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Connecticut Sen. Christopher J. Dodd has two big jobs. He is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president, and he chairs the Senate Banking Committee.
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Reuters - Iraq will close its land borders from Jan. 29 to 31 and impose a curfew banning all non-official vehicles from the roads over the same period to try to prevent attacks on election day, officials said on Tuesday.
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By Peter Barnes, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash. Dec. 12--Efforts by a local nonprofit group and the City of Spokane to help keep a community-access cable channel on the air took a step forward Monday as the City Council approved $50,000 to operate Channel 14.
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A MAN WHO made money making rock music a long time ago has recorded a long playing record using a dual Opteron workstation. AMD said that Mark Knopfler,a hack
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Without school supplies, someone's not learning Re "Too many supplies on parents' shopping lists" (letter, Sept.
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Reuters - Russia recalled its ambassador from neighboring Georgia on Thursday and ordered the evacuation of some of its officials, escalating a crisis sparked by the detention of four Russian army officers on spying charges.
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Sainsbury's opens its books to the Qatar-based investment firm Delta Two which is planning a £10.3bn bid.
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This eau de snake acts as camouflage, covering up the squirrel’s own scent so a meal-seeking rattlesnake will leave it alone.
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Millions of Americans considered at high risk for getting the flu - but put off by shortages, long lines or simply unaware they were eligible - failed to get a flu shot by the end of November, a new government survey indicates.
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The singer-songwriter dishes on a new favorite movie - one that involves costumes and a lot of special effects - and the best record store in Antwerp.
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Risorse da redistribuire sono 2,5 mld, 600 mln per giovani
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InfoWorld - Research In Motion expects to start selling a BlackBerry with both cellular and Wi-Fi wireless capabilities, the company's CEO said Thursday.
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DALLAS (Reuters) - The growth of megachurches in the United States has spawned mega revenues, leading many to find the financial light and embrace transparency to assure their congregations that their offerings are well spent.
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Turkey, cheered by the European Commission's backing for the start of EU entry talks, switched its focus on Thursday to a December summit of EU leaders amid
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As CEO and chairman, James Elsesser kept looking for a way to make Interstate Bakeries Corp. as solid as its brand names. Inheriting a company with aging factories and slow reflexes that for decades
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BESLAN, Russia (Reuters) - Grief-stricken mothers and fathers trudged through mud and rain on Monday to bury children slaughtered in a Russian school siege as criticism mounted over the way the Kremlin handled the crisis.
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Reuters - North Korea says it plans to unload fuel rods from its nuclear reactor to process plutonium in an attempt to pressure the United States into bilateral talks, a U.S. scholar just back from Pyongyang said on Saturday.
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Fifteen film actors whose performances in 2007 marked a career-defining moment — and set them above the rest.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - FedEx Corp.'s express air shipping unit has been ordered by the U.S. government to repay $29 million in excess funds received under an act established after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the company said on Friday.
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BEIJING - China said yesterday that a deadly strain of bird flu was found in pigs last year but denied that the animals had the disease this year.
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Ecuador investigates the slaughter of 53 sea lions found in the Galapagos islands with their skulls crushed.
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A 100Gbps internet link has been established between the east and west coasts of the US for the first time. The Internet2 project is capable of carrying information 100,000 times faster than the fastest current home network. (c) 2007 Sunday Mirror; London.
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Eight times figure previously announced Less than two thirds of people whose profile is stored on the National DNA Database are there for having been cautioned or convicted of a criminal offence, Home Office figures have revealed.

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AP - One of the youngest mayors in the country has resigned three years into his four-year term to pursue opportunities outside the state.
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Reuters - With the race tight and passions high, the battle between President Bush and Democratic rival John Kerry has veered into sharp personal attacks in vivid language rarely heard in television-age campaigns.
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MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Fresh from big wins in Iowa, Democrat Barack Obama and Republican Mike Huckabee swept into New Hampshire on Friday for a four-day battle for the next prize in the U.S. presidential race.
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Reuters - Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton regained her lead over key rival Barack Obama in New Hampshire, where nomination voting in three weeks will shape the 2008 U.S. election race, a poll showed on Wednesday.
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MOSUL, Iraq, Aug 27 - A car bomb exploded near a US military convoy in the Iraqi city of Mosul on Friday, wounding at least 10 civilians, police and hospital officials said.
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AFP - Despite all the vibrations of a German astronaut excercising, a solar array on the International Space Station remained stuck and could require a fourth spacewalk to fold it away, NASA has said.
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Jef d'Hont, ex massaggiatore della Telekom, ha dichiarato all'edizione domenicale del quotidiano ted...
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Nell'anticipo della dodicesima giornata del campionato di serie D/H, il Brindisi ha battuto 1-0 l'Is...
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A judge in Delaware ruled that Cerberus Capital could not be forced to complete its $4 billion deal for United Rentals, a rental equipment operator.
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Nel quarto trimestre l'utile e' salito del 9,8%
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BOSTON (Reuters) - America's doctors-in-training are committing serious errors as a result of being forced to work over 80 hours a week, says new research which suggests the U.S. medical community has been slow to tackle sleep deprivation in its staff.
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Croatian authorities take down two monuments honouring officials from the country's Nazi era.
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The Discover credit card has a new marketing partnership with Parents magazine, the nation’s most popular glossy about the world’s most demanding job.
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Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry added gold to her silver and bronze medals by storming to victory in the women's 200m backstroke final in Athens.
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It was not enough for Arsenal to make their mark by pulling level with Nottingham Forest's record of 42 League matches undefeated.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Three students at Jacksonville University have been punished for installing a stripper pole in an on-campus apartment and taking pictures as clothed female students performed on it at a party...
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SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Monday it would start implementing a nuclear disarmament deal struck in February and awaits a visit by U.N. inspectors now that a dispute over its funds frozen at a Macau bank had been resolved.
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Zimbabwe's main opposition party say they will not take part in elections unless major reforms are made.
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AP - Gov. Jeb Bush will ask the Florida Supreme Court to reconsider its 7-0 ruling against a law designed to keep a brain-damaged woman alive, a spokesman said Monday.
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Santy.A might sound like some kind of holiday cheer but as thousands of Web site operators are quickly finding out, the nasty little worm is only spreading fear.
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Leader Udc, Pdl sembra proprieta' privata di Berlusconi
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Reuters - Alcatel on Monday released preliminary second-quarter results that were in line with company expectations.
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Ali vs. Frazier. Leonard vs. Hagler. Now Massachusetts football fans have their own prize fight set for Nov. 5, 2005 at Yale.
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Hee-Won Han made a 4-foot birdie putt on the first playoff hole to beat Lorie Kane and win the Safeway Classic on Sunday at Portland, Ore.
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resident Hu Jintao won a second five-year term as China's Communist Party chief Monday, heading a new leadership lineup that features potential successors yet could invite a divisive battle to succeed him
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The only winless driver to make the 12-man Chase for the Nextel Cup Championship, Clint Bowyer was so fast and dominant in recording the first victory of his Nextel Cup career before 101,000 in yesterday's Sylvania 300, he even arrived at Victory Lane at New Hampshire International Speedway before his race car.
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LONDON: Jacques Santini has resigned as manager of Tottenham Hotspur after just 13 games in charge, the English Premiership club announced last night.
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SYDNEY -- An obesity pandemic threatens to overwhelm health systems around the world with illnesses such as diabetes and heart disease, experts at an international conference warned Sunday.
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Fears that money has an undue influence on the practice of medicine are not new. In the 12th century, the Jewish philosopher Maimonides wrote an oath for physicians that included this admonition: ''Do not allow thirst for profit, ambition for renown and admiration to interfere with my profession."
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Nick O'Hern ended a victory drought dating back to 1999 when he holed out from a bunker at the fourth sudden death playoff hole in the Australian PGA Championship on Sunday.
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In data 14 Ottobre 2004 la canadese Corel Corporation ha annunciato di aver acquistato Jasc Software Inc produttrice della famosa suite grafica Paint Shop Pro giunta in tempi recenti alla versione 9. Questa
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Firefighters tackle a blaze in a cable car station at Alton Towers theme park in Staffordshire.
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AP - Four mortar explosions rocked the Somali capital Friday, wounding six people — including two children — a day after an advance team of African peacekeepers arrived in the country, witnesses said.
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Thirty-six kilometres into the men's Olympic marathon on Sunday, Vanderlei Lima's chances of winning were taken from him after he was tackled in bizarre manner by the Irish serial pest Cornelius Horan.
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MPs are examining whether quiz shows are ripping off viewers with charges for phone calls.
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A Marine lieutenant has been charged with a military count of premeditated murder for shooting two Iraqis during a search for a terrorist hideout, and he could face the death penalty if he is found guilty, his attorney said Thursday.
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SEATTLE (Reuters) - Washington state's unresolved race for governor will be extended further with a hand recount of the 2.8 million votes cast, after Democrats agreed to pay for another tally of the ballots which had their candidate losing to the Republican contender by 42 votes.
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Reuters - There's more bad news for those pudgy couch potatoes, junk food junkies and TV devotees -- and this time it really hits them where it hurts.
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FOXBOROUGH -- When Corey Dillon was with the Cincinnati Bengals, the NFL's version of being exiled to Siberia, he didn't win many close games. In fact, he didn't win many games at all.
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A powerful explosion rocked the Australian embassy in central Jakarta on Thursday, killing at least three people in the vicinity and injuring more than 100, witnesses and local radio said.
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Octopus by The Bees
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Reuters - HIV infections are rising in black men and women living in developed nations that have otherwise made strides against the disease, said participants at the 16th International AIDS Conference in Toronto.
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Microsoft Corp.'s decision to release a major upgrade for its flagship operating system in the same month that hundreds of thousands of students are reporting to college campuses across the
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Al 4% di 25 punti. Bank of China smentisce rumors perdite
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Reuters - Starbucks Corp on Monday said its chief executive, Jim Donald, is leaving the company, effective immediately.
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( InfoWorld ) - Wikimedia Foundation popular Wikipedia online encyclopedia cracked the top ten list of most popular Web sites in the U.S. for the first time in January, according to comScore Networks. Wikipedia sites ranked ninth with 42.9 million unique visitors last month, ahead of the sites from The New York Times (...
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"Certamente sono contento per la conferma ricevuta ma non voglio fare ulteriori commenti". Lo ha det...
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Big banks have pulled the plug on a Treasury Department-backed plan to rescue troubled investment vehicles leveled by the subprime mortgage crisis.
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Israeli troops detain a Fatah parliamentarian, and overnight raids kill two militants in Gaza.
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Amazon's independent A9 unit is ready to officially unveil its customized search engine, which debuted in preview form last April. A9.com combines Web and image searches from Google, movie and book searches from Amazon and reference materials from GuruNet into an interface that can be custom tailored for each user. A...
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LONDON: Britain's minister for rural affairs Alun Michael pulled out of an official visit yesterday to avoid a showdown with 200 protesters gathered to protest a looming ban on fox hunting.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- A 96-year-old mobster accused of overseeing robberies, money laundering and bank fraud for the Genovese crime family pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy Wednesday, but because of his age he probably will not be sent to prison.
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The head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales is to question the cost of the war in Iraq in his Midnight Mass address.
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Il procuratore di Fredrik Ljungberg, Claes Elefalk, ha escluso che il centrocampista svedese, insegu...
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's Tata Motors Ltd unveiled the world's cheapest car on Thursday, bringing car ownership closer to millions of consumers in emerging markets.
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Sunshine might stop certain cancers from growing, including skin cancers, researchers believe.
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The Chinese government says detained former Party leader Zhao Ziyang is ill but stable in hospital.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Drugs cast another shadow over the Olympics Thursday with Ukrainian women rowers losing their bronze medal and another weightlifter being barred. After showing astonishing improvement over the last year to land the 400 meters hurdling crown, Greece's Fania Halkia complained about the media's obs...
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Ancora quattro mesi per accertamenti preliminari
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AP - Sina Corp., China's most popular Web portal, said Thursday its fourth-quarter profits fell 15 percent due to higher expenses and a drop in revenues for mobile services.
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EMERYVILLE, Calif. Chiron's (KY-rawn) aggressive plan to dominate the US flu vaccine market is in tatters. The Emeryville-based company's financial future is clouded now as well as the public health crisis it caused continues to mount.
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Oprah Winfrey, one of the world's richest entertainers, surprised her fans Monday by giving each of her 276 audience members a new car to celebrate the premiere of her show's 19th season.
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AP - The spokesman for Prime Minister Gordon Brown signaled Wednesday that Britain could be willing to accept a trial in a third country for the chief suspect in the killing of ex-Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko.
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AFP - Transparency International, the anti-corruption watchdog, is threatening to exclude Siemens from membership in the wake of the unfolding bribery scandal at the German engineering giant, a top TI official has said in a newspaper interview.
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Business & money: Risk of fares rising above cost of running services.
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AFP - European stock markets rose on Thursday as investors seized on a flurry of bullish earnings reports, and after Tokyo hit a near seven-year high.
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Reuters - A lock of socialist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara's hair and related items were auctioned on Thursday in Dallas to a Houston-area bookstore owner for the very capitalist sum of $119,500 (52,000 pounds).
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Gastric-bypass surgery can leave people with pounds of sagging skin. For some, plastic surgery is a solution. See before-and-after photos of success stories.
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AP - Nickelback is down a drummer following the departure of Ryan Vikedal.
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Oil prices jumped nearly 2 percent on Tuesday as colder weather in the United States, the world's largest heating oil market, brought temperatures more in line with seasonal norms.
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Baghdad, Sept. 24:Three people were killed and 14 wounded in an explosion on Palestine Street in Central Baghdad today, medics said.
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CHICAGO -- What's so unusual about a baby fascinated with spinning a cup, or a toddler flapping his hands, or a preschooler walking on her toes?
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Milwaukee, WI (Sports Network) - Larry Walker belted a two-run homer, Woody Williams picked up his eighth win in nine decisions, and St.
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Reuters - Children with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) are at increased risk for behavioral and emotional difficulties, but tonsillectomy/adenoidectomy can improve both these problems as well as quality of life, new research shows.
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The entire nation continues to have a crush on you.
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Due borsoni pieni di spugne imbevute di benzina sistemati su un'auto. Ipotizzato un congegno di innesco a distanza. FIRENZE - Tanta paura e alcuni edifici sgomberati, questa notte a Firenze, per una bomba incendiaria
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The United States and the seven other countries with Arctic territory today expressed concern about profound changes in the Arctic climate and said they would consider new scientific findings
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