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WASHINGTON: The deficit at the federal agency that rescues failed US corporate pensions more than doubled to $23.3 billion in fiscal year 2004, officials said on Monday, with analysts largely blaming bankrupt airlines.
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By Journal-World, Lawrence, Kan. Jun. 2--Lecompton's Constitution Hall State Historic Site is among 24 finalists to be considered one of the Eight Wonders of Kansas. Finalists were announced Friday in Inman by Marci Penner, director of the Kansas Sampler Foundation.
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The Tennessee Titans don't plan to worry about Hurricane Ivan right now. They're too busy preparing to play the Miami Dolphins in a season opener still scheduled for Sunday.
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At various points since the end of their season, the Yankees have had reason to believe that two pillars of the franchise would not be back.
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(Corrects size definition in para 6 to show that order was for a grande, or medium cappuccino)
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Nothing stirs the professional basketball soul like Shaq and Kobe playing against each other with playoff implications on the line.
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Blog: At least 80 employees in the company's Foster City, Calif., office are out of work, according to a report.
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Stay up to the minute on the latest products from the show billed as a launchpad for emerging technologies.
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Reuters - Fisherman Peter Schneider knows the floods come each year and says they are good for business -- but few other people see any benefit as experts warn of more high water to come.
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NHL commissioner Gary Bettman has come in for fierce criticism following a meeting of locked-out players. The NHL Players Assocation leaders briefed 74 players on Tuesday about the team owners' lockout which
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International Business Machines Corp. said Monday it will provide voice and data services to British financial-services company Lloyds TSB Group PLC for seven years in a deal worth $971.6 million.
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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- When NATO forces first came to Bosnia nearly a decade ago, they lived in heavily guarded compounds, patrolled the streets in tanks, and often wore full body armor.
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BEIRUT: Oil prices remained near recent peaks on Friday, with US crude trading just below $55-a-barrel. In midday New York trading, WTI was down 21 cents at $54.
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Gordon Brown says the UK will write off its share of debts owed by the world's poorest countries to the World Bank.
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US stocks fell on Tuesday as a drop in oil prices pulled down shares of energy companies and health-care giant Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.
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By Gibson, Dirk C This paper describes and documents the surprising importance of public relations to outer space tourism. It is no overstatement to suggest that the future of outer space tourism depends as much on public relations as on any other single factor.
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WASHINGTON -- The fossil of what may be one of the earliest baby birds has been found in northeast China. The fossil, estimated at 121 million years old, is curled up as though still in its shell.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy confirmed on Sunday plans to sign a nuclear cooperation agreement with the United Arab Emirates amid reports French firms could construct up to two nuclear reactors there.
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Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Group Inc. of Arlington agreed yesterday to buy a Florida mortgage lender in an effort to improve the profit on its large portfolio of mortgage assets.
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AP - Led by Maurice Ager's 19 points, No. 10 Michigan State scored more than 100 points for the third straight game in a 102-52 win over Nicholls State on Saturday.
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Very much as expected, Austrian energy drink company Red Bull - a sponsor during the 2004 season - has bought Jaguar Racing from Ford Motor Company.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Harrah's Entertainment Inc. HET.N and Caesars Entertainment Inc. CZR.N on Monday said they have agreed to sell four casinos for $1.24 billion to privately held Colony Capital in a deal aimed to cut anti-trust concerns for Harrah's planned $5 billion takeover of Caesars.
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By SOLVEJ SCHOU LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Opera will present Richard Wagner's epic "Der Ring des Nibelungen" for the first time here, thanks to a $6 million donation from philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad, the company announced Wednesday.
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Q4bis, producers of an innovative and feature-packed business intelligence (BI) software solution, has selected New York-based Corning Data Services, Inc. (CDS), a leading supplier of ERP and SCM business applications, services and products, as an authorized business partner.
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AFP - The southern Afghan district of Musa Qala was under the control of the Taliban overnight, the Afghan defence ministry has said as NATO-led forces said the situation was still unclear.
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MONTREAL (Reuters) - Australian Ian Baker-Finch, assistant captain of the Internationals for this week's Presidents Cup against the United States, has called on Canadian fans to rally behind the home team.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai's running mate for Saturday's historic presidential election escaped unhurt Wednesday when a mine exploded under his convoy in the remote northeast of the country.
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By Katy Stech, The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C. Feb.
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Because of a group of law students, the makers of a controversial new energy drink have hit a snag in their attempts to register a federal trademark on Cocaine.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A media executive who helped purchase the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News last year could be interested in joining a group to acquire Dow Jones & Co. , the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
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Ernest Gallo parlayed $5,900 and a wine recipe from a public library into the world’s largest winemaking empire.
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sony Ericsson, the world's No.4 mobile phone maker, posted better-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings on Wednesday as it shipped more phones, and said its share of the global handset market had increased.
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Text of report by Russian news agency Ekho Moskvy Ulan-Ude, 6 June: The Republic of Buryatia's Supreme Court today ruled invalid the favourable conclusion made by the state environmental study on the route of an oil pipeline passing 800 m.
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A five-year spat between Motorola and Metrologic Instruments over royalties totaling has been settled at last, according to both companies.
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The United States Boxing team isn't fighting its opponents any more. It's fighting self-doubt.
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Albert Pujols and Scott Rolen hit back-to-back homers in the eighth inning, giving St. Louis a 6-4 victory over Houston in Game 2 of the N.L.C.S.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- CARE International said the director of its operation in Iraq has been kidnapped. CARE said Margaret Hassan -- said to be an Iraqi national -- was abducted Tuesday morning in Baghdad and it does not know why.
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PARIS (Reuters) - After Smoke Free Day and Car Free Day comes Sarkozy Free Day.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush on Friday called for a package of tax cuts and other measures totaling around $140 billion to shore up the fragile U.S. economy.
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The astronauts faced a balky bolt that could have cut short an attempt to install a new $372 million truss and solar array on the International Space Station.
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Desperation is suiting the Padres, who yesterday kept their playoff pot warm with a 6-1 victory over one of the clubs they're chasing in the wild-card scramble.
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Patients may not be given a choice of hospitals by the end of the year as ministers promised, a report says.
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AP - Masked gunmen assassinated a high-ranking Iraqi police officer on Sunday in southwestern Baghdad and wounded his bodyguards, police said.
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Greece's Olympic 200 metres champion Kostadinos Kenteris, who faces expulsion from the Athens Olympics for failing to show up at a doping test, insisted Tuesday he is not a drugs cheat.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Eli Lilly and Co. LLY.N on Thursday said it expects earnings in 2005 to rise to between $3.05 and $3.15 per share before special items as growing sales of newer medicines more than offset disappointing sales of its top-selling schizophrenia drug.
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Silicon Valley's VC community picks its favorite candidates.
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Have you seen these jubs? NSFW German police are hunting a quartet of surgically-enhanced women who legged it without paying for their treatment, Bild reports.

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Scientists run an experiment at the bottom of a mine in Minnesota to search for evidence of dark matter are also making music.
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Even though this barely touches the topics of this site, it is well worth mentioning that the Mozilla Firefox browser has finally reached the 1.0 milestone.
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The Washington Post's Rob Pegoraro discusses his recent reviews and answers your personal tech questions.
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Reuters - Oil prices fell on Monday, threatening to test a new six-month low under $60 a barrel as news of BP restoring output at Prudhoe Bay added to a sense of healthy supplies, while demand growth questions loomed large.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- In the 18 months that the case of journalist Jean Dominique's slaying languished at the Supreme Court, two presiding judges resigned in fear for their lives, two suspects were killed in jail, and most of the evidence went missing.
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PC World - Shipments of cell phones compatible with Japan's mobile digital TV service have surged to more than 20 million units in fewer than two years since launch, according to industry data released Wednesday.
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PARIS, Aug 26 (AFP) - Vivendi Universal will create 2,100 jobs over five years as part of a deal agreed with the French government allowing the French media and communications group to book tax credits under a new regime, the finance ministry said Thursday
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AP - Anyone desperate for a break from crunching numbers, minding the kids or studying for exams knows how easy it can be to find distraction in the simple brain teasing of computer games like Sudoku, solitaire or mahjong.
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Feb. 4 25 years ago: 1982 Passage of a bill to merge Shelby State Community College and State Technical Institute at Memphis is virtually assured in the Senate and is supported by two-thirds of the House members from Shelby County.
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AFP - The US economy is expanding but the performance is patchy as roaring energy prices begin to stifle spending, the Federal Reserve's Beige Book survey showed.
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NASA began installing a new connector in the space shuttle Atlantis’s fuel tank in hopes of launching the craft in early February.
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AP - David Ortiz and Kevin Youkilis each hit solo home runs to power the Boston Red Sox to a 5-3 win over the struggling Atlanta Braves on Saturday.
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Peace talks between the Sudanese government and Darfur rebels have stalled over the question of creating a no-fly zone over the area.
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On Monday, Andy Pettitte was en route to New York for a physical exam to complete his new contract, and the Yankees agreed to a five-year, $20 million deal with the Japanese star Kei Igawa.
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By the end of the century one in 10 species of birds in the world will be extinct and a further 15 percent will be on the brink of extinction.
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Day three at the MasterCard Masters promised so much. Bradley Hughes has been through difficult times in recent years, battling to retain USPGA Tour playing privileges, losing them and then spending two years
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AP - Lenovo Inc. recalled about 100,000 laptop computer batteries Thursday, warning that they could overheat and cause a fire.
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British Formula One driver Jenson Button should stay at BAR next season after a tribunal backed the team in a contract dispute with rivals Williams on Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Tuesday it brought civil fraud and insider trading charges against former top executives of bankrupt credit card issuer NextCard Inc. NXCD.OB
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Yamaha's Disklavier is an Internet-connected piano that, with its DisklavierRadio service, streams Internet radio stations suited specifically for the piano -- such as classical and jazz -- for a subscription fee of $20 per month. A new service called DisklavierMusicStore allows users to download permanent music files ...
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By JESSE NOYES Deval Patrick wasn't the only big winner Tuesday night. The CBS- owned Channel 38 earned major political points by flooding the zone with blanket prime-time coverage of the primary.
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Reuters - Pfizer Inc. on Thursday said second-quarter earnings from continuing operations rose about 13 percent on higher sales of medicines like cholesterol fighter Lipitor and Celebrex for arthritis.
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NBA Hall of Famer Calvin Murphy was acquitted Monday of charges he sexually abused five of his 10 daughters more than a decade ago.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Business software maker Siebel Systems Inc. SEBL.O on Monday said third-quarter revenue would beat Wall Street estimates, driven by a rebound in licensing revenue, sending its shares up 14 percent.
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SAN ANTONIO -- A second Oklahoma State football player has been suspended for next week's Alamo Bowl matchup against Ohio State.
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Campaigning for his wife, Bill Clinton has been drawing sleepy crowds in the state that revived his 1992 presidential bid.
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Responding to growing public anxiety about inflation, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao announced that China would freeze prices of oil products, natural gas and electricity in the near term.
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Southern California and Oklahoma stayed on course for a clash over college football's national title at the Jan. 4 Orange Bowl yesterday after putting more distance between their respective No.
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Canadian Press - TORONTO (CP) - Ontario's doctors overwhelmingly rejected a much-touted fee agreement with the provincial government on Saturday, a major setback for planned health-care reforms in the province with no immediate plan to resume negotiations.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Movie Gallery Inc. MOVI.O on Friday offered to buy rival movie rental chain Hollywood Entertainment Corp. HLYW.O for an undisclosed sum, one week after industry leader Blockbuster Inc. BBI.N bid about $700 million for Hollywood.
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The effort to dominate their way into a de facto standard isn't sitting well with rivals HP and Dell.
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A US soldier has pleaded guilty at a court martial in Baghdad to maltreating and conspiring to maltreat detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison.
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FORT WORTH American Airlines and its regional affiliate plan to add 70 flights from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport by next summer.
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By JUAN A. LOZANO HOUSTON - Russian computers that control the international space station's orientation and oxygen and water supplies were partly working again Thursday after failing the day before.
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Calls concerns over undercover updates to Windows XP and Windows Vista a tempest in a teapot.
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FT.com - Mobile phone operators face a new attack on their revenue in Europe after the UK telecoms regulator expressed concern about "extremely high" prices paid by consumers and business people for web surfing on their mobiles while abroad.
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France's Socialist Party votes "yes" in an internal vote on the European Constitution, party officials say.
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( InfoWorld ) - As part of a strategy to generate greater revenue from mobile data services, Vodafone Group has collaborated with Palm to launch a smartphone modeled after the  Treo 750v  but at a fraction of the price and with a newly designed user interface. Vodafone will exclusively sell the  Palm Treo 500v , whi...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC, a multi-strategy investment fund with about $26.8 billion under management, filed for an initial public offering on Monday, making it the latest alternative investment firm to seek a public listing.
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Andre Agassi has progressed to the third round of the Madrid Masters with an authoritative straight sets win over Max Mirnyi. While Agassi battled away early in the match, saving five break points in the first
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LONDON, Feb. 9 -- British billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson, with former vice president Al Gore at his side, on Friday offered a $25 million prize for anyone who can come up with a way to blunt global climate change by removing at least a billion tons of carbon dioxide a year from the Earth's...
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After Yahoo! showed me their new site for the holiday season, I was pretty much underwhelmed. How could Yahoo! Shopping not introduce something incredibly bold for the holidays? And unfortunately I couldn’t even properly articulate my disappointment. I know Chris and Matt (and Haley) wanted to strangle me that after...
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As it promised after closing the acquisition of Mercury Interactive Corp a month ago, Hewlett Packard Co is disclosing its plans for the software business at its European user conference in Vienna this week.
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The Rough Guides and Lonely Planet series of travel books play catch up on the Web, after worries about giving away content.
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AFP - Gunmen attacked an oilfield on Sunday in Nigeria's southern Bayelsa State being guarded by soldiers after nine militants were killed by the army in the same area recently, an official said.
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Literally putting a face on technology could improve our interaction with hi-tech gadgets.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A suicide attack and roadside bombings killed six American soldiers, the U.S. command said Wednesday, as U.S...
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Web villains post do-it-yourself phishing kits to help any amateur become an online con artist.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The board of Dow Jones & Co. Inc. has endorsed a $5 billion buyout offer from Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., sending the deal to the controlling Bancroft family for final approval.
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Shares in Embratel Particapoes SA, Brazil's largest long-distance carrier, plunged more than 10 percent in Sao Paulo and almost 14 percent on Wall Street Tuesday after the company announced it would issue $704 million in new shares but divulged few details about the plan.
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CALLAO NAVAL BASE, Peru (Reuters) - Punching the air with a fist and chanting rebel slogans, Peru's Shining Path founder Abimael Guzman scored a propaganda coup on Friday and forced his terrorism retrial to be postponed for a week.
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By Moy, Chelsi GREENOUGH - For someone like Bill Potter, who helped nurture thousands of acres of clear-cut forest back to health and who at the age of 90 still picks up a chain saw to fell trees, striving to find the best timberharvesting practices is part of a lifelong journey.
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Running back Corey Dillon carried 32 times for 158 yards. His performance, blemished only by a fumble that led to three Arizona points, was especially important because Tom Brady did not have one of his better days.
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