GDP growth Get INQ7 breaking news on your Smart mobile phone in the Philippines. Send INQ7 BREAKING to 386. THE WORLD BANK said the Philippines' continuing fiscal weaknesses pose a major threat to the sustainability of its economic growth.
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The Register HTC Touch Window Mobile 6 smart phone Look but don't - despite the name - touch Review Apple's iPhone: still unavailable but nonetheless casting an enormous shadow over the smart-phone business. How, rival manufacturers ask, can we possibly respond? If HTC's new flagship phone, the Windows Mobile 6-base...
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The Motley Fool Death to Itemized Deductions! If your income's too high, kiss the sweetest deductions goodbye.
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Yahoo Science Arctic ice melting rapidly, study says (AP) AP - Arctic sea ice in winter is melting far faster than before, two new NASA studies reported Wednesday, a new and alarming trend that researchers say threatens the ocean's delicate ecosystem.
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The Register Manta to let Apple Remote zap all Macs Manta + Mira = Total Mac Control
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New York Times sports Real doctor-client privilege The doctor is in. The doctor is on the case -- and ``nervous. Never felt like this when I was playing," says Andy Roddick's doctor, who used to be known as the ``Brash Basher of Belleville."
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New York Times Colorado Is Not Quite All Better The scene at the end of Colorado's victory Saturday night probably was not what the university was looking for after a tumultuous off-season.
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Yahoo Tech `Second Life' gets chatty (AP) AP - The virtual 3-D world of "Second Life" has always been a place where people could gather and communicate — but only by silently typing notes to each other. In attempt to add more realism, "Second Life" is about to get a whole lot noisier.
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BBC science Space shuttle Atlantis blasts off The space shuttle Atlantis has been successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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New York Times world With Few Suppliers of Flu Shots, Shortage Was Long in Making Health experts had warned that the nation's system for vaccine supply and distribution was growing increasingly fragile.
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Yahoo Business Developer Wins Victory in WTC Case (Reuters) Reuters - A New York developer hoping to rebuild the destroyed World Trade Center on Monday won a major victory against his insurers, when a jury decided the hijacked airline attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, were two separate events.
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RedNova technology Publishing Company Merges By Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn. Jun. 20--Sunshine Holdings Corp. of Arizona has completed the merger of its Sunshine Custom Publishing Inc. division with True North Custom Publishing LLC of Chattanooga.
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New York Times Business Complaint Offers Window on Chinese Drug Ring An affidavit filed by an agent of the F.D.A. details the personal involvement of Jin Lei, the founder of one of China’s largest drug makers, in an illegal hormone distribution ring.
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Reuters Business Home builder sentiment rebounds in Feb NEW YORK (Reuters) - Home builders' confidence rose in February to its highest level since June 2006 as low mortgage rates and sales incentives helped boost demand, the National Association of Home Builders said on Thursday.
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Yahoo Tech Some Dell AC Adaptors Recalled for Risk (AP) AP - Dell Inc. is recalling about 2.9 million AC adapters nationwide_ 4.4 million worldwide_ used with notebook personal computers because they can overheat and cause a fire and electrical shock hazard, the company and the Consumer Product Safety Commission said...
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RedNova technology Analysis: Asian and European Broadcasters Hold First Dialogue in Paris Analysis by Shuvra Mahmud of BBC Monitoring at
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New York Times sports Bowden back in spotlight The sense of humor is still evident, the wisdom of 41 years of being a head coach evident in remarks that can disarm the most critical of crowds.
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Yahoo Business Manufacturing growth eases in May (Reuters) Reuters - Recent expansion in the U.S. manufacturing sector lost some momentum last month as growth in new orders and employment retreated, but industrial costs jumped, according to data published on Thursday.
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BBC News world Cricket: India proud of win Mahendra Dhoni says India's World Twenty20 triumph will repair the damage done by their early exit from the 50-over World Cup.
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Yahoo Sports Virginia Baseball Agency Remains Open (AP) AP - Though they lost their bid to bring the Montreal Expos to northern Virginia, the Virginia Baseball Stadium Authority plans to continue operations for the near future.
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Boston Globe business Intel profit falls in fourth quarter Intel Corp.'s fourth-quarter profit fell 2 percent but it reported record sales as the company benefited from strong holiday demand for computer chips and a reduced inventory buildup from earlier in 2004.
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Yahoo Sports Fearless captain Jeter leads Yankees to victory (Reuters) Reuters - New York Yankees captain Derek Jeter went five-for-five at the plate to help his team win their playoff opener on Tuesday, showing a level of resolve that his manager said epitomized the shortstop's approach to the game.
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Reuters Sports Japan play down medals hopes for Beijing TOKYO (Reuters) - When Japan's top women wrestlers greeted the new year by plunging into the icy depths of Tokyo Bay, shivering onlookers chuckled in disbelief.
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Reuters Sports Brodeur unbeatable as Devils blank Canes 4-0 RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - Martin Brodeur posted his 81st career shutout to lead the New Jersey Devils to a 4-0 win over the Carolina Hurricanes on Friday.
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Boston Globe world Doctor who coauthored memoir of UN peacekeepers is let go UNITED NATIONS -- UN officials have decided not to renew the contract of a doctor who coauthored a controversial memoir about life on the front lines of UN peacekeeping in the 1990s.
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New York Times Business Advertising: General Motors to Change Ad Agency G.M. shifed the national creative assignments for the Buick and GMC brands to the agency that creates national campaigns for Pontiac.
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Computerworld news Virtual worlds making artificial intelligence apps 'smarter' AI vendor is set to show how it will use humans in virtual worlds to update the capabilities of its software.
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Washington Post Navy No Longer Blue Josh Smith and Frank Divis remembered 2001, that crestfallen locker room after 10 losses and no victories. Aaron Polanco, too. He was the senior quarterback who Thursday in the rain led a drive
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Jakarta Post Indonesia nudges Myanmar on Suu Kyi, Thais on south : Indonesia accused fellow ASEAN member Myanmar on Friday of dodging the issue of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi's detention and said there was a gap between official junta statements and reality.
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The Herald Irish disposals worth £967m to struggling NAB National Australia Bank, which owns the Clydesdale, has sold its two Irish banks to Denmark's largest bank for £967m in cash, a move will give hope of fresh investment in the Australian group's beleaguered Scottish operation.
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New York Times Business 4 in Senate Seek Penalty for China Four leading Democratic and Republican senators proposed legislation aimed at penalizing China over its export practices.
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New York Times Business Big Board and NASD to Merge Wall St. Oversight The proposed merger could result in significant cost savings to Wall Street’s largest firms.
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New York Times Business New Hummer Is Slimmer and Cheaper General Motors will unveil a new Hummer on Wednesday that will be smaller, cheaper and less gas-hungry than its predecessors.
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BBC News world Age law threat to UK minimum wage The minimum wage system could be imperilled by a law banning age discrimination, a business group warns.
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Yahoo World Roofs blown off as cyclone slams into Mozambique (AFP) AFP - Roofs were blown off, trees uprooted and power lines cut by the force of a tropical cyclone which slammed into coastal regions of already-beleaguered Mozambique on Thursday, officials said.
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Reuters Napster Entering Ringtone Market Online music service Napster on Thursday said it reached a deal to enter the ringtone market with mobile content publisher Dwango Wireless (DWGN.
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Motley Fool YUKOS' Hollow Victory Yesterday, Russia's erstwhile largest oil company, YUKOS (OTC BB: YUKOY), won a single legal skirmish in a land far from home.
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Yahoo Business Biggest bond investors bet on rate cut (Reuters) Reuters - Welcome to the dawn of a new credit cycle, with tighter bank lending, rising costs for riskier borrowers and a slowing economy.
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Asahi Shimbun SDF mission in Iraq extended The government, citing the importance of US ties and the needs of Iraqis, decided Thursday to extend the mission of the Self-Defense Forces in Iraq for one year from Dec. 14.
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Yahoo Science Saturn's Spots Mystify Astronomers (SPACE.com) SPACE.com - Both of Saturn's poles have surprising swirling hotspots that persist even through years of polar winter, a new study reveals.
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RedNova science [ Births ] Condell Medical Center - Alejandro Amador, Jan. 12 to Cristina Vazquez and Alejandro Amador, Round Lake Beach. Grandparents: Esteban Vazquez and Maria Tostado, Round Lake Beach; Joel Amador and Gloria Sanchez, Lagos, Mexico. - Zachary Ryan Peleska, Jan.
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Computerworld news Canon unveils new HD camcorder Canon Inc. has taken the wraps off a new high-definition digital video camcorder.
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Business Report EU wants US to clear muddy waters in WTO row Brussles - EU trade chief Peter Mandelson wants clarification of the US stance in threatened WTO action over aid to Airbus, his spokeswoman said Friday after a US official indicated Washington was delaying such action.
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Reuters Sports Stern: NBA Will Not Tolerate Further Brawls NEW YORK (Reuters) - The National Basketball Association will show zero tolerance toward any further incidents such as the one that marred the game between the Indiana Pacers and Detroit Pistons Friday, NBA commissioner David Stern has warned.
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Yahoo Sports NASCAR hits Big Apple to promote Chase (AP) AP - The days when Dale Earnhardt Jr. could walk down the street in New York City without being recognized are long gone. And that's just fine with the NASCAR star.
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Yahoo World Security efforts paying off in Germany (AP) AP - In city after World Cup city, police are reporting no more problems than normal — and this with tens of thousands of impassioned, alcohol-fueled fans roaming the streets.
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New York Times Business Total Profits Surge With Oil Prices The French oil giant said fourth-quarter profit rose 62% to 3.6 billion euros ($5.23 billion) as oil prices rose and and new projects in Angola and Qatar raised production.
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Yahoo Politics Poll: Voters still sampling candidates (AP) AP - Dig beneath the surface of the raucous Republican presidential race and you will find even deeper turmoil: Four in 10 GOP voters have switched candidates in the past month alone, and nearly two-thirds say they may change their minds again.
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New York Times sports Friends are foes for night Winky Wright and Ike Quartey are congenial rivals who've known each other since the early 1990s when they were young boxers competing in France.
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Yahoo World Soldiers from 2 Koreas exchange fire (AP) AP - Soldiers from North Korea and South Korea exchanged fire along their border late Monday, but no one was hurt, a South Korean military official said Tuesday.
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The Australian Weekend warriors in test of technique and temperament THE breeze barely tickled the flags around the first tee, the weather was warming and the air light. The greens were true and gave good grip to approaches.
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BBC News Halliburton may sell troubled KBR Halliburton said it will restructure and may even sell its Kellogg, Brown and Root subsidiary, the business at the root of recent controversy.
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RedNova science Fire Damages Duplex By Stan Finger, The Wichita Eagle, Kan. Jun. 27--No one was hurt in an early morning fire that damaged a duplex in south Wichita. The fire was reported at 3:21 a.m. today in the 1800 block of South Hiram, Wichita Fire Marshal Ed Bricknell said.
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Gwinnett Daily Post Chrysler Championship ninth victory of year for hard-working <b>...</b> Vijay Singh drops a birdie putt on the 18th green during the final round of the Chrysler Championship, Sunday on the Copperhead Course at the Innisbrook Resort in Palm Harbor, Fla.
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Reuters Business Asian stocks up as Thailand rallies, euro firm HONG KONG (Reuters) - Asian stock markets rebounded on Wednesday, with Thailand staging a blazing comeback after the government reversed restrictions on foreign investment in its bourse, and Australia hit a record high.
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Boston Globe business Celebrex boosted in study New research suggests that top-selling pain reliever Celebrex does not carry the same heart attack risk as Vioxx, a similar drug pulled from the market in September because of safety concerns.
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kuro5hin Orange Revolution After many years under the rule of the corrupted government there is a new hope for Ukraine: the new presidential elections. Among 28 candidates the 2 primary are the opposition candidate Victor Yushchenko (reformer which served as the Prime Minister in the past and was allegedly poiso...
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RedNova technology GETTING IN THE SPIRIT ; Sacred Heart and First Parish Join for the Festivities NATIVITY PAGEANT QUINCY The city's Christmas celebrations continued last night with a nativity pageant at First Parish Church in Quincy Center. First- and second-graders from Sacred Heart School performed the story o...
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Forbes Update 1: ID Biomedical Stock Up on Vaccine Pacts Shares of ID Biomedical jumped after the Canadian drug maker reported Monday that it signed long-term agreements with the three largest flu vaccine wholesalers in the United States following the current flu season's vaccine shortage.
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kuro5hin String Theory and the Crackpot Index Recently two books, by Peter Woit and by Lee Smolin, have been published questioning whether the enormous theoretical effort applied to the problems of string theory has been fruitful. Both books have been reviewed in ...
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USA Today FCC asks high court to rule on broadband The federal government is challenging an appeals court ruling that, officials fear, would stifle the expansion of cable broadband services by burdening the providers with new regulations.
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Reuters World Indonesia floods kill nine, nearly 200,000 homeless JAKARTA (Reuters) - Floods in the Indonesian capital have killed at least nine people and made nearly 200,000 homeless, with the deluge of muddy brown water up to 4 metres (13 feet) deep in some areas, officials said on Sunday.
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RedNova space Japanese Lunar Probe Mission Facing Delays TOKYO (AP) -- A lunar orbiter that Japan had planned to launch this year could face further delays, possibly until next year or later, because of a funding shortfall and problems developing the probe's information-gathering capabilities, Japan's space agency sa...
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Yahoo World All 155 dead in Brazil plane crash (AP) AP - Authorities said Sunday there were no survivors among the 155 people aboard the Brazilian jetliner that crashed deep in the Amazon jungle, as rescue workers began to pull bodies out of the twisted wreckage.
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Yahoo Science Zoo auctions paintings by orangutan (AP) AP - The Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle is auctioning two paintings on eBay that were created by an orangutan named Towan. Keepers say painting is one of Towan's favorite activities. He uses chalk and pens filled with nontoxic paint, favoring primary colors.
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Wodonga Border Mail Buy-up just beautiful SHARES in drug wholesaler Australian Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd rose nearly|15 per cent yesterday after it acquired health, beauty and lifestyle retailer New Price Retail for $112.
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Indianapolis Star United says it has landed tentative pact with pilots United Airlines on Tuesday announced it has secured a tentative contract agreement with its pilots. The agreement makes the pilots the first of United's four big unions to come to initial terms.
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New York Times sports Delay ruined timing Curt Schilling looked all-world in his last start, striking out 10 Cleveland Indians last Monday and allowing just one run on six hits in seven innings on the way to his fifth victory of the season.
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RedNova technology CustomFlix Announces Support for Amazon Unbox CustomFlix Labs, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced its support for Amazon.com's video download service, Amazon Unbox, by adding video downloads to its current DVD and CD on Demand services.
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PCWorld news McAfee Buying Web Security Company McAfee will pay $51 million to acquire ScanAlert, which runs a paid service that scans Web sites for security vulnerabilities.
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Washington Post Tech Trial Shows How Spammers Operate As one of the world's most prolific spammers, Jeremy Jaynes pumped out at least 10 million e-mails a day with the help of 16 high-speed lines, the kind of Internet capacity a 1,000-employee company would need.
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BBC News world Zambia writer to continue satire British writer Roy Clark says he will continue criticising Zambia's leaders, after winning a court case against deportation.
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ITV.com England beat Aussies to make final England have beaten world champions Australia in their ICC Champions Trophy semi-final at Edgbaston. It was England's first one-day international win over their fiercest rivals for more than five years.
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Yahoo Sports Cain takes no-hitter into 8th for Giants (AP) AP - Matt Cain had such great stuff he never wanted to leave the mound.
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Forbes Rogers Communications Seeks Share Swap Rogers Communications Inc. on Thursday said it is proposing to launch an exchange offer for all of the outstanding shares of Rogers Wireless Communications Inc.
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Reuters Business KKR buying Dollar General for about $6.9 bln PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Private equity group Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. said on Monday it will acquire discount retailer Dollar General Corp. for $22 a share, or about $6.9 billion.
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Reuters Business Altria Earnings Fall CHICAGO (Reuters) - Altria Group Inc. MO.N on Wednesday said quarterly profit fell 6.9 percent, as one-time charges at its Kraft Foods business and a loss in its financial services unit offset higher tobacco profit.
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Yahoo Sports Red Sox Hold Off Devil Rays 8-6 (AP) AP - Manny Ramirez hit a tiebreaking sacrifice fly, and Kevin Millar and Mark Bellhorn had two-run homers Wednesday night to lift the Boston Red Sox to an 8-6 victory over the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.
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Yahoo World Church names 1st female bishop in Cuba (AP) AP - The Episcopal Church has named a woman as bishop in Cuba, the first such appointment by the church in the developing world, church officials said Tuesday.
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Reuters World Iran to End UN Nuke Checks if Reported to Council TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran will stop allowing U.N. snap checks of nuclear sites if the atomic issue is sent to the Security Council, its chief nuclear negotiator Hassan Rohani said on Sunday.
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Reuters Business S&P hits 5-year high NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Standard & Poor's 500 stock index .SPX soared to a fresh five-year high on Wednesday as U.S. stocks rallied on optimism that the Federal Reserve will keep interest rates steady, helping to underpin companies' profit growth.
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Reuters Sports Choi three ahead at Sony Open HONOLULU (Reuters) - South Korea's K.J. Choi, helped by birdies on the first two holes, stretched his lead to three shots midway through the Sony Open third round on Saturday.
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Yahoo Science Islands' Fears on Climate, Trade Acknowledged (Reuters) Reuters - Small island nations won world recognition of their climate change fears on Friday but failed to persuade the international community to reinstate trade preferences to protect their fragile economies.
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Forbes Chief Gordon Brown Predicts Strong Growth Treasury chief Gordon Brown said Thursday that the British economy will continue to grow strongly in 2004 and that the government will meet key targets on public borrowing, bettering the expectations of many economic forecasters.
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Reuters Business Hotel buyouts a bonanza for many mutual funds BOSTON (Reuters) - Hotel buyouts are proving a bonanza for mutual funds which snapped up Hilton, Marriott and other hotel stocks after the September 11, 2001, attacks.
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Boston Globe sports Best of 3 Derby Preps Could Be at Aqueduct There will be a brief respite from the February doldrums on Saturday at Aqueduct.
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Yahoo Politics Absentee Ballots Key to 2004 Election (AP) AP - On election night in November 2000, dozens gathered at the American Center in New Delhi to watch the returns. When Democrats and Republicans alike saw the close results coming in, some were compelled to sheepishly admit that they hadn't bothered to vote.
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Washington Post Business A Call for Competition Roughly half of the money spent on all federal contracts in 2006 was awarded with little or no competition, according to a congressional report released yesterday.
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Yahoo Politics Reyes tapped to chair Intelligence panel (AP) AP - House Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi has chosen a Border-Patrol-agent-turned-congressman to take over the House Intelligence Committee, according to congressional aides.
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The Motley Fool Fool on the Street: Wal-Mart's Stateside Stall Wal-Mart is an impressive firm, but domestic trends need to improve.
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Computerworld news Is AT&T paying Apple $18 per iPhone per month? AT&T and Apple have been mum about the their iPhone-related financial arrangements, but an industry analyst looked at the data and has estimated AT&T's cost.
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InfoWorld news Analyst predicts iPhone based on iPod nano ( InfoWorld ) - Apple will follow up its debut iPhone with a cheaper version based on the iPod nano, a JPMorgan financial analyst said yesterday, echoing comments last week by bloggers scouring the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office database. Kevin Chang, a Taiw...
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Boston Globe sports Jack Curran, a New York Treasure Still strolling the sideline at 77, Mr. Curran has won more basketball and baseball games — 2,491 — than any high school coach in the United States.
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Yahoo Sports Hamm Wins All-Around Gymnastics Title (AP) AP - With his medal hopes all but gone after he hit the judges' table on his vault landing, Paul Hamm performed two of the most spectacular routines of his career to win the men's all-around gymnastics title by the closest Olympics margin ever.
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Washington Post Business General Dynamics to Work On Command Post System General Dynamics of Falls Church has received the first task order under a new Army contract to furnish engineering and support services for a system that enables commanders to share information about battlefield conditions.
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Reuters Tech HP launches ad campaign to boost printers SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co said on Monday it is launching a $300 million marketing campaign to promote Web-based printing services as it seeks new uses for printers, the company's most-profitable business.
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Yahoo Business Mortgage banks rock FTSE (FT.com) FT.com - London equities headed deeper into negative territory at midday, after Northern Rock issued a severe two-year profit warning and confirmed that it had appealed to the Bank of England for emergency financial support
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Forbes Volkswagen Reports Drop in Net Profit Automaker Volkswagen on Thursday reported a steep drop in net profit in the first nine months of the year, blaming tough economic conditions and fiercely competitive markets.
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