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A start-up wants sports enthusiasts and others to capture video by wearing its tiny video camera.
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The Dutch police said today that they had raided a site they described as a terrorist training camp for Kurdish separatists in the southern Netherlands, arresting 38 people
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AP - Police in Bucks County have charged 12 women after an investigation into prostitutes who allegedly have been advertising on the Web site Craigslist.
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With the price of gasoline and home heating oil no longer comfortably affordable, the benefits of living in rural New Hampshire have also become burdens for many people.
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Glen Davis, the 6-foot-9 center for L.S.U., is not the same 349-pound lovable load he was in the Final Four last season. He has trimmed the fat down to 294 pounds and he can press the pedal for 40 minutes.
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ALICIA Molik has become the first Australian woman in 17 years to win consecutive WTA Tour titles, beating Dinara Safina in the final of the Luxembourg Open.
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The Web 2.0 conference is under way in San Francisco, so the B.S. will be flying. Thanks to the innovators in Wired's Gadget Lab, you can contribute to the dung heap by using our Web 2.0 Summit startup and press kit to tout your own flim-flam company.
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AP - The New York Red Bulls traded MVP Amado Guevara to Chivas USA on Monday for a designated player slot and a third-round draft pick.
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AP - Ben Curtis is a glass half-full kind of guy, which is why he saw his 2007 season as one for the history books.
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Reuters - McDonald's Corp , the world's largest restaurant chain operator, posted higher quarterly profit on Monday, helped by a tax benefit, despite sluggish sales at U.S. restaurants
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HANOI: Malaysia does not want further expansion of the membership of the Asian-Europe Meeting (Asem) that currently stands at 39 states, including the European Council.
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Bob Sura scores 35 points, including a game-clinching three-pointer in overtime, to lead the Rockets to a 94-85 win over the Nets.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Sunni and Shi'ite political leaders in Iraq clashed publicly on Sunday over U.S. allegations a bodyguard for a top Sunni politician may have plotted an al Qaeda suicide attack on the vast Green Zone government compound.
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AP - Derrick Low scored 18 points, all on 3-pointers, and No. 6 Washington State rallied from an 11-point deficit to defeat No. 24 Arizona State 56-55 on Saturday.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - An angry Yao Ming took his frustrations out on New Zealand at the Olympic men's basketball tournament on Tuesday, pouring in 39 points as China beat the Kiwis 69-62.
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Rashad McCants continues his sharp shooting streak with 27 points and the Timberwolves snap an eight-game losing streak with a 101-91 victory over the reeling Heat.
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AFP - Zimbabwe's opposition leader Wednesday lashed out at police for treating him "like a common criminal" after he was briefly detained in the early hours ahead of a protest against President Robert Mugabe.
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YANGON (Reuters) - Nearly 1,000 Buddhist monks marched through the Myanmar city of Sittwe on Wednesday, a day after soldiers fired tear gas and warning shots to scatter a similar protest against the ruling generals, a witness said.
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A decline in the nation's inventory of heating oil catapulted crude futures prices toward $55 a barrel today.
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SEATTLE - Chasing a nearly forgotten ghost of the game, Ichiro Suzuki broke one of baseball's oldest records Friday night, smoking a single up the middle for his 258th hit of the year and breaking George Sisler's record for the most hits in a season
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Two of America's largest health insurance trade groups released on Wednesday a model for personal online health records, a step toward the larger goal of making electronic health records available to all U.S. residents by 2014.
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AP - When Jets coach Herman Edwards started reviewing the many problems that plagued his defense last year, one glaring weakness jumped out at him.
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With an electrifying display, Vick overcame a 10-point deficit by running for one touchdown, throwing for another and then taking care of the clock in the Atlanta Falcons' 21-20 victory over the Chargers on Sunday.
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Tom Brady in a slump? It's hard to imagine after a 24-3 win over Baltimore and a 42-15 romp over Cleveland the last two weeks.
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AP - Lee Nailon scored 30 points, and Dan Dickau's 17 points included a late go-ahead free throw that helped the New Orleans Hornets to an upset of the Indiana Pacers, 90-87 on Wednesday night.
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The International Monetary Fund on Wednesday revised up its 2004 world growth forecast to 5 percent, the highest level in three decades, but said sharply
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AP - A longtime Democratic fundraiser has abandoned Barack Obama's campaign to help rival Hillary Rodham Clinton win the party's presidential nomination.
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By Erica Curless, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash. Feb. 25--Coeur d'Alene is taking the lead on finding answers to a problem some people characterize as a crisis in Kootenai County -- the ability of middle-class workers to buy a home.
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AP - Mark Messier's famous No. 11 is going to the rafters — again.
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Denver -- It's always dangerous to draw conclusions at Coors Field until you see the pitcher and catcher shake hands after the final out.
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Palestinian PM Ismail Haniya collapses while addressing tens of thousands of supporters in the Gaza Strip.
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The tears, the joy, and the euphoria that ushered in the liberation of Paris 60 years ago Wednesday were on the agenda of a grandiose fete to help Parisians relive the day they threw off the shackles of Nazi occupation.
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Reuters - Climate change is a global problem that requires unity and "multilateral" agreements if it is to be defeated, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Tuesday
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AFP - Cambodia's ageing monarch has said he is delaying until next month his return home from China, where doctors have found what he described as a "worrisome" stomach ailment possibly linked to cancer.
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General Motors Corp. said yesterday that it will shut its 70-year-old van factory in southeast Baltimore next year, confirming a closure that some 1,100 workers have long expected but that state officials had hoped to stave off.
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The Nepalese capital, Kathmandu, has been hit by bomb blasts on the third day of a blockade called by Maoist rebels. Nepalese business leaders are calling for a cease-fire between the government and the rebels.
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Regulators in France, the world's third-biggest temporary employment market, are investigating Adecco SA, Manpower Inc. and Vedior NV, the top providers of such workers, for alleged violations of competition laws.
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AFP - Jean-Paul Gut, the chief operating officer at European aeronautics and defence giant EADS, said Monday he was stepping down from his post because of a disagreement over strategy.
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Mississippi State gets its first SEC victory under new coach Sylvester Croom as it upsets 20th-ranked Florida 38-31 in Starkville.
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AP - Linking success in Iraq with the future safety of America, President Bush said Wednesday that withdrawing U.S. troops too quickly would lead to a terrorist state more dangerous than Afghanistan in the grip of the repressive Taliban regime.
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Reuters - Should Roman Catholic nuns who wear veils in Italy be treated any differently to Muslim women who wear veils?
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Reuters - 3M Co said on Tuesday fourth-quarter earnings fell as last year's results included a gain for selling a business.
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AP - Chargers linebacker Steve Foley will miss the season after being shot near his suburban home by an off-duty police officer.
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The hard-core Iraqi resistance numbers between 8,000 and 12,000 people, and has many more sympathizers, according officials.
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Trevor Hoffman is mobbed by teammates and carried off the field after recording his 500th career save.
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The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) expects to see a fall in global oil prices to as much as US$30 per barrel, its president Purnomo Yusgiantoro said here on Thursday.
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It's probably tempting fate to say Ernie Els should win the £3.8million American Express World Golf Championship. Too often this year Els has been predicted to win only to come up painfully short.
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Featured links from the CNET Blog Network Digital Home Leopard coverage: Mail -- Don Reisinger breaks Mail down and tells you whether or not it's worth a Leopard purchase. The wine cooler from outer space -- It looks like a robot from the '50s, and we don't know who needs one. RIP Sherlock, July 26, 1997 - October...
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Blog: A U.N. official charged with battling the spread of AIDS thinks that some developed countries fail to recognize the impact of a disease that's more than 25 years old.
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Eidur Gudjohnsen scored a hat trick yesterday to help Chelsea beat Blackburn 4-0 in the English Premier League of soccer and close the gap to league-leading Arsenal to two points.
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Staccato Communications and SK Telecom, the largest mobile phone and broadband operator in Korea, today unveiled plans for the global delivery of Ultra Wideband (UWB) wireless personal area network (WPAN) mobile phone services.
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AFP - Japan plans to launch a debate on lifting a ban on using power lines for data communications, enabling people get access to the Internet at high speed, an official said.
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LONDON - British police charged eight terrorist suspects Tuesday with conspiring to commit murder and use radioactive materials, toxic gases, chemicals or explosives to cause "fear or injury" in a case involving an alleged top al-Qaida operative at the center of a U.S. terror alert this month...
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DAVIE, Fla. -- Jay Fiedler has a cracked rib and AJ Feeley has a concussion. So the Miami Dolphins may have to turn to third-string quarterback Sage Rosenfels when they play the Buffalo Bills this weekend in a matchup of the NFL's last two winless teams.
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Afghan president Hamid Karzai on Sunday appointed two warlords, formerly in his Cabinet, to influential governorships in an attempt to keep the strongmen happy _ but out of his central government.
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SUN CITY, South Africa -- South Africa's Retief Goosen claimed his first Sun City Golf Challenge title Sunday at the Gary Player Country Club.
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AP - Relief teams in Lebanon hope many of the heavily damaged buildings can be salvaged and are requesting the United Nations send more supplies for temporary repairs and to restore electricity and water services, officials said Monday.
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Computer Associates International Inc. (CA) announced Wednesday that it plans to buy identity and access management software maker Netegrity Inc. of Waltham, Massachusetts, for $430 million in cash.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Core U.S. consumer prices rose 0.2 percent as expected in August, but a year-on-year inflation index was at an 11-year high, pointing to risks of inflation, a government report showed on Friday.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Tim Henman condemned a frustrated Andy Murray to his ninth first-round exit of the year with an impressive 6-4 6-2 victory in an all-British clash at the Thailand Open on Wednesday.
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KASHIWAZAKI, Japan -- An earthquake-racked nuclear power plant was ordered closed indefinitely yesterday amid growing anger over revelations that damage was much worse than initially announced and mounting international concern about Japan's nuclear stewardship.
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Phil Mickelson was able to keep mistakes to a minimum on a grinding afternoon Saturday at the Pebble Beach Pro-Am, firing a 2-under-par 70?to retain a share of the lead at 14-under-par.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Merck & Co Inc said on Thursday the New Jersey Supreme Court has reversed a lower court ruling that granted nationwide class-action status to insurers seeking reimbursement for past spending on Vioxx, the drugmaker's withdrawn arthritis treatment.
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AP - Ernie Els has played before the largest galleries this week at the Sony Open, in part because he is trying to become the first player in its 40-year history to win three straight times. And also because the Big Easy has been hanging around the Big Wiesy.
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OTTAWA (Reuters) - The Street View feature of Google Maps, with its close-up views of city streets and recognizable shots of people, could violate a Canadian law protecting individual privacy, officials said on Wednesday.
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Swiss security lab opens secrets 'market' Software development costs could be increased by a new approach to security research. Swiss software security specialist WSLabi says the results of security research are falling into the wrong hands and has launched an online 'secrets' exchange to solve the problem.

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The service lets users make calls over Wi-Fi from their homes as well as T-Mobile hot spots.
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Children's apparel retailer reports strong start to fourth quarter.
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(WASHINGTON) - 9/11 victims have collected more than $38 billion in compensation from insurance companies, the government and charities.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Google Inc. asked a federal judge on Monday to extend the consent decree that settled the landmark antitrust case against Microsoft Corp. in order to address competition concerns involving the Windows Vista operating system.
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NEW YORK - Meg Whitman, president and chief executive officer of the online auction company eBay Inc topped Fortune magazine's list of "Most Powerful Woman in Business" for 2004.
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AP - Utah is offering tax rebates to The Walt Disney Co.'s video-game unit if it creates at least 500 jobs within 10 years.
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AP - There is no "I" in Ryder Cup.
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An American hostage being held in Iraq has been beheaded, according to a statement by the group holding three Westerners. The statement said: “God protect him, has beheaded the first American.
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In a federal courtroom today, nine former prisoners at U.S. military prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan will seek through an unusual lawsuit to hold outgoing Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and top military commanders personally responsible for the torture they say they endured.
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Nicole Kidman overpaid? That's what the numbers show. And she's not alone.
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Proposals for EU-wide penalties for counterfeiting face a key vote in the European parliament.
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Three former top US officers say attacking Iran would have "disastrous consequences" for the Middle East.
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SEATTLE (Reuters) - The next version of the Windows operating system, Microsoft Corp.'s MSFT.O flagship product, will ship in 2006, the world's largest software maker said on Friday.
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MARK COLVIN: Melbourne - Australia's home of Rugby Union. Doesn't sound quite right, does it? And indeed this afternoon the Australian Rugby Union decided that the AFL-mad Victorian capital was not ready to
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AP - A man carrying a large kitchen knife was arrested after scaling the back fence of Prime Minister Tony Blair's residence at 10 Downing St. in London, authorities said Monday.
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Consumer spending accelerated in October as a surge in hiring led to the biggest rise in incomes in five months.
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Gordon Brown says Britain's national interest has been protected as EU leaders agree a deal on a new treaty.
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AFP - India and Sri Lanka are to get 220 million dollars in loans from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to strengthen public finances, the Philippines-based lender said.
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Syracuse and Mississippi State both struggled in the first half. Hakim Warrick made sure Syracuse had a much better final 20 minutes.
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NEW YORK’S rush to build an Olympic stadium has provoked a clash between the city’s billionaire mayor and a multimillionaire cable television tycoon that has thrown the Big Apple’s bid for the 2012 Games into jeopardy.
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Diethylene glycol menace spreads Nicaraguan authorities have seized 40,000 tubes of Chinese "Excel" and "Mr Cool" toothpaste which contain potentially-lethal diethylene glycol, AP reports.

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AFP - Two Great White sharks attacked and killed a teenage boy on a surfboard off a packed beach as his horrified friends looked on, in Australia's second fatal shark attack in five days.
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At the 2000 Summer Olympics, Marion Jones' quest was all about winning five medals in track. This time, it's a little different.
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The Tampa Bay Buccaneers confirmed Monday that running back Charlie Garner will miss the rest of the season with a torn patellar tendon in his right knee.
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USDA's Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) this morning announced it has confirmed a detection of soybean rust from two test plots at Louisiana State University near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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Company backs 128-bit encryption, support for home LANs
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Brett Favre celebrated his 200th consecutive start by throwing three touchdown passes as the Green Bay Packers destroyed the St. Louis Rams 45-17 at Lambeau Field Monday.
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AP - Liverpool eliminated defending champion Barcelona from the European Champions League, advancing to the quarterfinals despite a 1-0 loss at Anfield on Tuesday night.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Zhao Ziyang, toppled as China's Communist Party chief for opposing the army crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy demonstrations, is in hospital, the government and sources close to the family said Tuesday.
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Crude oil prices rose for the third straight day Friday, hovering near $55 a barrel as heating oil futures hit another record high over supply concerns ahead of the Northern Hemisphere winter.
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Netflix and LG Electronics are working on a set-top box that will let customers watch movies streamed from the Web to their TV.
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AP - The more Tony Romo plays, the stranger it seems that he spent the first 3 1/2 years of his career on the bench.
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AP - When he was re-elected, Mayor Ray Nagin promised to act quickly on housing, crime, debris removal and other issues in the first 100 days of his new term. As that mark arrives Friday, his results appear mixed.
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Starting Oct. 9, Zero Gravity will offer twice-a-month flights on planes that carry 27 passengers and are scheduled to fly out of its home base of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
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