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The Hardest-Working Woman in the TV Biz Does Heather Locklear ever age? Or get less-than-stellar ratings? Can the old formula still work in "LAX," her new NBC series?
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Bush Surveys Hurricane Damage in Florida PENSACOLA, Fla. - President Bush on Sunday got a firsthand look at Hurricane Ivan's devastation during his third trip to Florida to assess the damage from this summer's fierce storms in the South...
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Real told to dig for pride after a fall Real Madrid #39;s loss at Espanyol brought a numbing end to a miserable week whose only positive outcome has been the realisation that some soul-searching and a collective look in the mirror are overdue.
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Bundesliga round-up A headed goal from Lucio in the 88th minute was followed by another from Makaay two minutes into extra time to leave a shocked Dortmund ruing a lost opportunity to beat their arch rivals from the south.
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Cricket: Proteas blown away by strong Windies LONDON : West Indies captain Brian Lara praised his side #39;s composure and discipline after they had successfully chased 247 to beat South Africa here at The Oval and win a place in the ICC Champions Trophy semi-finals next week.
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Vols find a Wilhoit to win The Volunteers sophomore kicker nailed a game winning 50-yard field goal with 13 seconds remaining to lift 13th-ranked UT over No.
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Enhancing Party #39;s governance capability is of vital importance <b>...</b> To enhance the governance capability of the Communist Party of China (CPC) is vital to China #39;s socialist cause, the Chinese nation and the CPC itself, says the CPC Central
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Sharon will press ahead with disengagement plan Despite opposition from settlers and his own Likud party, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is determined to press ahead with his disengagement plan, says Daniel Ayalon, Israel #39;s ambassador to the United States.
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US Stocks Rise, But Oil Surges Again Stocks rose on Friday after Ford Motor Co. raised its earnings forecasts, but wireless technology provider Qualcomm Inc. held back gains on the Nasdaq after saying an accounting review may reduce pretax income.
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Soccer: Newcastle give Souness flying Premiership start SOUTHAMPTON : Newcastle United gave new manager Graeme Souness a winning Premiership start with a 2-1 win at Southampton. It was Newcastle #39;s third successive win but first in the league for Souness since taking over from Sir Bobby Robson.
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Children targets in war zone NEW YORK: The brutalities of a Sudan-backed religious group have left northern Uganda in a shambles, uprooting 1.8 million people who have little faith in the Kampala Government to protect them, according to a UN official.
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Sounding Off to Deep Space To explore deeper into our solar system, maximum efficiencies may one day be extracted from sound waves. Los Alamos scientists have engine plans drawn up for making a big bang to push a pistonless drive forward.
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Woman's Crusade Prompts Car Safety Improvements Janette Fennell became an auto safety crusader on the terrible night nearly a decade ago when she and her husband were robbed at gunpoint and forced into the trunk of their car. The Fennells escaped unharmed, and the experience led them to form a group that lobbied successfully to get the government to require release levers in trunks.
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Review: New Media Players Too Small The new breed of portable media players is finally here, but the devices are too small to comfortably watch movies on and too bulky to compete with my MP3 music player.
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Oil producers have wafer-thin safety margin: experts VIENNA : Limited spare capacity means that the ability of oil producers to meet the sharpest rise in demand since the 1970s is likely to be severely tested, according to experts attending an OPEC-sponsored seminar in Vienna.
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Iran rejects call to stop atomic research Iran has rejected a UN resolution calling on the country to freeze uranium enrichment activities. It has also threatened to stop snap checks of its atomic facilities if Iran #39;s case is referred to the UN Security Council.
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Ugandan Army Kills 25 Rebels in Southern Sudan Uganda #39;s army says its troops and helicopter gunships have attacked a rebel camp in southern Sudan, killing 25 fighters. Army officials say seven members of the rebel Lord #39;s Resistance Army were captured in the operation Saturday.
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Israel to step up quick response system to combat rocket attacks <b>...</b> Israel intends to step up a quick reaction system to combat Palestinian rocket attacks at Israeli targets, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told the cabinet Sunday.
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Cricket: Pakistan edge out India Pakistan will meet West Indies in the Champions Trophy semi-final after a last-over victory over India at Edgbaston.
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President's party 'wins Kazakh poll' Early results suggest the party of Kazakh President Nazarbayev will win victory in parliamentary elections.
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Ivan's Flooding Forces New Evacuations WHEELING, W.Va. - Hundreds of people evacuated their homes Sunday in parts of Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania as rivers and small streams were swollen beyond their banks by the torrential rain dumped by remnants of Hurricane Ivan...
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Long-Running Shows to Take Final Emmys Bow LOS ANGELES - "Frasier,""Friends" and "Sex and the City" were taking a final Emmy Awards bow Sunday. HBO's "Sex and the City" was the leading comedy nominee at the 56th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, with 11 bids including ones for best-comedy series and for star Sarah Jessica Parker...
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RIM Incorporates QWERTY Keyboard In Small Mobile Devices It #39;s now possible to enjoy all the benefits of a full featured QWERTY keyboard in a small wireless device, thanks to Research In Motion #39;s (RIM) new patent-pending SureType keyboard.
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OS Update for Windows XP Service Pack 2 (KB884020) On a computer that is running Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2), programs that connect to IP addresses that are in the loopback address range may not work as you expect.
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Iran #39;To Ignore Nuclear Freeze Demand #39; Lawmakers called on the government today to ignore demands from the UN nuclear watchdog agency that Iran freeze all uranium enrichment work.
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Europe Needs Only 3 Points for Ryder Win (AP) AP - Faced with the largest final-day deficit of any U.S. Ryder Cup captain, Hal Sutton sent out his heavy hitters Sunday to try to turn the momentum of what so far has been a European rout.
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Cricket: West Indies Defeats South Africa to Reach ICC Champions <b>...</b> The West Indies has defeated South Africa by five wickets to reach the semifinals of the ICC Champions cricket Trophy in London. Ramnaresh Sarwan hit a well-paced 75 on Sunday to lead the West Indies.
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Santini's men earn their Spurs after drawing with Chelsea (AFP) AFP - Chelsea failed to make any ground on Premiership leaders Arsenal after they were held 0-0 by Spurs at Stamford Bridge here.
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Highlands Snaps 25-Game Losing Streak (AP) AP - It was known simply as "The Streak" in northern New Mexico, a 25-game skid that began in November 2001. And now it's finally over.
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U.S. Leads in First Four Ryder Singles BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. (Reuters) - The United States, needing a miracle comeback in the last-day singles to prevent a runaway European victory at the 35th Ryder Cup, got off to a strong start on Sunday.
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Murphy Acquitted of Sexual Abuse Charges NBA Hall of Famer Calvin Murphy was acquitted Monday of charges he sexually abused five of his 10 daughters more than a decade ago.
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Redskins Tied, 7-7 The Giants, capitalizing on a Washington turnover, have rallied to tie the Redskins, 7-7, in the second quarter at the blustery Meadowlands.
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Hotel Workers in 3 Cities May Strike Sunday Hotel workers in Washington, DC, San Francisco and Los Angeles held out the threat of a strike on Sunday, but have told management they will resume contract talks, a DC union official said.
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Italian Serie A match reports Champions Milan picked up their first win of the season but it was hard going against a determined Bologna whose inspired keeper Gianluca Pagliuca kept the visitors at bay until the 84th minute
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Pakistan edge out India Yousuf Youhana steered Pakistan to a last-over victory over India to clinch a Champions Trophy semi-final against the West Indies on Wednesday.
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Militants behead three Iraqi Kurdish militiamen Militants beheaded three Iraqi Kurd militiamen, showing their deaths in a video posted on a Web site on Saturday and denouncing Kurdish political
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Ugandan army kills 25 rebels in southern Sudan Soldiers of the Uganda People #39;s Defense Forces (UPDF) have raided rebel Lord #39;s Resistance Army (LRA) leader Joseph Kony #39;s hideouts at Pakanyar in southern Sudan, killing 25 rebels and capturing seven others.
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Britain says not to build more nuclear power stations in a decade British government said Sunday Britain would not increase its nuclear power capacity for at least 10 or 15 years, but would not rule out future expansion.
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Germany Deports Organizer of Islamic Conference German authorities have deported the organizer of a controversial Islamic conference planned for next month in Berlin. The conference planner was deported to his home country of Lebanon Saturday, after his
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Serbia Elections Draw Millions of Voters (AP) AP - Serbia on Sunday held its first democratically organized local elections since Slobodan Milosevic's ouster in what was expected to be a close race between nationalists loyal to the former president and pro-Western reformists.
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Report: Group Threatens to Kill 15 Iraqi Soldiers DUBAI (Reuters) - A hitherto unknown Islamist group has threatened to kill 15 captured Iraqi soldiers if authorities do not release an aide to Shi'ite rebel cleric Moqtada al-Sadr within 48 hours, Arab television Al Jazeera reported Sunday.
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Who Was Abused? The kids of the abuse-hysteria generation have grown up. Many are living with the fact that they were part of a big lie. Some, like Ed Sampley, are now trying to make amends.
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Oracle Eyes Content Management Prize Oracle will catapult itself into the ECM (enterprise content management) fold next quarter by introducing quot;Tsunami, quot; its unstructured data management technology.
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Analysis: Jiang Zemin #39;s departure His philosophy has underpinned China #39;s opaque and secretive political system and, for this reason, Jiang Zemin #39;s decision to stand down as army chief three years ahead of schedule marks the real handover of authority.
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Bush Must OK Clinton Document Release Plan (AP) AP - Former President Clinton will have to ask President Bush for permission to release thousands of domestic-policy records from his two terms in the White House, officials at Clinton's presidential library said Friday.
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Senate Foes Daschle, Thune Swaps Barbs in Debate (Reuters) Reuters - Senate Democratic leader Tom\Daschle, fighting for political survival, angrily rejected\Republic challenger John Thune's claim on Sunday that he had\emboldened the enemy in Iraq and undermined U.S. troop morale.
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Call on Me hits number one spot Swedish DJ Eric Prydz goes straight to number one in the UK chart with dance track Call on Me.
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Photojournalist Eddie Adams Dies at 71 NEW YORK - Eddie Adams, a photojournalist whose half-century of arresting work was defined by a single frame - a Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press photo of a communist guerrilla being executed in a Saigon street during the Vietnam War - died Sunday. He was 71...
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Flooding Forces Evacuations in 3 States WHEELING, W.Va. - Hundreds of people evacuated their homes Sunday in parts of Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania as rivers and small streams were swollen beyond their banks by the torrential rain dumped by remnants of Hurricane Ivan...
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Enter your e-mail: PC World #39;s counterpart in Germany, PC Welt, published a short story today detailing how Windows XP computers running Service Pack 2 may be inadvertently sharing files on their hard drive with more people than they might like.
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Microsoft trials piracy lock on Download Centre Microsoft is testing a new feature on its Download Centre website that can lock out pirated copies of Windows. During the test period, users of Download Centre can opt to have the Windows software installed on their PCs validated as genuine.
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McAllister injures ankle for Saints New Orleans, LA (Sports Network) - New Orleans running back Deuce McAllister left Sunday #39;s game against San Francisco with an ankle injury.
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Iraq #39;Peace Talks #39; Swap Weapons for Pullback Iraqi authorities are holding talks with tribal leaders in the western Anbar province and Baghdads tense Sadr city in hopes that militias will hand over their weapons in exchange for a pullback of US troops, Iraqs vice president said.
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World Trade Center Leaseholder Gets Boost From Federal Jury A jury has decided that the destruction of the World Trade Center was two events, meaning leaseholder Larry Silverstein can collect twice from insurance companies.
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Perez scores second successive win Spaniard Santiago Perez recorded a second consecutive stage win, which propelled him into third place overall in the Tour of Spain.
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Iraqi Foreign Minister: We Will Not Give in to Kidnappers #39; Demands Iraq #39;s foreign minister says his country is doing what it can to secure the release of two Americans and a British national taken hostage in Baghdad Thursday, but will not give in to kidnappers #39; demands.
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Beckett says no more nuclear power needed yet The government says it has no need to increase its nuclear power capacity for at least 10 or 15 years but future expansion of nuclear power cannot be ruled out altogether.
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Musharraf to meet Singh at the UN The leaders of India and Pakistan are heading to the US this week for their first face-to-face meeting. They will meet on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.
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Inzy proves hard to please Captain Inzamam-ul-Haq said Pakistan still had room for improvement after knocking India out of the Champions Trophy at Edgbaston.
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Fed Seen Sticking to Measured Rate Raises (Reuters) Reuters - The U.S. Federal Reserve will take\another small step this week toward raising interest rates to\more normal levels, but may be getting rates up to a point that\allows for a pause in increasing them, analysts say.
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McNabb, Culpepper to Square Off Monday (AP) AP - Both quarterbacks have strong arms, quick feet and plenty of wins on their resumes. One other thing Donovan McNabb and Daunte Culpepper have in common: They're the only two of the five heralded quarterbacks selected in the first round of the 1999 draft still in the NFL.
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US Hostage Wife Pleads for Mercy (BBC) -- The wife of an American taken hostage with two others in Baghdad has appealed on television for their release. Patty Hensley said her husband Jack was quot;a simple, generous man quot; who was quot;there to help the Iraqi people quot;.
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Former general tipped to win Indonesian vote JAKARTA - Security forces remain on high alert as Indonesians head to the polls in an election that could see the opposition leader become president.
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Steelers' Maddox Out With Elbow Injury (AP) AP - Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Tommy Maddox left Sunday's game against the Baltimore Ravens in the third quarter with an elbow injury.
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Europe Rally After U.S. Take Early Charge BLOOMFIELD HILLS (Reuters) - Holders Europe began to peg back a fast start by the United States as the 35th Ryder Cup approached its climax in the last-day singles on Sunday.
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Daschle, Thune Debate Campaign Tactics (AP) AP - Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle and former Rep. John Thune sparred over political ads and the increasingly negative tone of South Dakota's Senate race Sunday during a nationally televised debate.
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Bush Lifts Libya Sanctions to Trigger Aid (AP) AP - President Bush has decided to lift sanctions against Libya, which he expects to trigger release of more than #36;1 billion to families of Pan Am 103 victims, a senior administration official said Sunday.
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Senators Urge Bush to Change Iraq Stance (AP) AP - Senators from both parties urged the Bush administration on Sunday to face the reality of the situation in Iraq and change its occupation policies.
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Top Hamas Militant Killed in Israeli Missile Strike GAZA (Reuters) - A senior leader of Hamas's military wing was killed in an Israeli missile strike on his car in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian witnesses said.
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Iraq PM Adamant Jan. Election Will Be Held BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said Sunday elections would be held on schedule in January despite a surge in violence and more than a score of hostages under threat of death from insurgents.
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How Would They End the War? President Bush and John Kerry have said little more than that each will end the war the right way and his opponent will not.
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Report: Spears Marries Dancer in Calif. LOS ANGELES - Pop singer Britney Spears married her fiance, dancer Kevin Federline, in a surprise ceremony, it was reported Sunday. The wedding was held Saturday evening at a private home in the Studio City area with 20 to 30 people attending, "Entertainment Tonight" said on its Web site...
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Kerry Links Iraq War Cost, Domestic Woes WASHINGTON - Democrat John Kerry links the cost of the Iraq war to problems at home and vows in a new television ad to both "defend America and fight for the middle class." "200 billion dollars. That's what we are spending in Iraq because George Bush chose to go it alone," Kerry says in the ad, to start airing Monday in 13 competitive states where he is on the air...
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Militants Behead 3 Kurd Hostages in Iraq BAGHDAD, Iraq - Militants beheaded three hostages said to be Iraqi Kurd militiamen, showing their deaths in a video posted on a Web site Sunday and denouncing Kurdish political parties for cooperating with Americans in Iraq. In a separate incident, a group claimed to have kidnapped 25 members of the Iraqi National Guard, and a report on the Arabic station Al-Jazeera said the soldiers were threatened with death unless a detained Shiite leader is freed within 48 hours...
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Europeans Try to Nail Down Ryder Cup Win BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. - For the first time in three days at the Ryder Cup, there was plenty of red on the scoreboard - as in American red, white and blue...
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Iraqi PM Says Sticking to January Election Plan Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said on Sunday elections would be held on schedule in January despite a surge in violence and more than a score of hostages under threat of death from insurgents.
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Vegas serves up boxing treat If Bernard Hopkins v Oscar de la Hoya did not quite live up to its ludicrously lofty billing, it was through no fault of the fighters.
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Cycling: Perez wins consecutive stages after two-year drought GRENADA, Spain : Spain #39;s Santiago Perez, of the Phonak team, won his second consecutive stage on the Tour of Spain here following a two-year victory drought after the death of his fiancee.
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Fed Decision Unlikely to Spur Rally Wall Street opinion is split on whether the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates at its meeting Tuesday, with conventional wisdom siding with a rate hike.
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2 telltale signs that show it #39;s time to dump a stock The last time I looked, shares of discount retailer 99 Cents Only were trading at \$14 or so, down around 60 percent from their summer 2003 mid- \$30 trading range.
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Three Kurds Beheaded in Iraq A videotape posted on a Web site shows the beheading of three hostages who are said to be members of a Kurdish party in northern Iraq.
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Video Appeal for Release of Italian Hostages (Reuters) Reuters - Piecing together old video footage, an\Italian aid group released emotive images to Arab television on\Sunday of its two female Italian charity workers and two Iraqi\colleagues kidnapped in Baghdad.
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Bonds Gets Day Off in Finale Vs. Padres (AP) AP - Barry Bonds rested Sunday, staying out of the starting lineup in the San Francisco Giants' series finale against the San Diego Padres.
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US rate rise and dim growth outlook to hit confidence AMERICAN consumers will be hit by another quarter-point rise in interest rates on Tuesday, threatening to dent their confidence only six weeks before the presidential elections.
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Hotel workers on the verge of striking Hotel workers at 14 DC hotels are preparing to strike after talks over a new contract broke down last night. Union officials said hotel management walked out of contract
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Boeing may join Microsoft in EU antitrust fight The European Commission, the antitrust arm of the European Union, has ordered Microsoft to offer a version of Windows without a bundled media player and to disclose more technical information to its rivals on a temporary, or interim, basis until the
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JUVE GO TOP OF THE PILE Juventus moved to the top of Serie A on Sunday while bitter rivals Roma saw their dismal week climax with defeat at Messina. Juve were too strong for Atalanta at the Delle Alpi - Fabio Capello #39;s men winning
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Sudan warns West Cairo - The speaker of the Sudanese parliament on Sunday warned the West against intervening in his country, saying it would open the quot;gates of hell quot;.
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Iraqis urged to help free Briton BRITAIN has made a televised appeal on an Arab satellite channel for Iraqis to help rescue British hostage Kenneth Bigley, who is being held under threat of death with two US kidnap victims.
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Iraqi group claims murder of Kurdistan representatives An Iraqi Islamic group says it has killed three members of the Kurdistan Democratic Party which cooperates with the Iraqi Government.
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Vols See Tough Road After Florida Stunner (AP) AP - Here's a way to spoil the celebration for No. 11 Tennessee after beating Florida: check out the Volunteers' remaining schedule and recent history.
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Hamas militant dies in Gaza blast A member of Palestinian militant group Hamas is killed in an Israeli air strike on his car in Gaza, witnesses say.
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Deion Sanders Leaves Game With Injury Ravens defensive back Deion Sanders strained a hamstring muscle in the second quarter of Baltimore's game against Pittsburgh on Sunday.
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Marlins Top Braves, Keep Hopes Alive Ismael Valdez pitched six solid innings, Jeff Conine drove in all three runs and the Florida Marlins averted a series sweep by beating the Atlanta Braves 3-0 on Sunday.
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Financial markets key in on Federal Reserve interest-rate decision TORONTO (CP) - The next meeting of the US Federal Reserve will dominate markets early in the week as investors look for clues about economic strength and the pace of interest rate hikes.
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Reebok star rises in south: Shoemaker targets Hispanic markets Reebok International Ltd. is turning its attention to the growing US Hispanic population, starting with an ad campaign promoting Reebok #39;s ties to the wildly popular Chivas soccer club in Mexico.
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Breakthrough Keyboard Technology for Smaller Handsets SureType effectively converges a phone keypad and a QWERTY keyboard to fit elegantly within the size constraints of a traditional mobile phone form factor.
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Dangerous Days on the World Wild Web Netizens often like to compare the settlement of the Internet with that of the American West. The explorers charted new territory, observes product developer Chad Harrington of Zone Labs, a San Francisco-based
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Camacho ready to quit as Real coach - reports Real Madrid coach Jose Antonio Camacho offered his resignation to club president Florentino Perez on Sunday, Spanish state radio reported.
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Press Scan ANKARA - These are some of the major headlines and their summaries in Turkish press on September 19th, 2004. The Anadolu Agency does not verify these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
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