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LA LETTERA Ma quale semplificazione! Il racconto di una lettrice (14:48 15/12/2007)
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The risks are relatively few, and the potential is great.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Oil prices stayed on the boil above $53 a barrel on Monday, bolstered by persistent anxiety over OPEC member Nigeria and the nearly month-long loss of a quarter of U.S. Gulf of Mexico production, traders said.
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Officials are trying to figure out why workers at a meat plant were stricken with a strange neurological illness.
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AFP - Volkswagen (VW), Europe's biggest car maker, said it had sold a total 5.079 million cars worldwide last year, 1.3 percent more than in 2003.
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Live Ashes scorecard with Test Match Special commentary
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There are a lot of positives at Taser -- and a large short position.
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AP - LYNWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Paris Hilton has reported to a Los Angeles County jail to begin a three-week stay for violating probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case.
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Izora Rhodes Armstead, one of the Weather Girls who sang the hit 1980's song "It's Raining Men" died September 16th of a heart failure in San Leandro, a city east of San Francisco. Along with singer Martha Wash, she created three albums as the W...
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Thousands of pilgrims streamed into the Imam Ali Shrine in Najaf yesterday as militants left, handing the keys to religious authorities after Iraq's top Shia cleric
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Israeli Foreign Minister Sylvan Shalom said here Wednesday that he was confident French authorities are making every effort to fight against anti-Semitism.
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Il presidente del Brescia Gino Corioni è intervenuto a Radio Marte, nel corso di Marte Sport ...
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EUROPEAN football's governing body has authorised the use of artificial pitches for its competitions, UEFA's executive committee ruled.
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Sony Ericsson has updated its range of notebook-oriented mobile connectivity cards with a model that supports almost every cellular network link, including HSDPA for high-speed 3G downloads.

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NEW YORK -- The U.S. stock market has rarely looked more attractive -- at least according to one important measure.
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Con temperature che superano i 40 gradi i lavoratori si autosospendono "Non gli spetta, come ad altre categorie, la cassa integrazione per calamità naturali" Fiat Termini Imerese, troppo caldo in fabbrica gli operai tornano a casa e rinunciano alla paga (16:32 25/06/2007)
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AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards on Saturday joined three other Democrats who say they will skip states that break party rules by holding early primaries.
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Stick shift dummies Two US would-be car thieves failed dismally to make off with a Honda Accord after discovering it had a mysterious manual gearbox, RTÉ reports.

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Terzo tempo per la Suzuki di Max Biaggi nella prima sessione di qualifiche del GP del Qatar, primo a...
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US Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld visited wounded soldiers and brought holiday greetings on Christmas Eve amid tight security at an air base in northern Iraq where an insurgent's
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A transport mix-up delayed the start of a new round of peace talks on Sudan's Darfur region on Thursday, as the African Union prepared to deploy thousands of new troops to monitor renewed fighting in the remote province.
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The departing Ukrainian president, Leonid Kuchma, said Monday that he favors holding new elections if that would bring the country's political crisis to a halt.
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Commissione Ue, per concorrere bastera' collegarsi in rete
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AP - A cow in southern Italy has tested positive for mad cow disease, raising to 124 the number of cases detected in the country since testing began in 2001, the Health Ministry said Monday.
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Marco Tronchetti Provera, azionista e sponsor dell'Inter, sa che il campionato che sta per iniziare ...
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A first RAF aid plane has delivered 50 tonnes of supplies to Indonesia, the country worst hit by the Asian tsunami.
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Flushing Meadows, NY (Sports Network) - Serena Williams, Amelie Mauresmo and Jennifer Capriati were among the winners Friday in third-round play at the 2004 US Open.
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Reuters - Top executives at pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. Inc. decided in May 2000 against developing a study to test directly whether its Vioxx painkiller drug might pose a heart risk, The New York Times reported on Saturday.
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AP - A methamphetamine dealer who gunned down a deputy during a traffic stop in Southern California. A man in Arizona who killed his ex-girlfriend's parents and brother and snatched his children. A man who suffocated his baby daughter and left her body in a toolbag on an expressway overpass near Chicago.
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Cites fraud concerns
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BERLIN (Reuters) - A Turk with German residency who spent years in the Guantanamo Bay prison camp said in a magazine interview that German soldiers abused him in Afghanistan shortly after Pakistan handed him to U.S. authorities in 2001.
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Scende anche l'indice di disoccupazione al 7,4 per cento
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The PolarLake DXR Server is part of the PolarLake integration suite. “The award of a US patent clearly demonstrates the uniqueness of our DXR server and reflects our ongoing commitment to develop market leading solutions for incremental integration,” said Ronan Bradley , CEO of PolarLake.
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WASHINGTON - Cingular Wireless LLC will divest itself of wireless customers and other assets in 13 U.S. markets as a requirement for its $41 billion acquisition of AT&T Wireless Services Inc., according to an consent decree announced Monday by the company and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).
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VaxGen (VXGN:OTC - news - research) said Thursday that it had received a US government contract to supply 75 million doses of anthrax vaccine for civilians.
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China Minmetals Corp. had entered exclusive talks to acquire Canadian copper and zinc miner Noranda Inc., both sides announced Friday.
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Security control for a province that was once Iraq's most dangerous could transfer to Iraqi forces by March, say officials.
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Reuters - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez proposed on Friday extending a barter scheme used by Cuba to other Caribbean and Central American nations to help them pay for oil supplies with products and services.
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Experts believe the weapons are secure for now, but they worry about what will happen when new officers take over
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People who have been involved in competitive gymnastics for any length of time know the judging is notoriously subjective and prone to error.
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For over a week, volunteer editors picked at the prose, tested the facts and directed this journalist to new avenues of reporting. But did our experiment in collaborative journalist produce a compelling story? By Ryan Singel.
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Top generals from North and South Korea have held the first day of talks focusing on a disputed sea border.
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Presidential candidate John Kerry, contending the Bush administration has created "more excuses than jobs," said today the Democratic ticket would shore up the middle class.
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The Semantic Web, a concept tossed around for years as a Web extension to make it easier to find and group information, is getting a critical boost Tuesday from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). W3C will announce publication of SPARQL (pronounced "sparkle") query technology, a Semantic Web component enabling peopl...
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President Bush's assurances that we'll all be "just fine" if he and Congress can work out an economic stimulus package seem a little hollow this morning.
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There is a proliferating selection of bridesmaid’s dresses far hipper and breezier than convention dictates, and certainly more versatile.
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The Chinese legislature has announced plans to reform the reeducation-through-labor system used to punish minor criminal offenders.
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WASHINGTON - Contradicting the main argument for war in Iraq, the top US arms inspector reported yesterday that he found no evidence that Iraq produced any weapons of mass destruction after 1991.
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Urdu Times (news) Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pledged on Monday to engage constructively with Pakistan over Kashmir as long as "terrorists" operating in the Himalayan region were brought to heel.
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Reuters - CBS is drafting TV talent for its broadband channel, Innertube, signing Michael Cera of "Arrested Development" to do a scripted shortform series.
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The “Black List” has become the kind of underground document that writers with projects in development pray will mention their script.
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Verso la quotazione a Londra e Milano
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AP - In what's being called a major advance in organ transplants, doctors say they have developed a technique that could free many patients from having to take anti-rejection drugs for the rest of their lives.
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Il calcio Napoli, attraverso il suo ufficio stampa, smentisce le voci secondo cui Edy Reja si sarebb...
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Seeking further efficiency improvements, Intel said it is laying off up to 10% of its IT staff -- a plan that was described in detail by a blogger using the name "Intel IT Guy."
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Dieting has fallen out of favor while eating healthier is in, a consumer marketing research firm that tracks what Americans consume said on Friday.
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The International Atomic Energy Agency warns of the possibility of system sabotage by intruders and corrupt insiders.
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Reuters - If Pope Benedict hopes his first book will sell like Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code", he wound up with the right U.S. publisher.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The amount of calcium and vitamin D in the diet appears to have little or no impact on the risk of prostate cancer, but the consumption of low-fat or nonfat milk may increase the risk of the malignancy, according to the results of two studies published in the American Journal of Epidemiology...
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Variety - NEW YORK -- Sinclair Broadcasting rejected an offer to broadcast "Going Upriver," a documentary favorable to John Kerry, as a counter-balance to its planned broadcast of parts of "Stolen Honor," a docu alleging that Sen. Kerry's anti-war activities prolonged the suffering of POWs.
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Reuters - Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney on Friday unveiled his plan for overhauling the U.S. health care system with tax breaks and other incentives aimed at helping the 45 million Americans without health insurance.
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Circuit City Stores Inc. and Verizon Wireless signed an agreement to install Verizon Wireless stores in more than 570 Circuit City Superstores around the country, they said Monday.
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Gabe: Tycho is down at GDC today to give some interviews about the Penny Arcade game. I"m not exactly sure what his schedule is like or who he"s talking to. According to Gamespot he"ll be joining them on their on the spot show in about 40 minutes (March 8th 4pm PST). He should be sharing some new information about our ...
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Wednesday's announcement that Kmart is acquiring Sears in an $11 billion deal spawned a lot of questions and comments at the Rolla outlets of the two companies.
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In a controversial and possibly illegal step, Australia plans to intercept and board ships on the high seas if it believes them to be a terrorist threat.
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Liverpool are to increase their bid for Real Madrid striker Fernando Morientes to GBP5 million to secure his leaving the Santiago Bernabéu towards Merseyside.
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A forthcoming video game aims to educate children about the global fight against hunger.
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Tom Brady of the Patriots is the king of midwinter, a quarterback so natural and complete that he is easy to ignore.
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Business News, Johannesberg: South African gold producer Harmony has bid to take over larger rival Gold Fields, a merger that would create the world's biggest gold producer.
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When Ashley Baker, the goalkeeper on the Framingham State women's soccer team, stepped onto the college's football practice field for the first time, a few players thought she was a trainer.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Manhattan federal judge has ordered Visa USA to stop charging a special fee that penalized debit card issuers for jumping to smaller rival MasterCard Inc. .
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Haiti's interim prime minister accused ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of directing a wave of violence from exile, while 95 Chinese police arrived yesterday to participate in their first UN peacekeeping mission in the Western Hemisphere.
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LONDON (Reuters) - New British Prime Minister Gordon Brown named a rising star and reported critic of the Iraq war, David Miliband, as foreign minister on Thursday in a wide-ranging government shake-up.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk held talks here on Tuesday, aiming to mend the fences between the two countries. via Xinhuanet
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Reuters - Wall Street stocks were poised for a softer start to Tuesday trade as investors square up positions ahead of a flurry of closely-watched data, a day ahead of the crucial U.S. interest rate decision.
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Johnny Damon served up both sides of his personality in addressing the media yesterday as his team looks ahead to today's Game 3 of the American League Division Series against Anaheim at Fenway Park.
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AP - Ronaldo broke free early, flashed past Ghana's flailing goalkeeper and poked the ball into the net.
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NEWCASTLE, England : Newcastle bounced back from last weekend's Premiership defeat to Bolton with a 2-0 UEFA Cup win over Dynamo Tbilisi.
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Scientists hope to build a giant “pinhole camera” in space to spot planets orbiting distant stars. The New Worlds Imager would be the size of a football field with a 30ft wide hole in the centre.
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AP - Troy Polamalu may take on the challenge of defending what he calls the AFC's best quarterback with one good arm.
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Il programma di Raiuno batte '...E io pago' su Canale 5
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Recruiting community support officers is to be speeded up, David Blunkett will say in his Labour conference speech.
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Dutch tour operator BAMOC has shown interest to step into Bulgaria's market during an international tourist industry fair in Utrecht, Netherlands, the Ministry of Economy said Wednesday.
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AFP - Republicans hoping to win the White House in 2008 appear to have called a truce of sorts in their frequently harsh attacks on France ever since Nicolas Sarkozy won the presidency there.
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Two new variants of the Cabir cell phone worm have the ability to spread much more quickly than earlier versions, antivirus experts say.
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Flimsy bandwagon collapses as dunces crowd aboard Analysis In the wake of Pentagon leaks suggesting that the Chinese military has conducted network attacks against US military systems, some in the UK are clearly feeling left out.

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Inail, 'Sempre alti costi sociali, 45,4 mld in un anno'
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A mobile YouTube service brings formerly diverse forms of media even closer together.
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BRUSSELS, Dec 22 (IPS) - Campaigners have hailed the EU decision to postpone the adoption of controversial new rules for patenting computer-based inventions as a victory for ”European democracy”.
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AP - Breaking a monthslong deadlock, key congressional negotiators reported agreement Saturday on legislation to overhaul the nation's intelligence agencies along lines recommended by the Sept. 11 commission.
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AP - A medical examiner testifying in the assault trial of a former CIA contractor said Friday that an Afghan detainee the defendant interrogated probably died from a beating, but a defense expert said there's too little information to know the cause of death.
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By measuring variations in satellite orbits, scientists have found the first direct evidence of one of the hallowed tenets of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity -- that the Earth and other large celestial bodies distort space and time as they rotate.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - Non-aligned nations on Tuesday rejected any "interference" in Iran's nuclear transparency deal with U.N. inspectors, a rebuff to Western complaints that the pact fails to curb activity that could lead to atom bombs.
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E-mail privacy in the workplace
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc. said on Tuesday it has bought Internet security startup GreenBorder Technologies Inc., which creates secure connections to protect e-mail and Web users from malicious or unwanted computer code.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Consumer sentiment took its sharpest plunge in nearly two years during August while home prices swooned in the second quarter, according to reports that show the housing crisis taking its toll.
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Description: Russian President Vladimir Putin recently made sweeping political changes to consolidate his power in the name of a more effective anti-terrorism strategy.
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Children on the Playing for Success sports venue learning scheme show mixed long-term results, a study says.
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A Swedish toddler who was feared orphaned after giant waves struck southern Thailand was reunited with some of his relatives on Tuesday.
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