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Forbes Update 1: Regulators Ask Prosecutors to Probe UFJ Financial regulators on Thursday asked prosecutors to investigate allegations that UFJ Holdings Inc.'s banking unit illegally obstructed recent inspections by reporting misleading information about its nonperforming loans.
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Boston Globe sports Cameron Tells Mets He'll Work in Right Mike Cameron, the former Gold Glove center fielder who lost his position when the Mets signed Carlos Beltran, told team officials that he did not want to be traded.
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Yahoo Politics Five nations win UN Security Council seats (AFP) AFP - The United Nations elected five new members of the UN Security Council for two-year terms starting on January 1 -- Argentina, Denmark, Greece, Japan and Tanzania.
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New York Times sports Acton-Boxboro ranks with best Acton-Boxboro, which sat atop the Globe's Top 20 standings all season, solidified that spot and capped a 13-0 season with a dominating 28-6 win over No. 6 Chelmsford in the Division 2 Super Bowl.Couple that with Everett's loss to Brockton in the Division 1 game, and...
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BBC News Wenger stays calm despite setback Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger refused to panic after his side were pegged back to a 1-1 draw by Panathinaikos in the Champions League.
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Boston Globe business Funds close out 2004 with strong showings NEW YORK -- Wall Street's fourth-quarter rally gave stock mutual funds a solid performance for 2004, with small-cap equity funds and real estate funds scoring some of the biggest returns. Large-cap growth equities and technology-focused funds had the sli...
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BBC News world Tutu and Mbeki in war of words The row between South African President Thabo Mbeki and Archbishop Desmond Tutu worsens.
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Independent Online Samarra on edge after days of fierce fighting Samarra - An uneasy calm reigned over this former Sunni militant stronghold on Sunday as United States and Iraqi forces conducted mopping-up operations after two days of fierce fighting.
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The Australian Fischer finds mate but can't check US chasers WASHINGTON: Bobby Fischer's plan to renounce his US citizenship and wed a Japanese chess official would not save him from prosecution, the US State Department said yesterday.
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Reuters Business HP, Intel End Itanium Chip Pact SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co. HPQ.N and Intel Corp. INTC.O on Wednesday ended their 10-year partnership to co-develop the Itanium chip for server computers, following disappointing sales of the product.
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RedNova science Google Me, Google You: Admit It: You Search for Your Name on the Internet. But Do You Ever Get the Urge to Contact Those People Who Share Your Name to Find Out Just Who the Heck They Really Are? Reporter Richard Chin Did. By Richard Chin, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn. Feb. 4--I, Richard Chin, am a n...
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Twin Falls Times-News Helicopter Crash, Bombing Add to US Death Toll BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Two US Army helicopters crashed in Baghdad on Saturday, killing two soldiers, as the military reported that four other American troops had died in car bombings elsewhere in Iraq.
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Yahoo Politics Bill Clinton defends health care effort (AP) AP - Former President Clinton defends his administration's attempt to reshape the nation's health care system in a new book, saying the effort "was killed by politics, not the plan's particulars."
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Boston Globe business Kuwaiti: OPEC will cut output OPEC will cut back on oil production early next year in a bid to stave off a further decline in the world price, Kuwait's oil minister said yesterday.
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Reuters World At least 11 dead as two trains collide near Rio RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - At least 11 people were killed and 63 injured when a train packed with homeward-bound commuters rammed into another train on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro on Thursday.
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Yahoo Tech Survey: Porn to Boost Wireless Web Services (Reuters) Reuters - Mobile phone users around the world will spend $1 billion a year on pornography sent to their handsets by 2008, which may boost the wireless services sector much as it fueled growth in the fixed-line Internet, a market research firm said.
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Reuters Haiti Ex-Soldiers Seize Aristide's Old Compound Some 100 former soldiers who helped lead a revolt against ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide seized his abandoned residence on Wednesday and said they would make it their headquarters.
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BBC News Business UK mortgage lending rises sharply The number of mortgages approved rose to 120,000 in July, the highest since the start of 2006.
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RedNova general Diplomat Says N. Korea Blast Not Nukes BEIJING - A diplomat who visited the site of a huge explosion in North Korea said Friday he saw no evidence it was caused by a nuclear test, and South Korean officials said mushroom-shaped plume thought to be from the blast may have instead been a natural cloud f...
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ESPN Premiership: New boys can't buy a win All three of the newly promoted sides are still searching for a first win of the season after a day of predictable results gave the Premiership table an all too familiar look.
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RedNova science Fletcher Offers Conservation Effort: LANDOWNERS WOULD GET TAX BREAK IF THEY GIVE UP DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS AND ALLOW PUBLIC ACCESS By John Stamper, The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky. Feb.
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Boulder Daily Camera A's win meaningless finale Rookie Nick Swisher singled home the go-ahead run in the eighth inning, and the A's defeated the playoff-bound Anaheim Angels 3-2 on Sunday.
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Yahoo Sports Seven NBA Players to Aid Tsunami Victims (AP) AP - Tracy McGrady, Kobe Bryant, Jermaine O'Neal and four other NBA players have promised to donate $1,000 for every point they score in a game later this week to help victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami.
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Yahoo Sports Conley leads Ohio State past Michigan (AP) AP - Seven-footer Greg Oden gets all the attention for No. 3 Ohio State. Maybe the shortest Buckeye deserves some of the focus.
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BBC News Business Bush signs energy bill into law President George W. Bush signs into law a bill designed to improve fuel economy and reduce US demand for oil.
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Reuters World South Korea court allows probe of president-elect SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's constitutional court on Thursday ruled that a special counsel investigation into fraud allegations against President-elect Lee Myung-bak could go ahead, even though part of the process was unconstitutional.
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Time Business Flying Jumbo Airbus unveils the world's largest passenger plane
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PCWorld news New MicroSD, USB Reader Bundles from Kingston Kingston has introduced two bundle kits that combine a microSD card with a Mac and PC-compatible USB reader.
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Reuters Business NYSE Euronext to acquire American Stock Exchange NEW YORK (Reuters) - NYSE Euronext said on Thursday it agreed to acquire the American Stock Exchange for $260 million in stock to boost its business in options, exchange traded funds and other products.
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Yahoo Sports No. 13 Louisville pounds Kentucky 59-28 (AP) AP - Michael Bush sat up on the stretcher and waved to the Papa John's Stadium crowd. He didn't anticipate having to say goodbye so soon.
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Sports Network Bolton on the move after Newcastle win London, England (Sports Network) - In Sunday's only Premiership match, Bolton Wanderers moved back into the league's fourth position after beating Newcastle United 2-1.
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Yahoo Business Hotel Workers in Three Cities May Strike (Reuters) Reuters - Hotel workers in Washington D.C., San Francisco and Los Angeles on Sunday held out the threat of a strike, but have told management they will resume contract talks, a D.C. union official said.
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The Washington Post sports Walker Reveals Multiple Personalities ATLANTA -- Georgia football great Herschel Walker has multiple personalities _ a revelation in an upcoming book that surprises the man who coached the 1982 Heisman Trophy winner.
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Reuters Sports Trail Blazers Suspend Woods PORTLAND, Ore., (Sports Network) - Portland Trail Blazers forward Qyntel Woods was suspended without pay pending the club's investigation regarding allegations by Multnomah County for dog abandonment and by Clackamas County for dog fighting.
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Yahoo Tech Earthlink names Huff as CEO (AP) AP - Internet service provider Earthlink Inc. on Monday named the former leader of a voice and data services company known for his willingness to cut loose unprofitable projects as its new chief executive.
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Search engine journal Google Planning To Index Entire Libraries Google Planning To Index Entire Libraries For a long time there have been rumors going around about Project Ocean, a project by Google to index all the pre-1923 content in the Stanford Library. (I'd call it a little stronger than a rumor since it was in...
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RedNova technology Fresno Unified Longs for Tech Upgrade: School Board Will Consider Funding Faster Internet Access. By Christina Vance, The Fresno Bee, Calif. Feb. 7--Unhappy with the speed of dial-up Internet access at home? Try being a Fresno Unified student. Many classroom Web connections move at a maddeningly...
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Time World Showdown With The Rebel The U.S. and the Iraqi government struggle to contain the truculent cleric Muqtada al-Sadr
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Seattle Times Q&A: Microsoft's Will Poole talks about digital home entertainment LOS ANGELES - With Microsoft pulling out the stops to make computers part of home entertainment, Will Poole was a natural choice to lead the business producing PC versions of Windows.
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Yahoo Sports Rose backs McGwire, self for Hall (AP) AP - Pete Rose thinks Mark McGwire should be baseball's Hall of Fame, and hasn't given up hope that he'll get there someday, too.
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Sports Network New fish in town: Saban will coach Dolphins Orlando, FL (Sports Network) - LSU head coach Nick Saban announced on Saturday night that he will become the new head coach of the Miami Dolphins beginning in the 2005 season.
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The Register The Christmas console war: round one to Xbox? Battle for the wrapping paper begins In the run-up to the Christmas season, Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo will all be eagerly analysing sales figures in an attempt to declare their own console champion of champions. Microsoft has already made the first move an...
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Boston Globe sports Lehman Seeking a New Tone in the Ryder Cup Tom Lehman remembers watching last year's Ryder Cup on television, and feeling like he had tuned into a horror show.
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Pacific Business News United Airlines: We'll strength hubs, pull back elsewhere United Airlines management says it is "substantially accelerating" its restructuring plans to add lucrative international routes, strengthen its hubs, and cut back on other domestic service.
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InternetNews.com IBM's Blue Gene Wins Fastest Supercomputer Honors IBM (Quote, Chart) secured the top spot in the rankings for world's fastest supercomputer as Blue Gene/L ran at a sustained speed of 36.
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New York Times Tech Plugging in a Musical Visionary's Next Ideas Musician Brian Eno, who has been turning ideas into visionary music for decades, is looking to create software that will write song lyrics.
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The Washington Post sports Drug Reports May Affect Work Visas SANTIAGO, Dominican Republic -- Baseball union head Donald Fehr has heard rumors about the possibility U.S. authorities could deny or restrict work visas for foreign players mentioned in reports of use of performance-enhancing drugs.
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PCWorld news Patches keep coming as Apple fixes OS X security bugs The bug fixes kept coming Monday, as Apple shipped critical security updates for its Mac OS X operating system.
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Boston Globe business How Goodwin Procter won many of Testa's law partners Silicon Valley and Manhattan law firms descended on Boston in December, throwing money at the hotshot talent fleeing the country's premier high-technology law firm, Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, as it was unraveling.
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Boston Globe business Free tax filing won't come with loan solicitations WASHINGTON -- The IRS and private tax preparers have agreed that a free electronic filing program will be offered for 2006 tax returns without solicitations for refund loans that sometimes carry high interest charges and fees, the agency said ye...
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Finance Gates Fannie Mae faces probe for fraud Fannie Mae, the US biggest government-ruled mortgage lender, faces formal investigation conducted by the US Justice Department of possible accounting fraud.
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Computerworld news FBI planted spyware on teen's PC to trace bomb threats The FBI planted spyware on a 15-year-old boy's computer in Washington state to help finger him as the person responsible for a number of bomb threats e-mailed to his high school earlier this year.
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Yahoo Sports Vanderbilt Upsets No. 19 Alabama, 70-56 (AP) AP - Mario Moore shot 4-of-5 from 3-point range and finished with 16 points to help lead Vanderbilt to a 70-56 upset of No. 19 Alabama on Wednesday night.
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The Japan Times Creator wins Ig Nobel for karaoke's 'new way to tolerate' NEW YORK (Kyodo) Karaoke inventor Daisuke Inoue was awarded the humorous Ig Nobel peace prize in a Thursday ceremony at Harvard University for "providing an entirely new way for people to learn to tolerate each other.
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InfoWorld news PalmOne licenses Microsoft Exchange for mobile e-mail PalmOne Inc. has licensed technology from Microsoft Corp. to make its devices work directly with Microsoft's Exchange e-mail server, the companies said Tuesday.
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Xinhua Update: Darfur peace talks suspended as rebels pull out The third round of peace talks aimedat ending a 22-month-old crisis in Sudan's troubled Darfur region has been suspended after the rebels accused government forces of continuing attacking them.
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Reuters World Blair Gives Qualified Iraq Apology to Woo Party BRIGHTON, England (Reuters) - Tony Blair offered his Labour party on Tuesday a partial apology for waging war in Iraq -- a desperate attempt to pull supporters back behind him ahead of an election next year.
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ESPN Bills keep playoff hopes alive His final season as a modestly talented tight end coincided with Chuck Noll's last hurrah on the sideline, and it was probably during that 1991 campaign with the Pittsburgh
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The Register UK.gov wants to ramp up, co-ordinate anti-terror investment Fragmentation is just one of our enemies The UK government's chief scientific advisor painted a depressing picture of an ever-evolving terror threat that had to be be met with an ever agile investment in science and technology for security.

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CNET personal technology news Intelligent, chatty machines Also: Searching passengers' faces for subtle cues to terror. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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New York Times Business Thou Shalt Not Increase G.D.P. The wall separating church and economics is being breached as some academics turn to studying the effect of religion on economies.
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Reuters Business US: Time Running Out in Airbus-Boeing Row PARIS (Reuters) - The United States said on Tuesday it may soon take legal action in a trade row over government help for Airbus and Boeing, particularly as the European aircraft maker was seeking support for a new project. Washington and Brussels have so...
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San Francisco Chronicle US team wins Tommy Bahama Challenge in playoff Americans Hank Kuehne, Chad Campbell, Zach Johnson and Chris Riley beat a foursome of international players on the first playoff hole Tuesday in the inaugural Tommy Bahama Challenge.
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Yahoo Science Fertility Clinics Vary on Embryo Disposal (AP) AP - The nation's fertility clinics vary widely when it comes to how they perform one of the most delicate aspects of their jobs: disposing of unused frozen human embryos that were created to help infertile women become pregnant.
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The Japan Times Manning outguns Favre Peyton Manning threw for 393 yards and five first-half touchdowns and the Indianapolis Colts beat the Green Bay Packers 45-31 in a wild, high-scoring game on Sunday.
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RedNova general U.S. Women Win Third Straight Hoops Gold ATHENS, Greece - The United States shook off early shooting woes and sloppy play to claim its third straight Olympic gold medal Saturday, a 74-63 victory over Australia that was ugly but immensely satisfying for the Americans. They did it by turning up the defe...
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Independent Opec agrees to clamp down on oil production OPEC, the oil producers' cartel, agreed yesterday to clamp down on its excess production, which has seen crude prices tumble by one-quarter in just six weeks.
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Reuters Business UPS Profit Grows But Misses Estimates NEW YORK (Reuters) - United Parcel Service Inc. UPS.N said on Thursday its quarterly profit rose but missed expectations as shortfalls in its U.S. package business and rising fuel prices offset strength internationally.
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The Washington Post sports Hokies Making Noise Prognosticators pegged Virginia Tech as being among the worst teams in the ACC but coach Seth Greenberg has guided the surprising Hokies to fifth place.
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Wired Business Polar Lakes and Global Warming Previously undiscovered lakes under Antarctica may help improve our understanding of the interaction between global warming and the melting icepack. Plus: New climate accord sought. By the Associated Press.
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Yahoo Politics Social Security a Priority for White House (AP) AP - THE PROBLEM: Social Security faces a $3.7 trillion shortfall over 75 years.
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New York Times Business Trade Deficit Surges; Jobless Claims Up The U.S. trade deficit, propelled by a record foreign oil bill, surged to $54 billion in August, the second highest level in history.
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The Register NASA, UK boffins plan tunnelling Moon mole robot Beagle 3 to seek Martian fossils in lunar caverns A joint working group set up by the British government and US space agency NASA has recommended that the two countries cooperate on a "UK-led" unmanned moon mission.

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Yahoo World Thousands of British protesters demand Lebanon ceasefire (AFP) AFP - Activists, claiming a groundswell of anti-war sentiment not seen since the US-led invasion of Iraq, have staged a mass protest against the conflict in Lebanon and demanded a ceasefire.
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Time Business Airline Consolidation Could Mean Higher Fares Industry observers say all the talks and recent airline restructurings have set the stage for big changes in the business next year
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Financial Times Big leap in foreign investment in India Foreign direct investment inflows to India leapt by almost 70 per cent in the first six months of the year but are still running at only a tenth the volume of China.
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The Motley Fool GM Builds Time Machine It's back to the future and back to the dealer for 10 million GM cars.
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Yahoo Business Tips for Last-Minute Holiday Shoppers (AP) AP - Last-minute shopping recommendations from consumer finance experts:
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Reuters World Japan cuts short Antarctic whale hunt TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan has abandoned whale hunting in the Antarctic for this season after its main whaling ship was crippled by a fire two weeks ago, the Fisheries Agency said on Wednesday.
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Forbes Delta, US Air Slump As Bankruptcies Eyed Investors pulled back from shares of major air carriers Friday as concerns loomed that US Airways Group Inc. and Delta Air Lines Inc.
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BBC News Business Hawkshead calls in administrators Outdoor clothing company Hawkshead goes into administration amid problems with financing and its database.
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Yahoo Science Warmest January ever recorded worldwide in 2007: US scientists (AFP) AFP - World temperatures in January were the highest ever recorded for that month of the year, US government scientists said.
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Search engine journal Google Checkout & Customer Ownership Google Checkout & Customer Ownership Brian Smith at ComparisonEngines has an interesting post (citing research from Piper Jaffray’s Safa Rashtchy) on retailer fear surrounding Google’s control of customer data and the customer relationship. (Eric Schmidt in h...
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BBC science Genetic test for prostate cancer A genetic test which may improve accurate diagnosis of prostate cancer is launched in the UK.
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New York Times sports From Fall Classic to a classic fall Two years ago, the Chicago White Sox were World Series champions. Three days ago, general manager Kenny Williams flew to Cleveland unexpectedly to apologize for the team's poor play.
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BBC Sport Europe revel in Ryder glory Ryder Cup captain Bernhard Langer led the praise for his "tremendous" Europe team after their crushing 18œ-9œ defeat of the USA at Oakland Hills.
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The Washington Post sports Once Again, Capitals Are Gracious Guests The Capitals surrender three power-play goals in the first period and a short-handed one in the second to hand the Canadiens a 5-3 victory.
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San Francisco Chronicle Hewitt cruises to quarterfinals Former Wimbledon and US Open winner Lleyton Hewitt cruised to a 6-1, 6-4 victory over Michael Llodra on Thursday to advance to the quarterfinals of the TD Waterhouse Cup.
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New York Times Britain and Ireland Fail in Talks on Power-Sharing Government The prime ministers of Britain and Ireland admitted today that they had failed so far to restore power-sharing government between Catholics and Protestants
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InfoWorld news Funambol offers ad-supported mobile e-mail Open-source mobile e-mail provider Funambol is working with advertising company Amobee to give network operators a way to offer free e-mail services to users. The new mobile offering, which Funambol plans to announce on Tuesday and demonstrate in Barcelona nex...
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CNET enterprise hardware news Review: Fake Steve Jobs' Options is funny, but optional If you're a Silicon Valley insider, expect to laugh mightily at this send up of Northern California's movers and shakers. Others might not get the joke.
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Yahoo Politics House Panel Questions Role of French Bank (AP) AP - Lawmakers are questioning whether a French bank failed to comply with U.S. money-laundering laws, possibly helping Saddam Hussein manipulate the $60 billion U.N. oil-for-food program. The bank denies any wrongdoing.
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BBC News world Hunt for clues to Russia crashes Russian investigators refuse to rule out sabotage after two airliners crash minutes apart, killing 89 people.
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The Motley Fool Fussing About Fund Fees Mutual fund fees may look small, but they can eat much of your earnings.
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Rochester Democrat and Chronicle Orange off to a running start (November 12, 2004) - SYRACUSE â€-t took just 50 seconds to show how overmatched the Northern Colorado basketball team would be in Thursday night's 104-54 loss to Syracuse University.
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Reuters Sports Blake into Vegas quarters amid rules snafu LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - James Blake was controversially given a place in the Las Vegas Open quarter-finals on Thursday after the ATP reversed a quirk in the rules of its new round-robin format that had seen him ousted in bizarre fashion.
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Australian IT Samsung pumps $31bn into chip plants SOUTH Korea 's Samsung Electronics, the world's largest memory chipmaker, is to invest $US24 billion ($31 billion) in new chip production lines over the next six years.
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Reuters Sports NBA: Hill Drives Orlando Magic to Beat LA Clippers ORLANDO, Fla. (Sports Network) - Grant Hill scored a season-high 39 points and Steve Francis hit a pair of clutch shots down the stretch to lead the Orlando Magic over the Los Angeles Clippers, 99-94, at TD Waterhouse Center.
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The Washington Post sports Boller Still Finding Way Kyle Boller faces mounting criticism after an ineffective game in Washington two weeks ago. With several offensive players out, Boller needs to play better vs. the Bills.
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CNET personal technology news FAQ: What does the digital TV switch actually mean? It's not too early to start thinking about how to ensure your television won't go dark when analog broadcasts shut down in 2009. Photos: Converting from analog to digital TV
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