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New York Times world Mideast Talks Conclude With Little Result An American-sponsored meeting between Israeli and Palestinian leaders ended Monday with little more than a promise to meet again.
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Newsday Mets sweep doubleheader DENVER -- Victor Zambrano departed Coors Field in tears Tuesday night. He even apologized to Mets officials on his way to the disabled list with what later was diagnosed as a strained flexor muscle in his right elbow.
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Wired Tech Screenshots: <cite>Heavenly Sword</cite>, <cite>Blue Dragon</cite> and More Wired News reviews the latest medieval medieval offerings from the XBox 360 and PS3.
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New York Times Business U.N. Says U.S. Deficits Distort Global Economy The United Nations said today that the twin deficits of the United States were putting the global economy off balance
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CNET networking news Talk cheap with Samsung BlackJack II smartphone, free with activation New AT&T customers can scoop up the highly rated BlackJack II Windows Mobile smartphone absolutely free with a two-year contract. Buy.com will even ship it free.
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Sports Network American League Playoff Game Summary - Anaheim at Boston Boston, MA (Sports Network) - David Ortiz slammed a two-out, two-run homer in the bottom of the 10th inning helping the Boston Red Sox to an 8-6 win and a three-game sweep of the Anaheim Angels in their American League Division Series.
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Yahoo Business Lenders to halt New Century financing (Reuters) Reuters - New Century Financial Corp. , the largest independent U.S. subprime lender, said on Monday that its lenders plan to halt financing, in a development that could push the company closer to bankruptcy.
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Reuters World Israel kills Gaza gunman as Hamas and Fatah resume fighting GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip infiltrated into Israel at a key border crossing on Saturday, igniting a fire fight in which one gunman was killed, and prompting Israeli threats of further violence.
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Yahoo Business New Century stock falls (Reuters) Reuters - New Century Financial Corp. shares fell 17.1 percent to an eight-year low on Friday after analysts said the largest independent U.S. subprime mortgage lender, which faces a criminal probe and has stopped making new loans, may soon seek bankruptcy protec...
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New York Times world New Orleans Mayor Seeks Support in New York C. Ray Nagin today stopped short of an explicit apology for calling ground zero as “a hole in the ground.”
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Expatica Iran faces tough talks with EU big three TEHERAN - The third round of nuclear talks with Iran and the European Union trio of Britain, France and Germany will be "tough and complicated", an Iranian spokesman said Friday.
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CNET enterprise hardware news New reality show lets you beat up your co-workers Blog: 'Office Fight' is exactly what you think it is.
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The Register UK Treasury knew of US hunt through British bank data EU investigation closes in The Bank of England told HM Treasury about the secret US surveillance of international banking transactions as long as five years ago.

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CNET networking news Ericsson pulls Bluetooth division The mobile developer disbands the unit that developed the short-range wireless technology used in some cell phones and notebook PCs.
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CNET security news Microsoft revs its patent machine Company is prolific filer of patent applications, including those for exotic technologies such as a washable keyboard and software that responds to your emotions.
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The Washington Post sports El Duque Returns to N.Y. for Neck Exam PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- Orlando Hernandez left the New York Mets' spring training camp and returned to New York to have his neck examined.
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Yahoo Tech EU group says Google-DoubleClick deal will harm privacy (InfoWorld) InfoWorld - European consumer groups warned the European Commission Thursday that Google's plan to take over the online advertising company DoubleClick, currently under investigation, would erode consumers' privacy and would push...
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UN News Centre Experts urge stronger action against wildlife poachers 5 October 2004 - Law enforcement experts are urging stronger action against poachers or smugglers of endangered species, but warn that many countries lack the ability to fight wildlife crimes, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said to...
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Reuters World Blair Sees More 'Consensual' 2nd Term for Bush LONDON (Reuters) - George W. Bush has learned from his first term in office and will adopt a more "consensual" foreign policy, his closest international ally, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, said in an interview published on Thursday.
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Reuters Business Microsoft, LG Elec agree licensing deal SEOUL (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. and South Korea's LG Electronics said on Thursday they agreed a patent cross-licensing deal, sending LG shares to their highest in more than a year.
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Boston Globe business Business notebook Named: Cambridge-based Akamai Technologies Inc. , which provides technology for online content streaming, named Digitas Inc. chairman and chief executive David Kenny to its board.
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Yahoo Tech Cisco to roll out branch office networking gear (InfoWorld) InfoWorld - Enterprise branch offices increasingly need the same IT tools that the head office has, and Cisco Systems is set to unveil branch networking gear Wednesday to help fill that need.
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CNET enterprise hardware news Open-source ID project awaits Microsoft's blessing Higgins-project developers are creating a tool equivalent to Windows CardSpace but need Microsoft's go-ahead for certain features.
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Yahoo Sports Cubs GM Hendry released from hospital (AP) AP - Chicago Cubs general manager Jim Hendry was released from an Orlando Fla., hospital Friday, two days after an angioplasty during the baseball winter meetings.
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Boston Globe sports For Orioles Prospect, a Learning Experience By drafting the Georgia Tech catcher Matt Wieters with the fifth overall pick in the amateur draft, the Orioles made clear their direction for the future.
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Reuters Business BMW says group unit sales rise 0.5 pct in January FRANKFURT (Reuters) - BMW , the world's largest premium carmaker, posted a 0.5 percent rise in group sales to 94,276 vehicles in January, the company said on Wednesday.
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Yahoo Tech Follow-Through (Forbes.com) Forbes.com - Last year's FORBES E-Gang (see p. 144 for this year's group) featured five luminaries in the field of wireless communication. Two of our picks have left their jobs, while three are steaming ahead.
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InfoWorld news 'Trust but verify' open mobile network pledges Major mobile voice and data carriers in the United States have pledged to open their networks to outside handsets and applications, but regulators and customers need to be vigilant to make sure those promises are fulfilled, one member of the U.S. Federal C...
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Reuters Business Bid talk propels Barclays shares higher: traders LONDON (Reuters) - Shares in Barclays surged over 4 percent toward their record high on Thursday as traders said talk returned that Spanish or U.S. banks were casting an acquisitive eye on Britain's third-biggest bank.
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Yahoo World Gaza Hospital Is Overwhelmed With Wounded (AP) AP - Frantic doctors tended to patients on a blood-smeared hospital floor and operated on cafeteria tables, as medics rushed in with more wounded and mangled bodies.
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BBC News Business Mobile firms sign 'Super 3G' deal NTT DoCoMo, Vodafone and 24 other mobile phone firms and manufacturers join forces to develop the next generation of high-speed handsets.
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The Motley Fool The Stocks the Funds Are Buying Wishing is one thing. Who's buying?
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Forbes Ellison: Judge Rules For Oracle CEO, Chairman Henley In Investor <b>...</b> It's the little victories... As Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ) awaits the resumption of its court battle with takeover target PeopleSoft (nasdaq: PSFT - news - people ), two of the software giant's
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ComputerWorld New Netscape browser supports Internet Explorer NOVEMBER 30, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - America Online Inc. today released a preview version of a new Netscape Web browser that's based on the open-source Firefox Web browser, but also supports Microsoft Corp.
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CNET security news Nokia taps Sourcefire to secure corporate networks Nokia security appliances will run Sourcefire's Intrusion Prevention System to offer businesses enhanced network security.
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Wired Business Coping With the Pitchfork Effect Here's how a tiny web outfit became the most influential tastemaker on the music scene. By Dave Itzkoff from Wired magazine.
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Reuters Business Dow Jones to Buy MarketWatch for $463 Mln NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dow Jones & Co. DJ.N , publisher of The Wall Street Journal, has agreed to buy online financial news provider MarketWatch Inc. MKTW.O for about $463 million in a bid to boost its revenue from the fast-growing Internet advertising m...
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Yahoo Sports Golovin Wins Opening Match at Australian (AP) AP - Tatiana Golovin of France needed only 52 minutes Monday to beat Yan Zi of China 6-1, 6-4 in a first-round match at the Australian women's hard-court tennis championships.
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Yahoo Tech British co. launches modern poetry site (AP) AP - British entertainment company 57 Productions launched a new Web site Tuesday which allows users to download and listen to poetry on their MP3 players and iPods.
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BBC science Bees survived dino extinction Tropical honeybees survived the devastating nuclear winter thought to have helped kill off the dinosaurs.
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Yahoo World Indonesia Plans Jan. Talks with Rebels in Tsunami Zone (Reuters) Reuters - Indonesia said on Wednesday it hoped to hold talks with separatist rebels operating in tsunami-hit Aceh province at the end of this month to try to ease security concerns amid a massive humanitarian operation.
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Reuters Business Stocks to Watch Monday INGRAM MICRO INC. IM.N :
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New York Times Business Altria Seeks Ways to Split Into 3 Units Altria, which includes Philip Morris, has been looking for a way to extract divisions from the American tobacco unit, which has been mired in litigation for years.
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Reuters PREVIEW-India face Pakistan in crunch Trophy clash Old rivals India and Pakistan meet at Edgbaston on Sunday in the biggest clash so far in the Champions Trophy but the seasonal English weather threatens to ruin the big day.
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Yahoo Science NASA's Terra Satellite Moved to Avoid Chinese ASAT Debris (SPACE.com) SPACE.com - WASHINGTON - Flight controllers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., had to maneuver the Terra environmental spacecraft in late June to avoid orbital debris created by the Jan. 11 test of a Chinese...
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Reuters Darfur camps in Chad close to capacity NYALA, Sudan (Reuters) - Refugee camps in Chad housing some 200,000 Sudanese fleeing fighting in Darfur are near capacity and placing a huge burden on Sudan's impoverished western neighbour, the United Nations says.
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Reuters World Iraq Awards First Post-War Oilfield Contracts BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's oil ministry has awarded the country's first post-war oilfield development contracts to Turkish and Canadian firms, an oil official said on Thursday.
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Yahoo Tech Apple sets Leopard operating software loose on Friday (AFP) AFP - Apple's upgraded Leopard operating system will be set loose on Friday as trend-setting iPods and iPhones cause the ranks of Macintosh computer lovers to swell.
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Search engine journal Yahoo Maps To Add Traffic Updates and Reports Yahoo Maps To Add Traffic Updates and Reports Yahoo is not only becoming the goto place for multimedia search and online entertainment, it's also now offering a new service for monitoring traffic conditions online. Yahoo's offering of traffic update...
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BBC News Business Africa's big plan 'disappointing' One of the architects of Africa's home-grown plan for economic development criticises its lack of achievements.
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New York Times sports This is one hot topic FOXBOROUGH -- When it comes to the weather this time of year, most NFL coaches have the same pragmatic outlook: It is what it is, to borrow a phrase often used by Patriots coach Bill Belichick .
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IAfrica South African News Australian train crash injures scores A high-speed passenger train carrying more than 160 people jumped the rails and crashed in eastern Australia, injuring most of those on board, officials said.
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RedNova general CD Tries to Show Shatner's No 'Has Been' NEW YORK - Just in time for Halloween comes a CD from a guy more likely to inspire a holiday costume than a musical following - William Shatner. The one-time James T...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer Atlanta's Furcal pleads guilty to second DUI Atlanta, GA (Sports Network) - Atlanta Braves shortstop Rafael Furcal pleaded guilty on Thursday to his second drunken driving charge.
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CNET enterprise hardware news Ask to allow anonymous Web search Blog: By using the new AskEraser tool, users will be able to set their privacy preferences so the search engine does not retain their Web search history.
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RedNova science Bass to Oversee Projects for State College Board By Melissa M. Scallan, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss. Sep. 7--GULFPORT -- Former Long Beach Mayor Robert Bass has been named project director of Gulf Coast Operations for the state College Board.
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BBC science Antarctic craters reveal strike Scientists map enormous impact craters hidden under the Antarctic ice sheet using satellite technology.
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Reuters Sports Roddick makes comfortable Wimbledon start LONDON (Reuters) - Third seed Andy Roddick started his Wimbledon campaign with a comfortable 6-1 7-5 7-6 first-round victory over fellow American Justin Gimelstob on Monday.
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The Register ISPA bigwig resigns over support for UKIF Trade group rift claims casualty
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Sci-Tech Today WHO: Another Flu Pandemic May Be Imminent The World Health Organization previously had warned that bird flu mixed with a human flu virus could spread rapidly and cause as many as 7 million deaths.
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Yahoo Sports Evgeni Malkin signs with Penguins (AP) AP - Evgeni Malkin signed his first NHL contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins on Tuesday, slightly more than three weeks since slipping away from his Russian team and making a clandestine trip to the United States.
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Channel News Asia Huge explosion in North Korea last week SEOUL : A huge explosion rocked North Korea's northern inland province of Ryanggang last week, triggering a mushroom cloud at least two miles in radius, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said Sunday.
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Kentucky Post Delta: $646M in losses in quarter nearly four times its losses from a year ago -- as the company again warned it needs pilots to take a massive $1 billion
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PCWorld news Sun Launches its First x86 Quad-Core Servers Sun Fire X4450 and Sun Fire X4150 rack-mount servers are scheduled to ship in October.
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BBC News Quake has thousands sleeping out Thousands of people in northern Japan are spending a second night in emergency shelters or out in the open after a series of earthquakes.
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USA Today Parrish, Gore provide push for Miami in defeat of Virginia Roscoe Parrish returned a punt for a touchdown and caught a clinching late touchdown pass Saturday as 17th-ranked Miami got back into the ACC title race by beating No.
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New York Times Science Arthritis Fails to Slow Invading Toads in Australian Fields The cane toad is growing so big and hopping so rapidly into new territory that they are developing severe arthritis.
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Reuters World Palestinian Gunmen Shot Dead in Gaza Settlement GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian gunmen who infiltrated a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip Thursday.
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Yahoo World US asked to take stern action against China on currency issue (AFP) AFP - The US government has come under new pressure to take stern action against China after failing to win firm assurance from Beijing on revaluing its currency.
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Yahoo Tech Yahoo Rolls Out Tests of Redesigned Start Pages (Reuters) Reuters - Online media company Yahoo Inc. late on Monday rolled out tests of redesigned start pages for its popular Yahoo.com and My.Yahoo.com sites.
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Boston Globe sports As Browns Plummet, Davis Quits as Coach Butch Davis resigned as head coach in Cleveland after a nearly four-year tenure filled with unmet expectations.
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The Motley Fool 3 Stocks That Missed the Mark A peek at companies that overpromised and underdelivered.
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CBC News Aid slow to reach desperate Haitians GONAIVES, HAITI - The lines grew longer and the people more desperate as flood victims in this city begged for food and clean water in order to survive another day.
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Yahoo Sports Drew may have to wait for all his money (AP) AP - J.D. Drew might have to wait until 2030 to get all the money in his contract if he gets hurt.
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Yahoo Sports Tucson Sidewinders win AAA championship (AP) AP - Micah Owings won his 13th straight decision and the Tucson Sidewinders broke open a close contest in the ninth inning, beating the Toledo Mud Hens 5-2 Tuesday night in the Triple-A championship game.
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Xposed.com Army Faces Probe on No-Bid Deals With KBR The Army has agreed to a Pentagon investigation into claims by a top contracting official that a Halliburton subsidiary unfairly won no-bid contracts worth billions of dollars for work in Iraq and the Balkans, according to Army documents obtained Sunday.
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The Motley Fool A Steel Arbitrage Opportunity The Dutch are coming! The Dutch are coming! (But they bear cash.)
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Yahoo World Explosion in Iraq Kills 1, Injures 2 (AP) AP - A bomb exploded Saturday outside a former Saddam Hussein-era palace that houses a U.S. consular office, killing at least one person and wounding two others, police and witnesses said.
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Reuters Business Singapore Air Sets $7.35 Bln Boeing Order SINGAPORE/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Singapore Airlines Ltd. SIAL.SI plans to buy up to 31 Boeing Co. BA.N long-range 777-300ER planes worth about $7.35 billion, the carrier said on Wednesday.
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Yahoo Politics Transit panel urges gas tax increase (AP) AP - A special commission is urging the government to raise federal gasoline taxes by as much as 40 cents per gallon over five years as part of a sweeping overhaul designed to ease traffic congestion and repair the nation's decaying bridges and roads.
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BCC Technology Microsoft patent row rumbles on A legal row between Microsoft and AT&T about overseas patents heads to the US Supreme Court.
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The Washington Post sports Tulane Player Is Charged in Stabbing Police arrested Tulane football player Ray Boudreaux yesterday in connection with the Bourbon Street stabbing that left five people hurt last weekend.
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RedNova space TransVision 2007 Attendees to Experience ZERO-G Weightless Flight With Visionaries Ray Kurzweil and Peter Diamandis On Friday, July 27, TransVision 2007, a global conference on grand challenges, will host a weightless flight with Zero Gravity Corporation (ZERO-G(R), www.gozerog.com). Notable visionaries...
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Canada.com Bush, Martin pledge to improve trade relations but no promises on <b>...</b> OTTAWA (CP) - George W. Bush said he understands Canadian ranchers' frustrations but the president suggested the lumbering US bureaucracy has to sign off before the border can re-open to Canadian cattle.
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The Register Italian court rules against HP on pre-installed Windows Orders computer giant to cough up refund An Italian judge ruled in favour of a Hewlett Packard (HP) customer who asked for a refund because the Compaq notebook he had bought came pre-loaded with Microsoft's Windows XP and Works 8.

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Yahoo World Israel ends 4-day raid in West Bank town (AP) AP - Israeli troops wound up a four-day sweep of wanted men and munitions caches in the West Bank town of Nablus on Saturday, and residents confined at home since the operation began outside to survey damage and resume their interrupted lives.
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Reuters Business Verizon to Buy MCI in $6.75 Billion Deal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Verizon Communications Inc. VZ.N on Monday said it would buy long-distance telephone company MCI Communications Inc. MCIP.O in a deal worth $6.75 billion, giving Verizon entry into the market serving large corporations.
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New York Times Business Stocks Rise as Oil Prices Fall Share prices advanced in early trading on Wall Street today as a decline in oil prices helped increase investor sentiment.
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Boston Globe sports Yankees Will Start El Duque in Game 4 The Yankees will start Orlando Hernandez in Game 4 of the A.L.C.S. on Saturday against the Boston Red Sox.
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Unstrung Agere Posts Q4 Loss ALLENTOWN, Pa. -- Agere Systems (NYSE: AGR.A, AGR.B) today reported that revenues for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2004, ended September 30, were $439 million, at the high end of the guidance range provided by the company in July.
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Washington Post Tech A Rare Find in Madagascar Gets Its Own Genus It started as a simple family picnic in the outback of Madagascar, off Africa's southeast coast. Xavier and Nathalie Metz, local cashew farmers, stared in disbelief at a 30-foot-tall mass of flowers and fruits sprouting gloriously from the top of a 3...
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Yahoo Sports Ryder Cup revives Montgomerie's career (AP) AP - Colin Montgomerie figured his Ryder Cup days were over.
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BBC News world Cartoon sharks swim into Venice Venice's St Mark's Square will be transformed into a giant cinema for the premiere of animation Shark Tale.
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Wired Tech Minniapple's Mini Radio Stations The Walker Art Center wants to put the 'public' back in the public airwaves. It's distributing tiny radio-transmitter kits so people can broadcast from their own personal radio stations. Michelle Delio reports from Minneapolis.
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Khaleej Times UN envoy to Iraq discusses elections with top US official WASHINGTON - The United Nations special envoy to Iraq met with US Deputy Secretary of Defense Richard Armitage Friday to discuss Iraq’s January elections, the State Department said.
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New York Times world Divisions Are Stark as House Iraq Vote Nears With the outcome all but certain, the House of Representatives neared the end of an emotional debate today over President Bush’s strategy in Iraq.
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Yahoo World Asian Allies Welcome Bush's Second Term (AP) AP - America's Asian allies on Friday warmly welcomed President Bush's second term, though some in the region expressed concern that his inauguration speech pointed to a more aggressive foreign policy that could worsen global tensions.
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Wired Tech Nuclear Power to Explode in India, but China Prefers Coal India is ready to increase its reliance on nuclear energy dramatically, in order to curb greenhouse gas emissions. But unless China cuts back its coal binge, the overall benefit to the planet of India's effort will likely be nil.
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Yahoo Politics U.S. Insists Russian Flights Be Checked (AP) AP - Two airlines that fly from Moscow to the United States must check passengers and their carryon bags for bombs, according to a government order Wednesday, one week after suspected terrorists crashed two Russian planes.
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