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BusinessWeek
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T. Boone Pickens thinks water is the new oil—and he's betting $100 million that he's right
Roberts County is a neat square in a remote corner of the Texas Panhandle, a land of rolling hills, tall grass, oak trees, mesquite, and cattle. It has a desol..
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BusinessWeek
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Presidential opponents McCain and Obama go head-to-head with competing plans for reducing U.S. reliance on foreign oil
With gas prices rising and billions of additional dollars flowing to the Middle East to buy oil, energy policy is turning into a batt..
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BusinessWeek
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New funding by Bain, Bessemer, Sequoia, and Greylock values the professional-networking site north of $1 billion—and big plans are afoot
LinkedIn is joining the Web 2.0 high rollers' club. The professional networking site, home to some 23 million aff..
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BusinessWeek
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Chicago-based Neumann Homes went bankrupt last November, leaving a trail of wreckage in its path. Its worst victims? Homeowners
When Patrick and Betty Ann Wagner moved 50 miles from Chicago's Northwest Side to suburban Antioch, Ill., a year ago, they f..
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BusinessWeek
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The man who built the insurance behemoth talks with Maria Bartiromo about Sunday's coup
A little more than three years ago, Hank Greenberg, the architect of the insurance giant AIG (AIG), stepped down amid investigations by the feds and then New York S..
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BusinessWeek
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While not an all-out success, Phase II testing of a Wyeth-Elan treatment showed positive results in a subset of patients. Investors applauded
The much anticipated results of a clinical trial of one of the more promising Alzheimer's drugs, released June..
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SF Gate
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Some deadly bombings in Baghdad this year:
_June 17: A car bomb tears through a market area in Hurriyah, a mainly Shiite neighborhood, killing at least 51 people.
_May 1: A bomb-rigged parked car explodes as a U.S. patrol is passing through a crowde..
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SF Gate
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The Justice Department overreached in prosecuting a former Bush administration official in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal, a federal appeals court said Tuesday as it dismissed some charges and ordered a new trial on others.
The decision overturns t..
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Attempts by conservative opponents to halt same-sex marriage in California before the November election failed Tuesday when both a state appeals court and a Sacramento trial judge refused to block local officials from issuing marriage licenses to gay coup..
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SF Gate
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At least 80 percent of the habitat for giant pandas in China's earthquake-hit province was destroyed or damaged, a forestry official said Tuesday.
China's May 12 temblor centered in Sichuan devastated a vast area of wild habitat for endangered species,..
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SF Gate
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Marital bliss, same-sex style, has broken out at county clerk offices all over the Bay Area, with eager gay and lesbian couples exchanging vows the moment the offices opened this morning.
From Sonoma and San Mateo to San Francisco and Contra Costa, ebu..
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The U.S. military blamed a renegade Shiite group Wednesday for a deadly car bombing in a Baghdad Shiite neighborhood and said it was seeking to re-ignite the sort of sectarian violence that swept the area 18 months ago. Iraqi officials said the death toll..
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BBC News
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A US government aid agency has formed an alliance with a group headed by former UN chief Kofi Annan to try to boost African agriculture.
Mr Annan has called for a "green revolution" to solve the food crisis.
The new partnership aims to invest in Afr..
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BBC News
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The US has called on the world's eight most industrialised nations to invest in a $10bn (�5bn) climate change fund.
The Climate Investment Funds, run by the World Bank, aims to help developing nations produce their own technology to mitigate the impa..
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BBC News
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Progress towards developing a global strategy to cut emissions is too slow, according to environmental group WWF.
It issued its warning at the end of key UN talks that considered what measures should replace the current set of climate targets, which ex..
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BBC News
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The UK Meteorological Office says it has improved its ability to pinpoint where and when heavy rain will occur.
Forecasts of severe downpours will now be issued up to 24 hours earlier, it says, giving local authorities more time to prepare flood contro..
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BBC News
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The American space shuttle Discovery has successfully touched down at the Kennedy space centre in the US state of Florida.
Nasa officials gave the go-ahead for the landing, saying it should not be affected by the earlier loss of a metal clip from Disco..
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BBC News
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A top UN official is due in Zimbabwe for a five-day visit ahead of the presidential run-off, which continues to be marred by political violence.
Haile Menkerios is expected to meet politicians to discuss the situation in the run-up to the 27 June vote...
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BBC News
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British nationals in the United Arab Emirates have been warned there is now a high risk of a terror attack there.
Travel advice from the UK Foreign Office said terrorists might be planning indiscriminate attacks in places frequented by expatriates...
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BBC News
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An armed man has taken four people hostage in the city hall in the Dutch city of Almelo, about 150km (100 miles) east of Amsterdam, reports say.
A city council member and three others were reported to be among those being held by the owner of a restaur..
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