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It didn't hit Gerald Green that his Celtics days were over until Kevin Garnett held up his old No. 5.
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Coach Isiah Thomas’s latest desperation move to break his team’s funk was to keep Eddie Curry out of the starting lineup for the first time in two years. The result was another rout.
8Sports
This is a piece I've been working up to for quite some time, and it'll probably be an audio blog post at some time soon. I have five really good friends in the world. When I realized that, saying that to one of them, she said that's pretty damned good and I agree. These are people who I trust with knowing anything and ...
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The new facility will focus in part on geographical information systems and technologies for emerging markets.
6Sci/Tech
Two athletic department academic assistance employees have resigned and 23 Florida State athletes were implicated in cheating on tests given over the Internet, university officials said. The athletes represent nine sports, and 17 of the students are or have been on scholarship. Officials could not identify the students...
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AFP - President Giorgio Napolitano will open talks on Friday to resolve Italy's political crisis after prime minister Romano Prodi's resignation and the end of his centre-left government.
2Europe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Verizon Communications Inc. on Monday said it would buy long-distance telephone company MCI Communications Inc. in a deal worth $6.75 billion, giving Verizon a foothold in the market for serving large corporations.
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Reuters - Multiplatinum acts Jay-Z and Linkin Park are the latest to merge musical forces in a legally sanctioned mash-up. With the help of MTV, the two acts have taken the concept -- which intertwines two songs, often placing the vocals of one track atop an instrumental section of another track -- one step further.
1Entertainment
LIVERPOOL Striker Wayne Rooney of Everton has slammed his club's handling of the transfer request that is likely to see him in a Manchester United shirt before Tuesday afternoon.
8Sports
WASHINGTON Oct. 2, 2004 - The Bush administration, seeking to achieve an economic breakthrough in the closing weeks of an election campaign, says China has made a serious commitment to overhauling a currency
0Business
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dozens of top baseball stars including Roger Clemens were named on Thursday in the long-awaited Mitchell Report on steroids use, which Major League Baseball hopes will help clean up the sport's tarnished image.
10Top News
Former AC Milan favourite Frank Rijkaard took some consolation from the warm welcome he received on his return to the San Siro where his Barcelona team lost 1-0 in the Champions League.
8Sports
Organized gangs are increasingly using networks of zombie PCs to launch attempts to make money, according to VeriSign.
6Sci/Tech
A free collaborative service is an alternative to the military's portal site for sharing photos and family news. A soldier can read bedtime stories to his kids, but it can be scary for folks at home to see what's really going on overseas. By Michelle Delio.
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Decidera' il Congresso Udc a febbraio
4Italia
HIGH-STREET retailer Boots reported a cooling in sales growth yesterday after disappointing summer weather stalled demand for suncare products.
0Business
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Front-line U.S. troops often lacked access to surveillance and intelligence data during the invasion of Iraq because of computer glitches, Technology Review magazine reported on Tuesday, citing a report by Rand Corp.
6Sci/Tech
Days before a UN deadline for Sudan to disarm and prosecute those responsible for violence in the country's Darfur region, nations are looking to the African Union
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Executive handbags A slanging match has erupted between Oracle and SAP as the Silicon Valley giant tries to burnish its business apps credectials.

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Nessuna nuova discussione sulla riforma dell’ordinamento giudiziario: la Cdl ha deciso che modificherà solo i quattro punti messi in rilievo dal presidente della Repubblica Ciampi perché incostituzionali.
4Italia
Earlier this week, engineers at nVidia put the finishing touches on version 0.8 of its Compute Unified Device Architecture system for Windows and Red Hat Linux. CUDA's objective is to enable C programmers to utilize the high-throughput pipelining architecture of an nVidia graphics processor, for compute-intensive tasks...
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AP - A mud brick tomb dating back more than 4,000 years has been discovered near Egypt's most ancient pyramid in the Saqqara complex south of Cairo, according to an antiquities official. The tomb was located by an Egyptian-Australian mission, Egypt's antiquities chief, Zahi Hawass, announced Monday.
6Sci/Tech
BEIJING : Flying Finn Jarkko Nieminen soared into his third semi-final of the season, stunning third seed David Nalbandian 6-2, 2-6, 6-2 at the 500,000-dollar China Open.
8Sports
Over and Over by Derrick Milan & Peter's Rock Mass Choir
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IRAN again ruled out a total suspension of uranium enrichment today as a second round of talks with European negotiators ended without an agreement on incentives to get the Tehran regime to abandon the practice.
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A new study finds that, for some women, a mammogram may not be the best way to detect early breast cancer. Researchers say women who have the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genetic mutations run a better chance of having
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AP - The wives of five 2008 presidential hopefuls on Tuesday traded tales of juggling their kids, marriages and self-esteem in the maelstrom of a national campaign.
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AdWeek.com - NEW YORK For Internet ad giants like Google and Yahoo, the Toyota Scion brand should be a dream marketer. With an 18-24-year-old trendsetter target audience, the carmaker sees the Internet as key to its marketing efforts. But while other auto brands buy up keywords and run banners and pre-roll spots online...
6Sci/Tech
Medical officials are urging families to talk not just turkey this Thanksgiving but also medical history - generations of it - to help identify breast, heart and other problems early enough to prevent them.
3Health
The French president defends judges embroiled in a row with Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy.
13World
AP - The United States and Iran broke a 27-year diplomatic freeze Monday with a four-hour meeting about Iraqi security. The American envoy said there was broad policy agreement, but that Iran must stop arming and financing militants who are attacking U.S. and Iraqi forces.
13World
Si avvicina la data delle elezioni del presidente della Lega Calcio e Massimo Moratti informa sullo stato delle cose. Oggi ha incontrato il presidente dell'Atalanta, Ivan Ruggeri anche se, spiega, "si Ú trattato solo di un rapido incontro informativo".
4Italia
While huge progress has been made toward "user-centric" identity , I still have problems with "user-centric" anything. The point-of-view is still outside the user. It's still organizational, corporate. If you're "centric" about users, where are you? Right, outside the user. And inside something that's, well, not quite...
7Software and Developement
KENNEWICK, Wash. -- A Benton County judge has ordered a hearing next month to determine if baseball manager Wally Backman violated his probation three years ago.
1Entertainment
JetBlue officials said overwhelmed IT systems were partially to blame for the cancellation of more than 1,000 flights in the days after an ice storm last week.
6Sci/Tech
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Las Vegas bills itself as "the wedding capital of the world," but late-night revelers who decide they want to tie the knot now must wait until morning.
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On the eve of the US election, China laid into what it called the "Bush doctrine," said the Iraq war has destroyed the global anti-terror coalition and blamed arrogance for the problems dogging the United States worldwide.
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AP - Before Charlize Theron could pick up her Woman of the Year award, she had to prove she was worthy. That meant dancing to disco music, striking modeling poses and wooing someone wearing an elephant suit and a pink sparkly bra — all to delight of the cast members of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals at Harvard Universi...
1Entertainment
The challenge awaiting President Bush is to offer a plan for restoring the Social Security system to financial balance.
0Business
Dutch police arrest 12 passengers from a flight turned back to Amsterdam after a security alert.
2Europe
TOKYO A leading executive at Citigroup, which was forced to shut its private bank in Japan in September, said Tuesday that the bank would review all past transactions with individual customers in Japan.
0Business
Comatose Yasser Arafat’s condition worsened today as Palestinian officials visited their critically ill leader, ignoring his wife’s angry objections.
13World
US Davis Cup Tennis captain Patrick McEnroe has announced the American squad that will take on Belarus in a hard court semifinal tie September 24-26 in Charleston, South Carolina.
8Sports
Reuters - Pop quiz: What technology is on the cusp of changing the face of Internet advertising as we know it?
1Entertainment
Reuters - Saying the planet is at risk from human activity, Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai urged democratic reforms and an end to corporate greed when she collected the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.
6Sci/Tech
AP - A major fire tore through London's famous Camden market late Saturday, ripping through market stalls and partially consuming an iconic pub, fire officials and witnesses said.
2Europe
Economic dispatch: Google's manifold offerings are often accused of having no coherent strategy behind them, but wait and see, urges Victor Keegan.
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AP - The widow of a beloved senator and former presidential contender will face the brother of a pilot hijacked in the World Trade Center terrorist attacks in a race for an open congressional seat.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Oil edged above $58 a barrel on Thursday in volatile trade that has trapped prices in a narrow range.
0Business
Justine Henin took advantage of 19-year-old Ana Ivanovic’s shaky play today to win 6-1, 6-2.
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DAVENPORT, Iowa (Reuters) - White House hopefuls barnstormed across Iowa in a frenzied plea for support on Wednesday, with polls showing deadlocked races in both parties the day before the state's contest kicking off the process of choosing presidential candidates.
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Riccardo Montolivo si augura un 2008 con meno problemi fisici: ''In questo campionato ho avuto qualc...
4Italia
Just as US national soccer team coach Bruce Arena had predicted many months ago, the semifinal round of qualifying for the 2006 World Cup has been riddled with treacherous road trips and perplexing
8Sports
Lester Tanzer, 75, a longtime Washington journalist who was managing editor of US News & World Report for nine years, died Dec. 8 at his home in Arlington.
0Business
German judge on Monday interrogated two men on suspicion of planning a suicide attack in Iraq.
2Europe
Kapoor has done the unthinkable. He has shaved off his chest and got tattoos done all over his body for his role in upcoming film "Tashan".
1Entertainment
A gauge of future economic activity that had declined for five straight months reversed course in November, signaling that the nation's financial engine is still gaining power even though the growth rate has slowed.
0Business
By buying Protego Networks Monday, Cisco Systems bolstered its growing portfolio of security products, an increasingly important piece of its networking strategy.
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AP - Mike Alstott is returning to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for a 12th season.
8Sports
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher agreed to pay the 165,000-pound bail (about 297,000 US dollars) required to release her son Mark Thatcher from house arrest in
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Operazione della polizia contro cosca Crea di Rizziconi
4Italia
Masochism may be a regular condition of Cubs fandom, but even so, no player in the recent history of the team has broken more hearts than Kerry Wood.
8Sports
Police are investigating the death of a baby who was attacked by two Rottweiler guard dogs.
2Europe
Helicopters delivered food to survivors and picked up casualties Friday as flash floods began to recede in the northern Philippines, revealing the magnitude of a disaster
11Top Stories
PATHUM THANI, Thailand (Reuters) - When convicted Thai drugs dealer Samson Sor Siriporn enters the ring at the notorious "Bangkok Hilton" prison next month, her freedom as well as a world title will be on the line.
8Sports
Finisce 1-1 l'incontro tra Charlton e Everton che ha aperto la 14/a giornata di Premier League. In v...
4Italia
RICHMOND, Virginia (Reuters) - Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick was greeted by chants and boos on Monday as he entered a U.S. courthouse to formally plead guilty in a dogfighting case almost certain to wreck his football career.
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US Medicare premiums will increase by 17 percent in 2005, an increase unequaled in the history of medicare. Monthly premiums will increase by $11.
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PHILADELPHIA - Bud Selig's term as baseball commissioner was extended for three years through 2009 in a unanimous vote by owners Thursday. On the final day of a two-day meeting, owners also approved starting a baseball World Cup and baseball television network...
13World
The chief U.N. war crimes prosecutor urged the Security Council on Friday to pressure Serbia and Bosnia to arrest fugitive leaders from the Bosnian war, saying it was clear after 11 years that neither country ... Comment
2Europe
AP - Intelligence agencies came under sharp attack Sunday from lawmakers, as did Congress, where a bill to put in place recommendations from the Sept. 11 commission has stalled heading into this week's postelection session.
13World
AP - Despite Republicans' demands for a new statewide vote and their new radio advertising campaign, the Democratic leaders who control the state Legislature say the governor's election is over.
13World
The NI secretary and Irish Foreign Minister are 100% convinced the IRA was behind the Northern Bank raid.
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Experts argue that preparations against avian flu have to continue, even if the virus’s failure to mutate into a pandemic strain has given the world more time.
3Health
Risultati delle gare della 14a settimana della regular season del campionato di football americano ...
4Italia
Sebastian Bergmann points out a new feature that PHPUnit (the popular PHP unit testing tool) now has - parallel_test_execution allowing for each test to execute on a separate PHP process. The advantages of this include full test isolation and the fact that a test can now cause a PHP fatal error or even a segme...
7Software and Developement
HP today announced that it will be taking pre-orders for the company's branded version of Apple's uber-popular iPod digital music player.
6Sci/Tech
Under a nearly full moon, rebel fighters leapt on to the sand from the back of their battle-wagon; a Toyota pick-up truck with a machine gun on its cab and an anti-tank missile launcher slung from the wing mirror.
13World
A judge sentenced former Food and Drug Administration chief Lester M. Crawford yesterday to three years of supervised probation and fined him about $90,000 for lying about stocks he owned in companies regulated by the agency.
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AP - Sens. Norm Coleman and Elizabeth Dole both claimed Monday they have enough votes from their GOP colleagues to take over leadership of the influential National Republican Senatorial Committee.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (Reuters) - President Bush said U.S. aid efforts following Asia's killer tsunami would improve America's image in the Muslim world as fears receded that diseases and infections could kill many thousands of survivors.
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Legendary football boss Brian Clough died in hospital earlier today after a battle against stomach cancer aged 69, Derby City Hospital said.
1Entertainment
SHANGHAI, China - French President Jacques Chirac pushed for expanded economic and academic ties in Shanghai on Monday, speaking before students at a leading university and lunching with former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin.
13World
Against the fastest defense it has faced this season, Virginia's rushing attack wasn't nearly as dominant as it had been while averaging 284 yards in the first four games.
8Sports
BARCELONA (Reuters) - A simple test to measure tumor cells circulating in the blood could make it easier to tell which breast cancer patients are at greatest risk of their cancer returning after treatment, a German researcher said on Monday.
3Health
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ALBANY, N.Y. (Reuters) - Two Islamic men accused of supporting terrorism after an FBI sting operation were ordered released from jail on Tuesday by a judge who blasted the government's case by saying there is no evidence they have any links to terrorists.
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A new online feature of Google Maps called Street View is stirring up a debate over privacy concerns on the Web.
6Sci/Tech
India and China, countries where the Food and Drug Administration rarely conducts quality-control inspections, have become major suppliers of low-cost drugs and drug ingredients to American consumers. Analysts say their products are becoming pervasive in the generic and over-the-counter marketplace.
13World
Saudi security forces killed three senior suspected al Qaeda members among a group of 10 militants slain in raids and shootouts in the past two days, the Interior Ministry said today.
1Entertainment
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela accused Exxon Mobil of legal "terrorism" on Friday after the giant U.S. oil company won court orders freezing $12 billion of the South American oil supplier's assets in a dispute at the heart of a worldwide tussle for control of natural resources.
0Business
German officials said Saturday they have decided to forgive 80 percent of Iraq's $120 billion foreign debt, CNN reported. Hans Eichel, Germany's finance minister, meeting
11Top Stories
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa will overcome an electricity "emergency" that has damaged the economy and cast doubts over its hosting of the 2010 soccer World Cup, President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday.
0Business
Board cites "lack of confidence" in Craig Conway as software maker battles a hostile takeover.
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1,5 mln giorno fino a 20/06, dopo 31/07 forse fino 3 mln
4Italia
AFP - The CEO of Russian gas monopoly Gazprom visited Iran on Tuesday for talks on joint projects in Iran and cooperation on natural gas sales by Moscow and Tehran, the company said in a statement.
6Sci/Tech
AP - About one-third of the nation's cities have less affordable housing than they had a year ago, according to a survey released Thursday.
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MANCHESTER, England -- Tony Blair gave his last address to his Labour Party as prime minister on Tuesday, saying it is important to stay close to Washington in the fight against terrorism even though it can be hard to be the United States' strongest ally.
13World
Coventry Health Care Inc. (CVH.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Thursday it agreed to buy rival health plan First Health Group Corp.
0Business
Indonesian police received a text message warning of a terrorist attack 45 minutes before the fatal car bombing at the Australian embassy in Jakarta, Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer said today.
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