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Tennessee kicker Joe Nedney will miss the season for the second year in a row after tearing his left hamstring, forcing the Titans to place him on injured reserve.
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Kidnapped aid worker Margaret Hassan has made another videotape plea for Britain to withdraw its troops from Iraq. The tape, broadcast on Arab TV network Al-Jazeera, also showed Mrs Hassan
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The new features include a section on the home page called "What's Hot," where Shopping.com staffers will highlight what they consider to be remarkable products.
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Reuters - Nintendo Co.'s (7974.OS) Wii game console outsold Sony Corp.'s (6758.T) PlayStation 3 by more than five to one in Japan last month, according to XFN-Asia.
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The blame will fall, to a great extent, on Rex Grossman for the Chicago Bears' defeat in Super Bowl XLI, just as the MVP award for victory went undeservedly to Peyton Manning. That is the quarterback's lot, for good or ill. But Manning was not the MVP of the 29-17 victory, nor was Grossman the reason the Bears ...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - China's national baseball team is in the United States learning the finer points of the game from Major League representatives as part of their preparation for the Beijing Olympics, officials said on Tuesday.
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Pakistani police say they have captured a leading militant, Qasim Toori, in a shoot-out in the city of Karachi.
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AFP - An Indonesian court ruled Thursday it would go ahead with a terrorism case against Abu Dujana, the self-described militant leader of an Islamic extremist group blamed for the 2002 Bali bombings.
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Bayern Munich strengthened their grip at the top of the Bundesliga with a 4-2 victory at home to FSV Mainz on Saturday as faltering Wolfsburg went down 3-2 at home to Hertha Berlin.
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Australia's Ryan Bayley won the men's Keirin final Wednesday, becoming the only cyclist to win two individual gold medals at the Athens Games.
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Tim Wakefield finished off the Tigers on Sunday. Now comes the real challenge for the streaking Red Sox. Boston beat Detroit 6-1, ending a stretch of 26 games - 23 against teams below
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(Reuters) - Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc further increased its stake in Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp this week to about 17.6 percent.
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Reuters - U.S. consumers aren't going to balk at paying an extra nickel for their daily cup of Starbucks coffee despite high gas prices and other pressures on their wallets, analysts said on Friday.
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AFP - Former executives of Australia's national wheat exporter are expected to face charges over the payment of huge bribes to Saddam Hussein's Iraq after an inquiry presents its report.
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AP - Johnny Damon and the Boston Red Sox are putting pressure on the New York Yankees and pulling away from everybody else. Kevin Millar homered and drove in four runs, Damon had four of Boston's 16 hits, and the streaking Red Sox beat the Anaheim Angels 12-7 Wednesday night at Fenway Park for their eighth consecutive ...
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel said before a visit by Secretary of State Colin Powell on Sunday that it would consider calls to pull its troops away from West Bank cities to facilitate a Palestinian presidential election.
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JAPAN'S second largest carmaker, Nissan Motor, is being forced to suspend output because of a severe steel shortage. Japan's largest steel company, Nippon Steel, said it was unable to meet Nissan's request
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If you're a romantic who thinks about sports the way Grantland Rice wrote about the Four Horsemen of Notre Dame, this exhausting, wrenching battle between Oregon State and Louisiana State represented everything that makes college football a supreme
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AP - Leaning back in a chair at his locker, hand resting on an outstretched leg, Barry Bonds looked relaxed back in the city where he took his first cuts in the majors.
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Estonian Foreign Minister Kristiina Ojuland is sacked over secret files that went missing at her ministry.
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Notebaert notifies Qwest of departure after five years of turnaround efforts.
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Take that, Apple Three weeks ago, Palm CEO Ed Colligan described Apple's iPhone as "a highly developed media player, which happens to include a phone".

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The Husky football team can accomplish something Saturday that only two other squads in the school's 115-year football history has done -- lose nine games.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo's Nikkei share index was little changed in late afternoon trade on Tuesday, reversing earlier gains, as Sony Corp. and other tech stocks retreated on caution ahead of a monetary policy meeting in the United States.
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AFP - The time has not yet come to impose international sanctions against the government of Sudan, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's envoy Jan Pronk said during a visit to Oslo.
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LOS ANGELES (Ticker) -- Odalis Perez needs to bounce back from a shaky performance in Game One if the Los Angeles Dodgers are to stay alive in the National League Division Series against the St.
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AP - Barry Bonds will have two more seasons to break Hank Aaron's career home run record with the San Francisco Giants, who decided Tuesday to drop their right to void the final year of his contract.
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The Bears have scored a combined eight points the past two games, but coach Lovie Smith is sticking with QB Chad Hutchinson. Smith said a big problem is Hutchinson isn't getting enough protection to have time to look downfield.
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AP - Pope Benedict XVI joined an Islamic cleric in prayers under the towering dome of Istanbul's most famous mosque Thursday in a powerful gesture seeking to transform his image among Muslims from adversary to peacemaker.
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AFP - Gunmen shot dead five people in two separate attacks in the lawless Somali capital in an escalation of killings ahead of the planned deployment of African Union peacekeepers.
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By ERICA WERNER WASHINGTON - The Transportation Department acknowledged Tuesday encouraging members of Congress to weigh in with the EPA on California's request to implement global warming controls on automakers.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Morgan Stanley on Wednesday said third-quarter profit fell as the summertime freeze in mortgage and corporate loan markets forced the bank to mark loans down by $940 million, but shares held their own on optimism that financial markets may be starting to revive.
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Nortel Networks Corp. (NT.TO: Quote, Profile, Research) , one of the world's biggest telecom equipment makers, again delayed the release of its long-awaited restated
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Large OLED screens look great, but making them is not a million laughs. Producing them in large quantities remains a work in progress, executives say.
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's Robin Soderling is likely to miss their Davis Cup semi-final with the United States this month because of a wrist injury, Swedish public television SVT reported on Monday.
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What's behind the fallout between Intel and the One Laptop Per Child program; News.com's Stephen Shankland talks with Red Hat's new CEO; and album sales drop in 2007.
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World Wrestling Entertainment said that its suspension of 10 wrestlers for violations of its drug-testing policy involved drug purchases, mostly human growth hormones.
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A space that takes cues from Swedish design to brighten the darkness.
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FARGO, N.D. -- Rocky Hager got hugs and kisses from his grandchildren after the game, which served as a consolation prize for the Northeastern football coach.
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BARCELONA (Reuters) - Consumers may be receptive to advertisements on their mobile phones in exchange for free calls or content, but operators remain cautious about intruding on the intimate space of a customer's cell phone.
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AFP - Police have made one arrest after a mobile phone was thrown from the crowd following Wayne Rooney's winning goal for Manchester United against Liverpool.
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Hey, how about generating power from trash disposal? A Florida county plans to use plasma arcs to turn garbage into gas and use by products to make electricity to sell back to the grid. Skeptics doubt landfills will disappear.
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Oracle Corp. handed the software industry some positive earnings news after the bell on Tuesday, but investors pulled cash from the sector on concerns that information technology spending has become anemic.
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Israeli MPs will debate Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to pull troops and settlers out of the Gaza Strip on 25 October
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MacCentral - Netflix Inc. and TiVo Inc. have signed an agreement to let TiVo subscribers access Netflix's library of movies over broadband Internet connections, the two companies announced Thursday.
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If any of the large system vendors truly believe that a highly concentrated compute utility is the future, it's unclear why they should be embracing the role of passive arms merchant given how little control they would have over their own destiny in such
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The Olympics have produced many terrific showdowns through the years. Nancy Kerrigan vs. Tonya Harding . Rulon Gardner vs. Alexander Karelin . Michael Phelps vs. Ian Thorpe . Now comes one that will knock the glasses right off the top of Bud Greenspan's head.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Northern Rock named director Andy Kuipers as chief executive in a long-awaited update on Thursday, but also said it would take a 281 million pound ($574 million) hit from its exposure to the credit crisis.
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After a stroke, the brain tries to reorganize itself. However, sometimes this process goes awry, leaving one woman to feel sounds on her skin.
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Blog: Phishing and drive-by downloads are possible if you stumble across an infected profile.
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Republican lawmakers, with little public debate, quietly added a billion-dollar health-care benefit to legislation that was rushed through Congress just before it adjourned Saturday morning.
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Maryland center Ekene Ibewke will likely sit out his second straight game with a cracked rib when the Terps take on Virginia Tech, who may be without senior Carlos Dixon.
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Reuters - British rock band Marillion has gone a step further. Since striking off on its own in 2000, the band has used its online site, http://marillion.com, to raise over 500,000 pounds ($913,200) from fans to finance its last two albums and support its first North American tour since 1995.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil steadied above $61 a barrel on Tuesday as producer group OPEC kindled fears of production cuts, saying oil's recent slide from record peaks had brought prices too low.
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Get to work, microbes.
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GAZA (Reuters) - Fighting between Palestinian factions escalated across Gaza on Friday, killing at least 15 people as Hamas overran compounds used by President Mahmoud Abbas's forces and two major universities were set ablaze.
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ALMATY (Reuters) - Amnesty International urged Kyrgyzstan on Tuesday to investigate thoroughly the murder of an independent journalist which it said would have a "chilling effect" on freedom of speech in ex-Soviet Central Asia.
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From the 1960s onward, advances in hospital architecture have radically changed accommodations for family members.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (Reuters) - Dead bodies littered the streets of this provincial capital in northern Indonesia on Tuesday as fears rose the country's death toll from Sunday's earthquake and tsunami would exceed 25,000.
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The Bush administration’s political fortunes have been dealt a serious blow, only a week before the presidential election, with the revelation October 25 that 400 tons of extremely powerful
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AP - The Big Ten has admitted an officiating error that could have cost Indiana a game it won in double overtime at Purdue last weekend.
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InfoWorld - In February, a group of technology vendors, including BEA Systems, Google, IBM, and Oracle, formed the OpenAjax Alliance, with the goal of promoting the popular AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) Web development technique.
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MIAMI (Reuters) - Peyton Manning added the missing ingredient to his Hall of Fame credentials by leading the Indianapolis Colts to a 29-17 victory over the Chicago Bears in Super Bowl XLI on Sunday.
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NBC Universal and News Corp. are in for a Hulu of a time in launching their video website.
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ALBANY, N.Y. -- Hard to believe it was only 2002 when the Nets and Celtics faced each other in the Eastern Conference finals. Last night at the Pepsi Arena, two teams in the midst of rebuilding took the floor.
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Reuters - Online bookmaker Sportingbet said its chairman faced charges in the United States for providing "gambling by computer," sparking fears no executive in the $12-billion-a-year industry was safe from prosecution.
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Louis Pasteur's vaccine proves effective against what was then a fairly common -- and deadly -- occurrence: rabies contracted from an infected animal.
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AFP - More than 250,000 people fled their homes as out-of-control wildfires raged across California on Monday, prompting authorities to draft in the US military to support weary firefighters.
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AP - Somalia's weak transitional government briefly detained two radio journalists Sunday for reporting that Ethiopian troops had entered Somalia, a station official said.
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By Nancy Luna, The Orange County Register, Calif. Sep. 11--Orange County restaurateurs Tim and Liza Goodell have shut down Troquet at South Coast Plaza, the third county restaurant the husband-and-wife team have sold or closed since last year.
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AP - Aaron Sele and the Seattle Mariners agreed Wednesday to a minor league contract that allows him to earn up to $1.1 million, bringing the right-hander back to the Pacific Northwest.
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Shares of local companies Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia and Vornado Realty Trust were boosted by news that Sears and Kmart will merge in an $11 billion deal, creating a new company called Sears Holdings with about $55 billion in yearly revenue and
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The more of it you've got, the higher your credit score.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A right-wing party quit Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's government on Wednesday, condemning his peace talks with the Palestinians and leaving him even more politically vulnerable.
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Reuters - Central banks should focus on house price swings only if they risk causing harm to the broader economy, and keep their eyes on ensuring stable prices and employment, Federal Reserve Governor Frederic Mishkin said on Saturday.
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Microsoft is adding film showings channel to its MSN Direct data service for smart watches.
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Reuters - The Federal Reserve is getting close to the "end of the road" after a two-year string of interest rate increases, San Francisco Fed President Janet Yellen said on Monday.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. home construction fell last month for the first time since January, as builders struggled with a glut of unsold homes, but permits for future construction rose, offering mixed signals on the housing outlook.
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According to a report in the Financial Times, Symantec’s local office has announced that a program called Freegate, which allows users in China to access government-blocked Web sites, should be considered a Trojan horse.
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AP - Terrell Owens was taken to the emergency room for an undisclosed reason Tuesday night, and doctors treating the Dallas Cowboys receiver were trying to induce vomiting, according to a television report.
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The number of newly-built US homes fell to the lowest level for nearly a decade in January, official figures show.
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AP - Iran is "thumbing its nose" at the international community by expanding its uranium program, a top U.S. official said, setting the stage for difficult negotiations on new U.N. sanctions, with the U.S. likely to push for tougher measures.
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Third-quarter profit rose 11 percent to $640 million, helped by growth in fees from asset management and providing back-office services to institutional clients.
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Four American soldiers died Friday when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb while on patrol northwest of Baghdad, the U.S. military said Saturday. Their names were withheld until their families had been notified. Separately Friday, a U.S. soldier was killed and three were hurt by an explosion near...
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HOUSTON (Reuters) - Halliburton Co., , the world's second-largest oil services company, said on Monday that second-quarter profit from continuing operations rose 19 percent, topping Wall Street views, helped by new international contracts.
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AP - A boat carrying at least 91 Dominican migrants apparently trying to reach Puerto Rico illegally capsized Friday, killing eight people, officials said.
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Crude oil prices surged above the US$55-per-barrel mark on Monday on concerns that tight global supply would lead to a further drop in US inventories of heating oil ahead of the winter season.
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Senior Bobby Kelly and the Northeastern Huskies maintained their mastery of conference foes at Matthews Arena.
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Reuters - Egypt sent a convicted Israeli spy home after eight years in jail and Israel released six Egyptian infiltrators Sunday in the clearest sign of a warming of relations strained by a Palestinian uprising.
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Reuters - A deal between Google Inc. and CBS Corp. (CBSa.N) that would let YouTube users watch clips from CBS shows such as "The Late Show with David Letterman," has unraveled, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
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With the addition of photos and Bono, has the iPod jumped the shark?
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AP - Wondering how much of a diet-buster that big bowl of noodles is?
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AFP - Japan is set to launch its latest spy satellite, giving Tokyo the ability to eavesdrop anywhere in the world each day and better monitor North Korea.
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Links to this week's topics from search engine forums across the web: Google Launches Search for Scholars - Adwords to Ban Affiliates? - MSN's 'Near Me' Search Button - The Difference In Traffic for #1 and #10? - Robots.txt & Security Issues - One year anniversary of the 'Florida' Update - What is the Future of the 'Ni...
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AP - A European Union appeals court's decision to uphold a 2004 antitrust order against Microsoft Corp. means that U.S.-based multinationals will continue to face tougher competition rules in Europe than at home, legal experts said.
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A passenger plane skidded off the runway in central Indonesian Tuesday, killing at least six people and injuring more than 20 others, according to local media reports.
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Players in the NCAA's top-tier Division IA are more likely than ever to leave school with degrees, according to the latest survey of graduation rates compiled by the federal government and released Monday by the NCAA.
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A push by medical centers to turn nuclear particle accelerators into weapons against cancer reflects the best and worst of America’s health system, experts say.
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Multinational oil giant Royal Dutch/Shell has evacuated non-essential staff from two oilfields in Nigeria where troops are fighting a major offensive against rebel militia, a spokesman said.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - With Black Friday in the rear-view mirror -- complete with eye-popping bargains and frenzied shoppers lining up overnight to buy that "must-have" 42-inch plasma television -- Wall Street now looks to Thursday to find out whether heavy markdowns took a toll on sales and profits.
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