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The state of Virginia lands four teams in the NCAA tournament as Virginia Tech, Virginia and Old Dominion will join CAA champion Virginia Commonwealth in the field.
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ADAM GILCHRIST has learned from history and has India cornered as Australia took wobbly steps towards a watershed Test win yesterday.
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Arsene Wenger has described a fracas on the Arsenal team bus between Patrick Vieira and Cameroon international Lauren as "a minor disagreement".
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PARIS Vivendi Universal, the French media and communications company, on Tuesday blamed a weaker US dollar for a larger-than-expected first-half loss but predicted a significant turnaround in its fortunes by year's end - thanks in large part to a change
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New technologies can find faces or products without text tags by creating 3-D models and digital signatures. By Elizabeth Svoboda.
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Stripes are back. Solid red is out. And purple (indigo, to you, buddy) is the new power blue.
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In a game where starter Cory Lidle failed to finish two innings, reliever Jeff Karstens stood out in an otherwise dreary loss to the Baltimore Orioles.
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Ralph J. Phillips, the fugitive suspected of shooting three state troopers, one of whom later died, surrendered in northern Pennsylvania.
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AP - The State Department's No. 2 official said Sunday that Syria had improved security along its border with Iraq but needed to do more to keep armed supporters of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein from sneaking across.
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The Commerce Dept. today estimated that the nation's gross domestic product expanded at an annual rate of 3.1 percent.
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I.B.M. is probably the largest company to do away with tracking vacation.
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It took a few days longer than expected, but the Brewers officially closed a two-year deal with free agent catcher Damian Miller late Monday.
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As Capital One Financial chief executive Richard D. Fairbank faced a gathering of investors several weeks ago, there was no avoiding the fact that one of Washington's biggest business successes had lost momentum.
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Sandisk has launched a portable device that allows consumers to record all types of video input, including live TV, to a range of flash memory cards.
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YouTube launched a Korean-language interface to its popular video streaming Web site Wednesday.
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Going into game six of the American League Championship Series on Saturday, the Red Sox, fresh off a victory, are acting a lot looser.
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WASHINGTON (Dow Jones/AP) -- Dolby Laboratories Inc., the developer of noise reduction systems for audio equipment, filed Friday to sell up to $460 million in stock in an initial public offering.
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LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury prices crept higher on Wednesday, with long-dated bonds benefiting from the view that higher U.S. interest rates will help keep inflation under control.
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Fighting in Darfur is escalating and the Sudanese region could face a new upsurge in violence despite efforts by the U.N. Security Council and others, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Friday.
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Apartment listings in New York City now routinely exclude Section 8 voucher holders, marking a significant shift in the way many landlords have come to view the program.
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AP - A German submarine that was sunk off Norway at the end of World War II will be buried in special sand to protect the coastline from its cargo of toxic mercury, the government announced Tuesday.
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Overnight in London a High Court judge ruled in favor of three shareholder banks who sought to gain control of a business they majority own, but is presently stacked with director’s friendly to Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone, that ensures he retains
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InfoWorld - Swelling demand for high-end systems in the fourth quarter pushed the global server industry to its highest annual revenue since the market peaked in 2000 as IBM and Hewlett-Packard held onto their top rankings.
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Syracuse forward Terrence Roberts, who left Thursday's opener with a sprained his left knee, had eight points and six boards...Wallace blocked three shots...The Orange now lead the all-time series, 24-9, with Princeton's last win in 1964 at MSG behind
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Nunez, who has finally forced his way into the Anfield side after spending the first months of his move to Liverpool recovering from a knee ligament injury, still believes his new side are “one of the world’s great clubs.
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By Joe Orso, La Crosse Tribune, Wis. Jun. 6--The Great Rivers United Way awarded Venture Grants totaling $52,500 to 22 local nonprofit organizations Tuesday.
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In the weeks leading up to Sunday's game at Qualcomm Stadium, the San Diego Chargers' offense presented an ominous challenge to the Broncos' defense.
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Motorola said Tuesday that it will acquire MeshNetworks, a developer of 802.11 mesh networks designed to cover areas as large as entire cities.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. consumer sentiment stagnated in early September as doubts about the economy and the job market persisted, a report indicated on Friday.
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Online travel agency ebookers succumbed to a £209m bid from American travel and real estate group Cendant yesterday in a move which will see founder, chairman and chief executive Dinesh Dhamija pocket more than £92m.
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The big-big-screen movie house gives the Hasbro robots another run for their money.
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For more than a month, Ohio State has held the No. 1 spot in college football's all important and often controversial poll system.
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AP - French Open winner Anastasia Myskina has pulled out of the Generali Ladies tournament because of the flu, organizers said Monday.
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SBC Communications Inc. on Wednesday said it has agreed to pay $400 million for the use of Microsoft Corp.'s digital TV software platform, in a move seen as helping the telecommunications company defend against competing cable operators.
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Virgin may sweeten its offer for Northern Rock as the government is set to unveil a plan to secure a private sale.
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NBC suspended a reporter on Friday for what it said were “inappropriate” comments about Chelsea Clinton.
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Microsoft's flagship Internet Explorer has once again come under the spotlight, albeit for all the wrong reasons. Two more vulnerabilities were uncovered in the widely used Web browser version 6, according to security firm Secunia.
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AP - Isiah Thomas spent around $125 million of James Dolan's money to assemble one of the worst teams in Knicks history. On Thursday, Dolan decided it was time for somebody to pay for the fiasco — and it wasn't Thomas.
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Goalkeeper Roy Carroll has admitted that Manchester United cannot afford to drop points in their clash against the Premiership champions Arsenal at Old Trafford on Sunday.
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The Pittsburgh Steelers are anticipating a fresh start. The Steelers used a combination of good fortune and resourcefulness to edge the New York Jets, 20-17, in overtime Saturday and will meet the Patriots at Heinz Field Sunday.
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Reuters - A top U.S. antitrust official on Wednesday urged foreign governments to think twice before interfering with popular new technologies, singling out overseas scrutiny of Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes online music service as an example of misguided enforcement.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Valassis Communications Inc. said on Tuesday it would buy fellow direct marketer ADVO Inc. for $1.2 billion, as the two companies agreed on a lower price for a disputed takeover and dropped lawsuits against one another.
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AFP - A former US soldier who allegedly ran a private anti-terror campaign in Afghanistan repeatedly tried to contact a US Defense Department employee here but the Pentagon did not want anything to do with him, a defense official said.
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LONDON -- Crude oil prices rose yesterday after a deadly attack on an oil facility in Nigeria, and as the US dollar weakened because of speculation of further interest rate hikes in Europe.
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France and Spain called for a rethink yesterday on radical German-Italian plans to set up a European Union transit camp in north Africa for refugees from Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
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Former British Open champion Tom Lehman will be the next US Ryder Cup captain, it was reported Tuesday. The Palm Beach Post said Lehman will lead the team at the 2006 matches in Kildare, Ireland.
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The Shell oil company has been handed a $1.5 billion bill for ecological compensation in the Niger delta by the government of Nigeria.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street analysts slashed their projections for fourth-quarter earnings growth as companies reported weak results, according to a weekly survey by Reuters Estimates.
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Tara Arts unequivocally condemns the circumstances which forced Birmingham Rep to close its production of 'Behzti' by Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti.
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America's space program owes an unexpected debt to Batman - as well as to Seabiscuit, the Hulk and dozens of other movie projects.
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Cory Ondrejka, one of the founders and guiding lights behind the virtual world, leaves the company. CEO Phil Rosedale says the two had "strategic differences."
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AP - Asia's economic growth is likely to be constrained by an expected slowdown in the U.S. economy and potential spillover from the subprime mortgage crisis, two economic forecasts released Thursday said.
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Plenty of shoppers this holiday season will be passing up retailers' shiny window displays of high-end PCs to seek out bottom-shelf offerings, and with good reason.
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Jess Jackson and his four partners must decide whether to retire Curlin, who captured the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic, or race him next year as a 4-year-old.
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At the top of Billboard magazine's Hot Ringtones chart: Snoop Dogg and Pharrell's "Drop It Like It's Hot."
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AP - Shohei Takagiwa wanted more than anything to see his three friends graduate from college, but he couldn't travel halfway around the world from his native Japan to Northampton Community College in Bethlehem.
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Finally, Randy Johnson is close to becoming a Yankee. The Yankees yesterday reached agreement on the players in a three-team blockbuster that would land the coveted lefthander, Newsday learned last night.
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Going into the French Open, which begins Sunday, Novak Djokovic has won five singles titles on the ATP Tour, including this year’s Masters Series event in Miami.
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HABILE, Chad (Reuters) - Mahamat stares out from beneath his mother's shawl, his eyes glassy and bewildered.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former champion Serena Williams stepped up her game to beat Wimbledon runner-up Marion Bartoli 6-3 6-4 to reach the quarter-finals of the U.S. Open on Sunday.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Western countries on Thursday voiced concern at the rising number of executions in Iran as well as the "treatment of women as second class citizens" there.
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AP - Robinson Tejeda gave the Texas Rangers a big lift heading into a key series.
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Blog: With that purpose in mind, space agency plans to share info with private industry.
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At a scary time for patients, too few doctors ask about feelings, a new study finds.
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Six American troops, five Iraqi police officers and a senior judge were killed during a deadly 24-hour period of violence spanning Monday night and Tuesday, and a video broadcast on Arab satellite television showed an American hostage pleading for his life with a rifle pointed at his head.
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By Nic Fildes The drive to make computers more environmentally friendly has been given an extra boost after the technology giants Google and Intel joined the rush to prove their green credentials. The move was widely welcomed by environmental groups.
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Basketball Indiana Pacers coach Rick Carlisle signed a multiyear contract extension yesterday and added a new title as executive vice president of basketball operations. The new position puts him directly below CEO Donnie Walsh and president Larry Bird and gives him more clout in disciplinary matters. Terms were not di...
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WASHINGTON -- The United States and Russia vowed yesterday to keep reducing nuclear warhead stockpiles to "the lowest possible level" even after a key treaty expires in 2009, and they agreed to work together to help other countries develop civilian nuclear power without spreading weapons.
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Macworld.com - Nintendo's popular Wii game console will displace Microsoft's Xbox 360 as the new-generation game machine, iSuppli said Thursday.
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DaimlerChrysler is vying with Ford to win customers over to a group of remakes.
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Reuters - The world's largest cellphone maker Nokia (NOK1V.HE) unveiled two new handsets on Tuesday, the 2600 classic and the 1209, it said.
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Jiri Novak of the Czech Republic won the Swiss Indoors title at Basel on Sunday, defeating David Nalbandian of Argentina in a thrilling five-set final.
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We give our loved ones the perfect send-off from life in the information age: a shower of facts delivered crisply and without drama.
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AP - All-Pro defensive lineman Richard Seymour was inactive for the New England Patriots' divisional playoff game against Indianapolis on Sunday because of an injured left knee.
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AP - A former member of Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry's legal team pleaded innocent Tuesday to a charge of soliciting a prostitute.
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Insider sales at Sunrise have spurred a shareholder to demand the appointment of an independent monitor to investigate the accounting.
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AP - Assets of the nation's retail money market mutual funds rose by $4.36 billion in the latest week to $829.70 billion, the Investment Company Institute said Thursday.
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September 1, 2004 -- Omar Vizquel got six hits to tie the American League record for a nine-inning game and the Cleveland Indians routed New York 22-0 Tuesday night in the largest loss in the 101-year history of the Yankees.
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish hygiene and paper product maker SCA said on Monday it had signed a deal to buy all of Procter & Gamble's European tissue operations for 512 million euros ($672 million) in cash.
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Benedict XVI has been wary of inter-faith dialogue. But now he's making a show of ecumenical unity
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The homeland security secretary waived several environmental laws to continue building a border fence through a national conservation area in Arizona.
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TheSpaceShipOne team is handed the $10m cheque and trophy it won for claiming the Ansari X-Prize.
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MySpace announces it's opening up its platform to developers at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and China's prime minister, Wen Jiabao, have met in Moscow for talks on trade and the fight against terrorism.
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To avoid proxy battle with major investors, PC maker to add second mutually acceptable director, make elections annual.
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Tiger Woods has not won a major in two years and lost his world number one ranking but US Ryder Cup captain Hal Sutton says reports of his demise will prove badly exaggerated this week.
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WASHINGTON - Nearly two-thirds of U.S. government employees haven't been allowed to telecommute even after the U.S. Congress has established penalties for agencies that don't allow telework options, according to a survey released this week.
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SIERRA NEVADA, Spain (Reuters) - Austria's Marlies Schild was poised to collect the women's slalom World Cup on Sunday after setting the first-leg pace in the discipline she has dominated all season.
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The US military unveils a "revolutionary" heat-ray gun to repel enemies or disperse hostile crowds.
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Attorney General Bill Lockyer sued Atlanta-based energy company Mirant Corp. Wednesday, accusing it of profiting by "breaking the law and plundering the people of California" during the energy crisis of 2000-2001.
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AP - Propelled in Iowa by evangelicals' support, Mike Huckabee is trying for a repeat victory in South Carolina, where religion is woven even more tightly into the fabric of life.
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London - Manchester United midfielder Paul Scholes has an adductor injury and will be out for two weeks, manager Alex Ferguson said, which will see him miss Tuesday's home Champions League match against Turks Fenerbahce.
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Marat Safin defeated David Nalbandian to lift the Madrid Masters trophy and leapfrog Tim Henman in the race to qualify for the Masters Cup.
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By Rainey Coffin, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash. May 27--On Thursday, the Eastern Washington University board of trustees is hosting Cheers to Kids, a wine-tasting event to benefit Olive Crest Homes and Services for Abused Children. From 6 to 8 p.m.
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AP - Flames and smoke rose from a camp of militiamen attached to a Congolese presidential candidate Thursday, and explosions could be heard behind the camp's walls. People, some bleeding, fled from the camp of the militia of Jean-Pierre Bemba, a former rebel leader who is one of four vice presidents in Congo's transiti...
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Why a Wal-Mart bank might benefit customers.
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Making money is in. Gap is out.
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LONDON (Reuters) - European stocks jumped to fresh 6-month highs on Friday, buoyed by lower oil prices and a strong rally on Wall Street, but the dollar hung close to record lows against the euro ahead of key U.S. jobs data.
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com. Tigers starter Nate Robertson, unknown to him, warmed up in the bullpen in teammate's Craig Dingman's jersey. Before Monroe cracked Guillen's bat in the ninth inning, he
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