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1	KARACHI, Pakistan - Paramilitary police killed a suspected top al-Qaida operative, wanted for alleged involvement in the kidnapping of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, during a four-hour shootout Sunday at a southern Pakistan house, the information minister said. At least two other men were arrested...
4	The Associated Press By Robert Wielaard
0	Cognitive mobility and physical movements, of critical importance.
3	Fresh from a victory over its rivals in the Supreme Court, American Express now wants Visa and MasterCard to show it the money. American Express hired hot-shot lawyer David Boies, who headed
0	Prioritization of healthcare programs by pharmacy students from France and from Quebec, according to the perceived impact of a decentralized pharmacist.
4	Why wait until something is broken to fix it? That's what a growing number of companies are asking themselves these days.
3	Reuters - Spectrum Pharmaceuticals said\on Friday U.S. regulators have approved its generic version of\Bayer's Cipro antibiotic, triggering a #36;700,000\equity investment by one of its partners.
2	Follow me on Twitter: @RavensInsider Former Tennessee Titans linebacker Keith Bulluck didn't have a positive opinion about
0	Domestic hypersensitivity pneumonitis.
2	Reuters - Toronto Raptors All-Star\swingman Vince Carter was placed on the injured list Friday\after tests revealed a mild strain of his left Achilles'\tendon.
1	SEOUL (Reuters) - A huge explosion in North Korea last week may have been due to a combination of demolition work for a power plant and atmospheric clouds, South Korea's spy agency said on Wednesday.
2	JONKOPING, Sweden (CP) - The Worldstars had no intention of being blown out of the rink two games in a row in Sweden. The travelling band of locked out NHL players turned in a solid defensive game and got
4	If you #39;re in the market for a new notebook computer it #39;s your lucky day, Intel has announced a major price cut on its chips for mobile notebooks.
2	AP - Approaching Hurricane Ivan has led to postponement of the game Thursday night between 10th-ranked California and Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Cal's athletic director said Monday.
1	Britain today said it was quot;considering quot; a request from Washington to redeploy some of its troops in Iraq from their current base in Basra into strife-torn US-held areas.
4	Lashing out more common if one ear or finger is larger HealthDayNews -- If one of your ears is bigger than the other, it may be a sign you're more likely to be aggressive when you get angry. So say Ohio State University researchers, who found that the greater the asymmetry between certain body parts -- for example, if one foot, index finger, or ear is bigger than the other -- the more likely a person will show signs of aggression when provoked...
0	A mutation suppressing a sumoylation site in the MITF transcriptional regulator predisposes to melanoma and renal carcinoma.
4	Internet users are being given the chance to hit back at the spammers that have become the scourge of the web, thanks to free software being distributed by Lycos Europe, the internet portal.
1	BAGHDAD, Iraq - A mortar attack on an Iraqi National Guard headquarters north of Baghdad on Tuesday killed four guardsmen and wounded 80 others, the U.S. military said...
2	Toronto, ON (Sports Network) - Allen Iverson had 32 points, six rebounds and four assists in 27 minutes of action, as the Philadelphia 76ers edged the Toronto Raptors, 99-97.
0	Functional outcomes obtained after vesicoureteral reimplantation surgery in adults: A review.
3	AIG, the world's largest insurer, is the target of a criminal investigation, accused of helping a client commit fraud.
2	As the US men #39;s basketball team limps into the Olympic medal round, the focus has been on the team #39;s lousy outside shooting.
4	"Everybody's iPhone is now vulnerable."
3	Asian share markets fell on Monday after oil hit a record above \$00 a barrel, with investors cautious ahead of earnings reports from bellwether firms IBM and Texas Instruments later in the day.
1	The opposition has rejected the election result, claiming the process was undermined by fraud.
1	The people behind New York City's bid for the 2012 Olympics think they have a chance to beat the four competing European capitals.
2	The Dolphins have released free safety Antuan Edwards, who has started eight of nine games this season. Agent Brian Levy said Wednesday the Dolphins told him the franchise wanted to take a look at younger players at the position.
3	"After they killed two fresh young Texas patrolmen who came upon them in 1934 - they just massacred them - that's when the
4	The company's HPV DNA test is used in conjunction with the better-known Pap test to screen for cervical cancer and its precursors in women 30 years of age and older.<BR><FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2"\ color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</B></FONT>
4	WICHITA, Kan. -- It may fall a shade shy of catching thieves redhanded, but for farmers fed up with methamphetamine cooks filching their fertilizer, staining them pink will do just fine.
2	_ Serena Williams left her opponent swinging at shadows, then Andy Roddick finished off his work with a 130 mph fastball. Roddick and Williams easily aced their latest tests in the US Open on
2	Kanpur: Openers Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir struck half-centuries as India reached 180 without loss at stumps in reply to South Africa #39;s giant 010 first-innings score in first Test on Monday.
4	Two professors argue that seemingly innocuous reforms have caused a shift away from encouraging innovation in favor of exploiting patents largely for lawsuits.
2	After an early season schedule filled with pitfalls, there #39;s an opportunity for the Oregon State football team to reach .000. The Beavers are coming off an inspired Pacific
2	ATHENS (Reuters) - A medical examiner has found that Greek sprinter Katerina Thanou, who was in hospital with fellow athlete Costas Kenteris, had no injuries, a judicial source said on Tuesday.
3	With 40 years of textile quotas about to be abolished in a move to help developing nations, a group of the world #39;s poorest countries are asking for a different approach: special trade deals to protect them from a free-for-all.
0	From drug cost to drug price: steps and decisional processes.
2	Arsenal are confident captain Patrick Vieira will be fit for Sunday #39;s showdown with Manchester United. Boss Arsene Wenger said Vieira only had a 20-80 chance of facing United, but the player has responded
3	georgia plans hidden asset pardon georgia is offering a one-off tax amnesty to people who hid their earnings under the regime of former president eduard shevardnadze. the country s new president mikhail saakashvili has said that anyone now willing to disclose their wealth will only have to pay 1% in income tax. the measure is designed to legitimise previously hidden economic activity and boost georgia s flagging economy. georgia s black market is estimated to be twice the size of its legal economy. mr saakashvili elected president in january after mr shevardnadze was toppled has urged the georgian parliament to approve the amnesty as soon as possible. it is one of a series of proposals designed to tackle corruption which was rampant during the shevardnadze era and boost georgia s fragile public finances. the new government is encouraging companies to pay taxes by scrapping existing corruption investigations and destroying all tax records from before 1 january three days before president saakashvili was elected. there are people who have money but are afraid to show it the president told a government session. documentation about where this money came from doesn t exist because under the former entirely warped regime earning capital honestly was not possible. by declaring their assets and paying the one-off tax people would be able to legalise their property mr saakashvili stressed. no one will have the right to check this money s origin. this money must go back into the economy. the amnesty will not extend to people who made money through drugs trafficking or international money laundering. criminal investigations in such cases -thought to involve about 5% of georgian businesses -are to continue. mr saakashvili has accused the shevardnadze regime which was toppled by a popular uprising in november of allowing bribery to flourish. georgia s economy is in a desperate condition. half the population are living below the poverty line with many surviving on income of less than $4 or three euros a day. the unemployment rate is around 20% while the country has a $1.7bn public debt.
3	Reuters - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. , the\world's largest retailer, said on Saturday it still expects a 2\percent to 4 percent increase in November sales at its U.S.\stores open at least a year.
0	Current status of hypofractionated external beam radiotherapy for early-stage breast cancer.
0	Ebola: the moral bankruptcy and the irrational.
1	AP - Two men were given suspended jail sentences Friday for stealing personal data on subscribers to Japanese broadband services provider Softbank Corp. in an effort to extort money from the company.
3	SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Veritas Software Corp. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=VRTS.O target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">VRTS.O</A> shares jumped 9 percent on Tuesday on a report that security software company Symantec Corp. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=SYMC.O target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">SYMC.O</A> would acquire it for \$13 billion.
0	From dysphagia of the patient to medical gastroparesis.
2	(Sports Network) - Two of the top teams in the American League tangle in a possible American League Division Series preview tonight, as the West-leading Oakland Athletics host the wild card-leading Boston Red Sox for the first of a three-game set at the
3	US Airways was locked in tough bargaining on wage and benefit cuts with its pilots union, whose backing is critical for the struggling airline to avoid another bankruptcy filing.
2	The Matt Leinart-to-Reggie Bush connection accounts for all three Trojan touchdowns as No. 1 USC escapes with a 24-13 win over Va. Tech at FedEx Field on Saturday.
0	N-acetylcysteine in septic shock.
4	School pupils in Singapore lead the world in maths and science tests, latest international rankings suggest.
4	com October 8, 2004, 11:32 AM PT. This priority retains its ranking at number five as more and more companies deploy Web Services to share business logic, data and processes with each other and with clients.
4	Levels of potentially dangerous airborne soot declined nationwide between 1999 and 2003, the Environmental Protection Agency reported Tuesday, and may be nearly a third lower than concentrations 20 years ago.
2	AUSTRALIA #39;S quot;last frontier quot; Test cricket series against India will be shown on live television in this country following an 11th hour TV rights deal.
0	Carlo Janka as "savior in adversity".
1	Reuters - South Korean government scientists\conducted unsanctioned uranium enrichment tests three times in\2000 but they were repeated procedures of a single experiment,\a spokesman at the state-run atomic research center said on\Sunday.
4	Science fiction and fantasy fans gather to celebrate their favorite genre and hand out Hugo Awards, which some writers have been able to convert into wider exposure. Mark Baard reports from Boston.
0	Practical ECG problems in the elderly patient. Case number 16. Moxifloxacin-associated QT interval prolongation.
2	Rashad Jordan moved over from his position in Catholic Memorial's Cover-2 zone defense and welcomed Jim Cotter into retirement.
0	Efficacy of local sodium thiosulfate infusions on calcifications associated with chronic venous leg ulcer: A case report.
3	Real or fake? Natural or artificial? Such is the great Christmas tree debate. To put it in Shakesperian terms, it unfolds like this: To clean up pine needles or not to clean up pine needles?
2	It seemed inevitable for so long, yet so implausible Sunday night: Yankees vs. Red Sox, winner take all. With blood seeping through his sock, a grimace on his face and pride filling his heart, Curt Schilling
4	AUSTRALIAN Mat Mladin claimed his seventh win of the season today in the opening race of the US Superbike Championship double-header in Georgia.
1	ONE of the seven men on trial for sexual abuse on remote Pacific island of Pitcairn has pleaded guilty to three of the four charges he faced, including indecent assault against a 12-year-old girl.
4	WebEx Communications is one of the pioneers of real-time collaboration applications. In fact, to many companies the name WebEx is synonymous with online meetings.
4	American Technology Research analyst Shaw Wu has initiated coverage of Apple Computer (AAPL) with a #39;buy #39; recommendation, and a 12-month target of US\$78 per share.
2	Javier Vazquez pitched the New York Yankees to their second consecutive shutout, and Derek Jeter homered and doubled twice Wednesday in a 3-0 victory over the Kansas City Royals.
1	AP - Both presidential campaigns are looking for a boost at the other's expense Tuesday when Vice President Dick Cheney and Democratic rival John Edwards square off for the only vice presidential debate of the 2004 election.
2	AP - LPGA Tour rookie Isabelle Beisiegel shot her best round of the week Friday, but it wasn't enough to end her attempt to become the first woman to qualify for the men's PGA Tour.
0	Recommendations for management of dyslipidemia in 2014.
1	SEOUL -- North Korea set three conditions yesterday to be met before it would consider returning to six-party talks on its nuclear programs.
2	ONE of the most experienced and popular managers in world football, former Ipswich Town boss Sir Bobby Robson, spoke of his disappointment last night after being sacked by Newcastle United.
3	NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices slid 3 percent on Monday on expectations that more mild U.S. weather at the start of the New Year will limit heating oil demand.
2	Memphis, TN (Sports Network) - The Memphis Grizzlies on Wednesday activated point guard Jason Williams from the injured list, while placing guard Antonio Burks on the IL.
1	“The administration is confronting and countering malign Russian cyber activity," Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said.
4	Microsoft Corp., world #39;s largest software maker, published numerous patches to fix 21 flaws in its software applications yesterday.
2	A controversial \$308 million deal to broadcast India #39;s home cricket matches fell through on Tuesday after the country #39;s cricket board said there was no binding contract and it may re-tender the rights.
3	NEW YORK (Reuters) - World oil prices surged nearly \$2 on Friday on worries the stormy season in the Gulf of Mexico would continue to hamper energy production and imports, delaying vital stock building ahead of the coming winter months.
3	General Motors (GM) is following through with plans to axe 12,000 jobs in the loss-making European division as the car giant bids to trim operating costs by 300 million-a-year.
4	MacCentral - At a special music event featuring Bono and The Edge from rock group U2 held on Tuesday, Apple took the wraps off the iPod Photo, a color iPod available in 40GB or 60GB storage capacities. The company also introduced the iPod U2, a special edition of Apple's 20GB player clad in black, equipped with a red Click Wheel and featuring engraved U2 band member signatures. The iPod Photo is available immediately, and Apple expects the iPod U2 to ship in mid-November.
3	William Hill, Britain #39;s second largest betting shop chain, today reported a 40 increase in half-year profits, but saw business slow during July and August.
3	Carnival Corp. amp; plc, the world #39;s largest cruise company, reported Friday that higher ticket prices and onboard sales propelled third-quarter earnings up 40 percent to its best three-month results ever.
1	British police have confirmed a scuffle involving British royal Prince Harry was reported to them early this morning. The third-in-line for the UK throne was involved in a scuffle outside a London nightclub today which left a photographer with a cut lip.
3	US stock futures fell Wednesday before a speech by US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan in which he is expected to restate the central bank #39;s commitment to raising interest rates in a measured way.
1	S. African Government Condemns Accusations That It Is Being Used As Springboard for Haiti #39;s Aristide. A boy passes a car that says quot;Aristide King quot; in the pro-Aristide slum of Bel-Air in Port-au-Prince, Sunday, Oct. 17, 2004.
1	Canadian Press - TORONTO (CP) - The problem of pit bull attacks in Ontario is more widespread and "more urgent than we imagined in the first place," Attorney General Michael Bryant said Thursday as he vowed action to protect the public from the dogs.
1	NEW ORLEANS - With 130-mph Hurricane Ivan closing in with frightening intensity, this flood-prone city scrambled Wednesday to get people out of harm's way, putting the frail and elderly in the cavernous Louisiana Superdome and urging others to move to higher floors in tall buildings. Along some 300 miles of threatened coastline from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, the churning surf, ominous clouds, swaying traffic lights and escalating winds were all the reminders some people needed to take cover from the storm...
1	Bahrainis swelter in 00-degree temperatures without air conditioning as a fault cuts electricity across the island.
3	More than three years after PG amp;E Corp. stopped paying dividends during California #39;s electricity crisis, company executives said Friday that they plan to give stockholders quarterly payments of 30 cents per share next spring.
4	AP - Dozens of chimpanzees from a Dutch laboratory face a housing crisis after plans for their early retirement on the Spanish coast collapsed because of residents' fears they would carry infectious diseases.
1	Reuters - Walt Disney Co. and News Corp. are to challenge in court the conditional award of Indian cricket TV rights to local media firm Zee Telefilms Ltd., their ESPN Star Sports joint venture said on Tuesday.
4	Ireland is taking quot;extraordinary quot; measures to protect Internet users from rogue auto-dialer programs that hijack their modems and run up long-distance phone charges, the country #39;s telecom regulator says.
4	ID Software et Activision ont annonc hier le dveloppement d #39;une extension pour leur hit Doom 3. Baptise quot;DOOM 3: Resurrection of Evil quot;, cette extension proposera de nouveaux environnement de jeu, de nouveaux personnages et de nouvelles armes, avec
0	Aorto-mesenteric compression syndrome in children: report of a case.
1	One person died and another was seriously injured in an explosion at a Mediterranean resort city popular with British holidaymakers.
2	RENAULT #39;S Formula One team boss Flavio Briatore paid the Shanghai International Circuit the greatest compliment when he said yesterday: #39;It #39;s going to be difficult to beat this one.
0	Medical death certificate.
3	AP - France's economic growth ground to a halt in the third quarter of 2004, the official statistics agency Insee said Tuesday, reducing its earlier estimate of a 0.1 percent expansion.
2	Maroney's lawyer says USA Gymnastics broke the law by asking her to agree to the settlement.
2	WACO, Texas -- Adrian Peterson ran for 240 yards, including three second-half touchdowns, and No. 2 Oklahoma got the lopsided win it needed for the BCS standings by beating Baylor, 30-0, yesterday.

1

KARACHI, Pakistan - Paramilitary police killed a suspected top al-Qaida operative, wanted for alleged involvement in the kidnapping of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, during a four-hour shootout Sunday at a southern Pakistan house, the information minister said. At least two other men were arrested...

4

The Associated Press By Robert Wielaard

0

Cognitive mobility and physical movements, of critical importance.

3

Fresh from a victory over its rivals in the Supreme Court, American Express now wants Visa and MasterCard to show it the money. American Express hired hot-shot lawyer David Boies, who headed

0

Prioritization of healthcare programs by pharmacy students from France and from Quebec, according to the perceived impact of a decentralized pharmacist.

4

Why wait until something is broken to fix it? That's what a growing number of companies are asking themselves these days.

3

Reuters - Spectrum Pharmaceuticals said\on Friday U.S. regulators have approved its generic version of\Bayer's Cipro antibiotic, triggering a #36;700,000\equity investment by one of its partners.

2

Follow me on Twitter: @RavensInsider Former Tennessee Titans linebacker Keith Bulluck didn't have a positive opinion about

0

Domestic hypersensitivity pneumonitis.

2

Reuters - Toronto Raptors All-Star\swingman Vince Carter was placed on the injured list Friday\after tests revealed a mild strain of his left Achilles'\tendon.

1

SEOUL (Reuters) - A huge explosion in North Korea last week may have been due to a combination of demolition work for a power plant and atmospheric clouds, South Korea's spy agency said on Wednesday.

2

JONKOPING, Sweden (CP) - The Worldstars had no intention of being blown out of the rink two games in a row in Sweden. The travelling band of locked out NHL players turned in a solid defensive game and got

4

If you #39;re in the market for a new notebook computer it #39;s your lucky day, Intel has announced a major price cut on its chips for mobile notebooks.

2

AP - Approaching Hurricane Ivan has led to postponement of the game Thursday night between 10th-ranked California and Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Cal's athletic director said Monday.

1

Britain today said it was quot;considering quot; a request from Washington to redeploy some of its troops in Iraq from their current base in Basra into strife-torn US-held areas.

4

Lashing out more common if one ear or finger is larger HealthDayNews -- If one of your ears is bigger than the other, it may be a sign you're more likely to be aggressive when you get angry. So say Ohio State University researchers, who found that the greater the asymmetry between certain body parts -- for example, if one foot, index finger, or ear is bigger than the other -- the more likely a person will show signs of aggression when provoked...

0

A mutation suppressing a sumoylation site in the MITF transcriptional regulator predisposes to melanoma and renal carcinoma.

4

Internet users are being given the chance to hit back at the spammers that have become the scourge of the web, thanks to free software being distributed by Lycos Europe, the internet portal.

1

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A mortar attack on an Iraqi National Guard headquarters north of Baghdad on Tuesday killed four guardsmen and wounded 80 others, the U.S. military said...

2

Toronto, ON (Sports Network) - Allen Iverson had 32 points, six rebounds and four assists in 27 minutes of action, as the Philadelphia 76ers edged the Toronto Raptors, 99-97.

0

Functional outcomes obtained after vesicoureteral reimplantation surgery in adults: A review.

3

AIG, the world's largest insurer, is the target of a criminal investigation, accused of helping a client commit fraud.

2

As the US men #39;s basketball team limps into the Olympic medal round, the focus has been on the team #39;s lousy outside shooting.

4

"Everybody's iPhone is now vulnerable."

3

Asian share markets fell on Monday after oil hit a record above \$00 a barrel, with investors cautious ahead of earnings reports from bellwether firms IBM and Texas Instruments later in the day.

1

The opposition has rejected the election result, claiming the process was undermined by fraud.

1

The people behind New York City's bid for the 2012 Olympics think they have a chance to beat the four competing European capitals.

2

The Dolphins have released free safety Antuan Edwards, who has started eight of nine games this season. Agent Brian Levy said Wednesday the Dolphins told him the franchise wanted to take a look at younger players at the position.

3

"After they killed two fresh young Texas patrolmen who came upon them in 1934 - they just massacred them - that's when the

4

The company's HPV DNA test is used in conjunction with the better-known Pap test to screen for cervical cancer and its precursors in women 30 years of age and older. -The Washington Post

4

WICHITA, Kan. -- It may fall a shade shy of catching thieves redhanded, but for farmers fed up with methamphetamine cooks filching their fertilizer, staining them pink will do just fine.

2

_ Serena Williams left her opponent swinging at shadows, then Andy Roddick finished off his work with a 130 mph fastball. Roddick and Williams easily aced their latest tests in the US Open on

2

Kanpur: Openers Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir struck half-centuries as India reached 180 without loss at stumps in reply to South Africa #39;s giant 010 first-innings score in first Test on Monday.

4

Two professors argue that seemingly innocuous reforms have caused a shift away from encouraging innovation in favor of exploiting patents largely for lawsuits.

2

After an early season schedule filled with pitfalls, there #39;s an opportunity for the Oregon State football team to reach .000. The Beavers are coming off an inspired Pacific

2

ATHENS (Reuters) - A medical examiner has found that Greek sprinter Katerina Thanou, who was in hospital with fellow athlete Costas Kenteris, had no injuries, a judicial source said on Tuesday.

3

With 40 years of textile quotas about to be abolished in a move to help developing nations, a group of the world #39;s poorest countries are asking for a different approach: special trade deals to protect them from a free-for-all.

0

From drug cost to drug price: steps and decisional processes.

2

Arsenal are confident captain Patrick Vieira will be fit for Sunday #39;s showdown with Manchester United. Boss Arsene Wenger said Vieira only had a 20-80 chance of facing United, but the player has responded

3

georgia plans hidden asset pardon georgia is offering a one-off tax amnesty to people who hid their earnings under the regime of former president eduard shevardnadze. the country s new president mikhail saakashvili has said that anyone now willing to disclose their wealth will only have to pay 1% in income tax. the measure is designed to legitimise previously hidden economic activity and boost georgia s flagging economy. georgia s black market is estimated to be twice the size of its legal economy. mr saakashvili elected president in january after mr shevardnadze was toppled has urged the georgian parliament to approve the amnesty as soon as possible. it is one of a series of proposals designed to tackle corruption which was rampant during the shevardnadze era and boost georgia s fragile public finances. the new government is encouraging companies to pay taxes by scrapping existing corruption investigations and destroying all tax records from before 1 january three days before president saakashvili was elected. there are people who have money but are afraid to show it the president told a government session. documentation about where this money came from doesn t exist because under the former entirely warped regime earning capital honestly was not possible. by declaring their assets and paying the one-off tax people would be able to legalise their property mr saakashvili stressed. no one will have the right to check this money s origin. this money must go back into the economy. the amnesty will not extend to people who made money through drugs trafficking or international money laundering. criminal investigations in such cases -thought to involve about 5% of georgian businesses -are to continue. mr saakashvili has accused the shevardnadze regime which was toppled by a popular uprising in november of allowing bribery to flourish. georgia s economy is in a desperate condition. half the population are living below the poverty line with many surviving on income of less than $4 or three euros a day. the unemployment rate is around 20% while the country has a $1.7bn public debt.

3

Reuters - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. , the\world's largest retailer, said on Saturday it still expects a 2\percent to 4 percent increase in November sales at its U.S.\stores open at least a year.

0

Current status of hypofractionated external beam radiotherapy for early-stage breast cancer.

0

Ebola: the moral bankruptcy and the irrational.

1

AP - Two men were given suspended jail sentences Friday for stealing personal data on subscribers to Japanese broadband services provider Softbank Corp. in an effort to extort money from the company.

3

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Veritas Software Corp. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=VRTS.O target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">VRTS.O</A> shares jumped 9 percent on Tuesday on a report that security software company Symantec Corp. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=SYMC.O target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">SYMC.O</A> would acquire it for \$13 billion.

0

From dysphagia of the patient to medical gastroparesis.

2

(Sports Network) - Two of the top teams in the American League tangle in a possible American League Division Series preview tonight, as the West-leading Oakland Athletics host the wild card-leading Boston Red Sox for the first of a three-game set at the

3

US Airways was locked in tough bargaining on wage and benefit cuts with its pilots union, whose backing is critical for the struggling airline to avoid another bankruptcy filing.

2

The Matt Leinart-to-Reggie Bush connection accounts for all three Trojan touchdowns as No. 1 USC escapes with a 24-13 win over Va. Tech at FedEx Field on Saturday.

0

N-acetylcysteine in septic shock.

4

School pupils in Singapore lead the world in maths and science tests, latest international rankings suggest.

4

com October 8, 2004, 11:32 AM PT. This priority retains its ranking at number five as more and more companies deploy Web Services to share business logic, data and processes with each other and with clients.

4

Levels of potentially dangerous airborne soot declined nationwide between 1999 and 2003, the Environmental Protection Agency reported Tuesday, and may be nearly a third lower than concentrations 20 years ago.

2

AUSTRALIA #39;S quot;last frontier quot; Test cricket series against India will be shown on live television in this country following an 11th hour TV rights deal.

0

Carlo Janka as "savior in adversity".

1

Reuters - South Korean government scientists\conducted unsanctioned uranium enrichment tests three times in\2000 but they were repeated procedures of a single experiment,\a spokesman at the state-run atomic research center said on\Sunday.

4

Science fiction and fantasy fans gather to celebrate their favorite genre and hand out Hugo Awards, which some writers have been able to convert into wider exposure. Mark Baard reports from Boston.

0

Practical ECG problems in the elderly patient. Case number 16. Moxifloxacin-associated QT interval prolongation.

2

Rashad Jordan moved over from his position in Catholic Memorial's Cover-2 zone defense and welcomed Jim Cotter into retirement.

0

Efficacy of local sodium thiosulfate infusions on calcifications associated with chronic venous leg ulcer: A case report.

3

Real or fake? Natural or artificial? Such is the great Christmas tree debate. To put it in Shakesperian terms, it unfolds like this: To clean up pine needles or not to clean up pine needles?

2

It seemed inevitable for so long, yet so implausible Sunday night: Yankees vs. Red Sox, winner take all. With blood seeping through his sock, a grimace on his face and pride filling his heart, Curt Schilling

4

AUSTRALIAN Mat Mladin claimed his seventh win of the season today in the opening race of the US Superbike Championship double-header in Georgia.

1

ONE of the seven men on trial for sexual abuse on remote Pacific island of Pitcairn has pleaded guilty to three of the four charges he faced, including indecent assault against a 12-year-old girl.

4

WebEx Communications is one of the pioneers of real-time collaboration applications. In fact, to many companies the name WebEx is synonymous with online meetings.

4

American Technology Research analyst Shaw Wu has initiated coverage of Apple Computer (AAPL) with a #39;buy #39; recommendation, and a 12-month target of US\$78 per share.

2

Javier Vazquez pitched the New York Yankees to their second consecutive shutout, and Derek Jeter homered and doubled twice Wednesday in a 3-0 victory over the Kansas City Royals.

1

AP - Both presidential campaigns are looking for a boost at the other's expense Tuesday when Vice President Dick Cheney and Democratic rival John Edwards square off for the only vice presidential debate of the 2004 election.

2

AP - LPGA Tour rookie Isabelle Beisiegel shot her best round of the week Friday, but it wasn't enough to end her attempt to become the first woman to qualify for the men's PGA Tour.

0

Recommendations for management of dyslipidemia in 2014.

1

SEOUL -- North Korea set three conditions yesterday to be met before it would consider returning to six-party talks on its nuclear programs.

2

ONE of the most experienced and popular managers in world football, former Ipswich Town boss Sir Bobby Robson, spoke of his disappointment last night after being sacked by Newcastle United.

3

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices slid 3 percent on Monday on expectations that more mild U.S. weather at the start of the New Year will limit heating oil demand.

2

Memphis, TN (Sports Network) - The Memphis Grizzlies on Wednesday activated point guard Jason Williams from the injured list, while placing guard Antonio Burks on the IL.

1

“The administration is confronting and countering malign Russian cyber activity," Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said.

4

Microsoft Corp., world #39;s largest software maker, published numerous patches to fix 21 flaws in its software applications yesterday.

2

A controversial \$308 million deal to broadcast India #39;s home cricket matches fell through on Tuesday after the country #39;s cricket board said there was no binding contract and it may re-tender the rights.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - World oil prices surged nearly \$2 on Friday on worries the stormy season in the Gulf of Mexico would continue to hamper energy production and imports, delaying vital stock building ahead of the coming winter months.

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General Motors (GM) is following through with plans to axe 12,000 jobs in the loss-making European division as the car giant bids to trim operating costs by 300 million-a-year.

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MacCentral - At a special music event featuring Bono and The Edge from rock group U2 held on Tuesday, Apple took the wraps off the iPod Photo, a color iPod available in 40GB or 60GB storage capacities. The company also introduced the iPod U2, a special edition of Apple's 20GB player clad in black, equipped with a red Click Wheel and featuring engraved U2 band member signatures. The iPod Photo is available immediately, and Apple expects the iPod U2 to ship in mid-November.

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William Hill, Britain #39;s second largest betting shop chain, today reported a 40 increase in half-year profits, but saw business slow during July and August.

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Carnival Corp. amp; plc, the world #39;s largest cruise company, reported Friday that higher ticket prices and onboard sales propelled third-quarter earnings up 40 percent to its best three-month results ever.

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British police have confirmed a scuffle involving British royal Prince Harry was reported to them early this morning. The third-in-line for the UK throne was involved in a scuffle outside a London nightclub today which left a photographer with a cut lip.

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US stock futures fell Wednesday before a speech by US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan in which he is expected to restate the central bank #39;s commitment to raising interest rates in a measured way.

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S. African Government Condemns Accusations That It Is Being Used As Springboard for Haiti #39;s Aristide. A boy passes a car that says quot;Aristide King quot; in the pro-Aristide slum of Bel-Air in Port-au-Prince, Sunday, Oct. 17, 2004.

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Canadian Press - TORONTO (CP) - The problem of pit bull attacks in Ontario is more widespread and "more urgent than we imagined in the first place," Attorney General Michael Bryant said Thursday as he vowed action to protect the public from the dogs.

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NEW ORLEANS - With 130-mph Hurricane Ivan closing in with frightening intensity, this flood-prone city scrambled Wednesday to get people out of harm's way, putting the frail and elderly in the cavernous Louisiana Superdome and urging others to move to higher floors in tall buildings. Along some 300 miles of threatened coastline from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, the churning surf, ominous clouds, swaying traffic lights and escalating winds were all the reminders some people needed to take cover from the storm...

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Bahrainis swelter in 00-degree temperatures without air conditioning as a fault cuts electricity across the island.

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More than three years after PG amp;E Corp. stopped paying dividends during California #39;s electricity crisis, company executives said Friday that they plan to give stockholders quarterly payments of 30 cents per share next spring.

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AP - Dozens of chimpanzees from a Dutch laboratory face a housing crisis after plans for their early retirement on the Spanish coast collapsed because of residents' fears they would carry infectious diseases.

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Reuters - Walt Disney Co. and News Corp. are to challenge in court the conditional award of Indian cricket TV rights to local media firm Zee Telefilms Ltd., their ESPN Star Sports joint venture said on Tuesday.

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Ireland is taking quot;extraordinary quot; measures to protect Internet users from rogue auto-dialer programs that hijack their modems and run up long-distance phone charges, the country #39;s telecom regulator says.

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ID Software et Activision ont annonc hier le dveloppement d #39;une extension pour leur hit Doom 3. Baptise quot;DOOM 3: Resurrection of Evil quot;, cette extension proposera de nouveaux environnement de jeu, de nouveaux personnages et de nouvelles armes, avec

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Aorto-mesenteric compression syndrome in children: report of a case.

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One person died and another was seriously injured in an explosion at a Mediterranean resort city popular with British holidaymakers.

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RENAULT #39;S Formula One team boss Flavio Briatore paid the Shanghai International Circuit the greatest compliment when he said yesterday: #39;It #39;s going to be difficult to beat this one.

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Medical death certificate.

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AP - France's economic growth ground to a halt in the third quarter of 2004, the official statistics agency Insee said Tuesday, reducing its earlier estimate of a 0.1 percent expansion.

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Maroney's lawyer says USA Gymnastics broke the law by asking her to agree to the settlement.

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WACO, Texas -- Adrian Peterson ran for 240 yards, including three second-half touchdowns, and No. 2 Oklahoma got the lopsided win it needed for the BCS standings by beating Baylor, 30-0, yesterday.