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train	Agriculture ministers from more than one hundred nations are expected to attend the three-day Ministerial Conference and Expo on Agricultural Science and Technology sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.	The countys first and only human case of West Nile this year was confirmed by health officials on Sept. 8.	3.8
train	The meat, poultry, butter, cheese and nuts were impounded a year ago at a LaGrou Cold Storage warehouse in Chicago.	Wire transfers from four of the 40 accounts open at Beacon Hill totaled more than $3.2 billion from 2001 to 2002, Morgenthau said.	3.333
train	Antonio Monteiro de Castro, 58, currently director of the group’s Latin America & Caribbean operations, will become chief operating officer from the same date.	BlueCore3 also implements v1.2's eSCO facility to provide the basis for advanced cordless telephony applications for Bluetooth transmission.	4
train	Mr. Turner transferred about 10 million shares to a charitable trust before they were sold.	"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.	4
train	Five-time Tour de France winner and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong had a few words of advice for other cancer survivors in Denver on Friday.	She, in turn, occasionally told John that she was still sleeping with an ex-boyfriend, "Baywatch" hunk Michael Bergin.	3.75
train	SARS went on to claim the lives of 44 people in the Toronto area, including two nurses and a doctor.	The 30-year bond <US30YT=RR> firmed 24/32, taking its yield to 4.18 percent, after hitting another record low of 4.16 percent.	3.75
train	According to market research from The NPD Group, the number of people downloading music dropped from 14.5 million in April to 10.4 million in June.	The attorney representing al-Halabi, Air Force Maj. James Key III, denied the charges, according to The Associated Press.	3.2
train	Bond bulls would like the Fed to recognize that risks are biased toward economic weakness.	Mr. Powell told a crowd at a cemetery with a thousand headstones, many of them marking the graves of entire families.	3.6
train	"They were tossed around like feathers," Gordon said.	Meningitis is an infection of the fluid in a person's spinal cord and around the brain.	4.2
train	Entrenched interests are positioning themselves to control the network's chokepoints and they are lobbying the FCC to aid and abet them.	Emily Church is London bureau chief of CBS.MarketWatch.com.	2.75
train	Board Chancellor Robert Bennett declined to comment on personnel matters Tuesday.	Prairie dogs, usually found in southwestern and western states, aren’t indigenous to Wisconsin.	1.667
train	The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index was up 7.60 points, or 0.46 percent, at 1,653.62.	But neither he nor Peace Rules could keep Funny Cide from drawing away.	3.6
train	Douglas Robinson, a senior vice president of finance, will take over as chief financial officer on an interim basis.	LIPA Chairman Richard Kessel said that meant the cable could be used "as we see fit.	2.4
train	The blaze then spread to several surrounding structures on the property and destroyed them.	The commission estimated California lost $937 million to corporate tax shelters in 2001.	3.6
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.	But the inadequate performance of students in various subgroups, such as race, pushed the state onto the needs-improvement list under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.	4.25
train	Knight agreed to a two-year, $2.38 million contract that included a $300,000 signing bonus.	The McLean, Virginia-based company said newspaper revenue increased 5 percent to $1.46 billion.	2.5
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 Nasdaq composite index fell 2.95, or 0.2 percent, for the week to 1,912.36 after stumbling 37.78 yesterday.	3.4
train	As a result, 24 players broke par in the first round.	Rapper C-Murder has been convicted of second-degree murder, a crime that carries an automatic life sentence, in the shooting death of a 16-year-old inside a Jefferson Parish nightclub.	3.8
train	Revenue rose 3.9 percent, to $1.63 billion from $1.57 billion.	Chief Executive Mickey Robinson was fired for cause in September, the company said last month.	2.6
train	The fines are part of failed Republican efforts to force or entice the Democrats to return.	On Thursday, a Post article argued that a 50 basis point cut from the Fed was more likely.	1.8
train	Doctors had planned to deliver him two weeks early, on or around November 14.	The company also said it would cut wholesale prices on cassettes and change the suggested retail price to $8.98.	3.643
train	Cisco executives said they were encouraged by $1.3 billion in cash flow and the increase in net income, but hoped for a rebound.	The New Democrats also renewed their commitment to no health-care privatization and no premiums.	4.8
train	Schofield got Toepfer to admit on cross-examination that she ignored many of O'Donnell's suggestions and projects.	The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index <.SPX> shed 2.38 points, or 0.24 percent, at 995.10.	3
train	Shares of Corixa fell 12 cents to $6.88 on the Nasdaq stock market.	Agents confiscated several classified documents in his possession and interrogated him.	4
train	But the inadequate performance of students in various subgroups tagged the state as deficient under the federal No Child Left Behind act.	Analysts polled by Thomson Financial First Call had been expected to see a loss of about 11 cents a share from continuing operations.	3
train	Druce is still being held at the prison and is now in isolation, she said.	Nick Pollard, the head of Sky News said: "This is a shocking blow for James's family.	2.4
train	Officers threw him to the ground and handcuffed him, and Reyna dropped a knee into his back, according to testimony.	SCO changed its name to Tarantella, and Caldera later changed its name to the SCO Group.	2.75
train	Another shooting linked to the spree occurred Nov. 11 at Hamilton Central Elementary in Obetz, about two miles from the freeway.	The Federal Trade Commission asked Congress yesterday for broader powers to attack the rapidly growing problem of spam, which new studies show accounts for half of all e-mail traffic.	4
train	The only other person who had not been accounted for Sunday was a man from Fort Worth, Texas.	OPEC this week is set to pressure independent exporters to back the cartel's next supply cut to prevent the resumption of Iraqi exports undercutting oil prices.	4
train	SCO says the pricing terms for a license will not be announced for weeks.	"Mr. Bryant is innocent and expects to be completely exonerated," Mackey said in a statement.	5
train	In 2006, the group says the market will rebound 29.6 percent to $21.3 billion in sales.	Halliburton shares fell 54 cents, or 2.4 percent, to $21.76 a share in midday New York Stock Exchange trade.	3.25
train	During a screaming match in 1999, Carolyn told John she was still sleeping with Bergin.	Along with chip maker Intel, the companies include Sony, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, International Business Machines, Gateway, Nokia and others.	3.5
train	Hispanics, the fastest growing ethnic group in the US, have overtaken blacks to become the largest minority in the US, according to newly released government figures.	A long awaited report on the Hong Kong government's handling of the SARS outbreak has been released.	1.75
train	The monkeys could track their progress by watching a schematic representation of the arm and its motions on a video screen.	Vice President Dick Cheney says Mississippi Republican Haley Barbour would be a good governor because of his government and business savvy.	4.4
train	The launch coincides with the JavaOne developers' conference in San Francisco this week.	The department ordered a 12 percent reduction for State Farm Lloyds, the state's largest insurer, and an 18.2 percent reduction for Allstate Texas Lloyds, the third-largest.	2.4
train	According to SunnComm's Peter Jacobs, "MediaMax performs exactly as 'advertised' to the companies who purchased it.	Later this year, the command will send trainers with soldiers from four North African nations on patrolling and intelligence gathering missions.	3.2
train	The military said it had killed 12 rebels and captured nine in the campaign so far, for the loss of six soldiers wounded.	The crates are full of hardback copies of "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix."	4.6
train	OPEC producers at a meeting on Wednesday are set to pressure independent oil exporters to contribute to the cartel's next supply cut to allow for the return of Iraqi oil.	At 12 months, there was still a difference between the groups, but it was not considered significant.	3
train	Dealers said the single currency's downward momentum against the dollar could pick up speed if it broke below $1.15.	"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.	4.8
train	A tropical storm rapidly developed in the Gulf of Mexico Sunday and was expected to hit somewhere along the Texas or Louisiana coasts by Monday night.	Two federal agencies are investigating telecommunications gear maker Lucent Technologies for possible violations of U.S. bribery laws in its operations in Saudi Arabia.	3.692
train	Dean told reporters traveling on his 10-city "Sleepless Summer" tour that he considered campaigning in Texas a challenge.	The Fed also said the risks to the economy were biased toward weakness.	5
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.	At 12:10 p.m. EDT, Canada's benchmark S&P/TSX composite index was up 6.87 points or 0.1 per cent to 6,979.29.	2.4
train	The upcoming second-quarter earnings season will be particularly important in offering investors guidance, they say.	"Saddam is gone, but we want the (U.S.) occupation to end."	3.833
train	The New York Mets then selected outfielder Lastings Milledge from Lakewood Ranch High School in Florida.	Shortness was found twice as often in those with hearing loss.	4.8
train	Mr. Heatley, who suffered a broken jaw and torn knee ligaments, faces several charges.	Bremer said he would launch a $70-million program in the next two weeks to clean up neighborhoods across Iraq and build community projects, but gave no details.	1.75
train	U.S. forces struck dozens of targets on Monday, killing six guerrillas and arresting 21 others, the military said.	License sales, a key measure of demand, fell 21 percent to $107.6 million.	2.6
train	GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP, N.J. Annika Sorenstam drew the crowds, Michelle Wie got the publicity but Angela Stanford took her first LPGA victory.	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.	3
train	The government recently shelved peace talks with the MILF, being brokered by Malaysia, after a string of attacks, including three bombings, on Mindanao.	The network will drop one edition of "Dateline," its newsmagazine franchise.	2
train	The last time the survey was conducted, in 1995, those numbers matched.	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.	3.6
train	The MDC called the strike to force Mr Mugabe to either resign or negotiate a settlement of the Zimbabwe crisis.	The FBI, CIA, Canadian Security Intelligence Service and Royal Canadian Mounted Police declined to comment on the Washington Times report.	3.333
train	As part of a restructuring Peregrine sold its Remedy help desk software unit last year to BMC Software Inc.	Dennehy, who transferred to Baylor last year after getting kicked off the University of New Mexico Lobos for temper tantrums, became a born-again Christian in June 2002.	3.6
train	At 12 months there was still a difference in function, although it was not a significant one.	Said Mr. Burke: "It was a textbook landing considering the circumstances."	4.25
train	"But HRT should not be used to prevent heart disease or any other chronic condition."	Also hurting was news General Motors GM.N was to issue $10 billion in debt, in part to plug a hole in its pension plan.	4.25
train	At midnight on Wednesday, 68 percent of voters said "no" to the tax, with 97 percent of the votes counted.	Frankel said Peace Rules will run in the Preakness Stakes on May 17.	3.2
train	Sequent representatives could not immediately be reached for comment on the SCO announcement.	Southwest said its traffic was up 4.6 percent in the quarter on a capacity increase of 4.2 percent.	2.4
train	They also found shortness was associated with a family history of hearing loss.	The meat, poultry, butter, cheese and nuts were being stored by more than 100 wholesalers in Chicago.	4.4
train	Shares of Halliburton fell 71 cents, or 3 percent, to close at $21.59 yesterday on the New York Stock Exchange.	Prices for Treasury securities also rose, with the yield on the benchmark 10-year note falling to 4.19 percent.	4.667
train	So was Edie Falco, the critically praised co-star of "Frankie and Johnny."	The number of households acquiring music fell from a high of 14.5 million in April to 12.7 million in May and 10.4 million in June, according to NPD.	4.4
train	Get it all out," says Howard Davidowitz, chairman of Davidowitz & Associates, a national retail consulting firm based in New York City.	Hollywood actor Robert De Niro has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, his spokesman said today.	1.8
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.	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
train	Google's investors include prominent VC firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital, the paper noted.	"However, we are not certain about the outcome of the discussion at this moment."	2.6
train	Several shots rang out in the darkness, but only one gator had been killed by 11 p.m.	That's when officers threw him to the ground and handcuffed him, according to testimony.	3.4
train	According to the Census Bureau, the Hispanic population increased by 9.8 percent from the April 2000 census figures.	The technique is used during the second and, occasionally, third trimester of pregnancy.	1.2
train	Joining Boston on Monday were the Massachusetts communities of Watertown, Saugus and Framingham.	On Monday, EchoStar (DISH: news, chart, profile) shares shrank $1.40, or 4.4 percent, to $30.63.	4.8
train	Wells’ other series include NBC’s ER and Third Watch.	"This case is wholly without merit, both factually and legally," Judge Denny Chin scoffed.	2
train	Both devices implement the v1.2 standard's eSCO facility to provide the basis for new cordless telephony applications.	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.	3.6
train	It will take time to oust die-hard remnants of Saddam Hussein's deposed regime in Iraq, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Tuesday.	Kodak expects earnings of 5 cents to 25 cents a share in the quarter.	4.2
train	Chavez said investigators feel confident they've got "at least one of the fires resolved in that regard."	Later Tuesday, Graham was expected to be re-elected for a second one-year term.	2.4
train	Russ Britt is the Los Angeles Bureau Chief for CBS.MarketWatch.com.	Peregrine sold its Remedy business unit to BMC Software in November for $355 million.	4
train	On Sunday, a U.S. soldier was killed and another injured in southern Iraq when a munitions dump exploded.	His protest led to a 47-hour standoff with police that caused huge traffic jams in downtown Washington and northern Virginia.	3.5
train	Forecasters said warnings might go up for Cuba later Thursday.	Major fires had burned 264,000 acres by early last night.	4
train	The blue-chip Dow Jones industrial average .DJI climbed 164 points, or 1.91 percent, to 8,765.38, brushing its highest levels since mid-January.	King County Superior Court Judge Charles Mertel will then recess the trial until Monday.	3
train	The Portuguese weather service said Europe's heatwave was caused by a mass of hot, dry air moving from the southeast.	The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI fell 79.43 points, or 0.86 percent, to 9,117.12 on Friday.	3.6
train	The Bishop of Armidale, Peter Brain, was forthright.	The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index <.IXIC> climbed 19.11 points, or 1.2 percent, to 1,615.02.	3.4
train	State Education Commissioner Kent King said Wednesday that the scores on the Missouri Assessment Program tests disappointed him.	A new worm has been spreading rapidly across the Internet, sometimes pretending to be an e-mail from Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, antivirus vendors said Monday.	2.8
train	"We hope all parties will continue to make efforts and continue the process of dialogue," the Chinese Foreign Ministry said in a statement.	He added: "There is no doubt about the chemical programme, the biological programme and indeed the nuclear weapons programme.	5
train	"Spin and manipulative public relations and propaganda are not the answer," it said.	GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP, N.J. >> Annika Sorenstam and Michelle Wie drew the crowds, but Angela Stanford took her first LPGA victory.	5
train	Wal-Mart estimates more than 100 million Americans visit their stores every week.	Still, he noted that Miami must decide whether to seek A.C.C. membership by June 30 to adhere to Big East guidelines.	3.8
train	Complicating the situation is the presence of battle-hardened Liberians who have been fighting on both sides.	CELF's founding members are Hitachi, Matsushita, NEC, Philips, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, and Toshiba.	3.4
train	Security experts are warning that a new mass-mailing worm is spreading widely across the Internet, sometimes posing as e-mail from the Microsoft founder.	Still, changes to IE "may affect a large number of existing Web pages," according to the W3C's notice.	2.6
train	Beleaguered telecommunications gear maker Lucent Technologies is being investigated by two federal agencies for possible violations of U.S. bribery laws in its operations in Saudi Arabia.	Authorities performed an autopsy Thursday on one of three bodies recovered from beneath a layer of freshly poured concrete in the basement of a northwest Indiana home.	4
train	Kroger Co., which owns Ralphs, and Albertsons Inc. bargain jointly with Safeway and locked out their union workers the next day.	The most common side effects after getting the nasal spray were nasal congestion, runny nose, sore throat and cough.	1.75
train	An arrest warrant claimed Bryant assaulted the woman June 30 at a hotel.	He said the attackers left behind leaflets urging workers at the Ishtar Sheraton to stop working at the hotel.	2.7
train	Strayhorn said it was the first time in Texas history a comptroller had not certified the appropriations act.	The broad Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX shed 0.17 of a point, or just 0.02 percent, to 934.	2.5
train	The index, which measures activity in the service sector, climbed to 50.7 last month from 47.9 in March.	Shares in BA were down three percent at 165-1/4 pence by 0933 GMT, off a low of 164 pence, in a stronger market.	3
train	The Bush administration blames Hussein loyalists and foreign Muslim militants who have entered Iraq to fight U.S. troops for the wave of bombings and guerrilla attacks.	HP fell to second place with server sales growing 0.4 percent to $2.9 billion.	4.2
train	There are 103 Democrats in the Assembly and 47 Republicans.	Moore of Alabama says he will appeal his case to the nation's highest court.	4
train	In April, it had forecast operating earnings in the range of 60 to 80 cents a share.	There will be 9.3 million visitors to hot spots in 2003, up from 2.5 million in 2002, Gartner said.	4.056
train	The findings appear in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association (news - web sites).	Morales, who pleaded guilty in July, expressed "sincere regret and remorse" for his crimes.	3
train	By Sunday night, the fires had blackened 277,000 acres, hundreds of miles apart.	The hearing came one day after the Pentagon for the first time singled out an officer - Dallager - for failing to address the scandal.	2.4
train	The Food and Drug Administration rejected ImClone's 2001 application to sell Erbitux, citing shoddy research.	The crates are full of hardback copies of "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix."	3.75
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.	Richard Miller, 57, survived a lifesaving liver transplant but remains hospitalized.	4
train	Shares of Littleton, Colorado-based EchoStar rose $1.63, or 5.3 percent, to $32.26 at 10:55 a.m.	Shares of Allergan were up 14 cents at $78.40 in late trading on the New York Stock Exchange.	4.5
train	Shiites make up 20 percent of the country's population.	The S&P 500 had climbed 16 percent since its March low and yesterday closed at its highest since Dec. 2.	3.75
train	Investigators uncovered a 4-inch bone fragment from beneath the concrete slab Thursday, but it turned out to be an animal bone, authorities said.	The academy will get its own internal report next week and it will be made public, Rosa said.	3.25
train	It exploded in his hands, but the former Italian prime minister was unhurt.	Spansion Flash memory solutions are available worldwide from AMD and Fujitsu.	4.5
train	Box cutters were used as a weapon by the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers and have since been banned as carry-on items.	China's foreign ministry said: "We hope all parties will continue to make efforts and continue the process of dialogue."	2.2
train	Doctors have speculated that the body’s own estrogen protects against cell damage and improves blood flow.	Amnesty International said that over the past 20 years it had collected information about 17,000 disappearances in Iraq.	3
train	The new research will be published soon in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.	France Telecom shares dropped 3.6 percent while Orange surged 13 percent.	2.6
train	"We're going to do everything in our power to get money back to ratepayers as quickly as possible," Kennedy said.	Missouri Education Commissioner Kent King said he was disappointed by the scores.	4.733