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MSNBC
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With the general election in full gear, Senator John McCain has stepped up efforts to paint his rival, Senator Barack Obama, as what he calls a traditional Democratic tax-and-spend liberal. On Tuesday, for instance, Mr. McCain, addressing a business gathe..
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MSNBC
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They don’t greet you so much as they burst upon you, these three little guys with impish grins that punctuate their beautiful dark features. Here they come, a rumbling, tumbling, laughing, yelling, skipping, crying pack of naughty and nice, snips and sn..
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BusinessWeek
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As Robert Arnott steps out of a taxi en route to a CNBC interview at the New York Stock Exchange, two young Italian tourists stop him on the street. "Do you know where The Bull is?" asks one of the young men clutching a map. The bull in question is Chargi..
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BusinessWeek
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The recent stream of implosions is the least of the big banks' worries. Money still seems to be pouring into such investment channels
Large hedge funds at prestigious global banks seem to be blowing up routinely. But that doesn't mean the world's large..
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BusinessWeek
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U.S. charity has stumbled along with the economy. From food pantries on up, contributions have diminished, just when they're needed most
It's called a food pantry, but a scarcity of goods is taking over the shelves. Despite the efforts of the nonprofit..
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BusinessWeek
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The beleaguered investment bank ousts Erin Callan from the CFO slot and Joseph Gregory as COO. Will the moves pacify its critics?
Heads usually roll on Wall Street when the going gets ugly, and this time is no exception. On June 12, Lehman Brothers Hol..
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BusinessWeek
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Opponents want to know: How can America let Anheuser-Busch be sold to Belgian company InBev? But they don't have much of a leg to stand on
Budweiser: The finest beer from Oostende to Genk. If that doesn't sound right to you, you're not alone. InBev's $..
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BusinessWeek
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With Microsoft out of the picture, Web search king Google strikes a search ad deal with Yahoo. But where does that leave the struggling portal?
After more than four months of Sturm und Drang, the blockbuster Internet deal of the year is over, with only..
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SF Gate
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U.S. government buys land around the Golden Gate for harbor defense.
1897: Old Lime Point military reservation named Fort Baker. Army builds artillery batteries to defend entrance to San Francisco Bay.
1901-1910: Army barracks and headquarters built..
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SF Gate
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People around the globe widely expect the next American president to improve the country's policies toward the rest of the world, especially if Barack Obama is elected, yet they retain a persistently poor image of the U.S., according to a poll released Th..
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SF Gate
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Lawmakers voted to subpoena nine companies responsible for analyzing the most dangerous food entering the country as part of an investigation that gained more urgency with an outbreak of salmonella from tomatoes.
For months, a House Energy and Commerce..
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SF Gate
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First came the shock, then the grief. As dozens of people injured in a tornado at an Iowa Boy Scout camp recovered, families and friends tried to make sense of the deaths of four teenage Scouts who had gone to the elite camp to learn how to be leaders...
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SF Gate
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The toll from salmonella-tainted tomatoes jumped to 228 illnesses Thursday as the government learned of five dozen previously unknown cases and said it is possible the food poisoning contributed to a cancer patient's death.
Six more states — Florida,..
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BBC News
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One of the most prolific inventors in medicine has won the prestigious Millennium Technology Prize.
Professor Robert Langer's biomaterials research has allowed for more accurate and controlled release of drugs into patients' bodies.
His work has had..
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BBC News
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A human egg has been filmed in close-up emerging from the ovary for the first time, captured by chance during a routine operation.
Fertile women release one or more eggs every month, but until now, only animal ovulation has been recorded in detail...
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BBC News
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The first private manned mission to the International Space Station (ISS) is set to go ahead in 2011, a US space tourism company has announced.
The mission has been agreed between the company Space Adventures and the Russian federal space agency.
A..
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BBC News
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Plutoid" is the word of the moment for astronomers.
It is the new classification that has been sanctioned for the object that was formerly known as the "ninth planet".
It is nearly two years since the International Astronomical Union (IAU) stripped..
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BBC News
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The power generated by the proposed Severn Barrage could be produced more cheaply using other green technologies, a report says.
The �15bn dam across the Severn estuary from Cardiff to Weston-Super-Mare in Somerset could supply 5% of the UK's electri..
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BBC News
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China and Taiwan have agreed to establish offices in each other's territory to facilitate travel amid warming bilateral ties.
The agreement came as delegations from both sides met in Beijing for the first formal talks for almost a decade.
They are a..
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BBC News
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The US has released video excerpts of a controversial air strike in the Afghan-Pakistani border region which Pakistan says killed 11 of its soldiers.
The US said that the footage proves that US forces were legitimately targeting pro-Taleban militants...
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