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train	Tail wagging, Abbey trotted on stage with Conway before a crowd of more than 10,000 attendees at PeopleSoft's annual customer conference at the Anaheim Convention Center.	Klarman was arrested by FBI agents Monday morning at his home in New York.	3.8
train	MSN Messenger 6 will be available for download starting at 6 p.m. GMT on Wednesday from http://messenger.msn.com/download/v6preview.asp.	According to law enforcement officials, the individual decrypted passwords on the server.	3.2
train	The companies, Chiron and Aventis Pasteur, together made about 80 million doses of the injected vaccine, which ordinarily would have been enough to meet U.S. demand.	A Cuban architect was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday for using two fake grenades to hijack a passenger plane from Cuba to Florida in April.	3.4
train	On May 1, he crawled through a narrow, winding canyon, rappelled down a 60-foot cliff and walked some six miles down the canyon.	But under cross-examination by O'Donnell's attorney, Lorna Schofield, Toepfer conceded she had ignored many of O'Donnell's suggestions and projects.	3.5
train	The findings are published in the November 6 edition of the journal Nature.	Last week, former chief financial officer Franklyn Bergonzi pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy and agreed to cooperate with the government's investigation.	4.2
train	A federal grand jury indicted them on Tuesday; the document was sealed until yesterday to allow authorities to make arrests.	Mr Levine said she had been offered $400,000 to tell her story to an Australian TV network.	3.75
train	According to SunnComm's Peter Jacobs, "MediaMax performs exactly as 'advertised' to the companies who purchased it.	But church members and observers say they anticipate that the decision here could pose doctrinal problems for some Episcopalians who believe the Bible prohibits homosexuality.	4
train	Microsoft has identified the freely distributed Linux software as one of the biggest threats to its sales.	He was arrested in Atlanta, Georgia, on Monday night by police acting on a tip-off.	4
train	Its shares jumped to $54.50 in pre-open trading from $50.90 at Wednesday's close.	The team has named the sensor Canary, for cellular analysis and notification of antigen risks and yields.	3.2
train	Lay had argued that handing over the documents would be a violation of his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination.	That's when officers threw him to the ground and handcuffed him, according to testimony.	2.75
train	People who have opposed these actions throughout are now trying to find fresh reasons to say this wasn't the right thing to do."	An Ohio law that bans a controversial late-term abortion procedure is constitutionally acceptable and the state can enforce it, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday.	3.2
train	Strayhorn said it was the first time in Texas history a comptroller had not certified the appropriations act.	The government recently shelved peace talks being brokered by neighbouring Malaysia after a spate of attacks on Mindanao, including three deadly bombings, that it blamed on the MILF.	2.4
train	The nation's largest retailer has told its 100 top suppliers they have to start using electronic tags on all pallets of goods by Jan. 25, 2005.	House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., says he is sensitive to civil liberties complaints.	3.2
train	Google's investors include prominent VC firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital, the paper noted.	Harvey was taken to St. Luke's Hospital for precautionary neck X-rays, which came back negative.	3
train	His lawyer, Pamela MacKey, said Bryant expects to be completely exonerated.	Emile Laroza, 51, contracted SARS while working as a nurse at North York General Hospital, the epicentre of the second SARS outbreak.	1
train	Still, he said, "I'm absolutely confident we're going to have a bill."	Each week 138 million shoppers visit Wal-Mart's 4,750 stores.	2.8
train	The meat, poultry, butter, cheese and nuts were impounded a year ago at a LaGrou Cold Storage warehouse in Chicago.	Oracle chairman Larry Ellison has hinted that the company could yet again increase its offer for rival PeopleSoft.	3.25
train	"Spin and manipulative public relations and propaganda are not the answer," it said.	Intel on Wednesday unveiled its next-generation processor for cell phones, PDAs, and other wireless devices.	2
train	One of the 14 Kurds pointed at the word "refugee" in an English/Turkish dictionary.	The Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DJ: news, chart, profile) rose 56 points, or 0.7 percent, to 8,588.	2.4
train	The broad Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX gained 19.72 points, or 1.98 percent, to 1,015.69.	Hollywood actor Robert De Niro has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, his spokesman said today.	4.6
train	Families stuck on the highway remained in their cars, and used their cell phones to call home.	"However, we are not certain about the outcome of the discussion at this moment."	3.25
train	The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI was off 58.69 points, or 0.64 percent, at 9,137.86.	"What has happened to you, sir, by way of punishment, is certainly more than enough," Covello said.	3.2
train	Their leader, Abu Bakr al-Azdi, turned himself in in June; his deputy was killed in a recent shootout with Saudi forces.	With the remaining three shuttles grounded in the wake of the Columbia accident, the rookies will have to wait even longer.	3.5
train	From the start, however, the United States' declared goal was not just to topple Saddam but to stabilize Iraq and install a friendly government.	"I am advised that certain allegations of criminal conduct have been interposed against my counsel, J. Michael Boxley,'' the Silver statement said. "	4.056
train	The report by the independent expert committee aims to dissipate any suspicion about the Hong Kong government's handling of the SARS crisis.	But neither he nor Peace Rules could keep Funny Cide from drawing away.	3.4
train	Waksal has pleaded guilty to securities fraud and is to be sentenced next week.	Morales, who pleaded guilty in July, expressed "sincere regret and remorse" for his crimes.	4.6
train	The 51-year-old nurse worked at North York General Hospital, the epicentre of the latest outbreak.	AFTRA, on the other hand, approved the merger by a whopping 75 percent.	4.4
train	Florida's Supreme Court has twice refused to hear the case.	People who once thought their blood pressure was fine actually need to start exercising and eating better, according to new U.S. guidelines published on Wednesday.	5
train	Sobig.F spreads when unsuspecting computer users open file attachments in emails that contain such familiar headings as "Thank You!," "Re: Details" or "Re: That Movie."	Shares of Express Scripts ESRX.O fell about 4 percent to $66.73 on the Nasdaq in late morning trade.	4
train	Joe Kernan, who had been lieutenant governor for the past seven years, was sworn in as governor after O'Bannon died Saturday.	Their belief was based on speculation that estrogen prevents cell damage and improves blood flow.	5
train	Albertsons and Kroger's Ralphs chain locked out their workers in response.	Kodak expects earnings of 5 cents to 25 cents a share in the quarter.	3
train	Also weighing on the market was news that General Motors GM.N planned to issue $10 billion in debt, in part to plug a hole in its pension plan.	Lay had refused to turn over the papers, asserting his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.	3.8
train	Higher courts have ruled that the tablets broke the constitutional separation of church and state.	And I really liked him, and I still do.	4
train	It was the best advance since Oct. 1, when the index gained 22.25.	Agents confiscated several classified documents in his possession and interrogated him.	3.4
train	Russin did not comment; his lawyer did not attend the hearing and did not return phone messages.	There were 293 human cases of West Nile in Indiana in 2002, including 11 deaths statewide.	3.6
train	The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) asked Congress today for additional authority to fight unwanted Internet spam, which now accounts for up to half of all e-mail traffic.	So far, authorities also have searched areas in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan.	3
train	"This is an easy case in my view and wholly without merit, both factually and legally."	He said he also expects to have the support of lawmakers from other agricultural states.	1.2
train	The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index <.SPX> gave up 11.91 points, or 1.19 percent, at 986.60.	SCO changed its name to Tarantella, and Caldera later changed its name to the SCO Group.	3
train	Another shooting linked to the spree occurred Nov. 11 at Hamilton Central Elementary in Obetz, about two miles from the freeway.	Academic achievement -- including grades, test scores and high school curriculum -- are given the highest priority.	4
train	The hearing occurred a day after the Pentagon for the first time singled out an officer, Dallager, for not addressing the scandal.	U.S. officials did not say whether American forces, who were acting on intelligence, crossed into Syrian territory and were vague about how the Syrian guards were involved.	2.75
train	National Breast Cancer Centre chief executive Professor Christine Ewan said it was too early to quantify the risk to women.	"This case is wholly without merit, both factually and legally," Judge Denny Chin scoffed.	1.333
train	ISRAELI soldiers knocked down empty mobile homes and water towers in 10 tiny West Bank settlement outposts overnight as part of a US-backed Mideast peace plan.	In 1995, the last survey, those numbers were equal.	2.6
train	Perry has called lawmakers into two special sessions to address congressional redistricting.	The panel will not begin a formal investigation because the statute of limitations has expired, Plofsky said.	5
train	Excluding the charges, analysts, on average, expected a loss of 11 cents a share.	The attack seemed similar to attacks staged near foreign compounds in Riyadh on May 12, for which officials have also blamed al-Qaida.	3.5
train	That took the benchmark 10-year note US10YT=RR down 9/32, its yield rising to 3.37 percent from 3.34 percent late on Thursday.	Cisco executives were encouraged by $1.3 billion in cash flow and the increase in net income, but said they remained ``cautiously optimistic'' about a rebound.	4.25
train	Still, the "somewhat ambiguous ruling" might be a setback for Static Control depending on how it developed its competing product, Merrill Lynch analyst Steven Milunovich said.	They say second-quarter earnings reports will be key in giving investors that guidance.	3.2
train	Shares of Corixa fell 12 cents to $6.88 on the Nasdaq stock market.	Barbini said the EU may reach a compromise but it wants a system for labeling such foods, something the industry has resisted.	2.6
train	The tech-laced Nasdaq Composite Index gained 2.90 points, or 0.18 percent, to 1,606.87.	But other sources close to the sale said Vivendi was keeping the door open for further bids in the next day or two.	4.2
train	The ADRs fell 10 cents to $28.95 at 10:06 a.m. in New York Stock Exchange composite trading today.	He had been arrested twice before for trespassing and was barred from the complex.	4.667
train	Griffith, a Mount Airy native, now lives on the North Carolina coast in Manteo.	"Saddam is gone, but we want the (U.S.) occupation to end."	3.6
train	"I felt that if I disagreed with Rosie too much I would lose my job," she said.	There will be 9.3 million visitors to hot spots in 2003, up from 2.5 million in 2002, Gartner said.	2.4
train	Its former chief Mickey Robinson was fired for cause when he left in September, the company said.	IBM shares closed up $1.75, or 2.11 percent, at $84.50 on the New York Stock Exchange.	4
train	The University of Michigan released today a new admissions policy after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down in June the way it previously admitted undergraduates.	On Tuesday, a Florida appeals court again refused to block removal of the tube.	3.25
train	Consumers still would have to get a descrambling security card from their cable operator to plug into the set.	The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index <.SPX> gained 5.51 points, or 0.56 percent, to 981.73.	3.6
train	British Airways' New York-to-London runs will end in October.	In Nairobi, the provost of All Saints Cathedral, the Very Reverend Peter Karanja, said the US Episcopal Church was alienating itself from the Anglican Communion.	4.75
train	The bishop told police he thought he had hit a dog or a cat or that someone had thrown a rock at his vehicle.	In seeking leniency, Waksal apologized to the court, his employees and his family.	2
train	Dynes came to UC San Diego in 1991 after 22 years as a physicist with AT&T Bell Labs.	To watch pay television, consumers would insert into the set a security card provided by their cable service.	3.25
train	The Episcopal Church ''is alienating itself from the Anglican Communion,'' said the Very Rev. Peter Karanja, provost of the All Saints Cathedral, in Nairobi.	Druce last night was held in isolation at the same prison.	2.5
train	Only New Jersey now bans holders of learners permits or intermediate licenses from using cell phones, pagers or other wireless devices while driving.	"Our outcomes are very encouraging," George Mason researcher Ken Alibek said.	2.25
train	A new study, conducted in Europe, found the medicine worked just as well as an earlier disputed study, sponsored by ImClone Systems, said it did.	Richard Miller, 57, survived a lifesaving liver transplant but remains hospitalized.	4.8
train	"They were tossed around like feathers," Gordon said.	Mr. Powell told a crowd at a cemetery with a thousand headstones, many of them marking the graves of entire families.	3.75
train	He said the attackers left behind leaflets urging staff at the Ishtar Sheraton to stop working at the hotel and demanding U.S. forces leave Iraq.	Forest, the Freedom Organisation for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco, said it had greeted The Lancet's call with "amusement and disbelief'".	3.8
train	After Freitas' opening statement, King County Superior Court Judge Charles Mertel recessed trial until after the Thanksgiving weekend.	The union said it would reveal later which chain would be targeted.	4.222
train	Argentine Guillermo Coria and Netherlander Martin Verkerk are in the other half.	HP fell to second place with server sales growing 0.4 percent to $2.9 billion.	2.5
train	The upcoming second-quarter earnings season will be particularly important in offering investors guidance, they say.	License sales, a key measure of demand, fell 21 percent to $107.6 million.	3.4
train	Amgen shares gained 93 cents, or 1.45 percent, to $65.05 in afternoon trading on Nasdaq.	Shares jumped almost 7 percent in pre-open trading, rising to $18.26 from $17.05 at Tuesday's close.	3.455
train	She survives him as do their four children -- sons Anthony and Kelly, daughters Linda Hope and Nora Somers -- and four grandchildren.	Both studies are published on Thursday in Nature, the British weekly science journal.	3.8
train	Swartz, indicted in February, had argued that New Hampshire was the wrong place to charge him.	Chiron and Aventis Pasteur together made about 80 million doses, ordinarily enough for U.S. demand, The Associated Press reported.	0.8
train	Dusty had battled kidney cancer for more than a year.	In his letter, McBride charges the Free Software Foundation and Red Hat with trying to undermine U.S. copyright laws.	4.6
train	Orange shares jumped as much as 15 percent.	The Hispanic population increased by 9.8per cent from the April 2000 census figures, despite less favourable social and economic conditions than in the 1990s.	2.5
train	The Dodgers won their sixth consecutive game their longest win streak since 2001 as they edged Colorado, 3-2, Wednesday in front of a crowd of 25,332 at Dodger Stadium.	Republicans had pledged to complete a Medicare drug package by August, then extended it to Oct. 17.	3.4
train	He refused to reveal what percentage of flights carried sky marshals, or whether they would be increased.	It has sought observer status for seven years, but was again rebuffed May 19 at the annual WHO conference in Geneva.	3
train	The Portuguese weather service said Europe's heatwave was caused by a mass of hot, dry air moving from the southeast.	"I have the opportunity to congratulate the governor-elect of the great state of California, and I'm looking forward to it."	3.4
train	The company posted a profit of $54.3 million, or 22 cents per share, in the year-ago period.	A spokesman for SCO could not be reached for comment this afternoon.	2.6
train	Shares in EDS closed on Thursday at $18.51, a gain of 6 cents.	Innocent or not, "she's damaged goods," said Howard Davidowitz, chairman of Davidowitz & Associates, a national retail consulting firm in New York.	2.6
train	SARS went on to claim the lives of 44 people in the Toronto area, including two nurses and a doctor.	Further out the curve, the benchmark 10-year note US10YT=RR shed 18/32 in price, taking its yield to 3.24 percent from 3.17 percent.	4.2
train	A divided Supreme Court ruled Monday that Congress can force the nation's public libraries to equip computers with anti-pornography filters.	The dollar dropped to $1.1564 per euro at 7:30 a.m. in London from $1.1486 on Friday.	3.6
train	The drop in core wholesale prices in April reflected falling prices for cars, trucks, men's and boy's clothes and cigarettes.	The scientist also quarantined himself at home as soon as he developed SARS symptoms, officials said.	3.25
train	Chante Jawan Mallard, 27, went on trial Monday, charged with first-degree murder.	Through Sunday, Sept. 21, Site Finder has been visited over 65 million times by Internet users.	3.25
train	The weather service reported maximum sustained winds of nearly 105 miles an hour with stronger gusts.	Moore of Alabama says he will appeal his case to the nation's highest court.	2.4
train	VeriSign introduced its Site Finder service on Sept. 15.	The letter bomb sent to Prodi exploded in his hands but he was unhurt.	3.4
train	Vivendi shares closed 3.8 percent up in Paris at 15.78 euros.	The dollar was at 117.85 yen against the Japanese currency, up 0.1 percent.	3.2
train	"Americans don't cut and run, we have to see this misadventure through," she said.	It ain't coming to me, but it's only about a third of what I owe in the world.	2
train	Halabi's military attorney, Air Force Maj. James Key, denied the charges, which could carry a death penalty.	"Mr. Bryant is innocent and expects to be completely exonerated," Mackey said in a statement.	4.8
train	Police then called a bomb squad, but the device exploded, killing Wells, before bomb technicians arrived.	The proportion of Americans with insurance from employers declined to 61.3 percent, from 62.6 percent in 2001 and 63.6 percent in 2000.	4.5
train	But other sources close to the sale said Vivendi was keeping the door open to further bids and hoped to see bidders interested in individual assets team up.	Wal-Mart has told its top 100 suppliers that they'll need to have radio-frequency ID systems in place for tracking pallets of goods through the supply chain by Jan. 25, 2005.	3
train	The House voted 425 to 2 to clear the bill, the first of 13 that Congress must pass each year to fund the federal government.	The director of the Office of Medical Access, Cindy Cripps-Prawak, left her job after the department introduced a plan to distribute marijuana through doctors' offices.	3.4
train	Heather, 35, who lost a leg in a road accident, is thought to have steel plates fitted in her hips, which would make natural childbirth impossible.	Douglas Robinson, CA senior vice president, finance, will fill the position in the interim.	3.25
train	This year the Audubon Society once again hosts its annual Christmas Bird Count.	The Hulk trailed last month's Marvel Comics adaptation, X2: X-Men United, which grossed $85.6-million in its opening weekend.	3.333
train	Against the Japanese currency, the euro was at 135.92/6.04 yen against the late New York level of 136.03/14.	Israeli soldiers began tearing down settlement outposts in the West Bank yesterday - an Israeli obligation under a new Mideast peace plan.	3.5
train	The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX rose 3.47 points, or 0.36 percent, to 977.59.	The grant also funds beach testing in King George County, Norfolk and Virginia Beach.	4.4
train	The benchmark 10-year note US10YT=RR lost 11/32 in price, taking its yield to 3.21 percent from 3.17 percent late on Monday.	Jim Williams, director of the US-VISIT project, said that by the middle of November, inspectors will be fingerprinting and photographing many foreign passengers arriving in Atlanta.	4.5
train	"Spending taxpayer dollars to create terrorism betting parlors is as wasteful as it is repugnant," they announced at a press conference yesterday.	The MDC called the week-long protest to urge Mugabe either to resign or to negotiate a settlement of the crisis gripping the country.	3.6
train	From Florida to Alaska, thousands of revelers vowed to push for more legal rights, including same-sex marriages.	Seven 20- and 21-year-old male cadets were caught in an off-campus hotel room early Saturday with two female teens, 16 and 18 years.	1.75
train	Monkeypox is usually found only in central and western Africa.	Asked if he felt any regret about theOctober 12 attack, the answer was an adamant "no".	3.2
train	Waksal, in a letter to the court, said: "I tore my family apart.	Police used pepper spray and rubber bullets to disperse a downtown march and rally last night by activists protesting an annual police intelligence-training seminar.	2.4
train	The boy also sprayed the room full of retardant from fire extinguishers, which made it hard to see, the chief said.	The privately held Google is believed to be profitable.	3.75
train	Bremer, 61, is a onetime assistant to former Secretaries of State William P. Rogers and Henry Kissinger and was ambassador-at-large for counterterrorism from 1986 to 1989.	The U.S. Food and Drug Administration rejected ImClone's original application in December 2001, saying the trial had been sloppily conducted.	4
train	The report also claims that there will be up to 9.3 million visitors to hot spots this year, up again from the meagre 2.5 million in 2002.	The broad Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX shed 0.17 of a point, or just 0.02 percent, to 934.	4.25
train	"I'm real excited to be a Cleveland Cavalier," James said.	The upgrade will be available as a free download for current customers with SmarNet support in January 2004.	4