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Beer money for Arrington Comment Long before he was stroking our collective Web 2.0 consciousness, Michael Arrington, a Young Republican-type of guy from an affluent part of Orange County, studied economics at Claremont McKenna College in Southern California, and generally enjoyed the life of the beer-swilling collegi...
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Madonna's debut movie as a director will have its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in February.
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Murder isn’t funny. But you wouldn’t know it from the next offering at the Hudson Stage Company in Briarcliff Manor, Jeffrey Hatcher’s acidic hit comedy “Murderers.”
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AFP - The leaders of France and Australia paid surprise visits to Afghanistan Saturday, stressing support for efforts against terrorism after the bloodiest year of a Taliban-led insurgency.
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Over five months, Gary Min stole $400 million worth of proprietary information from a DuPont database. But he wasn't caught until after he left the company for a rival firm.
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AFP - As the Six Nations headed into a fortnight's break, it was Marc Lievremont and Warren Gatland, the new coaches of France and Wales respectively, who were in charge of the only teams that could win the coveted Grand Slam this season.
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Allenamento con amichevole oggi per l'Inter di Roberto Mancini in vista del match di sabato pomerigg...
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Sepp Blatter ha confermato, in un'intervista al magazine tedesco 'Kicker', che la regola su un massi...
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LONDON (Reuters) - U.S.-led forces, using Iraq's ancient city of Babylon as a military base, have caused "substantial damage" to one of the world's most renowned archaeological treasures, a British Museum report said.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organisation, which has been championing an international campaign against tobacco use, called on Tuesday for a global ban on smoking at work and in enclosed public places.
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Pierluigi Collina ha deciso di cambiare la terna arbitrale di Napoli-Livorno. La decisione è ...
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AP - Employers added twice as many new jobs to their ranks than expected in October, an encouraging sign that the nation's employment climate is not cracking under the stress of a deepening housing slump.
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The continuing attacks on suspected gathering sites reportedly has forced the militant group to reorganize its leadership. BAGHDAD, Iraq - American forces bombed a suspected hide-out used by associates of
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( InfoWorld ) - IT managers in search of software for managing their computer systems, especially those from Lenovo Group, might want to check out a trial version of LANDesk Management Suite for ThinkVantage. LANDesk Software is offering a scaled down version of its management software for a free 90-day trial as a dow...
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Dura presa di posizione del presidente dell'Aia, Cesare Gussoni, dopo le polemiche dichiarazioni di ...
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Seduta pomeridiana del Chievo in vista della gara di sabato prossimo contro l'Udinese. Il tecnico De...
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Arsenal captain Patrick Vieira admits there was a "disagreement" between him and team-mate Lauren earlier this week but insisted the team spirit at Highbury remains "fantastic".
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Materie prime piu' care e domanda Usa in ribasso
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Camp Pendleton -- On a gray wintry morning at this huge Southern California Marine base, President Bush offered an unusually sober assessment Tuesday of the war in Iraq, acknowledging that the insurgency is getting worse, that newly trained Iraqi soldiers
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ANOKA, Minn. (Reuters) - Democrat John Kerry on Thursday challenged Republican President Bush, to weekly debates from now until the Nov. 2 presidential election.
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Toshiba said it will buy large liquid crystal displays from Sharp as part of an alliance likely to help spark a realignment of the flat panel TV industry.
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NewsFactor - Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) domination of the Web browser market is falling as consumers opt for open-source software from the Mozilla Foundation, according to a survey.
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Six Tunisian doctors examined Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat yesterday, but aides dismissed reports his health had deteriorated and said he had flu.
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Not only are NASA's seemingly unstoppable Mars rovers continuing their progress half a year beyond their design lifetimes, but Opportunity has recently shown an unexplained increase in its solar-cell power output, NASA has revealed.
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BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany, who has come under intense pressure to quit after admitting he lied to voters, won a confidence motion in parliament on Friday.
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SPACE.com - NASA engineers and their Russian counterparts are closing in on the source of a major computer glitch that afflicted the International Space Station (ISS) during last month's shuttle mission to the orbital laboratory.
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BEIJING - More than 140 miners remained trapped in the tunnels and shafts of a coal mine in central China after an explosion Sunday that killed 25 of their colleagues, the government said.
1Entertainment
In the first relocation of a major league team since last time the Washington Senators left, the Expos are headed to the nation's capital.
8Sports
A UN report urges better protection for millions of internally displaced people - refugees in all but name.
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AFP - There can have been few title deciders as early as September between the two most successful clubs of the Premiership era.
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When Casey Capello made the decision to transfer from Notre Dame of Hingham to Archbishop Williams for her junior year, an influential factor was having the opportunity to play for a state championship.
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NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - The recovery of New Orleans slowly drags on two years after Hurricane Katrina but one thing back in full swing since the killer storm is crime, particularly murders.
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Congressional supporters of human embryonic stem cell research launched their most intensive effort to expand federal funding for the controversial field, introducing identical bills Tuesday in the Senate and House that would loosen research restrictions President Bush imposed in 2001.
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AP - Argentina, England, the Czech Republic and Tunisia got ready for the World Cup with victories in warmup games Tuesday.
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La Benetton Treviso rischia di recarsi a Napoli domenica senza Massimo Bulleri e Marlon Garnet infor...
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Microsoft Corp. isn't often an underdog in anything, so when the software powerhouse released its new search engine, I was anxious to give it a whirl.
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AFP - German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder renewed his firm opposition to deploying troops to Iraq, a spokesman said, slapping down hints at a change in policy from his defense minister.
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Coke is close, but still hasn't regained its status as a consistent grower.
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FT.com - London equities stayed in positive territory on Friday with shares in BT Group standing out after bullish comment on the company's prospects from its chief executive.
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Following the footsteps of its American counterpart, Britain's British Phonographic Industry announced it was bringing suit to 28 file-swappers.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators warned on Monday that Sanofi-Aventis SA's antibiotic Ketek should no longer be used to treat patients with sinusitis and bronchitis, saying the controversial drug carries too many risks.
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UK BUILDING materials firm and world market leader RMC has agreed to a £2.3 billion takeover bid from the world’s third largest concrete-maker, Cemex of Mexico.
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Two years ago, every student at T.C. Williams High received a wireless laptop computer. Alexandria school officials described the venture as a leap into the future of education and a way to close the digital divide.
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STRENGTH AND MASS The best-known category of performance-enhancing drugs, favored by body-builders, football players, baseball power hitters and sprinters, are those with anabolic (tissue-building) effects. Among these, steroids, usually consisting of testosterone or one of its derivatives, have the longest track recor...
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The Atlantis orbiter is set to return to Earth after installing Europe's Columbus science lab on the space station.
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Two bomb blasts shook separate areas of central Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 10 people and wounding 70, while US and Iraqi forces pursued their offensive against rebel strongholds elsewhere in the country.
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AP - Redback Networks Inc., which makes routers used to direct data over broadband networks, said late Tuesday it has agreed to be acquired by Swedish mobile phone equipment maker LM Ericsson for $2.1 billion in cash.
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By Melissa M. Scallan, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss. Sep.
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The government will analyze millions of U.S. passenger records in a first step toward creating a computerized screening system to protect the airlines from terrorist attack.
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Cough and cold medicines send about 7,000 children to hospital emergency rooms each year, the government said in its first national estimate. About two-thirds of the cases were children who took the medicines unsupervised. But about one-quarter involved cases in which parents gave the proper dosage and an allergic reac...
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Gara per la compagnia aerea e' partita ieri con 11 offerte
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Quarto trimestre scende del 22% a 2,88 miliardi
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A suicide bomber blew up his vehicle outside a police academy in the northern oil city of Kirkuk yesterday, killing 17 people, including 14 policemen.
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Bloomberg - Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) -- The European Union's plan for capturing pollution to combat global warming lacks as much as $18 billion in needed funding, according to Alstom SA, the largest coal-fired power plant maker.
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DAMASCUS Syria's state media lashed out on Thursday at US pressure for a United Nations resolution telling Damascus to stop interfering in Lebanon's presidential election.
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GAZA (Reuters) - Israel attacked Islamist fighters in Gaza on Wednesday for the first time since Hamas seized the territory, and ended an embargo of the Palestinian Authority by opening contacts with a new government in the occupied West Bank.
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Amelie Mauresmo could lose her world number one status this week after pulling out of the Kremlin Cup because of a thigh injury. The Frenchwoman sustained the injury during the final of the Porsche Grand Prix
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Insurgents detonated three car bombs near a US military convoy in Baghdad Thursday, killing 41 people, most of them children rushing to collect sweets from American troops.
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AFP - Shivnarine Chanderpaul was closing in on his 16th Test hundred and second in as many innings in the fourth and final Test at the Riverside here on Sunday as wickets fell around him.
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A head teachers' group believes online marking of papers is contributing to inaccurate exam results.
13World
Sharpshooters will be used to cull an elk population that roams and sometimes rampages through Rocky Mountain National Park, according to park officials.
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BUCHAREST (AFP) - Romanians rang the end of an era as they voted for a president to succeed Ion Iliescu and lead the former communist country into the European Union.
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Bowing to pressure from the US Department of Transportation, airlines that serve Chicago have agreed to cut the number of flights they send to O'Hare International Airport. The two most affected airlines are the only two that fly nonstop between O'Hare ...
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At least three people were killed on Monday in a double US air strike on Fallujah, a Sunni Arab insurgent stronghold west of the Iraqi capital, witnesses said.
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Last meeting | It's the first meeting since the Browns rejoined NFL as expansion team in 1999. Players to watch | Jeff Garcia showed he still knows how to win, engineering an upset of the Ravens last week.
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AP - The newest foreign owner in the English Premier League didn't waste time making an impact — he fired the manager. Just a week after officially taking over at West Ham, Icelandic businessman Eggert Magnusson dismissed Alan Pardew on Monday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Simple measures like a person's body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference are adequate to gauge their health risks due to excess weight, at least among older men, UK researchers conclude.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks advanced on Friday after an August jobs report showed a slowdown in wage inflation and jobs growth in line with expectations, suggesting the Federal Reserve may be able to keep interest rates unchanged.
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AP - A roadside bomb struck a police patrol in a predominantly Sunni area in Baghdad on Sunday, killing four policemen and wounding three, police said.
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Americans John Mather and George Smoot won the 2006 Nobel prize for physics on Tuesday for their work with a satellite which provided increased support for the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe.
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Reuters - Monthly eye injections of the drug Lucentis can dramatically improve sight in people with the "wet" form of macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in the elderly, two studies showed on Wednesday.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hours after a beaming Paris Hilton was freed from three weeks in jail, the sheriff criticized for briefly putting her under house arrest said on Tuesday he allowed her out because he feared for her life.
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BANGALORE, India (Reuters) - Indian police have seized hundreds of pirated copies of the seventh and final book in the Harry Potter series, a police official said on Monday.
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon retained his lead in an informal Security Council poll for U.N. secretary-general on Thursday but got one less vote than on the previous ballot, diplomats said.
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GAZA - Due palestinesi armati sono stati uccisi questa mattina a Beit Hanun nel nord della Striscia di Gaza, secondo fonti ospedaliere palestinesi, in uno scontro a fuoco con militari israeliani. Sale così
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E! Online - Phil Spector stands accused of murder--and not being famous.
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Reuters - A U.N. court trying perpetrators of the Rwandan genocide said on Friday Rwanda's threat to stop cooperating with the court because it recruited war crimes suspects was based on a misunderstanding.
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HOUSTON The men's top-ranked player, Roger Federer, has pronounced himself fit, rested and ready to end his season in style with a successful defense of his Masters Cup title here starting on Monday.
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Follow these tips on how to get money advice and a solid financial plan.
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Incompatibili le sanzioni penali applicate in Italia
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China will launch its first unmanned mission to the Moon later this year, a senior space official confirms.
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England captain Jonny Wilkinson is still hoping to be fit in time for the world champions' three autumn Tests.
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The new president-elect of South Korea says the North must ditch nuclear weapons and boost human rights.
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Under a shower of blood-red poppies, the Queen tonight led tributes for the fallen heroes of Britain - s wars.
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Blog: Six models of Nokia and Pharos brand enterprise-class phones show up on Dell.com.
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Un team di ricercatori inglesi appartenenti al Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Imperial College di Londra, che in stretta collaborazione con dell'Istituto di Microtecnologia dell'Universita di Neuchâtel e con il Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e
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October 29, 2004 -Des Moines - Their planes may be small, but ATA Connection plays a vital role in keeping air fares low for flights to Chicago and the East Coast.
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Actors Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet attend the premiere of Finding Neverland in London.
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I sindacati: tassazione delle rendite. Rottamazione per le tv Assegni familiari agli autonomi in cambio di un aumento dei contributi Sgravi Ici, tagli a Ires e Irap meno tasse per 3 miliardi di ROBERTO PETRINI (07:58 27/09/2007)
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China coach Arie Haan should not take the whole blame for the team's elimination from the World Cup, a top official said on Thursday.
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Former WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers, accused of leading the biggest accounting fraud in US history, must stand trial in New York, not Mississippi where he lives and the company was based.
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AP - A district judge ruled Wednesday that British investigators have until next week to investigate the suspects arrested in an alleged plot to blow up as many as 10 trans-Atlantic jetliners, saying they could be kept in custody without charge.
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NEW YORK -- Embattled insurance broker Marsh & McLennan Cos. said yesterday that five members of its board of directors -- all of them executives of the company -- are leaving the board.
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Israeli helicopters fired missiles at a metal foundry in Gaza on Friday, one day after Israel raided two Gaza camps in response to Palestinian suicide bombings in Israel this week.
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Hoping to continue her winning streak in the genre business, Sarah Michelle Gellar has signed to star in the Hitchcockian thriller "Addicted."
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Reuters - The German Defense Ministry is scrambling to qualify its stance on the Tom Cruise World War Two thriller "Valkyrie," saying Thursday that, despite reports to the contrary, it has no opposition to the film shooting in Germany.
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After two gut-wrenching days helping Dick Ebersol and his oldest son recover from Sunday's plane crash that claimed the life of Ebersol's youngest son, Bob Wright
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co will consider adding production capacity in Russia to meet rising demand in Europe's fastest-growing major market, the head of the automaker's European operations said on Wednesday.
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AP - The government failed to prove its extradition case against a millionaire wanted in Poland for questioning in the murder of that country's national police chief, a federal judge ruled Friday.
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