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Reuters
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Stocks opened higher on Wednesday as the market rebounded from its worst slide since 2001, boosted by investors snapping up attractively priced equities.
The Dow Jones industrial average was up 53.43 points, or 0.44 percent, at 12,269.67. The Standard..
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Yahoo News
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An obese 26-year-old man in northeastern China died after a "marathon" online gaming session over the Lunar New Year holiday, state media said on Wednesday.
The 150-kg (330-lb) man from Jinzhou, in Liaoning province, collapsed on Saturday, the last day..
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Salon
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At 9 p.m. on my first night at the U.S. Army base in Kamdesh, I was shaken awake by a 105 mm howitzer round. Then a symphony of incoming and outgoing fire sounded. BO-OM! BO-OM! BO-OM! Tat! Tat! Tat! Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop! From the pine- and cedar-lined..
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This Is London
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The Taliban insisted this afternoon that a bomb which rocked a US base in Afghanistan was meant for vice-president Dick Cheney.
Mr Cheney, 66, had just finished breakfast at the living quarters inside the compound at Bagram when a suicide bomber detona..
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Bloomberg
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President George W. Bush's campaign to turn Iran into an economic pariah is being rebuffed from Spain to Malaysia as countries and companies pursue long-term agreements to tap into the world's second-largest reserves of oil and gas.
Royal Dutch Shell P..
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Times Online
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Europe is in the midst of an undeclared “civil war” — a struggle that has been boiling away since the 18th century. It is a war between religious believers and secularists.
The French Revolution was the decisive moment in this clash between Churc..
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Live Science
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The U.S. Army is working on a modified 7.5-million-candlepower strobe light in hopes of creating a paralysis beam.
Although details are sketchy, it appears that U.S. government acquisition records call for contractor Peak Systems to ...
"...desi..
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Time
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A suicide bomber detonated himself outside the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan this morning, less than 24 hours after U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney arrived to discuss mounting Taliban activity with Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
While Cheney..
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CNN
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U.S. health advisers recommended Tuesday that the government approve the first bird flu vaccine as a stopgap measure, despite evidence it wouldn't protect most people.
In separate votes, the outside panel said the vaccine was both safe and effective. A..
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gigagamez.com
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As of April 2nd, Larry Probst, current CEO of Electronic Arts, will be stepping down and handing the title over to John Riccitello. Riccitello, an old-school EA’er is coming back after leaving his Chief Operations Officer and President job at EA in 2004..
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Times Online
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For 62 years, Akira Makino spoke not a word of what he’d done, but to those who knew him well it must have been obvious that he was a man with a tortured conscience. Why else would he have returned so often to the obscure, mosquito-blown town in the sou..
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Reuters
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Pope Benedict on Saturday condemned genetic engineering and other scientific practices that allow people to select so-called "designer babies" by screening them for defects.
In a speech to the Pontifical Academy for Life, a Church body of experts, the..
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The Register
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Deep Purple frontman Ian Gillan has refreshingly asked fans not to buy an "awful" re-released album of the band live at Birmingham's NEC, the BBC reports.
The sub-standard 1993 offering - thrillingly entitled "NEC 1993" - was, Gillan lamented, "an unfo..
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CNN
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A woman admitted Monday that she coached her two children to fake retardation starting when they were 4 and 8 years old so she could collect Social Security benefits on their behalf.
Rosie Costello, 46, admitted in U.S. District Court that she collecte..
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SF Gate
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A San Francisco weekly newspaper that bills itself as "The Voice of Asian America" is facing harsh criticism from that very community for publishing a column Friday titled "Why I Hate Blacks."
In the column, AsianWeek regular contributor Kenneth Eng li..
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Alter Net
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A Stanford graduate student "proved" that men in online virtual worlds behave just like men in real life. But do they really?
A couple weeks ago I gave a presentation at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science abou..
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Computer World
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What does Apple's iPhone have in common with the failed Apple Newton of more than a decade ago? Nothing. Yet.
But I was reminded of the Newton lately and how, despite its current hot streak, Apple doesn't have an unblemished record when it comes to int..
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Washington Post
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Diamonds are forever, sure. But postal rates?
Coming soon to your neighborhood post office: a stamp that can be used eternally, even if rates are increased a dozen or more times.
The Postal Regulatory Commission recommended yesterday a new way of bu..
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Yahoo News
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A moratorium on coal-fired power plants is key to cutting carbon dioxide emissions that promote global warming, NASA's top climatologist said Monday.
"There should be a moratorium on building any more coal-fired power plants until the technology to cap..
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CBS News
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Wal-Mart is buying a 35 percent stake in a company that operates Trust-Mart, a major Chinese discount chain, as international competitors jostle for position in China's rapidly growing retail market.
Wal-Mart may eventually take managerial control of T..
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