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Reuters World Israel's Olmert faces Lebanon war report next month JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli inquiry into the failings of last year's Lebanon war will issue interim findings next month that will draw conclusions about Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's performance, a spokesman for the panel said on Tuesday.
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New York Times Business Merrill Lynch Ponders Change in Leadership Directors of the brokerage firm have begun to consider whether to replace the embattled E. Stanley O’Neal, and with whom.
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Yahoo Tech MySpace to offer technology to block sex offenders (Reuters) Reuters - News Corp.'s (NWSa.N) MySpace said on Tuesday it will offer in the next 30 days a technology to identify and block convicted sex offenders from the popular online social network.
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Yahoo Sports Golden State Activates Fisher (AP) AP - Guard Derek Fisher was activated from the injured list by the Golden State Warriors on Sunday after missing seven games because of a sprained right knee.
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Yahoo World U.S. State Dept Finishes Review of Iraq Aid Plan (Reuters) Reuters - The State Department finished an intensive review this week on how best to spend $18.4 billion in U.S. aid to Iraq and may shift focus to smaller-scale projects, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.
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New York Times Business Tribune Co. Will Sell 2 Connecticut Papers The Tribune Company said on Tuesday that it was selling its daily newspapers in Stamford and Greenwich, Conn., to the Gannett Company for $73 million.
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Scotland on Sunday Westwood Expected Tough Route to Success Lee Westwood looked at the draw at the start of the HSBC World Match Play Championship this week and knew it could hardly be tougher.
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CNET enterprise hardware news Ford rolls out 'allergy-free' car The upholstery, floor mats and even the steering wheel have been dermatologically tested, and it has a pollen filter to boot. From Crave, CNET's gadgets blog.
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CSMonitor World US pushes for more economic reform in Mideast This week the US and Egypt plan to sign a trade agreement worth $500 million annually.
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Washington Post Mavericks Edge Rockets Behind Nowitzki's 53 Points Mavericks 113 <b>...</b> Tracy McGrady stood at midcourt, exhausted from an overtime shootout that seemed more like him against Dirk Nowitzki than the Houston Rockets vs.
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New York Times sports BC rejects Crusaders' bid for upset The Holy Cross women's basketball team did not want a repeat of last year's game against Boston College, when the Crusaders suffered a staggering 90-43 loss at Chestnut Hill. Indeed, Holy Cross seemed to want to erase that memory entirely over the first 20 min...
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Yahoo Tech Online Thugs Assault Sites That Specialize in Security Help (PC World) PC World - Good-guy sites, like CastleCops.com, are suffering Web site outages from distributed denial-of-service attacks.
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Yahoo Politics Rove: Specter Vows Fairness for Nominees (AP) AP - The White House expressed confidence Sunday that President Bush's judicial nominees will get a fair hearing in the Senate, despite comments from Republican Sen. Arlen Specter that anti-abortion judges were unlikely to be confirmed by the newly elected ...
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BBC News world Thaw in Franco-Rwandan relations The foreign ministers of France and Rwanda meet for the first time since Kigali broke off diplomatic relations.
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Yahoo Business Google Checkout to make debut (Reuters) Reuters - Google Inc. on Thursday will launch a long-awaited service called Google Checkout, which some analysts said could help online merchants boost sales and convince them to commit more advertising money to the Web search leader.
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Reuters Tech Amazon adds Warner Music tunes to download service NEW YORK (Reuters) - Online retailer Amazon.com Inc has signed on Warner Music Group Corp to its music download service, the latest major record label to join the competitor to Apple Inc's industry-leading iTunes store.
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Independent Hurricane onslaught may blow hole in US economy As hurricane Ivan roared northwards yesterday through the Gulf of Mexico towards landfall in the US as early as this evening, Wall Street analysts warned that the damage could extend beyond buildings into the wider economy.
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The Washington Post sports New Ball Gets Bad Reviews Some of the NBA's biggest stars say the new game ball is too sticky when dry, too slippery when wet, and too -- well, not the old one.
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Reuters Business Oil Slides Under $43 a Barrel LONDON (Reuters) - Oil prices fell more than a dollar to under $43 a barrel on Monday as unusually mild winter weather in the United States eased fears that thin heating fuel stockpiles could prove inadequate.
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TheStreet.com Immucor Falls on Probe, CEO Move Immucor (BLUD:NYSE - news - research) said its chief executive has temporarily stepped aside while Italian authorities conduct a criminal investigation of an Immucor subsidiary that the CEO once directed.
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The Motley Fool The Market's 10 Best Stocks Revisited They're still not the ones you think.
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New York Times Business Girl Power Is in Full Force Online Teenage girls are more likely than boys to have engaged in creating most kinds of online content, according to a new report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
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PCWorld news Asus Readies Desktop Eee PC Asus will release this year three new models in its low-budget Eee PC line.
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The Washington Post world South American Leaders Discuss New Bloc Presidents and high-ranking officials from 12 South American countries gathered in this ancient Inca capital to create a political and economic bloc they hope will put them on a more equal footing with the United States and Europe.
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London Free Press Salvation Army faces risk of barer kettles The Salvation Army may be forced to scale back its help for those in need if Londoners don't start tossing more toonies into its kettles.
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Reuters World Attacks threaten Oxfam's Darfur operation KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Oxfam could withdraw from Darfur if security worsens, its country director said on Monday, amid reports of 10 attacks in the past four days in Sudan's violent and remote west.
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Washington Post Business Jury Selection Completed for Retrial of Two Former Tyco executives Jury selection was completed Tuesday for the larceny retrial of two former top Tyco International Ltd. executives who are accused of looting the company of $600 million. Opening statements will begin Wednesday.
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Yahoo Sports Congress: NFL should improve benefits (AP) AP - Aging NFL retirees told Congress Tuesday that playing professional football left them with broken bodies, brain damage and empty bank accounts. Lawmakers said they may get involved if a better pension and disability system isn't created.
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The Register Infineon accuses Rambus of 'litigation misconduct' Wants patent infringement case chucked out
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Ananova Business ADV: The New York Times Home Delivery Uncover financial insights for your business daily with The New York Times - the authority on market trend news and analysis. Now delivered to your home or business starting at $2.40/wk.
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The Motley Fool Qualcomm Scrambling Again Chip injunctions force the company to alter its plans.
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RedNova science SMEs in Agribusiness Identified As Zambia's Growth Area SMEs in agribusiness identified as Zambia's growth area LUSAKA, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) -- The Bankers Association of Zambia ( BAZ) has identified the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in agribusiness as a growth area, local newspaper The Post repo...
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New York Times Business Genentech Beats Forecast but Slips on a Core Drug’s Sales Genentech reported a 6 percent rise in fourth-quarter profit, but its stock slipped after news that its cancer drug, Avastin, failed to meet sales expectations.
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New York Times sports Triple crowns JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The red, white, and blue confetti floated in the sky and dropped ever so gently on their latest field of dreams.
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Reuters Martin wins second straight race Markko Martin won his second consecutive World Rally Championship race on Sunday to clinch the Rally of Catalunya. The Estonian, driving a Ford, followed up his recent victory in
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Wired Tech Follow the 2007 Tour de France in Google Earth The marquee event of the 2007 professional cycling calendar is here. And now you can follow every nail-biting sprint, every gut wrenching climb, and every blistering decent of the Tour de France on Google Earth.
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RedNova technology Best Buy 3Q Profit Falls Below Forecast By CHRIS WILLIAMS MINNEAPOLIS - Discounting took a bite out of Best Buy's third quarter earnings. The nation's largest consumer electronics retailer said Tuesday that fierce competition forced it to sacrifice profit for market share, but all should be well i...
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Washington Times Government opens Fannie Mae inquiry The Justice Department has opened an investigation into possible accounting fraud by the mortgage giant Fannie Mae. The criminal inquiry, still in a preliminary stage, came
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ESPN Center likely out four weeks MINNEAPOLIS -- Minnesota senior center Janel McCarville broke her left hand at practice Thursday and is expected to miss four weeks.
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Charleston Gazette Bethlehem's woes echoe world's THE OLD Christmas carol’s “little town” is now a city larger than Charleston, and it’sa depressing place. Four years ago, more than 91,000 tourists visited in a year to see Bethlehem’s religious
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Reuters Business Marsh & McLennan ousts Cherkasky NEW YORK (Reuters) - Marsh & McLennan Cos Inc said on Friday it will replace its embattled chief executive, Michael Cherkasky, following a year of disappointing results and is evaluating strategies to boost shareholder value.
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Poughkeepsie Journal Major bank's layoffs felt in Hudson Valley Bank of America began cutting jobs Wednesday but officials would not confirm how many or where. But a spokeswoman said cuts were occurring, and would eventually reach 12,500, the same number given in spring when the merger became final.
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Xinhua Brazil's Luxemburgo takes over as Real Madrid coach Real Madrid has named former Brazil manager Vanderlei Luxemburgo as their third coach of the season on Thursday. Luxemburgo, who has just guided Santos to the Brazilian title
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BBC News world Bin Laden trail has 'gone cold' Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden is alive but the trail is "completely cold", Pakistan President Musharraf admits.
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New York Times Business Despite Wal-Mart's Edict, Radio Tags Will Take Time Although Wal-Mart was expecting its top suppliers to use radio tagging technology to ship goods by Jan. 1, 2005, the technology is not yet ready.
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Yahoo World Boeing to build 100-mln-dlr repair centre in India (AFP) AFP - US aerospace giant Boeing has finalised an agreement to build a 100-million-dollar maintenance and repair centre in western India, Boeing officials said.
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Yahoo Sports Berra Sues TBS Over `Sex and the City' Ad (AP) AP - Hall of Famer Yogi Berra has filed a $10 million lawsuit against TBS, claiming the cable television network sullied his name by using it in a racy advertisement for its "Sex and the City" reruns.
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The Washington Post world Surge in Violence Shocks Even Weary Mexico ZIHUATANEJO, Mexico -- Andrés Sauzo collects newspapers, astoundingly grisly newspapers.
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New York Times Cambodians Are Ready to Crown His Majesty the Ballet Dancer Prince Norodom Sihamoni, 51, a dancer and choreographer, is to be crowned king this month, carrying out the wishes of his father in the first change in the monarchy most Cambodians have known.
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Yahoo Science Three more killed as troops ferry in aid in flood-hit Kashmir (AFP) AFP - The death toll from the heaviest rains in 25 years in Indian Kashmir rose by three to 16 as troops rushed supplies to people cut off by floods, police said.
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RedNova technology Baeble Music Announces Distribution Deal With Insound.Com Today Baeble Media announces a distribution partnership with Insound.com. Insound.com will offer digital downloads of Baeble Music's growing catalogue of live concert video programming.
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San Diego Union Tribune Andy Cole misses six games over a brawl at West Brom game LONDON - Fulham striker Andy Cole will miss six games and pay a 10,000 pound (US$17,800) fine for brawling with opponents and abusing a match official at last month's game against West Bromwich Albion.
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Yahoo World Long lines and confusion at airports after alert (Reuters) Reuters - Susan Quatrella was still near the back of the line after waiting two hours to check in for a flight to Colorado on Friday as new security measures slowed air travel to a crawl.
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Yahoo World Pitcairn sex abuse verdicts due this week (AFP) AFP - Seven men on trial for multiple sex abuse crimes on remote Pitcairn Island should know their fate this week, but if convicted they will not immediately go to jail.
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Boston Globe sports With Reminders of Past, Duquesne Moves Ahead Shawn James, a 6-foot-10 junior who excels at blocking shots, was among the least injured of the five players who were attacked by two men spraying gunfire outside a campus dance in September 2006.
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Boston Globe world 24 killed in Iraq car bombings BAGHDAD -- Insurgents unleashed a pair of powerful car bombs yesterday near the symbol of US authority in Iraq -- the Green Zone, where the US Embassy and key government offices are located -- and hotels occupied by hundreds of foreigners. Three other explosions broug...
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Time Business Charges in the H-P Spying Saga The corporate scandal is fast becoming a full-fledged criminal case, with former chairwoman Patricia Dunn facing felony charges in California
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Forbes China to Let Individuals Trade in Gold China's gold-crazed masses will be allowed to trade in the precious metal under reforms that will upgrade trading on the country's nascent market, state media reported Tuesday.
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New York Times Business F.C.C. Chief Questioning Radio Deal The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission has questioned Congressional testimony by the architect of a proposed satellite radio merger.
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Telegraph.co.uk Solberg waits for the breaks World Champion Petter Solberg has promised Sebastien Loeb "a hell of a fight" for victory in this weekend's Wales Rally GB.
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The Times Gazprom plans bid for Yukos subsidiary GAZPROM asserted its status as a major force in Russian oil yesterday by confirming that it would bid for Yuganskneftegaz, the Yukos oil subsidiary.
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Houston Chronicle MLS finalizes landmark deal with Adidas New York, NY (Sports Network) - Major League Soccer, Soccer United Marketing and Adidas agreed to a 10-year partnership that makes Adidas the official sponsor and licensed product supplier for the United States' top soccer league.
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RedNova technology Couric Shares CBS News Spotlight With Suri Two of the most hyped U.S. females debuted on the CBS Evening News Tuesday night -- news anchor Katie Couric and new celebrity spawn Suri Cruise. Couric made dual history by being the first solo female anchor on a major U.S.
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CNN International Blair, Chirac air differences LONDON, England -- French President Jacques Chirac is in London for a state visit after reigniting a bitter row over the US-led invasion of Iraq, saying the US and Britain had made the world a more dangerous place.
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Reuters Car Attack on President Inflames Serb Suspicions Serbian President Boris Tadic called for a rapid investigation on Wednesday after a man in a car tried several times to ram his limousine as it sped through the streets of Belgrade in a night-time convoy.
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Reuters Business Before-the-Bell: Tenet, Amazon.com Drop NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shares of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc. KKD.N fell 8.8 percent before the bell on Tuesday after news wires reported that papers filed in a shareholder lawsuit accused the company of hiding declining sales for more than a year before rep...
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Reuters Stelco board approves C$900 mln in financing Stelco Inc. (STEa.TO: Quote, Profile, Research) , Canada's largest steel company and a takeover target of Russia's OAO Severstal (CHMF.
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New York Times sports Playing hardball ANAHEIM -- In a stunning pair of gambits, the Red Sox yesterday reached an early-morning agreement on a two-year deal with David Wells and launched an aggressive effort to complete a four-year contract worth about $38 million with Edgar Renteria, the most coveted free agent shor...
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Reuters Business Countrywide CEO sees recession ahead NEW YORK (Reuters) - Countrywide Financial Corp Chief Executive Angelo Mozilo said on Thursday the U.S. housing downturn is likely to lead the country into recession, but that the largest U.S. mortgage lender will survive.
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Reuters Business Wall Street headed for fall as jobs cut in August NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock index futures dropped on Friday after data showed monthly hiring contracted for the first time in four years, fanning recession fears and adding pressure for a Federal Reserve interest-rate cut.
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Washington Post Business Average Wage-Earners Fall Behind The new economic era will require that millions of people earning around the national average, $17 an hour, shoulder more responsibility and risk on the way to financial security, economists say.
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The Washington Post sports When the Fix Is In, You Can't Believe It The scandal surrounding NBA referee Tim Donaghy comes with the most collateral damage and outrage because it robs everybody of their belief.
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The Motley Fool Keep Life Insurance Simple Why make a useful tool more complicated than it needs to be?
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BBC Sport Singh to face Langer at Wentworth World number one Vijay Singh will face Ryder Cup captain Bernhard Langer in the first round of the World Match Play Championship at Wentworth on Thursday.
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Reuters World Venezuela Says Ready to Arrest Colombia Rebels CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuela said on Thursday it was ready to arrest Colombian rebels found hiding in its territory as Bogota and Caracas tried to end a stand-off over the seizure of a Marxist guerrilla leader in Venezuela's capital.
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CNN International US 'defector' to turn himself in Charles Robert Jenkins, a one-time US Army sergeant accused of defecting to North Korea 39 years ago, has saidy he will soon surrender to military authorities to "face the charges that have been filed against me.
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Yahoo Tech Disney to launch Web site aimed at moms (AP) AP - The Walt Disney Co. is launching a new Web site aimed at moms who are increasingly turning to the Internet for answers to everything from problems with teething babies to financing college.
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Yahoo Tech Californians to soon get $1.1 bln from Microsoft (Reuters) Reuters - California consumers and businesses will soon receive $1.1 billion in delayed payouts from Microsoft Corp. to settle antitrust claims against the world's biggest software maker, lawyers in the case said on Wednesday.
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Guardian UN warning over Afghan opium Afghanistan's poppy cultivation increased by almost two-thirds this year and accounts for 87% of world supply of raw opium, a UN report said yesterday, warning of the country's descent into a drugs-based economy.
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RedNova general Russia Finds Trace Explosives on 2nd Plane MOSCOW - Russian investigators found explosive residue on the wreckage of the second of two airliners that crashed minutes apart, a security spokesman said Saturday, adding to evidence that terrorists breached security at one of the country's most up-to-date ...
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The Motley Fool The Stars Are Out at Wynn The Las Vegas megaresort nails down a Mobil five-star rating.
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New York Times sports Ramsey taking time to soar with Air Force If New York is the city that never sleeps, hockey players from military academies are athletes who rarely do.
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RedNova general Prince Video Depicts Terror, Sparks Outcry MINNEAPOLIS - The musician Prince is drawing fire for a new video that portrays an Arab-American girl envisioning herself blowing up an airport. The video for the song "Cinnamon Girl" shows the girl, played by 14-year-old Oscar nominee Keisha Castle-Hughes...
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Boston Globe Insurgents launch deadly attack on US base; killing both US and <b>...</b> Rockets struck a mess tent at a military base in Mosul where hundreds of US soldiers had just sat down to lunch Tuesday, and military
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Wired Business The Right to Sell Hate Yahoo reopens a 5-year-old case that banned the selling of Nazi memorabilia on its auction site. Also: Dell leads in computer sales despite tax levies…. Europe still watching what Microsoft does…. and more.
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Khaleej Times US soldier and at least three Iraqis killed in clashes, blasts RAMADI, Iraq - At least two Iraqis were killed and eight people wounded, including three US marines, in clashes Thursday between rebels and US troops in the restive Iraqi city of Ramadi, hospital and military sources said.
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RedNova technology Xilinx Announces Production Volume Shipments of Its Low-Cost Spartan-3A Platform SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- At the Globalpress Summit in Monterey, Calif. today, Xilinx, Inc. , the world's leading programmable logic device (PLD) provider, announced volume production of its ...
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New York Times Business Square Feet | Blueprints: A Law Office That’s Young at Heart A law office’s sleek design by Andrés Escobar incorporates elements of the most modern commercial real estate development.
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Reuters World Milosevic Calls for Control Over Own Trial Defense THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic made a passionate appeal to judges to allow him to defend himself at his trial Thursday but prosecutors said he was not fit enough and was thwarting progress.
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New York Times Science Birds, Bugs Named as Steroid Users! Baseball players may not be the only animals looking to gain an advantage by using steroids.
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USA Today Andrey Moiseev: One verstatile guy Andrejus Zadneprovskis of Lithuania got the silver. Libor Capalini of the Czech Republic won the bronze. Modern pentathlon combines shooting, fencing (one duel against every other competitor
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Wired Tech SXSW: Documentaries on DVD Music documentaries like Compañeras and Dirty Country premiering at SXSW will gain a wider audience through rapid DVD release. Plus: Web design for Flash vs. Ajax and more from SXSW in Listening Post.
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ESPN Women began from men's Super G start LAKE LOUISE, Alberta -- Lindsey Kildow of the United States won her first World Cup race Friday, taking the season's first downhill in 1 minute, 23.44 seconds.
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ABC News Belo to Cut 250 Jobs, Most at Dallas Paper DALLAS Sept. 29, 2004 - Media owner Belo Corp. said Wednesday that it would cut 250 jobs, mostly at its flagship newspaper, The Dallas Morning News, and that an internal investigation shows the projected
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Washington Post Fannie's Issues: Simple or Not? 2 Agencies Differ Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman William H. Donaldson said in an interview this week that the accounting issues the SEC must address in its investigation of mortgage funding giant Fannie Mae are "not black and white.
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Yahoo Sports Mauresmo beats Williams at U.S. Open (AP) AP - Gasping for breath after long exchanges, Serena Williams ran out of energy and shots against Amelie Mauresmo.
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Cnet Asia Sun plans patent protection for open-source Solaris SAN JOSE, Calif.--When Sun Microsystems releases Solaris as open-source software, it plans to provide legal protection from patent-infringement suits to outsiders using or developing the operating system--one of several ways Sun hopes to make Solaris more
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The Malaysia Star Russian Justice Ministry will sell part of Yukos main production <b>...</b> MOSCOW: The yearlong, politically charged legal campaign against oil giant Yukos appeared to approach the endgame as the Justice Ministry filed to sell part of a key production subsidiary and issued a valuation of the daught...
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MTV.com Apple's Beefed-Up New iPod Also Stores Digital Photos Just when it seemed like the competition was encroaching on the iPod's turf, Apple has broken away from the pack with a new and improved version of its hugely popular portable media player.
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Reuters Business Lehman Brothers exceeds estimates NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. LEH.N on Wednesday said strong trading and investment management revenue lifted third-quarter earnings by a better-than-expected 4 percent, bringing the company's shares to their highest level since May.
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