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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.	A spokesman for SCO could not be reached for comment this afternoon.	2.6
train	The Dow Jones industrial average <.DJI> was off 58.69 points, or 0.64 percent, at 9,137.86.	The Korean Air deal is expected to be finalized "in the next several weeks," Boeing spokesman Bob Saling said.	2.8
train	According to SunnComm's Peter Jacobs, "MediaMax performs exactly as 'advertised' to the companies who purchased it.	The broad Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX shed 0.17 of a point, or just 0.02 percent, to 934.	5
train	The MDC called the strike to force Mr Mugabe to either resign or negotiate a settlement of the Zimbabwe crisis.	It added it had "co-operated fully" with police since November.	3.25
train	State Education Commissioner Kent King said Wednesday that the scores on the Missouri Assessment Program tests disappointed him.	The Philadelphia Stock Exchange's semiconductor index .SOXX jumped 6.10 percent.	4.5
train	The two-year note US2YT=RR fell 5/32 in price, taking its yield to 1.23 percent from 1.16 percent late on Monday.	"I know this sounds counterintuitive, but it's true: City-grown pollution -- and ozone in particular -- is tougher on country trees," U.S. ecologist Jillian Gregg said.	4
train	The updated products include Pylon Pro, Pylon Conduit, Pylon Anywhere, and Pylon Application Server.	Following California's lead, several states and the federal government passed similar or tougher bans.	4.8
train	"I notice a mood change in their priorities," one politician said.	The House has passed bills the past two Congresses, but the Senate has not.	3.6
train	Florida Sen. Bob Graham was not identifiable by 61 percent of those polled.	Marissa Jaret Winokur, as Tracy, won for best actress in a musical.	4.667
train	Spokesmen for the FBI, CIA, Canadian Security Intelligence Service and Royal Canadian Mounted Police declined to comment on El Shukrijumah's stay in Canada.	On Monday, Abbey trotted on stage, tail wagging, with Conway before a crowd of 10,000 attendees at PeopleSoft's annual customer conference.	4
train	Douglas Robinson, a senior vice president of finance, will take over as chief financial officer on an interim basis.	The countys first and only human case of West Nile this year was confirmed by health officials on Sept. 8.	3
train	Griffith, a Mount Airy native, now lives on the North Carolina coast in Manteo.	The results are to be published in Wednesday's issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association.	3.6
train	The 51-year-old nurse worked at North York General Hospital, the epicentre of the latest outbreak.	We don't need a little bitty tax relief plan.	3.417
train	Officials are trying to retrieve the bodies from the water," police officer J.D. Tambe told Reuters, adding 26 of the dead were women.	"What is happening here is that people who have opposed this action throughout are trying to find fresh reasons why it was not the right thing to do."	4
train	"Americans don't cut and run, we have to see this misadventure through," she said.	Agents confiscated several classified documents in his possession and interrogated him.	3
train	Dynes came to UC San Diego in 1991 after 22 years as a physicist with AT&T Bell Labs.	"Our outcomes are very encouraging," George Mason researcher Ken Alibek said.	3.6
train	With diplomacy heating up in the nearly 10-month-old nuclear crisis, Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing is slated to visit South Korea from August 13 to 15.	Wells' other series include NBC's "ER" and "Third Watch."	2.6
train	Its shares jumped to $54.50 in pre-open trading from $50.90 at Wednesday's close.	Organizers established a Web site, http://defacerschallenge.com, listing in broken English the rules for hackers who might participate.	4
train	The mother also alleged in the lawsuit that she was sexually assaulted by one of the guards.	Colgate shares were down 30 cents at $56 in morning trade on the New York Stock Exchange.	0.889
train	"Unlike many early-stage Internet firms, Google is believed to be profitable.	"We've put a lot of effort and energy into improving our patching progress, probably later than we should have.	2.4
train	Entrenched interests are positioning themselves to control the network's chokepoints and they are lobbying the FCC to aid and abet them.	In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average a gauge of 30 blue chip stocks was up 3.29 points or 0.04 per cent to 8,585.97.	2.6
train	The new policy gives greatest weight to grades, test scores and a student's high school curriculum.	By law, 911 calls are not public information in Rhode Island.	4.6
train	Sources say agents confiscated "several" documents he was carrying.	The new worm affects these Windows systems: 2000, XP, NT 4.0 and Server 2003.	2.6
train	Another big gainer was Rambus Inc. (nasdaq: RMBS - news - people), which shot 32 percent higher.	Palm said on Wednesday it plans to buy Handspring, a company created by renegade Palm co-founder Jeff Hawkins.	1.75
train	"What can I say to you?" he told a crowd at a cemetery with a thousand headstones, many of them marking the graves of entire families.	Gemstar shares moved higher on the news, closing up 2.6 percent at $5.49 on Nasdaq.	3.75
train	The company didn't detail the costs of the replacement and repairs.	Druce last night was held in isolation at the same prison.	2.75
train	The monkeys could track their progress by watching a schematic representation of the arm and its motions on a video screen.	"What has happened to you, sir, by way of punishment, is certainly more than enough," Covello said.	3.4
train	U.S. prosecutors have arrested more than 130 individuals and have seized more than $17 million in a continuing crackdown on Internet fraud and abuse.	He ran last year for the Democratic nomination for Texas governor, but lost the primary to multimillionaire Tony Sanchez.	3
train	Dean told reporters traveling on his 10-city "Sleepless Summer" tour that he considered campaigning in Texas a challenge.	Kodak expects earnings of 5 cents to 25 cents a share in the quarter.	2.4
train	The best-performing stock was Altria Group Inc., which rose more than 27 percent to close at $42.31 a share.	License sales, a key measure of demand, fell 21 percent to $107.6 million.	3.5
train	The attack seemed similar to others staged near foreign compounds in Riyadh on May 12.	A long awaited report on the Hong Kong government's handling of the SARS outbreak has been released.	5
train	Peace Rules defeated Funny Cide in the Louisiana Derby.	The MDC called the week-long protest to urge Mugabe either to resign or to negotiate a settlement of the crisis gripping the country.	3.6
train	Of 24 million phoned-in votes, 50.28 percent were for Studdard, putting him 130,000 votes ahead of Aiken.	Dusty had surgery for cancer in 2001 and had a kidney removed.	1.4
train	Besides Hampton and Newport News, the grant funds water testing in Yorktown, King George County, Norfolk and Virginia Beach.	The Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DJ: news, chart, profile) rose 56 points, or 0.7 percent, to 8,588.	3.25
train	AFTRA members approved the merger by a vote of 75.88% to 24.12%.	More than 130 people have been arrested and $17 million worth of property seized in an Internet fraud sweep announced Friday by three U.S. government agencies.	2.8
train	The Standard & Poor's 500 Index slipped 4.77, or 0.5 percent, to 929.62.	While federal prosecutors refuse to discuss the investigation, lawyers and others familiar with it say it remains focused on Campbell.	2
train	Those conversations had not taken place as of Tuesday night, according to an Oracle spokeswoman.	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.	4
train	Is it in the food supply?" says David Ropeik, director of risk communication at the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis.	The battle around VeriSign"s three-week-old Site Finder service rages on.	4
train	Palm Wednesday announced plans to acquire Handspring, a company started by Jeff Hawkins, regarded by many as the father of the Palm handheld.	The intervention force will confiscate weapons, reform the police, strengthen the courts and prison system and protect key institutions such as the Finance Ministry.	2.2
train	Rusch has also allowed five or more earned runs in each of his last three starts.	"Maybe, but the old age helps us to understand our strength and our weakness and the reality of the world.	1.273
train	Their leader, Abu Bakr al-Azdi, turned himself in in June; his deputy was killed in a recent shootout with Saudi forces.	The Nasdaq composite index fell 2.95, or 0.2 percent, for the week to 1,912.36 after stumbling 37.78 yesterday.	3.333
train	"This has been a persistent problem that has not been solved," investigation board member Steven Wallace said.	The Hulk trailed last month's Marvel Comics adaptation, X2: X-Men United, which grossed $85.6-million in its opening weekend.	2.667
train	He claimed Red Hat and the Free Software Foundation with trying to undermine U.S. copyright and patent law.	Hope is survived by his wife; sons Anthony and Kelly; daughters Linda and Nora Somers; and four grandchildren.	3.6
train	The leading actress nod went to energetic newcomer Marissa Jaret Winokur as Edna's daughter Tracy.	"He hasn't got much choice," said the Bishop of Armidale, Peter Brain.	3.8
train	Police launched an international hunt for Shevaun Pennington after she ran away with 31-year-old Toby Studabaker Saturday.	The new products on the desktop side include the latest versions of Pylon Conduit and Pylon Pro.	4.8
train	On health care, the NDP says there will be no privatization and no health-care premiums.	The latest shooting linked to the spree was a Nov. 11 shooting at Hamilton Township Elementary School in Obetz, about two miles from the freeway.	2.4
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.	Security analysts said the new version, W32/Sobig.C-mm, had already reached a "high level" outbreak status by mid-afternoon on Monday.	3
train	Google's investors include prominent VC firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital, the paper noted.	Heatley underwent surgery Saturday for a broken jaw and an MRI found two torn ligaments in his right knee.	3
train	Barbini said the union may reach a compromise with the United States but it wants a system for labeling such foods, something the industry successfully fought here.	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.	4.2
train	At 12 months there was still a difference in function, although it was not a significant one.	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	It will also help reform the Royal Solomon Islands Police, strengthen the courts and prisons system and protect key institutions such as the Finance Ministry from intimidation.	Hickenlooper clobbered city Auditor Don Mares, 46, in the Tuesday runoff.	2.5
train	Since early May, the city has received 1,400 reports of dead blue jays and crows, Jayroe said.	Tour doctors later confirmed that he had broken his right leg near the hip and also sustained wrist and elbow fractures.	3.8
train	Median household income declined 1.1 percent between 2001 and 2002 to $42,409, after accounting for inflation.	In addition, "fewer than 10" FBI offices have conducted investigations involving visits to Islamic mosques, the Justice Department said.	0.75
train	They said they had concluded that the film failed "to present a balanced portrayal" of the Reagans.	The company's chief executive retired and chief financial officer resigned.	3
train	Consumers still would have to get a descrambling security card from their cable operator to plug into the set.	Israeli soldiers began tearing down settlement outposts in the West Bank yesterday - an Israeli obligation under a new Mideast peace plan.	2.5
train	Get it all out," says Howard Davidowitz, chairman of Davidowitz & Associates, a national retail consulting firm based in New York City.	International rescue workers hacked desperately through flattened debris for survivors and cemeteries overflowed in Iran's ancient Silk Road city of Bam yesterday.	1.75
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.	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.	4
train	"We're going to do everything in our power to get money back to ratepayers as quickly as possible," Kennedy said.	She, in turn, occasionally told John that she was still sleeping with an ex-boyfriend, "Baywatch" hunk Michael Bergin.	3.75
train	Kroger Co., which owns Ralphs, and Albertsons Inc. bargain jointly with Safeway and locked out their union workers the next day.	It generated $4.47 billion of profit and $20 billion of revenue in the year's first half, 53 percent of Citigroup's totals.	4.4
train	Russ Britt is the Los Angeles Bureau Chief for CBS.MarketWatch.com.	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.	2
train	The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC rose 17.26 points, or 1.06 percent, to 1,640.06, based on the latest data.	Their belief was based on speculation that estrogen prevents cell damage and improves blood flow.	3.5
train	Russin did not comment; his lawyer did not attend the hearing and did not return phone messages.	Box cutters were the weapons used by the 19 hijackers in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.	2.4
train	It later emerged that he had broken his right thigh and bones in his right wrist and elbow.	Aventis, based in Strasbourg, France, is one of the leading producers of the vaccine and one of a handful of companies that still make it.	5
train	"There is the real potential for a secondary collapse," Gov. James McGreevey said.	Later this year, the command will send trainers with soldiers from four North African nations on patrolling and intelligence gathering missions.	3
train	Site Finder has been visited 65 million times since its introduction, Galvin said.	Klarman was arrested by FBI agents Monday morning at his home in New York.	3.25
train	Ms Lafferty's lawyer, Thomas Ezzell, told a Kentucky newspaper: "My understanding of this is that there is a lower percentage of successful impregnations with frozen.	The security personnel performed ``well within standards'' and the two staff aides were ``very sorry all this happened,'' Gainer said.	3.75
train	Counties with population declines will be Vermillion, Posey and Madison.	Harry Potter's latest wizard trick?	3.5
train	He was referring to John S. Reed, the former Citicorp chief executive who became interim chairman and chief executive of the exchange last Sunday .	Dealers said the euro's downward momentum may pick up speed should it break below $1.15.	3.8
train	Republicans had pledged to complete a Medicare drug package by August, then extended the deadline to Oct. 17, and they are still working on it.	One man had brandished an English-Turkish dictionary and pointed to the word "refugee".	3.4
train	Colgate shares closed Monday at $56.30 on the New York Stock Exchange.	Close cooperation between regional law enforcement agencies and intelligence services was at the heart of the fight against terrorism, he said.	4.75
train	The procedure is generally performed in the second or third trimester.	She insisted, though, that it not be published until after her death.	3.75
train	The new system costs between $1.1 million and $22 million, depending on configuration.	The commission estimated California lost $937 million to corporate tax shelters in 2001.	3.857
train	Mr. Mask said Mr. Cullen would be taken from the Somerset County Jail by Thursday and moved to the Ann Klein Forensic Hospital just outside Trenton for psychiatric care.	The network will drop one edition of "Dateline," its newsmagazine franchise.	3.25
train	A Royal Duty is based on his experiences with Diana, Princess of Wales and letters allegedly to and from her.	The damaged area of the garage was not stable, with ``the real potential for a secondary collapse,'' McGreevey said.	3.2
train	Along with chipmaker Intel, the companies include Sony Corp., Microsoft Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., Gateway Inc. and Nokia Corp.	Domestic sales at both GM and No. 2 Ford Motor Co. declined more than predicted as a late summer sales frenzy prompted a larger-than-expected industry backlash.	3
train	Former company chief financial officer Franklyn M. Bergonzi pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy on June 5 and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors.	British Airways plans to retire its seven Concordes at the end of October.	3.4
train	That triggered a 47-hour police standoff that inconvenienced thousands of commuters, as traffic backed up in Downtown Washington and northern Virginia.	Former model Lady McCartney lost a leg in a road accident in 1993 and is understood to have steel plates fitted in her hips which would make natural childbirth difficult.	4
train	Fletcher said he expects to have the support of lawmakers from agricultural states, many of whom are on the committee.	Analysts polled by Thomson Financial First Call had been expected to see a loss of about 11 cents a share from continuing operations.	4
train	The Senate agreed Tuesday to lift a 10-year-old ban on the research and development of low-yield nuclear weapons.	The Mets took Lastings Milledge, an outfielder from Florida, with the 12th pick.	5
train	Shares of Corixa were gaining 71 cents, or 10%, to $7.91 on the Nasdaq.	The currency briefly weakened on Monday morning but rebounded to trade at 55.25/29, little changed from Friday.	1
train	Swartz, indicted in February, had argued that New Hampshire was the wrong place to charge him.	In that case, the court held that the city of Cincinnati had violated the First Amendment in banning, in the interest of aesthetics, only the advertising pamphlets.	4
train	Roy Moore, the suspended chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, stood accused but unrepentant Wednesday in the same courtroom he recently presided over.	The blue-chip Dow Jones industrial average .DJI tacked on 97 points, or 1.14 percent, to 8,699.	3.6
train	The new research will be published soon in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.	It will appear in the next few weeks on the Web site of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.	3
train	The last time the survey was conducted, in 1995, those numbers matched.	Through Sunday, Sept. 21, Site Finder has been visited over 65 million times by Internet users.	4
train	He refused to reveal what percentage of flights carried sky marshals, or whether they would be increased.	Mr. Powell told a crowd at a cemetery with a thousand headstones, many of them marking the graves of entire families.	3
train	Shares of Littleton, Colorado-based EchoStar rose $1.63, or 5.3 percent, to $32.26 at 10:55 a.m.	Its safe to assume the Senate is prepared to pass some form of a cap....The level of it is to be debated.	3.75
train	Yes, from today Flash memory purchased from AMD or Fujitsu will be branded Spansion.	The Telegraph can reveal that Sir John Stevens, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, placed his force on its highest alert last week.	4.5
train	A promotional poster, complete with countdown dial, reminds readers of the upcoming release of "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix."	"Spending taxpayer dollars to create terrorism betting parlors is as wasteful as it is repugnant," Wyden and Dorgan said Monday in a letter to the Pentagon.	3.5
train	Police using pepper spray arrested 12 people Monday night at a march and rally by about 400 activists protesting an annual training seminar of the Law Enforcement Intelligence Unit.	Shares of Fox Entertainment Group Inc., News Corp.'s U.S. media and entertainment arm, fell 45 cents to $26.85 in New York Stock Exchange composite trading.	4
train	Two convicted killers and another inmate escaped from a state prison on a busy street Wednesday by cutting through a fence, a Corrections Department official said.	She also pledged to bring peace to Iraq: "Americans don't cut and run, we have to see this misadventure through."	3
train	Amgen shares gained 93 cents, or 1.45 percent, to $65.05 in afternoon trading on Nasdaq.	The researchers gave copies of "Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution" to the carb-cutters.	3.5
train	Bush plans to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and the new Palestinian prime minister, Mahmoud Abbas, in the Jordanian port of Aqaba on Wednesday.	The judge scheduled another oversight hearing for late January.	4
train	The findings are published in the November 6 edition of the journal Nature.	The sales leave Mr. Turner with about 45 million shares in AOL.	3.75
train	The British Foreign Office said Monday that coalition authorities in Iraq were pleased that the men were freed.	In a show of corporate solidarity, Kroger Co., which owns Ralphs, and Albertson Inc. locked out their workers the next morning.	3.4
train	London-based NCRI official Ali Safavi told Reuters: "We condemn this raid, which is in our view illegal and morally and politically unjustifiable."	Perry has since called two special legislative sessions to try force the redistricting plan through.	4.4
train	Seven 20- and 21-year-old cadets were ticketed by police for drinking alcohol in an off-campus hotel room early Saturday with two young women, aged 16 and 18.	Moore, the suspended chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, stands trial before the Alabama Court of the Judiciary.	3.4
train	He was tracked to Atlanta where he was arrested on Tuesday night.	Selenski used the mattress to scale a 10-foot razor wire, Fischi said.	3.75
train	The network is also dropping its Friday night "Dateline" edition.	While some other parts of Africa have been used as Al Qaeda staging grounds, Malawi had previously not been a major focus of investigations into the group.	2.4
train	The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday ruled that an Ohio law banning a controversial late-term abortion method passes constitutional muster and the state can enforce it.	Families stuck on the highway were being urged to remain in their cars, and to use their cell phones only in case of emergency.	3.5
train	The report by the independent expert committee aims to dissipate any suspicion about the Hong Kong government's handling of the SARS crisis.	"However, we are not certain about the outcome of the discussion at this moment."	4.8