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February 05, 2010LOS ANGELES – A bizarre campaign ad by Senate candidate Carly Fiorina featuring what has been dubbed a "Demon Sheep" has transcended California politics to become an Internet sensation, but analysts wonder if it was such a good idea. The Internet video, which features a man in a sheep costume with glowing red eyes crawling around a meadow, has gone viral -- with the official version clocking nearly 450,000 views on...
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February 05, 2010After losing out in the battle for the...
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February 05, 2010DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – There was mixed news Friday on the NASCAR sponsorship front, with one brand extending its involvement in Cup competition and another abandoning its role in all three national series. Roush Fenway Racing announced that Crown Royal has extended its sponsorship of driver Matt Kenseth's No. 17 Ford. That deal will cover 36 of the 38 Cup events in 2010. Originally, Crown Royal was expected to be the team's primary sponsor for just over half the season. Meanwhile, team owners James Finch and Kyle Busch were notified late Thursday that Miccosukee Resort and Gaming has decided not to continue its NASCAR sponsorships. Finch was planning to field the No. 09 Cup entry with...
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February 05, 2010Short takes from the Daytona notebook: Harvick arrives, practices Kevin Harvick, who missed Thursday's media day activities and Shootout practice sessions because of flu-like symptoms, was able to practice his Daytona 500 car on Friday before rain halted the session early. Harvick and his wife, DeLana, arrived from their home in North Carolina late Thursday, just before a storm rolled into the area. Papis sets schedule Max Papis, a journeyman in several racing series, plans to run up to 20 Cup races this season in the No. 13 Toyotas of Germain Racing. In 15 Cup races last season, Papis had one top-10 finish, an eighth at Watkins Glen, N.Y. He is also scheduled to be in a Germain entry for...
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February 05, 2010 Event to be Webcast Live on SuccessFactors' Investor Relations Website Download image...
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February 05, 2010 Modern Architecture and Unified Design and Verification Environment Key to Productivity MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Synopsys, Inc. , a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced that APAC IC Layout Consultant, Inc., a global provider of IC physical design services, has adopted Synopsys' Galaxy Custom Designer™ implementation solution. APAC IC, based in the Philippines, benefited from the ease with which Galaxy Custom Designer can be adopted to quickly achieve high productivity for its team of layout engineers servicing a worldwide customer base. APAC IC selected Galaxy...
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February 05, 2010SAN FRANCISCO – Google Earth mapping service is letting people use the Internet to dive into the world's oceans or see the ruin that World War II bombings rained on European cities. The Internet powerhouse on Thursday added an Ocean Showcase and WW II era aerial photographs to its free, interactive...
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February 05, 2010On the heels of its , Facebook will also expand its partnership with Microsoft and its Bing search engine. After the rollout, members who use Facebook's search box should expect the results to display more like they do on , rather than a collection of links at the bottom of the page, a Microsoft spokeswoman said. "Our two...
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February 05, 2010Kolkata, Feb 5: Members of the Shah Rukh Khan Fan Club gathered in ample numbers to stage a protest against the Shiv Sena party in Kolkata on Friday. Holding placards with the words condemning Shiv Sena, the Fan Club members raised slogans against it for the...
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February 05, 2010New Delhi, Feb 5 : The Congress Working Committee on Friday discussed the spiraling price rise at a meeting, after the Congress President Sonia Gandhi declared it a matter of 'high concern'. Gandhi presided over the meeting, which was attended by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Finance...
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February 05, 2010Solicitor will use 'slow burn provocation' defence to show Frances Inglis killed her 22-year-old son while under extreme pressure Frances Inglis has written a letter from Bronzefield jail in Ashford, Middlesex, to announce her appeal. Photograph: Hertfordshire police/PA The mother jailed for life last month after being of murdering her brain-damaged son has lodged an appeal in the high court against her conviction and sentence. Frances Inglis wrote to selected newspapers including the Guardian todayto announce her...
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February 05, 2010Danica Patrick will start 12th when she makes her stock racing debut in Saturday's Lucas Oil Slick Mist 200 ARCA race at Daytona International Speedway. Patrick, the most popular star in the IndyCar Series, lapped the 2.5-mile superspeedway in her No.7 Chevrolet at 179.788 m.p.h. She was the 10th driver to make her qualifying attempt in the 47-car field. The JR Motorsports driver has been the center of attention in the opening days of Speedweeks at Daytona. She is scheduled to kick off her 12-race Nationwide Series schedule February 20, but her series debut could come one week earlier in the season-opener at Daytona, depending on her performance in the ARCA event. A decision on her...
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February 05, 2010The former co-owners of a New Jersey computer services provider each have been sentenced to 27 months in prison on charges of conspiracy to defraud a U.S. government program designed to bring Internet access to schools and libraries in poor areas, the U.S. Department of Justice announced. Benjamin Rowner and Jay H. Soled, former owners of DeltaNet, were also each sentenced to...
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February 05, 2010Last month when Google launched HTC's smartphone, its Web browser, Google Maps and Picture Gallery applications all lacked pinch-to-zoom multitouch gestures. Earlier this week, Google for the Nexus One that enables...
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February 05, 20105 February 2010 Nearly 200 cyber experts and other stakeholders seeking access to the Web for scores of millions of people with visual and other disabilities wrapped up a four-day United Nations workshop in Geneva today, stressing the need for universal access despite handicaps. "The key to the information society is universal access and no one should be denied the potential benefits of ICTs [information and communication...
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February 05, 2010Kanata area residents are being warned not to leave their pets unattended after a coyote attacked and killed a small deer near people's homes. The attack took place Wednesday night in the Kanata Lakes natural...
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February 05, 2010Scientists are angry that the British Homeopathic Association cited their research to a committee of MPs as proof homeopathy works when their studies showed nothing of the sort The way homeopaths presented research to MPs was grossly misleading, say scientists. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images As several friends have noticed, I'm still alive. In fact there were no fatalities as a result of , to the annoyance of some of the more vocal critics of the 10:23 campaign. organisations have been trying to respond, often finding amusing and creative ways to dig themselves deeper into a hole, as the New Zealand Council of Homeopaths did when it issued a press release . None has dug harder or...
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February 05, 2010How Paul Martin took a debt-crippled country to zero deficit within five years Paul Martin's tips for how to cut public spending include the advice 'be pessimistic'. Photograph: Ryan Remiorz/AP Today's top stories Other news The shadow chief secretary to the Treasury Philip Hammond poured cold water on Tory councillors' , the Local Government Chronicle reports. The Cabinet Office has calculated that to reach £46.5bn over the past two years, according to the Times. Apparently, there's been a due to two icy winters, the Daily Mail reports. With 1.6m potholes in England and Wales, the paper claims it will cost £10bn to fill them all in. Speaker of the hour WATFORD, Guardian public services...
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February 05, 2010Unhappy fact about Aids in Africa. A lot of women are exposed to HIV by philandering husbands and can't do a thing about protecting themselves. The men won't wear condoms. In fact, the women don't even dare ask them to. So there's been huge enthusiasm for the idea of a microbicide - a virus-killing gel women could use before sex. Women especially - like Claire Short, when she was Britain's international development secretary - threw their weight behind...
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February 05, 2010Mumbai, Feb 5 : Shiv Sena Executive President Uddhav Thackeray has lashed out at Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi for travelling by a local train in Mumbai during his visit, describing it as a mere drama. Thackeray said, "Rahul Gandhi's train journey was a drama. Rahul's drama was typical of north Indians. ...
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February 05, 2010Next » 1 2 Operation Rabbit Cull - picture gallery By Bronwynne Jooste Marksmen are shooting about 80 rabbits a night in Robben Island's most drastic culling programme to date. And soon the meat, some of which is being given to welfare organisations, will be on menus at restaurants across the city....
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February 05, 2010By Megan Baadjies Three bikini-clad moffies are the moer-in after they were kicked out of a public swimming pool for their female swimwear. The trio were hoping to swim away their babalas at the Bonteheuwel swimming pool but they say lifeguards wysed them...
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February 05, 2010 Recently named partner Eva Mangas Nightingale will specialize in business development and member retention DALLAS, Feb. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Private Club Marketing marks the beginning of a momentous year with several significant company developments. The international company that specializes in marketing strategies for the private club industry recently opened a Dallas office, re-focused its business strategy, named a new partner and relaunched its website....
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February 05, 2010DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Tony Eury Jr. is comfortable discussing just how uncomfortable he once was with the prospect of trying to mold Danica Patrick into a stock-car driver. The reason: She has proven to her crew chief that she can do this. The pace of the open-wheel star's NASCAR indoctrination increased significantly Thursday at Daytona International Speedway, and judging by the demeanor of her and her JR Motorsports crew, they expect to be up to speed for her first stock-car race Saturday in the Automobile Racing Club of America season-opener. At first Eury nursed Patrick through many of the mundane aspects of operating a stock car on the 2.5-mile track, but his pupil seemed to adjust...
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February 05, 2010Dear Carolyn: My 25-year-old daughter met a guy about a year ago. He's the perfect partner for her. She told me that he is "the one" and that she loves him so much. My whole family welcomed him as one of our own. The couple did everything together, even adopted a dog. They moved in together two months ago. My daughter just asked him to leave -- no reason other than she needed to find herself. Both...
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February 05, 2010INTERNATIONAL hotel group...
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February 05, 2010The International Air...
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February 05, 2010The Nigerian Civil Aviation...
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February 05, 2010Entry deadline for the 2010 edition of the World Travel...
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February 05, 2010MINISTER of Tourism, Culture and National...
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February 05, 2010THE Civil...
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February 05, 2010This internationally famous UFO incident took place in 1986, on January 29, at 7:55 p.m. Some have called it the Roswell Incident of the Soviet Union. The information concerning this incident was sent to us by a number of Russian ufologists. Mesh-like objects found at the site BREAKING NEWS The demise of America Airships To Become New Kind of Luxury Transport More... Dalnegorsk is a small mining town in the Far East of Russia. That cold January...
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February 05, 2010Mumbai, Feb.5 : Congress General Secreatry Rahul Gandhi completed an eventful four-hour-long visit to Mumbai on Friday afternoon, ignoring warnings of caution from the right-wing Shiv Sena and the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena about statements related to the city and other parts of Maharashtra. Gandhi left by helicopter for Puducherry, but not before indirectly cocking a snook at both the Shiv Sena and the MNS. ...
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February 05, 2010Britain's fostering system is being strained to breaking point in the wake of Baby P. More children are being put into care – and yet there is a desperate shortage of foster parents. Amelia Gentleman spends a week with one London team as they battle to find safe harbour for some of the country's most vulnerable children Two members of one London foster care team. Photograph: Sarah Lee Day one It is unusual for anything to shock this department, staffed by people who have spent their careers wading through the routine tragedies associated with family breakdown, drug addiction, mental illness and child abuse, and yet something about the case of Baby Hannah has stunned the office momentarily...
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February 05, 2010Gallery: Robben Island's rabbit culling Warning: Graphic Pictures Nearly 100 rabbits are being killed every night on Robben Island as part of a carefully-run culling operation....
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February 05, 2010DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — - If the first practice was any indication, Speedweeks at could be filled with aggressive driving, big wrecks and backup cars. An on-track tangle between and Denny Hamlin triggered a seven-car accident Thursday that may set the tone for the next two weeks. "Trust me, we're not finished," said Greg Biffle, who was involved in the wreck. Jamie...
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February 05, 2010Siliguri, Feb 5 : Activists of students wing of Gorkha Janamukti Morcha sat on a hunger strike on Thursday to pressurise their demand for carving out a separate state of Gorkhaland. ...
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February 05, 2010New Delhi, Feb 5 : Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh on Friday said that 'The Energy Research Institute' under the leadership of Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change chief Dr Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, has helped in meeting the twin challenges of energy security and climate change. Praising Dr Pachauri, Dr Singh said, "The Energy Research Institute , has, under the able and far-sighted leadership of Dr. R.K. Pachauri, earned well-deserved respect and international acclaim for its contributions to the global effort in meeting the twin challenges of energy security and climate...
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February 05, 2010Port Blair, Feb 5 : Navy Chief Admiral Nirmal Verma today said the armed forces are the only organisation that takes action against any corrupt practices, while other organizations lag far...
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February 05, 2010Port Blair, Feb 5 : Navy Chief Admiral Nirmal Verma on Friday said that Exercise Milan, the largest naval conglomeration hosted by India, is not a security bloc aimed at any particular country, specially China and its increasing influence in the Indian Ocean region. The four-day exercise will see the participation of 12 navies of the Asia-Pacific region within the context of the Indian Navy's "Look East" policy and naval interactions to...
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February 05, 2010New Delhi, Feb 5 : The Supreme Court on Friday rejected the bail application of Indian Police Service officer M N Dinesh, an accused in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case. Dinesh is a Rajasthan cadre...
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February 05, 2010The National College of...
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February 05, 2010DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Danica Patrick is Dale Earnhardt Jr., only she looks hotter in a bikini. She is a rock star, complete with an entourage of drooling onlookers, the click-click-click of the paparazzi, and the corporate cache of crossover appeal. Everyone digs a chick who drives fast. Danica is a foreign import on the scene, despite the passport that says she was born in Beloit, Wis., on March 25, 1982. She’s an open-wheeler, derisively dismissed by some as a driver in a posh wine-and-cheese circuit that can’t match the thunder of stock-car racing. Danica will now have to navigate through the bump and grind of...
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February 05, 2010Mumbai, Feb 5 : Over 40 Shiv Sena activists were detained in different parts of Mumbai for protesting against the visit of Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi. The Maharashtra Government is leaving no stone...
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February 05, 2010Siliguri, Feb 5 : At least thirty four couples recently tied the nuptial knot at a mass marriage ceremony here. Organised by the Guruji Pranami Mission Trust, the main objective of the event...
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February 05, 2010Jalandhar, Feb 5 Kamaljeet Singh Bhatia, Senior Deputy Mayor of Jalandhar was on Thursday beaten up by leaders of an employees union of the municipal corporation for his...
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February 05, 2010Srinagar, Feb 5 : People's Democratic Party leader Mehbooba Mufti has welcomed Home Minister P. Chidambaram's proposed visit to Pakistan. Talking to reporters here on Thursday, Mufti expressed hope for the visit, adding that it...
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February 05, 2010Pune, Feb 5 : German President, Horst Koehler, who is on a seven-day visit to India, visited the plant of German auto major Volkswagen at Pune on Thursday. During...
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February 05, 2010 Company is the winner for the category South America's Leading Airline Download image SAO PAULO, Brazil, Nov. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- TAM was elected, for the second consecutive time, the best airline in South America at...
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February 05, 2010Download image CLINTON, Iowa, Jan. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- To prepare university students for the challenges of online learning, academic scholars from Ashford University developed and wrote, "The R-Model for Learning Online and Achieving Lifelong Goals." The new book walks students through all facets of the online education experience. Following are the basic principles to achieving online learning success:...
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February 05, 2010 Keynoters Include Top Execs from Avaya, Cisco, IBM, Microsoft and Siemens SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- VoiceCon®, produced by TechWeb, announces that the keynote speakers and conference agenda are set for VoiceCon Orlando 2010. The leading enterprise communications event will celebrate its 20th anniversary March 22-25 at the Gaylord Palms Hotel in Orlando, FL, addressing the shifts in IP Telephony, Converged Networks and Unified Communications. Registration is now open at www.voicecon.com/orlando. This year's keynote lineup includes the following key executives from the leaders in enterprise communications: Avaya's Kevin Kennedy, President & CEOCisco's Tony Bates,...
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February 05, 2010Industry leaders and government ministers are praising the success of the PATA Adventure Travel and Responsible Tourism Conference and Mart in Kathmandu, Nepal. The conference addressed key issues facing the industry as PATA seeks to improve awareness and generate increased commitment to sustainable and responsible tourism practices in line with the Association’s...
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February 05, 2010Sungura musician Tongai...
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February 05, 2010Nominees for the ninth...
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February 05, 2010Former actors from some...
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February 05, 2010Jaswant Johal is one of the most successful women in Vancouver media. Ironically, she is also one of the least visible, at least to mainstream audiences. But Johal, who first brought bhangra artists to local audiences on her breakthrough 1992 radio show, Punjabi Beat, is determined to see that change. "I want to think about how far my community can be integrated into the Canadian community, how far they can go," said the 20-year broadcast veteran, a pioneer of the wide-ranging and diverse multicultural cable universe in Metro Vancouver. "I want to keep changing with the times." Johal was born in India and moved to England at the age of seven. She and her husband came to Vancouver in...
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February 05, 2010Pune, Feb 5 : Ahead of Valentine's Day, Pune Police has issued prohibitory orders, under Section 144 of the IPC till February 15, which prohibits assembly of five or more persons or holding of public meetings. Police said their seven-point...
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February 05, 2010Pune, Feb 5 : Yoga guru Baba Ramdev has advised Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi to focus his energies on weeding out black money and corruption in the country, instead of merely...
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February 05, 2010New Delhi, Feb 5 : With its focus on challenges and initiatives for tackling the issues of climate change, New Delhi played host to the third International Climate Change Exhibition here on Thursday. The 'curtain-raiser' of this informative and progressive exhibition was held on Thursday. Around 34 innovators and entrepreneurs displayed a wide...
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February 05, 2010New Delhi, Feb 5 : The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, on Friday backed UN Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change chief Dr Rajendra Kumar Pachauri and expressed full confidence in the IPCC assessment process. Dr...
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February 05, 2010New Delhi, Feb 5 : The Congress Working Committee will discuss the spiraling price rise at a meeting today, as the Congress President Sonia Gandhi...
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February 05, 2010Washington, Feb 5 : Canadian researchers suggest that retinal function could prove to be a useful biomarker for detecting the risk of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Lead researchers Marc Hebert, Michel Maziade claim that retinal deficits may contribute to the perceptual problems associated...
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February 05, 2010Washington, Feb 5 : Danish scientists have made a novel discovery that would help in preventing life-threatening malaria in pregnant women and their unborn children. The team from University of Copenhagen have identified a protein known as VAR2CSA that enables malaria parasites to accumulate in the placenta and...
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February 05, 2010Washington, Feb 5 : Pregnant women with depression can get relief from acupuncture, a new study has suggested. "Depression during pregnancy is an issue of concern because it has negative effects on both the mother and the baby as...
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February 05, 2010Mumbai, Feb 5 : Security has been tightened here for Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi's visit, even as the right-wing Shiv Sena cautioned him to keep out of Mumbai's affairs. Mumbai Police is taking no chances and has sent notices to Shiv Sena leaders...
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February 05, 2010Posted on: Thursday, 4 February 2010, 22:19 CST On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Fundación Tres Culturas del Mediterráneo in September 30th, 2009, José Antonio Griñán, president of the Junta de Andalucía, presented a facsimile edition of a 13th century Andalusian Qur'an at the National Library of the...
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February 05, 2010Posted on: Thursday, 4 February 2010, 22:35 CST Agricultural Research Service scientists are tapping into the DNA of a wild oat, considered by some to be a noxious weed, to see if it can help combat crown rust, the most damaging fungal disease of oats worldwide. Crown rust reduces oat yields...
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February 05, 2010Posted on: Thursday, 4 February 2010, 23:30 CST Male homosexuality doesn’t make complete sense from an evolutionary point of view. It appears that the trait is heritable, but because homosexual men are much less likely to produce offspring than heterosexual men, shouldn’t the genes for this trait have been extinguished long ago? What value could this sexual orientation have, that it has persisted for eons even without any discernible reproductive advantage? One possible explanation is what evolutionary psychologists call the “kin selection hypothesis.” What that means is that homosexuality may convey an indirect benefit by...
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February 05, 2010None of them were spectacular and two of them aren't around anymore, but the Twins would not have won the AL Central last season without the contributions of Carl Pavano, Orlando Cabrera, Jon Rauch and Ron Mahay. The bullpen was flailing and failing until the set-up men provided the stability that wasn't coming from the shuttle from Rochester; Pavano filled a spot in the rotation that kept the Twins from continuing to experiment with the overmatched and unworthy; Cabrera provided enough highlight moments to disguise his substandard on-base percentage, raggedy arm and error-prone ways. More important than any of their individual contributions, however, is how those successes have energized an...
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February 05, 2010Posted | Comment | Recommend | | | Money's tight but you still need to hop online, watch TV and make phone calls. All that adds up to some hefty bills. But you may be able to save big bucks by trimming your digital expenses. Cut your cable TV altogether and you may be able to save $1,000 or more a year. Let's take a look at ways to save on cable, phone and high-speed Internet service. You'll find links to sites mentioned at . TECH TIPS: Cable TV There are many alternatives to cable TV services. For starters, you could squeeze by with only your local channels. I know, that's not enough. With an Internet connection, you can download your favorite TV shows and movies from...
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February 05, 2010NASCAR opened Daytona International Speedway for the first practice session Thursday of what's expected to be one of the most critical seasons in sport history. Faced with slumping attendance and television ratings, and economic woes that have handcuffed teams and manufacturers,...
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February 05, 2010Los Angeles: Infosys Technologies and San Francisco-based Elan Pharmaceuticals Thursday formally announced a partnership agreement under which the Indian software giant will design and implement a new research informatics system for the latter. A joint statement here said the new informatics system will help Elan Pharmaceuticals, a leading biotechnology company, accelerate its research by leveraging Infosys'...
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February 05, 2010Emotions are generally regarded in the mind of the...
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February 05, 2010This image taken from the Heart Attack Grill website shows part of their me... The owner of the "Heart Attack Grill" in Arizona is suing "Heart Stoppers Grill" in Florida, accusing the outlet of plagiarizing his death by burger brainchild, lawyers said Thursday. Jon Basso, the owner of the original Arizona joint,...
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February 05, 2010They're everywhere! Toads have...
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February 05, 2010Monarch butterflies are seen after their migration to Mexico. Migrating ins... Migrating insects seek out the fastest winds to help them cover vast distances much quicker than birds, reaching warm winter climes in just a few days, a British study revealed Thursday. Scientists have long been fascinated by how insects can fly far...
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February 05, 2010Why is the hero...
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February 05, 2010Brandeis: Frequently engaging in mental exercises such as word games, puzzles and reading may help boost memory power among less educated people, say researchers. It is said education plays a key role in lifelong memory performance and risk for dementia, and it’s well documented that those with a college degree possess a cognitive advantage over their less educated counterparts in middle and old age. The new...
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February 05, 2010Sydney: A diet rich in coconut oil keeps fat away and also protects against insulin resistance, a new study shows. The study also helps explain how people who incorporate medium chain fatty acids found in coconut oil into their diets can lose body fat. Obesity and insulin...
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February 05, 2010While relevant advertising is the only kind that’s useful, it’s creepy to see behavioral ads following you around the web, advertising that trip to Hawaii you’d researched last week when you’re just trying to read the news. But perhaps it would be a lot less creepy if you knew when and where you were sharing your data, and when and why you’re being targeted by ads. To that end, you can find out exactly what cookies BlueKai — which says it’s the largest U.S. behavioral data provider, and just raised a third round...
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February 05, 2010UPDATE: A U.S. District Court judge has thrown out a complaint by record label EMI against the founders of now-defunct music search engine Seeqpod, effectively ending a year-old that attracted special attention because it also named as a defendant a developer who had used the company’s application programming interface . Earlier this week, Judge Laura Taylor Swain...
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February 05, 2010If you find you just can’t get a fast enough Internet connection, you might want to look for an apartment in Vancouver, British Columbia — a local ISP there named Novus says it will soon launch the continent’s fastest Internet service, offering 200 megabits per second. Unfortunately, the company’s service only covers certain apartment and condo...
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February 05, 2010DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Four-time defending NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson wants nothing to do with Sam Hornish Jr. It might even be too late for Hornish to apologize for what happened at Texas Motor Speedway in November. Asked at Daytona 500 media day which driver he would least want to learn from, Johnson made it clear he is still fuming that Hornish never apologized for the accident that could have cost Johnson his latest championship. "He hits way too much stuff, including me at important times of the year," Johnson said, making an uncharacteristically blunt assessment of a fellow driver. "Still to this day, he has never said a word about [it]. I wish he'd just walk up and say, 'Man, I...
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February 05, 2010A limited study of 15,000 North Texas athletes has found that about one in 30 has suffered concussions since 2008, according to researchers with the Texas Health Presbyterian system. Athletes at 83 public and private schools throughout the area have been tested using ImPACT computer software under the Sports Concussion Management Program, which is administered under the Texas Health Presbyterian system. Using the software, athletes are tested before participating in sports....
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February 05, 2010TOKYO – The crisis rocking Toyota escalated Friday as the Japanese automaker looked set to recall several hundred thousand Prius hybrids and was slapped with a US lawsuit alleging it covered up safety problems. The Japanese giant, which dethroned General Motors in 2008 as the world's biggest automaker, is reeling from a litany of complaints about problems ranging from unintended acceleration to brake failure. With Toyota already pulling millions of vehicles worldwide because of sticking accelerators, the flagship Prius became the latest model to be targeted in US investigations. The Nikkei business daily said that Toyota had decided...
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February 05, 2010Nasa scientists say that dwarf planet Pluto, on the edge of our solar system, is becoming increasingly red. Images taken by the Hubble space telescope show that the planet is some 20% redder than it used to be....
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February 05, 2010The website that gave the term ‘six degrees of separation’ new meaning is celebrating its sixth birthday. On February 4, 2004, Facebook was launched by a group of students at Harvard University. Today, it is the world’s largest social network, having outstripped rival MySpace some time in 2008. Most experts agree that 2009 was a breakthrough year for the social networking site: not only did it hit 150 million active users in January 2009 , but found a much wider user base than the usual suspects of...
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February 05, 2010LONDON - Scientists have used an 'artificial pancreas' system of pumps and monitors to improve blood sugar control in diabetes patients in the first study to show the new device works better than conventional treatment. Researchers from Britain's Cambridge University tested the device on 17 children with type 1 diabetes during a series of nights in hospital and found it kept their blood sugar levels within the important "normal" range for 60 percent of...
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February 05, 2010SEOUL - North Korea announced on Friday it would release a US missionary who crossed into the communist state last Christmas Day on a lone campaign to publicise its human rights abuses. Robert Park had expressed "sincere repentance" for his actions which were prompted by "false propaganda" from the West, the North's official news agency said. It did not say when he would be freed. Park, 28, was held by border guards on December 25 after crossing the frozen border river from China. He carried a letter calling on leader Kim Jong-Il to release...
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February 05, 2010WASHINGTON - A Massachusetts company has agreed to pay a $200,000 penalty to settle allegations it violated U.S. law when it imported Thomas and Friends, Curious George and Winnie the Pooh toys with high levels of lead. The Consumer Product Safety Commission alleged that Schylling Associates Inc. of Rowley, Mass., imported tens of thousands of toys that violated the federal lead paint ban and then distributed them to retail stores. These items included spinning top toys and tin pail toys with Thomas and Friends and Curious George graphics. The noncompliant toys also included spinning top toys with circus scenes and Winnie the Pooh graphics. The consumer safety agency said Thursday that...
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February 05, 2010BEIJING - Asian stocks tumbled Friday as ballooning European debt and a rise in U.S. unemployment claims added to fears the global recovery could slip back into recession. Markets from Tokyo to Hong Kong to Sydney dropped about 2.5 percent or more after European stocks slid Thursday on debt worries and U.S. markets were hurt by data showing unemployment claims rose last week. Oil prices hovered near $73 a barrel, adding to a big slide overnight, while the dollar continued to gain against the euro, which was at its lowest since May. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 lost 2.6 percent, or 269.18 points, to 10,086.80 and China's Shanghai Composite Index fell 1.8 percent, or 53.42, to 2,941.89. Hong...
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February 05, 2010NEW YORK, Jan. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Despite a recent report to the contrary, Nissan North America confirmed its full participation at the 2010 New York International Auto Show today ending any speculation that the Japanese automaker was pulling out of the Show. Over the years, the company has chosen New York for many of its most important new vehicle launches including the all-new seventh generation Maxima...
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February 05, 2010Markets » Worries about Euro debt and hiring spook investors. Combined News ServicesUpdated: 02/04/2010 08:22:05 PM MST Click photo to enlargeSpecialist Patrick King works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010. New York » A rout in stock markets that began in Europe spread to Wall Street on Thursday, amid fears that the global economy is weakening and that the U.S. job picture is worsening. The Dow Jones industrials briefly traded below 10,000 for the first time in three months. A flood of bad news, including rising debt levels in...
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February 05, 2010Change » Leaders hope Utah can reform health insurance without federal help.Updated: 02/04/2010 06:04:23 PM MST The Utah Health Exchange insurance program for small-group employers was opened Thursday to a limited number of bigger employers by state leaders hoping to prove Utah can reform health insurance without federal help. "We all know that health care is the topic of the day, and in fact it is the topic of the past year," Gov. Gary Herbert...
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February 05, 2010Brittany Murphy's death was caused by pneumonia according to final reports. Pat Anthony If you like this ... Helping diabetic family members Is Brittany Murphy's death suspicious? Health risks for workers traveling to Haiti Healthy eating for better health and appearance. Charlotte residents may benefit from services of The Mecklenburg County Health Department View all »...
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February 05, 2010Lisa Hanenburg of Munster, Ind., admits it sounds strange to say NASCAR saved 150 children two weeks ago in a Haitian town not far from Port-au-Prince. Even she has a hard time believing what happened when, in a moment of desperation, she called Hendrick Motorsports in Charlotte: Could it help get food to an orphanage in Source Matelas where dozens of children were cut off and starving after the Jan. 12 earthquake? “I have a friend who had been working to adopt one of the children, and we were getting text messages from him that they were desperate and hadn’t eaten in days,” says Hanenburg, who is part of a nonprofit group that supports the orphanage. “I called the...
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February 05, 2010DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- If the first practice is any indication, Speedweeks could be filled with aggressive driving, big wrecks and backup cars. An on-track tangle between Mark Martin and Denny Hamlin triggered a seven-car accident Thursday that may set the tone for two weeks of ramped-up racing at Daytona International Speedway. "Trust me, we're not finished," said Greg Biffle, who was involved in the wreck. Jamie McMurray, Joey Logano, Kyle Busch and Clint Bowyer also were part of the melee, which happened halfway into the first practice for the Budweiser Shootout. Martin was in front of Hamlin in a pack of cars when Hamlin hooked the rear of Martin's car. The contact turned Martin into the...
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February 05, 2010DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – The first official day of NASCAR practice also produced the first official wreck of the season – and then the second one. Near the end of Thursday’s first Budweiser Shootout practice session, Denny Hamlin hit Mark Martin's car from behind. And, as it usually goes at Daytona International speedway and Talladega Superspeedway, many others were caught up in the incident. Seven cars became involved and several others were sent scattering into the infield grass. Five teams immediately brought out backup cars: those of Hamlin, Martin, Jamie McMurray, Greg Biffle and Kevin Harvick. "Probably a case of both of us anticipating something where it caused a flash,"...
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February 05, 2010RICHMOND, Va. -- The Food and Drug Administration is saying in letters to two tobacco companies that flavored, dissolvable tobacco products - that the agency compares with candy and says contain a lot of nicotine - could be particularly appealing to kids and young adults. The FDA's Center for Tobacco Products wrote to R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., maker of Camel cigarettes, and the smaller Star Scientific Inc. on Monday voicing concern over smokeless products that are consumed like breath mints but made from finely milled tobacco. "CTP is concerned that children and adolescents may find dissolvable tobacco products particularly appealing, given the brightly colored packaging, candy-like...
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February 05, 2010Speedweeks at Daytona International Speedway started off with a bang on Thursday with wrecks in both practices for the Budweiser Shootout. A seven-car crash occurred 35 minutes into the first practice, as Denny Hamlin tapped Mark Martin from behind on the backstretch, sending Martin into the wall. He then swayed down the track, which triggered the multi-car pileup. "I was trying to be cautious," Hamlin said. "You got two things going together -- him at the last minute trying to check up and be cautious, and me at the last minute trying to get behind him. Anytime there's a check-up point down the straightaway, its going to happen." Hamlin and Martin, along with Greg Biffle, Kevin Harvick and...
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February 05, 2010Saturday's Sprint Cup lineup, determined by draw: 1. Carl Edwards, Ford 2. Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet 3. Brian Vickers, Toyota 4. Ryan Newman, Chevrolet 5. Greg Biffle, Ford 6. Mark Martin, Chevrolet 7. Jeff Burton, Chevrolet 8. Matt Kenseth, Ford 9. Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet 10. John Andretti, Ford 11. Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet 12. Bobby Labonte, Chevrolet 13. Tony Stewart, Chevrolet 14. Ken Schrader, Toyota 15. Michael Waltrip, Toyota 16. Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet 17. Kyle Busch, Toyota 18. Derrike Cope, Dodge 19. Kasey Kahne, Ford 20. Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet 21. Joey Logano, Toyota 22. Kurt Busch, Dodge 23. Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet 24. Denny Hamlin, Toyota Email Print Order Reprint...
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February 05, 2010DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Ask anyone in NASCAR about the many, many industry ailments and the answer is that everything will be just fine. They better be right. NASCAR opened Daytona International Speedway on Thursday for the first practice session of what's expected to be one of the most critical seasons in sport history. Faced with slumping attendance and television ratings, and economic woes that have handcuffed teams and manufacturers, NASCAR has planned a series of adjustments designed to re-energize the industry. There's no doubt that it's a clear reaction to growing fan unrest. "I think the fans want to see results," veteran driver Jeff Burton said. "The fans have been speaking for the...
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February 05, 2010Four-time Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson is picked to win a fifth in a poll of media members conducted by NASCARmedia.com. That wouldn't necessarily be surprising except that it's the first time the media have predicted he would repeat since he won his first title in 2006. Jeff Gordon was picked second, Tony Stewart third, Kyle Busch fourth, Carl Edwards fifth, Denny Hamlin sixth, Mark Martin seventh, Kurt Busch eighth, Juan Pablo Montoya ninth, Matt Kenseth 10th, Greg Biffle 11th and Ryan Newman 12th. Edwards was also picked to win the Nationwide Series title and Ron Hornaday was picked to win his fifth Truck series title. Email Print Order Reprint Share: Yahoo! Buzz Text tool name tool...
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February 05, 2010DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Tony Eury Jr. is comfortable discussing just how uncomfortable he once was with the prospect of trying to mold Danica Patrick into a stock car driver. The reason: She's already proved to her crew chief that she can do this. The pace of the open wheel star's NASCAR indoctrination increased significantly on Thursday at Daytona International Speedway. Judging from her demeanor and that shown by her JR Motorsports crew, they expect to be up to speed in Patrick's first stock car race on Saturday, the ARCA season-opener. At first Eury eased Patrick through many of the mundane aspects of running a stock car on the 2.5-mile restrictor-plate track. But his pupil seemed to...
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February 05, 2010DETROIT — Ford Motor Co. says it will fix 17,600 Mercury Milan and Ford Fusion gas-electric hybrids that can give...
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February 05, 2010TOKYO — Toyota Motor Corp. will recall 270,000 Prius hybrid vehicles over brake problems in the United States and Japan, a leading newspaper said Friday. The recall would affect the new Prius hybrid model, which went on sale in the United States and Japan in May 2009, Japan's...
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February 05, 2010NEW YORK — Stocks buckled Thursday under the growing belief that the global economy is weaker than many investors expected and likely to stop companies from hiring. The Dow Jones industrials traded below 10,000 for the first time in three months. A flood of bad news, including rising debt levels in European nations and an unexpected jump in the number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits, had investors pulling money out of assets like stocks and commodities that look increasingly risky. Fears of more...
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February 05, 2010POKHARA: In a bid to stop the further spread of bird flu in Pokhara, the government has started killing birds in the area. It is estimated that there are nearly 12,000 birds in the area. The authorities also started destroying all the poultry, poultry-related products and the material used for poultry farming. The move follows the detection of bird flu yesterday spreading panic in...
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February 05, 2010As a prominent Gatlinburg arts school weighs a possible move, Knoxville is on a short list of favored relocation sites. The Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts is currently located along the Parkway in Gatlinburg, on land owned by the Pi Beta Phi fraternity for women. In 2008, the fraternity said it had reached a deal to sell the property to a developer, and although that proposal fell through, the art school’s future has been in doubt ever since. On Thursday, Arrowmont said in a news...
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February 05, 2010A ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating Sevier County's $115 million LeConte Medical Center drew hundreds of folks hoping to get their first peek inside the new hospital on Thursday. "It is gorgeous. Every room is filled with light and views of the...
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February 05, 2010NASHVILLE — Republican legislative leaders today declared their opposition to a proposed tax increase on cable TV, which Gov. Phil Bredesen says is needed to balance...
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February 05, 2010GOODLETTSVILLE, Tenn. — Discount retailer Dollar General says it will add 5,000 jobs as it opens 600 new stores...
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February 05, 2010OAK RIDGE — Paul Benton Motors on Oak Ridge Turnpike has closed its doors, bringing to three the number of new car dealerships that have shuttered in Oak Ridge in the last two years....
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February 05, 2010Just as Knoxville area businesses have begun to embrace the micro-blogging site Twitter,...
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February 05, 2010WASHINGTON - Toyota said Thursday it is evaluating brake problems with the 2010 Prius gas-electric hybrid, but no decision has been made about a recall. A company spokesman said the automaker is cooperating fully with a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration probe into brake...
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February 05, 2010NEW YORK — A new startup called Kwedit wants to help teenagers and other people without credit or debit cards buy virtual goods online. If it catches on, Kwedit could broaden the market for virtual items and even teach kids about real credit, says CEO Danny Shader, who headed Accept.com before Amazon.com...
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February 05, 2010WASHINGTON — The government is cracking down on companies that advertise help for troubled homeowners but often turn out to be scam artists. The Federal Trade Commission said Thursday it...
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February 05, 2010KATHMANDU: Nepal is set to witness a five-fold growth in adventure tourism over the next three years, according to UK-based Peter Burrell, managing director of Exodus Travel. He told delegates attending the PATA Adventure Travel and Responsible Tourism...
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February 05, 2010KATHMANDU: The Responsible Tourism Fringe Meeting held on Tuesday focused on inspiring students from tourism institutes in Kathmandu for responsible travel and also giving them exposure to what is happening in the world of responsible tourism in the present...
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February 05, 2010KATHMANDU: Asian Development Bank has added climate change as a primary concern in Country Partnership Strategy for Nepal along with strengthening peace and good governance. Climate change, peace filter and government risk assessment are the main features of the new CPS, said country director Barry J Hitchcock. CPS has added climate change as a growing concern and...
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February 05, 2010A boiled-down dictionary of 1,001 words for the business community, this book steers thrusting young execs away from such...
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February 05, 2010Nothing kicks a dying dinner party into life better than a good complaint. Only last month, John had a great one about the man from British Gas who called to inspect his boiler. After a great deal of poking about he finally announced that the boiler was beyond repair. "But it's working perfectly. I only asked you round so that I could sign up for your maintenance deal." "Sorry," said the man. "We can only offer deals to people with boilers that meet our standards. And yours doesn't." And with that he slapped a label on the boiler which announced in big red letters "Danger. Do not use". Even though I always roll along with such stories, I do sometimes wonder if all this middle-class moaning...
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February 05, 2010Washington - Web giant Google is negotiating with the government's National Security Agency for help in warding off attacks on the company's network, the Washington Post reported Thursday. The purported move raised alarm bells among...
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February 05, 2010EDISON, N.J., Feb. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- PSKW & Associates LLC of Edison, New Jersey, which owns the Loyalty Rx Co-pay Card, has purchased Triax Media LLC of Irvine, California. At the same time, PSKW has licensed the purchase to its subsidiary, Centricity Group LLC of Mendham, New Jersey. Centricity owns...
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February 05, 2010DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- NASCAR driver Kevin Harvick is sitting out Budweiser Shootout practice because of flulike symptoms....
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February 05, 2010DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Ask anyone in NASCAR about the many, many industry ailments and the answer is that everything will be just fine. They better be right. NASCAR opened Daytona International Speedway on Thursday for the first practice session of what's expected to be one of the most critical seasons in sport history. Faced with slumping attendance and television ratings, and economic woes that have handcuffed teams and manufacturers, NASCAR has planned a series of adjustments designed to re-energize the industry. There's no doubt that it's a clear reaction to growing fan unrest. "I think the fans want to see results," veteran driver Jeff Burton said. "The fans have been speaking...
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February 05, 2010DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Come in like a wrecking ball and take out half the field on the first lap, and Danica Patrick's stock car racing experiment will screech to a halt. Drive defensively and just try to stay out of the way, and she'll be dismissed as a pushover. Despite her standing as an IndyCar star and possibly the most successful female race car driver ever, Danica Patrick knows she must make a good first impression in NASCAR. Still, she made it clear during Thursday's Daytona 500 media day that she doesn't plan on being pushed around in the process. "If somebody does something to me that I don't like, you have to expect that you get something in return," Patrick said. "And I have...
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February 05, 2010Nicholas Sparks writes "beach novels" for people whose vacations are too short for anything heavy and whose tastes are pretty far from the cutting edge. And the movies made from his books are cinematic sand castles - sappy, old fashioned and utterly...
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February 05, 2010On Thursday morning, Brittany Murphy's family, friends and fans got some degree of closure as they learned the reasons behind her shocking death on December 20. Now her husband is reacting to the coroner's belief that Murphy's death could have been prevented - and...
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February 05, 2010The essence of the mind is as a container of experience, the ground in which mental objects, thoughts,...
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February 05, 2010"Reading food labels...
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February 05, 2010CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida -- Astronomers have found a comet-like object they believe was created by the...
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February 05, 2010Music fans can count on a band with "reckless" in its name to constantly do the unanticipated. "We're always up for a good curveball," said Cody Braun, co-founder, multi-instrumentalist and singer for Texas country-rockers Reckless Kelly. Multimedia Photoview all photos More Info "We've never really done what everybody expected us to ... and it's not something that we plan or do intentionally, it just kind of has been the natural process of this band." Cody Braun co-founder, multi-instrumentalist and singer for Reckless Kelly Reckless Kelly with Uncle Lucius →When: 9 p.m. Saturday. →Where: Wormy Dog Saloon, 311 E Sheridan. →Information: 601-6276 or www.wormydog.com. "We've...
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February 05, 2010Exene Cervenka is "Somewhere Gone" on her first solo album in 19 years. As that title suggests, she's gone from manic to mellow, playing music that's folkie and rustic and poles apart from the electrified railings that made her famous as the front woman of quintessential Los Angeles punk band X. Multimedia Photoview all photos More Info Dexter Romweber Duo and Exene Cervenka →Guests: Jerry Redd & the Snowmen. →When: 8 p.m. Monday. →Where: The Conservatory, 8911 N Western . →Information: 607-4805. "The songs came from interesting places," she said last...
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February 05, 2010LOS ANGELES - Neil Young sat in the audience as 20 of his best known songs were performed on stage. Multimedia Photoview all photos More Info "It's been a great night. It wore me out. Now I've got to go back and try and write some songs." Neil Young Elton John, James Taylor, Dave Matthews and more than a dozen other artists launched Grammy weekend with performances honoring Young as the MusiCares Person of the Year. The annual event celebrates an artist's philanthropy each year as it raises funds for the music...
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February 05, 2010Trying to avoid a painfully long wait in the ER? One local hospital system is publicly sharing the current average wait time to see a doctor at all its emergency departments. Akron General Health System recently began advertising up-to-the-minute wait times for its emergency rooms on billboards throughout town. Six digital billboards in Akron are automatically updated every 20 minutes to show current average wait times to see a doctor at the main ER in downtown Akron and in satellite ERs in the Montrose area and Stow. The average times are computer generated, based on current patient information from the health system's electronic medical records, marketing director Mary Brackle...
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February 05, 2010Posted on: Thursday, 4 February 2010, 17:53 CST The involvement of healthy volunteers in clinical and preclinical research, especially in the gastroenterology, has grown...
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February 05, 2010In another blow to Google's plan to create a giant digital library and bookstore, the Justice Department on Thursday said that a class-action settlement between the company and groups representing authors and publishers had significant legal problems, even after recent revisions. In a 31-page filing that could influence a federal judge's ruling on the settlement, the department said the new agreement was much improved from an earlier version. But it said...
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February 05, 2010LOS ANGELES - A subplot has emerged over how Michael Jackson's doctor will get to court. Dr. Conrad Murray's arraignment on...
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February 05, 2010President Obama’s State of the Union Address last week indicated that he was getting the message the American people were sending him through the senate seat election in Massachusetts and the various polls done by the major media networks recently. One year into his administration, the president’s tone of speech was much less exuberant, and more humbled by the recent turn of events. After Democrat lost its senate seat election in Massachusetts, Obama realizes that he has fallen to the cruel reality from a illusion of voters’ adoration one year ago. On his State of Union Address last month, Obama’s tone of speech was much less exuberant and was frustrated due to intractable problems,...
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February 05, 2010Download image WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --Exactly 39 years ago today, a young man dressed in a black velvet jacket, adorned in gold chains and an oversized gold belt buckle presented himself at the northwest gate of the White House. Elvis Presley, the most popular singer of his time, handed the White House security agents a handwritten letter addressed to the President of the United States, Richard Nixon, requesting a meeting with him....
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February 05, 2010Download image SANTA MONICA, Calif., Dec. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Denon Classics, a unit of the Savoy Label Group , is once again the U.S.'s #1 independent Classical label for 2009 according to Billboard Magazine. Buoyed by phenomenal sales of their Most Relaxing Classical series plus another Top 5 year-end standing for cornerstone classical artist Andre Rieu, Denon Classics once again lead all other independent and traditional classical music labels , for the sixth year...
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February 05, 2010 Lots of Live Music Planned and Celebrities Coming to See the Hottest, Most Innovative New Products Introduced at NAMM CARLSBAD, Calif., Dec. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Association of Music Merchants today announced just some of the many stars and events that will make up the world-famous NAMM Show, which will take place in Anaheim, Calif., Jan 14-17, 2010, at the Anaheim Convention Center. The trade-only and highly exclusive NAMM Show is one of the longest-running and largest events in the music world, featuring thousands of the latest musical instruments and products, amazing live music at every turn and the biggest names and brightest minds from the international music...
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February 05, 2010Download image Letters to Santa CD Climbs Billboard Charts; Great Stocking Stuffer WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Michael Buble. Nat King Cole. Frank Sinatra. Natalie Cole. The U.S. Postal Service delivers the perfect holiday playlist with the hit CD, Letters to Santa. More than 70,000 copies have been sold since the CD went on sale in November and the album is on track to become the Postal Service's best-selling holiday collection of all time. It's also currently the number 15 title on the Billboard holiday chart....
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February 05, 2010The eastern gray squirrel grows to about 18 inches, including its bushy tail, and weighs about a pound. In winter the soft light gray fur becomes long and dense. Albino and melanistic gray squirrels occur, and sometimes these mutations, either partial or complete, can become the dominant color phase in an area. Potential life span for this species is up to 10 years. They usually have home ranges of about two acres, but as different foods attract them, they can expand their range and might roam over an area as large as five miles. JIM GILBERT Recent Club Outdoors stories - February 4, 2010 - Two boys have been charged in Roseau County with using their pickup headlights to blind 5 fawns...
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February 05, 2010 Anwar Robinson's Voice Is Stronger Than Ever. Since His American Idol Days, Anwar's Been Making Magic In The Studios Of Bo-Ty Productions, LLC, Grabbing The Attention Of Music Greats. LAS VEGAS, Dec. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- What do legendary songwriter, Carole Bayer Sager, Saxophonist/Grammy Nominee, Gerald Albright, Singer Songwriter/Producer, Will Downing, and Super Producer, Onaje Allan Gumbs, have in common?...
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February 05, 2010LOS ANGELES-The lawyer for Michael Jackson's doctor says he will surrender Friday, though it's not clear when he'll be arraigned. Attorney Ed Chernoff said in a statement on his Web site late Thursday that...
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February 05, 2010 Response Rate Increases to 41% and Median Overall Survival Reported at 25 Months for All Evaluable Patients NEW YORK, Dec. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Keryx Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced updated efficacy and safety data as well as new survival data on the clinical activity of KRX-0401 in combination with bortezomib ) in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma. Data from the study entitled "A Multicenter Phase 1/2 Study Evaluating the Safety and Efficacy of Perifosine + Bortezomib ) in Patients with Relapsed or Relapsed / Refractory Multiple Myeloma Who Were Previously Treated with...
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February 05, 2010 Phase 3 Combination Trial Planned for 2010 NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced interim results from the Phase 1b/2 006 study, demonstrating that carfilzomib, when administered with the standard therapies lenalidomide and low dose dexamethasone, is active and well-tolerated in patients with relapsed and/or refractory multiple myeloma. These data were presented at the 51st annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology in New Orleans. A large, randomized international Phase 3 clinical trial studying the combination of lenalidomide and low dose dexamethasone with or without carfilzomib is...
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February 05, 2010NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced results from an ongoing Phase 2 study, known as the 004 study, of the company's lead proteasome inhibitor, carfilzomib. Results demonstrated promising overall response rates when carfilzomib was administered as a single agent in patients with relapsed and/or refractory multiple myeloma. These data were presented at the 51st annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology in New Orleans. Patients were divided into two populations: 73 evaluable patients with relapsed and/or refractory multiple myeloma who had not received prior bortezomib treatment, classified as...
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February 05, 2010PRINCETON, N.J., Dec. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Celator Pharmaceuticals today announced that interim safety and efficacy data from its Phase 2 multicenter, randomized, open-label clinical trial of CPX-351 Liposome Injection versus conventional cytarabine and daunorubicin therapy in patients 60-75 years of age with untreated acute myeloid leukemia were presented at the 51st American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana . The presentation included data from the first 85 evaluable patients, 57 treated with CPX-351 and 28 treated with "7+3." Investigators reported that the complete remission rate for the...
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February 05, 2010NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Micromet, Inc. , a biopharmaceutical company developing novel, proprietary antibodies for the treatment of cancer, inflammation and autoimmune diseases, today announced the publication of a poster with new data from its ongoing phase 1 clinical trial of its product candidate blinatumomab in patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at the 51ST Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology in New Orleans, Louisiana. Blinatumomab is a CD19-specific, T cell-engaging BiTE® antibody designed to direct a patient's own T cells against cancer cells inducing a self-destruction process in cancer cells. The new data...
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February 05, 2010NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO – The chief executive of book publisher Macmillan said on Thursday his company is still in talks with online retailer Inc over the pricing of its books, even as Hachette Book Group vowed to protect its authors through a new model for prices. Publisher Hachette said it would transition to a "agency model" for the sale of its e-books, but provided few details and did not name Amazon. Analysts define the model as one that transfers the retail pricing power to the publisher and gives a fixed cut to retailers. Amazon has come under fire from a number of publishers for the low prices it charges for e-books to spur demand for its electronic reader...
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February 05, 2010DURHAM, N.C. – Kyle Singler had career highs of 30 points and eight 3-pointers to lead No. 10 Duke past No. 21 Georgia Tech 86-67 on Thursday night. Jon Scheyer added 21 points for the Blue Devils , who were strong inside and outside — hitting nearly 67 percent of their 3s and dominating Georgia Tech's foul-plagued front line. Duke held a 40-32 rebounding edge and remained atop the Atlantic Coast Conference by claiming an easy win in a matchup of the league's only two ranked teams....
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February 05, 2010Randy Couture and Mark Coleman have been headed for this fight since the UFC's event numbers were in the teens. These two pioneers of mixed martial arts are now in their mid-40s, and they've been circling each other since their sport's infancy. During the years when Coleman fought mostly in Japan, when Couture became an actor in his spare time away from the octagon, they never stopped anticipating a fight that nearly happened in 1998. "I think it would have been just as interesting 10 or 12 years ago," Couture said. "We were both a lot less refined as athletes and combatants back then, but it would have been a hard-nosed affair. Mark and I are both straight-up competitors, and it would have...
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February 05, 2010MIAMI – Anthony Hargrove will line up as defensive tackle for the New Orleans Saints in Sunday's Super Bowl but watched last year's big game from a drug and alcohol rehab center. Banned by the NFL for a year for repeated infractions of their policies, Hargrove was not even thinking about his football career -- just on getting his life back on track, somehow. "At that stage football wasn't even part of the equation, it was something taken away for at least one year," Hargrove told Reuters on Thursday. "To even get reinstated there seemed to be so much that...
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February 05, 2010NEWARK, N.J. – Ilya Kovalchuk has been traded to the New Jersey Devils. The Atlanta Thrashers sent Kovalchuk and defenseman Anssi Salmela to the Devils on Thursday night for right winger Niclas Bergfors, defenseman Johnny Oduya, prospect Patrice Cormier and a 2010...
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February 05, 2010GREENVILLE, S.C. – Amu Saaka scored 21 points and Furman defeated North Carolina-Greensboro 72-64 on Thursday night. Jordan Miller added 17 points,...
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February 05, 2010INDIANAPOLIS – Gordon Hayward had 18 points and 10 rebounds, leading No. 23 Butler past Detroit 63-58 on Thursday night for its 11th straight win. Matt Howard finished with 11 points and Ronald Nored...
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February 05, 2010EAST LANSING, Mich. – Michigan State star Kalin Lucas did not practice Thursday...
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February 05, 2010BOSTON – Carolyn Swords had 14 points and nine rebounds, going 8 for 8 from the line in the final five minutes to lead Boston College to a 61-57 victory over No. 6 Duke on Thursday night. It was the first victory for BC over a ranked team since beating then-No. 2 Ohio State in the...
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February 05, 2010CORAL GABLES, Fla. – Shenise Johnson had 25 points and 10 rebounds as Miami snapped a three-game losing streak with an 80-69 victory over No. 9 North...
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February 05, 2010More News Jonathan Rodriguez scored 24 points and Miles Taylor had a double-double to lead Campbell to a 65-47 win over Stetson on Thursday night. Taylor finished with 17 points and 10 rebounds for his first double-double of the season for the Camels . Rodriguez, Campbell's all-time leading scorer, went 9-for-9 from the free throw line. Stetson played without its leading scorer, senior guard A.J. Smith, who was sidelined with an ankle injury. Freshmen guards Joel Narburgs scored 13 points and Tyshawn Patterson added 11. The Hatters , who lost their fifth straight, shot 32 percent from the floor. Campbell dominated inside, outscoring...
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February 05, 2010David Smith Pittsburgh assistant coach Tom Herrion covers his face in the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in Morgantown, W.Va. on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010. A technical was called on the West Virginia crowd for throwing debris. More News West Virginia University president Jim Clements apologized Thursday to the University of Pittsburgh, saying he was "appalled and embarrassed" by fans who threw objects onto the court during Wednesday night's basketball game. Pittsburgh assistant coach Tom Herrion was hit under his right eye with what appeared to be a coin. Clements joined Mountaineers coach Bob Huggins in denouncing the behavior. Clements said the university plans to increase...
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February 05, 2010More News Austin Kenon and Stan Okoye scored 23 points apiece, leading five Virginia Military Institute players in double-figure scoring as the Keydets beat Presbyterian 97-78 on Thursday night. Ron Burks and Michael Sparks added 14 points apiece, while Keith Gabriel finished with 13 for the Keydets , who snapped a two-game losing streak. Kenon nailed five 3-pointers for VMI while Burks, Okoye and Sparks each hit three 3s for the Keydets. Both VMI and Presbyterian had similar marks from beyond the arc, but the Keydets were 18-for-44 compared to a 6-for-15 night for the Blue Hose. The Blue Hose went on a 22-8 run to open the game,...
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February 05, 2010Related: More News Mario Edwards scored 18 points and dished out six assists, and Joseph Harris had a double-double to lead Coastal Carolina to a 96-60 rout over Gardner-Webb on Thursday night. Harris finished with 16 points and 11 rebounds - four offensive - for the Chanticleers , who became the ninth team in the school's history to win 20 games. Danny Nieman had 13 points and six assists, while Logan Johnson and Chris Evans had 10 points apiece for Coastal Carolina. The Chanticleers, who shot 60 percent from the floor for the game, took a 30-14 lead with 9 minutes left in the first half on a fast-break layup by Nieman. Coastal Carolina went into...
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February 05, 2010Mark Duncan, File FILE - In this Jan. 24, 2010 file photo, Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay holds the Lamar Hunt Trophy after the Colts' 30-17 win over the New York Jets in the AFC Championship NFL football game in Indianapolis. Irsay started working with the Colts as a ball boy. Today, he's the owner of one of the NFL's model franchises. With an old-school philosophy, a keen business sense and a desire to win, Irsay has not only transformed a losing team to a winner, but turned a basketball city into one that embraces football with even more fervor. More News Anyone who remembers the father would barely recognize the son. The late Robert Irsay was a bully, loud and meddlesome to a fault....
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February 05, 2010Eric Gay Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning stretches during football practice to begin on Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010, in Davie, Fla. The Colts face the New Orleans Saints in the NFL football Super Bowl XLIV on Sunday in Miami. More News Colts coach Jim Caldwell says injured star Dwight Freeney is rapidly improving as the Super Bowl approaches. The All-Pro defensive end has not practiced since tearing a ligament in his right ankle in the AFC title game. Indianapolis plays the New Orleans Saints on Sunday. Colts left guard Ryan Lilja joined the injury list Thursday and sat out because of a bad back. Posted on Thu, Feb. 04, 2010 06:56 PM Report comment as: Obscenity/vulgarity...
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February 05, 2010More News Former Pittsburgh Steelers running back Bill Dudley passed away after a short illness at his home in Lynchburg, Virginia. He was 88. The Hall of Famer was drafted by the Steelers with the top overall pick in 1942 and led the league in rushing that season. He served with the Army Air Corps during World War II piloting B-25s and B-29s and returned to play with four games left in the 1945 season. In the 1946 season, he garnered the MVP award, as he led the league in rushing, interceptions and punting. Dudley went on to play for the Detroit Lions from 1947-49 and the Washington Redskins from 1950-51 and 1953. In 1966, he became part of the fourth class to be enshrined in the Pro...
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February 05, 2010Reed Saxon Scott Verplank hits from the rough to the second green during the first round of the Northern Trust Open golf tournament at Riviera Country Club in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles on Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010. More News Dustin Johnson was determined to get off to a good start in the Northern Trust Open, so for the first time, he decided against trying to drive the 10th green at Riviera and instead laid up with a 4-iron. He made par, which never hurts. And then he took off. Johnson birdied three of his next four holes, one of them with a 65-foot putt, and he kept bogeys off his card during a cool, gentle morning for a 7-under 64 to build a one-shot lead Thursday over Andres...
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February 05, 2010More News Dustin Johnson fired a seven-under 64 on Thursday to lead the Northern Trust Open, while two-time defending champion Phil Mickelson ditched his controversial wedge and labored to a 72. Johnson, a two-time PGA Tour winner who likes the way Riviera fits his eye, had seven birdies in a flawless round to take a one-shot lead over Kevin Stadler and Argentina's Andres Romero. Ricky Barnes and Brandt Snedeker were another stroke further back at 66, while Steve Stricker, Cameron Beckman and Steve Lowery each shot 67s. A talented group at 68 included Ernie Els, David Duval, Rory Sabbatini, Jesper Parnevik, Scott Verplank, Stephen Ames, Luke Donald and 18-year-old Japanese star Ryo Ishikawa....
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February 05, 2010Dave Martin Driver Danica Patrick walks through the ARCA garage as she makes preparations for practice at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla., Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010. More News Come in like a wrecking ball and take out half the field on the first lap, and Danica Patrick's stock car racing experiment will screech to a halt. Drive defensively and just try to stay out of the way, and she'll be dismissed as a pushover. Despite her standing as an IndyCar star and possibly the most successful female race car driver ever, Danica Patrick knows she must make a good first impression in NASCAR. Still, she made it clear during Thursday's Daytona 500 media day that she doesn't plan on...
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February 05, 2010KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Kelley Cain scored 14 points, grabbed 17 rebounds and blocked eight shots as No. 5 Tennessee beat Arkansas 74-57 on...
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February 05, 2010Waka Flocka Flame has gotten love from people he...
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February 05, 2010After two successive cancellations due to illness last week, the formidable mezzo-soprano Olga Borodina finally took over the title role in the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Bizet's "Carmen" on Monday night. Before the performance a company spokesman announced from the stage that both Ms. Borodina and the evening's Don José, the American tenor Brandon Jovanovich , were grappling with colds and would sing, though they asked for the audience's understanding. Not much indulgence was required. Mr. Jovanovich, just 29, has a strong, rich-textured and expressive voice. Except for a rough vocal patch now and then, he made a dashing,...
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February 05, 2010Anyone as prolific, pragmatic and busy as Haydn could hardly afford the luxury of dwelling on a project once it was completed. You would assume that once he had delivered "The Seven Last Words of Christ," an orchestral work commissioned during the mid-1780s for Good Friday services in Cádiz, Spain, he might have considered his job done and moved on. But this work - a potent sequence of seven adagio movements (called...
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February 05, 2010In a story of opera house intrigue with nationalist overtones, the Italian general music director of the Saxon State Opera and its celebrated orchestra, the Dresden Staatskapelle, has abruptly resigned, leaving the house without a conductor for this month's Wagner "Ring" cycle. The maestro, Fabio Luisi, who is becoming a frequent presence at the Metropolitan Opera, said on Thursday that he would immediately cease working at the Dresden house and was canceling his performances through next season, after which his contract was to expire anyway. In a telephone interview from his home in Genoa, Mr. Luisi said opera and orchestra officials had gone behind his back to make a deal with ZDF, a...
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February 05, 2010Sometimes slight flaws in an otherwise great opera - say, a convoluted plot twist or impractical vocal demands - can account for the work's neglect. That Gluck's magnificent 1777 "Armide," a seemingly flawless masterpiece, continues to be a rarity is inexplicable. In decades of operagoing I had encountered "Armide" only once, an earnest student production at the Juilliard School in 1999, before the concert performance in the Frederick P. Rose Hall of Lincoln Center on Wednesday night. It was presented by Opera Lafayette, an adventurous period company in Washington celebrating its 15th season....
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February 05, 2010The Associated Press NEW YORK - Bruce Springsteen wants his name off a lawsuit demanding licensing fees from a Manhattan bar where a band played his songs. A statement on Springsteen's Web site Thursday said he didn't know about the lawsuit that was filed Wednesday in federal court and wouldn't have agreed to be a plaintiff if he had been asked. It says Springsteen's representatives demanded the immediate removal of his name Thursday morning after learning about the lawsuit filed by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. ASCAP didn't immediately return a telephone call seeking comment Thursday night. The suit claims Connolly's Pub violated Springsteen's copyrights by...
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February 05, 2010WASHINGTON – Changes that Google Inc and the Authors Guild made to an ambitious plan to create a massive online library were inadequate because they fail to address antitrust and copyright concerns, the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday. Google's plan to put millions of books online has been praised for expanding access to...
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February 05, 2010The Internet Engineering Task Force has set up a to document which of its standards were successful and why. "Some of [IETF's] standards have succeeded on a very large and visible scale. Others are successful, but visible only to a more limited community. Others have fared poorly," the wiki home page reads. "This wiki lists technologies and services that were developed in the IETF and represent notable successes or failures." Assessing how successful an IETF standard has become should help the Internet...
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February 05, 2010NEW YORK – Bruce Springsteen wants his name off a lawsuit demanding licensing fees from a Manhattan bar where a band played his songs. A statement on...
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February 05, 20107 tonight: Winter Reggae Splash 2010: A Tribute to Bob Marley at Elbow Room. Lion Soul & Coolie G, The Dubber, Zach Fowler and The...
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February 05, 2010Figures released to the BBC by the Scottish Qualifications Authority have indicated that cheating on exams has escalated among candidates. The number of guilty cases climbed by 22%, to 314, from 2008 to 2009. The number of cases of cheating using a mobile phone, some of which have internet access, has more than doubled. The SQA said the penalties for cheating ranged from zero...
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February 05, 2010Public spending on quangos has risen by almost £10 billion in the past two years, according to new figures...
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February 05, 2010Members of the Democratic Unionist Party last night backed a deal with Sinn Fein that saves the power-sharing government in Northern Ireland following a marathon 10-day series of talks at Hillsborough Castle in County Down. The final pieces of the jigsaw were slotted into place close to midnight after DUP leader Peter Robinson spent the day successfully persuading doubters within his party to accept arrangements he had worked out with the republicans, London and Dublin. DUP members of...
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February 05, 2010These 17 touching, tender and melancholy stories survey today's Egypt as a landscape of humiliation,...
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February 05, 2010There is no doubting Nigel Farndale's courage and ambition. The Blasphemer takes the reader from the trenches of the First World War to the "terrorist besieged streets of London"; there is a plane crash, a desperate struggle for survival, angels, academic demons, Mahler and a meditation on the limits of "cold" science when challenged by the "unearthly". Incident and mystery enough to satisfy Dan Brown, but, a novel,...
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February 05, 2010When the history of this decade, even this century, comes to be written, will what happened in San Francisco last Wednesday look more like a zenith or a nadir? Steve Jobs unveiled Apple's iPad device amid a frenzy of acclaim, dissent and dispute that stands comparison with the great religious awakenings of the 19th century: several of which caught fire in California. In this inspired, infuriating and utterly necessary book, Jaron Lanier, once a pioneer of virtual-reality technologies and still a world-ranking designer of digital aids to surgery and rehabilitation, not only addresses the "romantic appeal" of the machine-worship that he calls "cybernetic totalism". His "manifesto" underlines...
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February 05, 2010Early in Dan Rhodes' fourth novel, a drunk meanders down a darkening street, singing about a soldier and his sweetheart. It begins with the soldier asking whether Frieda will love him if he only had one eye, to which Frieda says yes; and ends with him asking if she'll still love him if there's nothing left...
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February 05, 2010Polly Noble, an immigration lawyer and protagonist in Craig's previous novels who perfectly...
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February 05, 2010Depressing for those who believe in the ameliorative power of literature, Hitler was a great book lover. The 1,200 surviving volumes of...
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February 05, 2010Anyone picking up this collection of essays might reasonably expect extensive reflection on the...
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February 05, 2010Based on a real event in 1942, this is a novella of immense power. Jacques Chessex, who died last year, was preoccupied by problems of evil. At school in the tiny Swiss town of Payerne, he sat next to the daughter of a Nazi murderer who, with several accomplices, killed a Jewish merchant who came to their town to buy cattle. They lured him to a byre, felled him, cut up his body...
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February 05, 2010Music I became a member of Jack White's Third Man Records' 7-inch vinyl record singles club, which I thought was a great idea. I particularly like Dan Sartain, who is signed to the label. I also...
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February 05, 2010Comedian Russell Brand and his fiancée, the pop star Katy Perry, fooled around with Rihanna at Hollywood's pre-Grammy bash at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles on Saturday night. Rihanna was wearing a cocktail dress with a massive...
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February 05, 2010He may have eaten sheep's testicles in Afghanistan and baby seal in the Arctic, but what has really traumatised Stefan Gates, presenter of BBC Two's Cooking in the Danger Zone, is the cover of Led Zeppelin's Houses of the Holy, which was released in 1973 when Gates was just five years old. The ten blond juveniles in this cleverly constructed collage were in fact only two - Stefan Gates himself and his older sister,...
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February 05, 2010It is the most prestigious awards ceremony in the music industry, and last year, British acts were at the centre of it all. The 51st Grammy Awards were awash with British acts, and Robert Plant, Coldplay, Adele, Estelle, Radiohead and Duffy all took home prizes. Why, then, was British talent almost completely invisible at this year's glitzy LA bash? With the exceptions of the legendary guitarist Jeff Beck, who won an award for best rock instrumental performance, and the heavy metal act Judas Priest, who picked up an award for the best metal performance, Brits were absent. Last year it was all so different. Robert Plant was the overriding winner, taking home four Grammys, the night's winner...
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February 05, 2010MPs were collectively overpaid by more than £1m amid a 'culture of deference' Care minister Phil Hope repaid £42,674.13, more than any other MP, after an outcry over his claims for furniture and fittings. Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images MPs and Commons officials colluded in a "deeply flawed" expenses system that allowed politicians to decorate their homes for free, spend thousands on luxury furniture and claim taxpayers' cash without even providing receipts, the final official inquiry reported today. Sir Thomas Legg, the former civil servant charged with investigating every single Commons expense claimed between 2004 and...
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February 05, 2010Democratic Unionist Party leader Peter Robinson said today his party's elected representatives at the Stormont Assembly had backed a deal with Sinn Fein to save Northern Ireland's power-sharing government...
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February 05, 2010The Associated PressUpdated: 02/04/2010 05:44:38 PM MST Click photo to enlargeIn this photo made Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010, a passenger walks past a Delta Airlines 747 aircraft in McNamara Terminal at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport in Romulus, Mich. Delta Air Lines posted a $25 million net loss for the final three months of 2009, much smaller than a year earlier....
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February 05, 2010DENVER - We haven't heard a lot from Mayor John Hickenlooper since his announcement last month that he's running for governor. And those expecting Hickenlooper to lay out his positions on a host of controversial statewide issues may be waiting for a while, even facing intensifying Republican pressure to do so. In an email sent out Thursday, GOP State Chair Dick Wadhams continued to try to draw out Hickenlooper...
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February 05, 2010DENVER - Tired of being criticized for having no alternative plan to the controversial suspension or removal of 13 tax credits and exemptions, Republicans have finally brought a plan of their own to the table -- and now are being criticized for that. Democrats pushed back immediately against what the GOP is calling their "Taxpayer Protection Act," which calls for an across-the-board spending cut and the elimination of...
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February 05, 2010A bipartisan pair of House lawmakers have a response to the Citizens United Supreme Court decision that allows unlimited corporate money to flow into elections. Reps. David Price and Mike Castle told the Huffington Post in a joint statement that they plan to introduce a bill that would force CEO's to take ownership of their company's ads. For...
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February 05, 2010WASHINGTON -- The House of Representatives voted 233-187 Thursday to approve tough new restrictions on future spending and tax cuts, but the changes are highly unlikely to reduce record federal budget deficits anytime soon. The vote for a system called "pay as you go" will require that most new programs and tax cuts be offset by tax increases or spending reductions. The new requirement comes with lots of exemptions, however, and it's telling that it's part of legislation to increase the nation's debt limit by $1.9 trillion, an adjustment that's...
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February 05, 2010WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama called for more civility and bipartisanship at a prayer breakfast on Thursday, but Congress kept to its old ways with a party-line Senate vote on a long-stalled administration nominee and partisan barbs after another stalled nominee was overwhelmingly approved. Speaking at the annual National Prayer Breakfast, Obama renewed the plea for common ground between the White House and congressional Democrats and Republicans that he made at a retreat of House Republicans last week. "At times, it seems like we're unable to listen to one another; to have at once a serious and civil debate," Obama said. "It leaves each side little room to...
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February 05, 2010WASHINGTON -- A steep drop in stock prices worldwide, fears of an imminent wave of global debt defaults and a bevy of conflicting economic reports are producing anticipation and trepidation about Friday's new employment data from the U.S. government. At the close of trading Thursday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average briefly dropped below 10,000 before closing down 268.37 points at 10,002.20. Similarly, the S&P 500 fell 34.17 points to 1063.11 and the Nasdaq finished down 65.48 points at 2,125.43. Several factors spooked financial markets, chief among them fear that the inability of Greece to pay its debts may signal a coming broader trend of defaults on sovereign debt - the bonds that...
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February 05, 2010WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama cheered his party faithful on Thursday - and took their campaign donations - while telling them that he understands their frustration that Washington hasn't changed during the first year of his presidency. Returning to campaign mode and taking the stage to boisterous applause, Obama opened his first fundraiser of the night with a...
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February 05, 2010WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama says "we should take our time" getting to a final health care bill. He said Thursday he wants...
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February 05, 2010WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 – WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Riki Ellison, Chairman and Founder of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance , has reviewed the FY2011 Missile Defense Budget released on February 1st by the Department of Defense which offers a substantial increase to the total budget for missile defense. This increase recovers close to half the amount that was cut by the President and Secretary Robert Gates a year ago. Ellison is one of the top lay experts in the world on the topic of missile defense. His comments and observations include the following: "Early this week, President...
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February 05, 2010WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 – WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Former co-owners of a New Jersey-based computer services provider were each sentenced to 27 months in jail for participating in a conspiracy to defraud the federal E-Rate program, the Department of Justice announced today. Benjamin Rowner and Jay H. Soled, former owners of DeltaNet Inc., were also each sentenced to pay $271,716 in restitution, jointly and...
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February 05, 2010WASHINGTON – A public interest group on Thursday demanded that the US National Security Agency reveal details of a reported alliance with Internet powerhouse Google to ward off cyberattacks. The non-profit Electronic Privacy Information Center based here filed a formal request under the auspices of a federal law requiring government agencies to make public documents related to their dealings. "The NSA has a long history of bending the rules when it comes to privacy," EPIC executive director Marc Rotenberg...
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February 05, 2010DULLES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, Virginia – Two US-born pandas flew off in a giant cargo plane Thursday for a new life in China as goodwill ambassadors to brighten moody US-China relations. Tai Shan, of Washington's National Zoo, and Mei Lan, from the Atlanta zoo, joined up aboard a specially appointed cargo plane, dubbed the FedEx Panda Express, for the flight to Chengdu, China. "Tai Shan and Mei Lan not only represent the crystalization of American and Chinese cooperation to preserve pandas but also the friendship of the Chinese and American people," said Xie Feng, deputy chief of mission at the Chinese embassy in Washington in a farewell speech to the two pandas....
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February 05, 2010WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 – WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Miami-Dade County resident Dulce Briceno was sentenced today to 63 months in prison for her role in a $2.3 million Medicare fraud scheme, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer of the Criminal Division; U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan Barbara L. McQuade; Special Agent in Charge Andrew G. Arena of the FBI's Detroit Field Office; and Special Agent in Charge Lamont Pugh III of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector...
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February 05, 2010WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 – WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship Chair, Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., and Ranking Member Olympia J. Snowe, R-Maine, today praised President Obama's new National Export Initiative, which aims to double American exports over the next five years and support two million jobs here at home. In a speech at the National Press Club today, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke announced some details on the...
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February 05, 2010ARLINGTON, Va., Feb. 4 – ARLINGTON, Va., Feb. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- , a division of specialized news and information publisher , announced today the publication of . The second in BNA Books' three-part E-Discovery portfolio series, Privilege Issues in the Age of Electronic Discovery, 2009 Edition is updated to explain how the nature and scope of the attorney-client privilege and work-product protection have been impacted...
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February 05, 2010WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 – WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --Bipartisan Policy Center Debt Reduction Task Force co-chairs former Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete V. Domenici and Dr. Alice M. Rivlin, former Office of Management and Budget and Congressional Budget Office Director, released the following statement regarding today's U.S. House of Representatives vote to raise the debt ceiling: "Today's vote to increase the public debt ceiling by nearly $2 trillion further underscores the rapid and unsustainable growth in our debt, and the need for a serious and politically viable long-term debt reduction plan. Our Task Force will consider all spending and...
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February 05, 2010NEW DELHI: After putting itself on the map as an international tourist destination, God’s own country has run into some rough weather. The tourism ministry has axed funding of projects worth over Rs 17 crore, unimpressed by Kerala government’s tardy...
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February 05, 2010The Idaho woman who led a...
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February 05, 2010We hope that we will very soon have reason to welcome a new agreement between...
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February 05, 2010Autism Sunday 2010 -...
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February 05, 2010The world renowned...
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February 05, 2010When it comes to sandwiches, remember this: With the power to create comes the power to...
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February 05, 2010BEIJING — A senior Chinese official said...
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February 05, 2010A bus that can...
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February 05, 2010The blast comes as as coalition...
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February 05, 2010A Taiwanese man is arrested on...
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February 05, 2010WHAT news of the Britney Spears cross-dresser, one Peter Trigger? Well,...
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February 05, 2010PARIS -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel brushed off President Barack Obama's decision not to attend an annual summit with European leaders while stressing Thursday the importance of...
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February 05, 2010LONDON -- Soon Britons will be able to get smashed at the pub while their pint glasses won't. The shatterproof pint glass was proudly unveiled by the...
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February 05, 2010Naples has celebrated the first day of official recognition for the Italian city's most famous culinary creation: the pizza. The European Union ruling marks the end of a battle that began a quarter...
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February 05, 2010My brother used to tell me that the place for a woman is either at home or in the grave. I was always restricted to home. He said: "If you leave the house I'll cut off your head and put it on your chest." My brother had been to the local school and beaten the girls and the teachers. He said anyone who wanted to study was a friend of America. I wanted to be a doctor. I wanted it so much that once I dreamt I was sitting in a hospital, working as a doctor. I wanted to help the poor, those who cannot afford medical fees. Taliban commanders used to come to our house. There was an underground bunker beside the house, with electricity. It was concrete and very strong. Cars would drive on...
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February 05, 2010The plight of young children in Pakistan forced to act as...
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February 05, 2010THE CANADIAN PRESS MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - Police say a fire at an office building in Mississauga, Ont., was a case of arson and caused $5 million...
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February 05, 2010Keith Doucette, THE CANADIAN PRESS HALIFAX, N.S. - Members of the Nova Scotia legislature caught in a scandal expressed remorse for purchases described by the province's auditor general as inappropriate and excessive, but one Conservative was defiant over his purchase of an $8,000 generator installed in his home. Deputy premier Frank Corbett offered an apology for the spending as highlighted by the auditor general, but said he was speaking out as a legislative member and not on behalf of the government. Corbett said the apology was appropriate given that the public is being asked to do "hard things" as the province considers tax hikes to bring down its $525-million deficit. "If ... they see...
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February 05, 2010Jim Macdonald, THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON - Alberta's throne speech promises less red tape for big business so the beleaguered energy sector can position itself to lead the province out of the recession. This will include fewer environmental "hurdles" for conventional oil and natural gas development. "We must minimize the cost of doing business here, including the cost of regulation," said Lt.-Gov. Norman Kwong, who read the speech in the legislature Thursday. Premier Ed Stelmach's Progressive Conservative government has signalled that Alberta must improve its global environmental image to avoid being shunned...
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February 05, 2010Staff Reporter As part of the 'Preserve our Heritage' Rally 2010...
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February 05, 2010Staff Reporter ALAPPUZHA: Yet another VIP family had a pleasure cruise along the Alappuzha backwaters here on Thursday....
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February 05, 2010DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- If the first practice is any indication, Speedweeks could be filled with aggressive driving, big wrecks and backup cars. An on-track tangle between Mark Martin and Denny Hamlin triggered a seven-car accident Thursday that may set the tone for two weeks of ramped-up racing at Daytona International Speedway. "Trust me, we're not finished," said Greg Biffle, who was involved in the wreck. Jamie McMurray, Joey Logano, Kyle Busch and Clint Bowyer also were part...
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February 05, 2010MALACCA: The Malacca Government has been asked to formulate strategies to promote the new Malacca International Airport as the main gateway for visitors from neighbouring countries and to optimise its usage. Speaking when opening the airport in Batu Berendam here, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said the airport...
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