Toddler calls 911 after mother collapses (AP)

AP - A toddler knew to call 911 when his mother collapsed and lost consciousness, thanks to a children's book his grandmother had sent several months earlier.



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Tenet Book Says Cheney Pressed to Pick Iraqi Leaders (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg - April 30 (Bloomberg) -- Vice President Dick Cheney and other
Bush administration officials wanted to ``handpick''
Iraq's leaders after the fall of Saddam Hussein and limit Iraqi
involvement in choosing a new government, former CIA Director
George Tenet says in his book.



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Scientists Restore Lost Memory in Alzheimer's-Like Mice (HealthDay)

HealthDay - SUNDAY, April 29 (HealthDay News) -- In a new study, mice bioengineered
to mimic the fading memory of Alzheimer's patients got their memories
restored -- either by being placed in stimulating environments or by
receiving a drug most commonly used to fight cancer.



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Health Tip: Treating Ear Infections in Children (HealthDay)

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Middle ear infections are a common childhood
ailment, affecting three of four youngsters in the United States by age
3.



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Clinical Trials Update: April 30, 2007 (HealthDay)

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy
of Thomson CenterWatch:



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Mo. university to lead smallpox study (AP)

AP - Saint Louis University said Monday it will lead a national study of a new vaccine for smallpox, once one of the world's most feared diseases and now considered a threat to re-emerge as a bioweapon.



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Lymphoma drug failure frustrates experts (AP)

AP - Only a fraction of patients with hard-to-treat lymphoma ever try two breakthrough "smart-bomb" drugs that bring radiation straight to cancerous cells — with just two shots a week apart, not the usual months of care. The marketing failure has a manufacturer trying to sell off one of the drugs, and increasingly frustrated specialists worry it will jeopardize attempts to expand this promising new field to fight other cancers, too.



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Game Plan Sees Brands as Video Players (AdWeek.com)

AdWeek.com - NEW YORK In Test Drive Unlimited, a racing game from Atari set on the Hawaiian island of Oahu released last fall, gamers had the option of "purchasing" a car (with game points) at a Lexus dealership and driving it in the game. Some 125,000 people chose a Lexus, versus the approximate 45,000 who chose cars from a generic dealership, according to Atari.



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Circuit City expects loss on slow sales (AP)

AP - Electronics and entertainment retailer Circuit City Stores Inc. said Monday it will report a loss in its first quarter and is withdrawing its outlook for the first half of the fiscal year.



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Spending sluggish amid high energy costs (AP)

AP - Consumer spending rose at the weakest pace in five months in March as a surge in gasoline prices left shoppers with little left over for other items.



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Merck's generics unit gets four final bids: sources (Reuters)

Reuters - Merck KGaA , Germany's
drugs and chemicals group, received four final bids for its
generics drugs business, sources familiar with the situation
said on Monday.



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Australia's Healthscope offers to take over Symbion (Reuters)

Reuters - Australia's Symbion Health said on
Tuesday it has received a takeover approach valuing the
pathology company's ordinary shares at A$2.78 billion ($2.32
billion) from a consortium led by Healthscope .



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NYC councilman wants ban on circulars (AP)

AP - You've heard of e-mail spam — now a New York City councilman wants to do something about menu spam, the unwanted menus and circulars that have a way of appearing on city doorsteps and under doors.



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California to expand its packed prisons (The Christian Science Monitor)

The Christian Science Monitor - Faced with prisons so overcrowded that the federal government is threatening intervention, California has opted for a massive expansion of existing facilities.



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Employer beheads worker for not milking cows (Reuters)

Reuters - An employer in eastern India
beheaded one of his workers for failing to milk his cows,
police said on Saturday.



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Fire Dept: 3 dead in Mo. mall shooting (AP)

AP - A shooting at a shopping center Sunday afternoon left three people dead, including the gunman, police said.



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Health Tip: Treating Ear Infections in Children (HealthDay)

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Middle ear infections are a common childhood
ailment, affecting three of four youngsters in the United States by age
3.



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Tooth decay is on the rise for kids (AP)

AP - Tooth decay in young children's baby teeth is on the rise, a worrying trend that signals the preschool crowd is eating too much sugar, according to the largest government study of the nation's dental health in more than 25 years.



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Sugary musical "Legally Blonde" hits Broadway (Reuters)

Reuters - The new Broadway musical "Legally
Blonde" has been dubbed a "nonstop sugar rush" and "bubble-gum
pop splashed in pink" but its producer says it has a more
serious edge than the film on which it is based.



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Hong Kong movies cater more to China (AP)

AP - Hong Kong movies, long known for their stylish violence, are being geared toward the expanding Chinese market and stricter censorship standards there, and observers are worried that Hong Kong cinema is losing its edge.



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Consumer spending sluggish in March (AP)

AP - Consumer spending rose at the slowest rate in five months in March while construction activity managed only a tiny gain, weighed down by further weakness in housing.



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Whole Foods promotes local buying (AP)

AP - The 113-year-old Morning Fresh Dairy Farm didn't even use barcodes on its bottles when a Whole Foods Market in Fort Collins, Colo. asked about offering the dairy's all-natural milk.



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Minorities fare worse in traffic stops (AP)

AP - Black, Hispanic and white drivers are equally likely to be pulled over by police, but blacks and Hispanics are much more likely to be searched and arrested, a federal study found.



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WWII hero Robert Rosenthal dies at 89 (AP)

AP - Robert Rosenthal, a World War II bomber pilot who twice survived being shot down in raids over Europe and later served on the U.S. legal team that prosecuted Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg, has died at age 89.



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Pricing software could reshape retail (AP)

AP - A large retail chain had a problem. It sold three similar power drills: one for about $90, a purportedly better one at $120 and a top-tier one at $130.



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U.S. Cancer Group Launches Major Study (HealthDay)

HealthDay - SUNDAY, April 29 (HealthDay News) -- The American Cancer Society
this week launched a major new cancer research effort that aims to enroll
500,000 people.



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Scientists Restore Lost Memory in Alzheimer's-Like Mice (HealthDay)

HealthDay - SUNDAY, April 29 (HealthDay News) -- In a new study, mice
bioengineered to mimic the fading memory of Alzheimer's patients got their
memories restored -- either by being placed in stimulating environments or
by receiving a drug most commonly used to fight cancer.



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Property buyouts seen good for small buyers: survey (Reuters)

Reuters - Commercial real estate investors and
executives believe private equity firms will continue buying up
large portfolios of properties over the next year, according to
a survey released on Monday.



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Malaysia tycoon to buy out telco Maxis (Reuters)

Reuters - Malaysian tycoon Ananda Krishnan
plans to buy out the country's largest mobile operator, Maxis
Communications , the firm said on Monday, in a deal
that could be worth at least $5 billion.



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BCE to complete review in Q3, may privatize (Reuters)

Reuters - BCE Inc. ,
Canada's top telecommunications company, said on Sunday it
expects to complete a review in the third quarter of strategic
alternatives that include potential privatization.



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Site of Colo. Indian massacre honored (AP)

AP - More than 142 years after a band of state militia volunteers massacred 150 sleeping Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians in a misdirected act of vengeance, a memorial to the tragic event was officially dedicated Saturday.



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Last Manhattan riding stable shuts after 115 years (Reuters)

Reuters - Yet another unique New York
institution is set to disappear when the last riding stable in
Manhattan closes its doors during the weekend.



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Flippers flop as housing market cools (AP)

AP - In the rampant real estate speculation of the Las Vegas valley three years ago, people lined up outside Pulte Homes sales offices overnight as if they were waiting for the release of the latest video game console or hot new movie.



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Iraqi journalist shot in Baghdad (AP)

AP - Gunmen seriously wounded one of Iraq's best known radio and television journalists near her home in the capital Sunday, police said.



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How meth took hold on Indian reservation (AP)

AP - Just off the deserted highways, the silver pickup truck eases down quiet streets, its driver offering a numbing tour of a remote reservation framed by the beauty of snowcapped mountains.



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Migraines linked with brain damage (Reuters)

Reuters - People with migraines also may be
suffering from some brain damage as brain cells swell and
become starved of oxygen -- a finding that may help explain why
migraine sufferers have a higher risk of stroke, researchers
reported on Sunday.



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U.S. Cancer Group Launches Major Study (HealthDay)

HealthDay - SUNDAY, April 29 (HealthDay News) -- The American Cancer Society
this week launched a major new cancer research effort that aims to enroll
500,000 people.



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Scientists Restore Lost Memory in Alzheimer's-Like Mice (HealthDay)

HealthDay - SUNDAY, April 29 (HealthDay News) -- In a new study, mice
bioengineered to mimic the fading memory of Alzheimer's patients got their
memories restored -- either by being placed in stimulating environments or
by receiving a drug most commonly used to fight cancer.



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Scar-free surgery procedures explored (AP)

AP - A 4-year-old boy lay on an operating table here a few weeks ago with a tumor that had eaten into his brain and the base of his skull. Standard surgery would involve cutting open his face, leaving an ugly scar and hindering his facial growth as he matured.



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Writer Shriver hopes to up U.S. profile (AP)

AP - There are many parallels between Lionel Shriver and the main character in her new novel, "The Post-Birthday World." Both Shriver and Irina McGovern are Americans living in London, both enjoy a predinner bowl of popcorn, and both must choose between two men, the central premise of the book.



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FTSE lower but M&S makes fresh gains (FT.com)

FT.com - London equities fell in midday trade on Friday as Royal Bank of Scotland confirmed it would make a counterbid for Dutch bank ABN Amro.



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Big U.S. miners becoming socially conscious? (Reuters)

Reuters - Two U.S. mining giants won battles
over their reputations last week in the industry's balancing
act between profits and sensitivity to the environment and
communities in developing countries.



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Wealthy housing markets shrug off subprime woes (Reuters)

Reuters - Manhattan real estate broker
Dennis Mangone is in a position many in his profession would
envy: clients are rushing to buy as Wall Street money piles
into the upper reaches of the island's housing market.



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Acapulco police chief killed in Mexico drug feuding (Reuters)

Reuters - Gunmen shot and killed a local
police chief on Saturday in Acapulco, a Mexican beach resort
that has been sucked into a bloody turf war between drug gangs
in northern and western Mexico, local media reported.



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Archivists work to save 9/11 history (AP)

AP - It started with a clogged dust mask that fell onto the desk of Jan Ramirez on the afternoon of Sept. 11, 2001. A friend had used the paper mask to breathe while fleeing downtown Manhattan as the air was filled with grit and smoke from the World Trade Center towers.



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Pelosi Champions Silicon Valley on Patents, Visas, R&D Funds (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg - April 27 (Bloomberg) -- Silicon Valley companies are poised
to score their biggest gains in Washington since the glory days
of the Internet bubble, courtesy of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.



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Debaters question if hip-hop hates women (AP)

AP - A panel discussion titled "Does Hip-Hop Hate Women?" drew more than 400 people Saturday — a sign that the furor that erupted over Don Imus' comments isn't over yet.



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Scant offered intl. aid helped Katrina victims-WPost (Reuters)

Reuters - Just $40 million of $854 million
offered to the United States to help the Gulf Coast recover
from Hurricane Katrina has been used so far, and most of the
offered aid was never collected, the Washington Post reported
in Sunday's editions.



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Maintenance woes imperil Iraq rebuilding (AP)

AP - A severe lack of maintenance appears to be threatening the future usefulness of some of the facilities renovated during the effort to rebuild Iraq, says a new report from the U.S. inspector general monitoring reconstruction.



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Vegan eateries not just for hippies (AP)

AP - The fake meat at this upscale vegan eatery doesn't taste like mystery meat. Depending on the night it's more like hearty meat loaf with a mushroom sauce, pork tenderloin or Mediterranean grilled chicken skewers.



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States expand children's health coverage (AP)

AP - Many states are making more children eligible for government-funded health insurance even as President Bush's health chief says families are relying too much on public money for the coverage.



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Debaters question if hip-hop hates women (AP)

AP - A panel discussion titled "Does Hip-Hop Hate Women?" drew more than 400 people Saturday — a sign that the furor that erupted over Don Imus' comments isn't over yet.



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Pirelli sells T.Italia control to Telefonica, banks (Reuters)

Reuters - Italy's Pirelli sold its Telecom
Italia interest on Saturday to Spain's Telefonica and
a group of Italian banks that will have majority control,
ensuring the phone group remains in domestic hands.



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Wolfowitz, Riza to address World Bank panel Monday (Reuters)

Reuters - World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz
and his bank-employed girlfriend will appear before a special
panel on Monday to discuss a promotion and raise he arranged
for her that has sparked calls for his resignation.



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Iraqi police years from taking charge (AP)

AP - A smoke grenade is tossed and Iraq's most elite paramilitary commandos storm an apartment building. The raid goes off without a hitch.



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U.S. aid official linked to call-girl ring resigns (Reuters)

Reuters - A senior State Department official
in charge of foreign aid who had used an escort service owned
by a woman charged with running a prostitution operation
abruptly resigned on Friday, ABC News reported.



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Man arrested for bomb at Texas abortion clinic (Reuters)

Reuters - A 27-year-old Austin man was
arrested on Friday and charged with placing an unexploded bomb
containing some 2,000 nails outside an abortion clinic in the
state's capital.



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States expand children's health coverage (AP)

AP - Many states are making more children eligible for government-funded health insurance even as President Bush's health chief says families are relying too much on public money for the coverage.



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Pioneering documentarian Drew honored (AP)

AP - It's commonplace today, but 50 years ago following someone around with a camera without narration, direction, musical accompaniment or even a script was revolutionary.



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Low-Dose Aspirin Won't Help Aging Brain (HealthDay)

HealthDay - THURSDAY, April 26 (HealthDay News) -- Despite earlier hopes,
regular use of low-dose aspirin does not protect older, healthy women
against cognitive decline, a major new study concludes.



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In Ahmadinejad's Iran, Jews still find a space (The Christian Science Monitor)

The Christian Science Monitor - Enmity runs deep between arch-foes Iran and Israel. And that confrontation complicates the lives of Iranian Jews, who make up the largest community of Jews in the Middle East outside the Jewish state.



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Ancient camel bones found in Arizona (AP)

AP - Workers digging at the future site of a Wal-Mart store in suburban Mesa have unearthed the bones of a prehistoric camel that's estimated to be about 10,000 years old.



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Cutback on Gitmo visits concerns lawyers (AP)

AP - The American Bar Association expressed concern Friday over Bush administration plans to limit lawyers' access to detainees at Guantanamo Bay.



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"Family Guy" reruns cleared in 90% of country (Reuters)

Reuters - The animated comedy
"Family Guy" has been cleared in 90% of the United States for
its fall launch in syndication, distributor Twentieth
Television said Thursday



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Cuba lifts ban on U.S. long-grain rice (AP)

AP - Cuba has lifted a ban on imports of U.S. long-grain rice that it put in place last year because of fears about genetic contamination.



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Marine Crops drops student after essay (AP)

AP - Allen Lee was on the verge of realizing a dream to become a Marine after signing enlistment papers this month. But one violent, profanity-laced English essay later, the 18-year-old's future with the Marine Corps appears to be over.



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Imaging Technique Could Help Fight Metastatic Cancers (HealthDay)

HealthDay - FRIDAY, April 27 (HealthDay News) -- A new imaging technique that
measures diffusion of water through tumors may help guide the treatment of
advanced prostate cancer that's spread to the bones, says a study by
researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center.



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Depression May Be Early Sign of Parkinson's Disease (HealthDay)

HealthDay - FRIDAY, April 27 (HealthDay News) -- In some cases, depression
can be an early manifestation of Parkinson's disease, new research
suggests.



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Change of Season Brings Lawn Mower Warning (HealthDay)

HealthDay - SUNDAY, April 15 (HealthDay News) -- Each year in the United
States, about 9,400 children are treated for lawn-mower related injuries
such as lacerations, fractures and amputations of the fingers, hands,
toes, feet and legs, say experts at Johns Hopkins Children's Center.



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Many U.S. Immigrants Can't Read Prescription Labels (HealthDay)

HealthDay - FRIDAY, April 27 (HealthDay News) -- Few New York City pharmacies
translate prescription drug labels from English into other languages,
posing a serious risk to patients who don't speak English, researchers
say.



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Va. doctor convicted of drug trafficking (AP)

AP - A pain-management doctor who prescribed large amounts of opiates and drew patients from across the country to his northern Virginia clinic has been convicted on 16 counts of drug trafficking by a federal jury.



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2-pound tumor taken from newborn's neck (AP)

AP - Doctors removed a 2-pound tumor from the back of a newborn's neck and the baby girl appeared to be doing fine a day after she was born, her parents said.



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U.S. Treasury's Kimmitt declines dollar comment (Reuters)

Reuters - U.S. Treasury Deputy Secretary Robert
Kimmitt said he would not comment on the weakness of the U.S.
dollar on Saturday after the currency slid to a record low
against the euro on Friday.



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Are Your Bath Products Dangerous? (KGTV TheSanDiegoChannel.com)

KGTV TheSanDiegoChannel.com - In your home right now are probably several bath products, shampoos and bubble baths that contain a carcinogen not even listed on the ingredient label.



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New charges in Chicago bartender beating (AP)

AP - A police officer accused in the beating of a bartender is facing new charges after prosecutors said he threatened to plant drugs on bar employees and arrest customers for drunken driving to keep a videotape of the attack secret.



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Non-aspirin NSAIDs may reduce lung cancer risk (Reuters)

Reuters - The long-term use of
non-aspirin anti-inflammatory painkillers, or NSAIDs, appears
to slightly reduce the risk of a person developing lung cancer,
according to research published in the International Journal of
Cancer.



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Depression May Be Early Sign of Parkinson's Disease (HealthDay)

HealthDay - FRIDAY, April 27 (HealthDay News) -- In some cases, depression
can be an early manifestation of Parkinson's disease, new research
suggests.



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Many U.S. Immigrants Can't Read Prescription Labels (HealthDay)

HealthDay - FRIDAY, April 27 (HealthDay News) -- Few New York City pharmacies
translate prescription drug labels from English into other languages,
posing a serious risk to patients who don't speak English, researchers
say.



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'Scotty' set to be launched into space (AP)

AP - If all goes as planned Saturday, the cremated remains of the actor who portrayed "Scotty" aboard Star Trek's starship Enterprise will sail into suborbital space aboard a rocket launched from the southern New Mexico desert.



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Beyonce song in licensing dispute (AP)

AP - New shipments of a Beyonce album released earlier this month will not include a remake of the song "I'm Kissing You" until a dispute about legal clearances are resolved, the pop star's management company said Friday.



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Settlement in `Will & Grace' lawsuit (AP)

AP - The creators of "Will & Grace" settled a legal dispute with NBC Studios Friday, a day after the foreman of the jury that heard the case was removed for failing to disclose he hosted a Web site critical of NBC.



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Daniel Baldwin car-theft case dropped (AP)

AP - Car-theft charges against Daniel Baldwin were dropped Friday.



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Amazon.com CEO gets $1.28M compensation (AP)

AP - Amazon.com Inc. Chairman and Chief Executive Jeff Bezos received compensation the company valued at $1.28 million in 2006, according to an analysis of a regulatory filing made by the online retailer Friday.



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Economy - Friday (Investor's Business Daily)

Investor's Business Daily - The Univ. of Mich.'s sentiment index fell to 87.1 vs. 88.4 in March as rising gasoline prices took their toll. It's the third straight down month, but it's better than the early-April reading of 85.3, thanks to optimism spurred by the recent stock market rally. The index of current conditions rose to 104.6 from 103.5 in March. The expectations index fell to an 8-month low of 75.9 from 78.7. Expectations for future inflation were higher as well.



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For stocks, earnings may offset jobs (Reuters)

Reuters - Should earnings keep beating analysts'
forecasts next week, they are likely to be the big prop for
stocks even if economic data such as Friday's April payrolls
data turns out to be a disappointment.



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Back pain linked to short-term memory deficits (Reuters)

Reuters - Patients with chronic back pain
have significant impairments in short-term prospective memory
compared with people without pain, according to the findings
reported in the February/March issue of Psychosomatic Medicine.



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Dead man travels unnoticed on train (AP)

AP - A dead passenger traveled unnoticed for at least half a day on an executive passenger train, an Indonesian newspaper reported Friday.



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Grandma finds condom in McDonald's bag (AP)

AP - A grandmother was alarmed to find a condom in a happy meal gift pack bought for her 7-year-old granddaughter at a McDonald's restaurant in New Zealand, local media reported Thursday.



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Many U.S. Immigrants Can't Read Prescription Labels (HealthDay)

HealthDay - FRIDAY, April 27 (HealthDay News) -- Few New York City pharmacies
translate prescription drug labels from English into other languages,
posing a serious risk to patients who don't speak English, researchers
say.



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Steve McQueen's Ferrari up for auction (Reuters)

Reuters - A 1963 Ferrari once owned and driven
by the late film star Steve McQueen is expected to fetch
between $800,000 and $1.2 million at an auction in August,
Christie's said.



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Chrysler plans cut in fleet sales (Reuters)

Reuters - Chrysler Group plans what it described
as an "aggressive" reduction in sales to rental agencies and
other fleet operators to shore up the residual value of its
cars and trucks over three years, executives said on Friday.



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14 arrested in Senate anti-war protest (AP)

AP - Fourteen anti-war protesters were arrested in a Senate office building Thursday after unfurling a banner calling for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.



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N.M. Guard unit complains over searches (AP)

AP - The commander of New Mexico's National Guard is demanding an apology from the Army brass after dozens of his soldiers in a mostly Hispanic unit were ordered to strip to their gym shorts and searched for gang tattoos while on duty in Kuwait.



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Lawsuit targets 'spam harvesters' (AP)

AP - An anti-spam organization filed a federal lawsuit Thursday targeting so-called spam harvesters, who facilitate the mass distribution of junk e-mail by trolling the Internet and collecting millions of e-mail addresses.



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Ex-CIA chief: No 'serious debate' on war (AP)

AP - Former CIA Director George Tenet writes in a new book that Vice President Dick Cheney and other administration officials pushed the country to invade Iraq without a "serious debate" about whether Saddam Hussein was an imminent threat.



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Ex-CIA chief says "slam dunk" Iraq quote misused (Reuters)

Reuters - A former U.S. spy chief accused
President George W. Bush's administration of ruining his
reputation by misusing a "slam dunk" comment he made during a
White House meeting ahead of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.



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Better Prostate Cancer Test May Be Near (HealthDay)

HealthDay - THURSDAY, April 26 (HealthDay News) -- A test that focuses on a
blood protein produced by prostate cancer cells may improve disease
diagnosis, researchers report.



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Health Tip: Precautions While Mowing the Lawn (HealthDay)

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Playing near lawn mowers is dangerous for
children and adolescents, and adults can get hurt, too, if they don't take
the proper precautions. To prevent lawn mower-related injuries, follow
these safety suggestions from the American Academy of Pediatrics:


Use a mower the comes with safety features, like a control that
prevents the mower from moving forward if the handles are released.
Never let children younger than 16 use a riding mower, and children
younger than 12 use a push mower.
Never allow children to ride on mowers, even with an adult. ...



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Clinical Trials Update: April 26, 2007 (HealthDay)

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy
of Thomson CenterWatch:



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Big Brother star Shetty plans UK curry houses: report (Reuters)

Reuters - Shilpa Shetty, the winner of reality
television show "Celebrity Big Brother," will open a chain of
Indian curry houses in Britain, a newspaper reported on Friday.



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Adult Swim adds shows, seventh night (Reuters)

Reuters - Cartoon Network's Adult
Swim is launching three series and a seventh late night of
programming.



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Japanese consumer prices fall 0.3 pct. (AP)

AP - Japanese consumer prices declined for a second straight month in March, the government said Friday, fueling concerns that deflation still remains a threat to the world's second-largest economy.



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Fed officials stay focused on inflation risks (Reuters)

Reuters - Inflationary pressures in the
U.S. economy are likely to ebb but there is not enough proof in
the data so far to feel reassured, Federal Reserve officials
said on Thursday.



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One of America's last typewriter repairmen (The Christian Science Monitor)

The Christian Science Monitor - Manson Whitlock peers into the typewriter on the table.



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Prosecutor promises to reveal 'real,' violent Phil Spector during murder trial (CourtTV)

CourtTV - LOS ANGELES (C
ourt TV) - A prosecutor promised Wednesday to reveal "the real
Phil Spector" as a dangerous gun nut whose "very rich history of
violence" culminated in the alleged murder of an actress at his
mansion.



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Addictive drugs harm brain's natural brake: study (Reuters)

Reuters - A single dose of morphine was found to
lower the inhibitions of rats, even after the drug had left
their systems, a finding that may help scientists better
understand addiction in humans, U.S. researchers said on
Wednesday.



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Web Experts Warn Of Buyer-Feedback Scams (KGTV TheSanDiegoChannel.com)

KGTV TheSanDiegoChannel.com - Consumers are constantly warned to be careful who they purchase from on online auction Web sites like eBay.



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Scientists identify new genes linked to diabetes (Reuters)

Reuters - The most thorough probe to date of
the genetic underpinnings of the most common form of diabetes
has identified a new batch of genes that increases risk for a
disease affecting 200 million people globally.



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Better Prostate Cancer Test May Be Near (HealthDay)

HealthDay - THURSDAY, April 26 (HealthDay News) -- A test that focuses on a
blood protein produced by prostate cancer cells may improve disease
diagnosis, researchers report.



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Program fails to curb falls in older folks (Reuters)

Reuters - A community-based intervention
designed to address multiple factors that put elderly people at
increased risk for falling and injuring themselves has proven
ineffective. There was no decrease in the number of falls in
"at-risk" elderly individuals who completed the program.



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Health Tip: Precautions While Mowing the Lawn (HealthDay)

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Playing near lawn mowers is dangerous for
children and adolescents, and adults can get hurt, too, if they don't take
the proper precautions. To prevent lawn mower-related injuries, follow
these safety suggestions from the American Academy of Pediatrics:


Use a mower the comes with safety features, like a control that
prevents the mower from moving forward if the handles are released.
Never let children younger than 16 use a riding mower, and children
younger than 12 use a push mower.
Never allow children to ride on mowers, even with an adult. ...



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Clinical Trials Update: April 26, 2007 (HealthDay)

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy
of Thomson CenterWatch:



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Obesity surgery in teens studied (AP)

AP - THE ISSUE: A growing number of teenagers are fighting severe obesity and seeking ways to loss weight, including surgery.



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Weighing obesity surgery risks for teens (AP)

AP - Seventeen-year-old Amanda Munson gained confidence and energy as she lost 40 of her 296 pounds after weight-loss surgery and her diabetes went into remission.



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Black comic book art shows at university (AP)

AP - Comic books have become hot again thanks to the successes of NBC's "Heroes," the Spider-Man films and the revived Superman and Batman franchises.



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Sun-Times Media to pay US$40 mln to Canada (Reuters)

Reuters - Sun-Times Media Group Inc. said on
Thursday it agreed to pay US$40 million to the Canada Revenue
agency to settle tax issues resulting from its disposition of
some Canadian operations in 2000.



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Bob Woodruff heading to Cuba (AP)

AP - Bob Woodruff of ABC News is headed to Havana this weekend for his first overseas reporting trip since being severely injured by a roadside bomb in Iraq last year.



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'Monster Mash' singer Pickett dies at 69 (AP)

AP - He does the "Monster Mash" no more. Bobby "Boris" Pickett, whose dead-on Boris Karloff impression propelled the Halloween anthem to the top of the charts in 1962, making him one of pop music's most enduring one-hit wonders, has died of leukemia. He was 69.



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Mexican Wal-Mart launches cheap generic drugs (Reuters)

Reuters - Mexico's leading retailer Wal-Mart
de Mexico, or Walmex, has launched a line of 150 cheap generic
drugs, selling for no more than $3.50, in a new bid to boost
its appeal as a one-stop shop for clients looking for low
prices.



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FTSE makes progress after Dow's record (FT.com)

FT.com - London equities made strong progress on Thursday, helped by robust overnight gains on Wall Street. Barclays (NYSE:BCS) and Royal Bank of Scotland stayed in the spotlight as their bid battle for control of ABN Amro continued.



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Unemployment benefit claims fall sharply (AP)

AP - The number of laid-off workers filing claims for unemployment benefits fell last week by the sharpest amount in nearly two months, indicating the labor market remains healthy despite the sluggish economy.



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Use the sun to cool down our planet (USATODAY.com)

USATODAY.com - Use the sun to cool down our planet



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NY's Cuomo: Education Dept "asleep at switch" (Reuters)

Reuters - New York State Attorney General
Andrew Cuomo took a widening campaign to clean up the student
loan business to Washington on Wednesday, urging Congress to
reform student financial aid and accusing the Bush
administration of being "asleep at the switch."



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Roll call on Iraq bill (AP)

AP - The 218-208 roll call Wednesday by which the House passed legislation that would order President Bush to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq by Oct. 1.



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Chemicals trader appeals Iraq conviction (AP)

AP - A Dutch businessman appealing his war crimes conviction for selling Iraq banned chemicals during its war with Iran drew praise from Saddam Hussein's regime for his efforts, prosecutors said Wednesday on the closing day of the proceedings.



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Officials with political e-mail accounts (AP)

AP - Current and former White House officials who used political e-mail accounts provided by the Republican National Committee. The RNC provided the list Wednesday to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.



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Close kin of colorectal patients prone to tumours: study (Reuters)

Reuters - Close relatives of colorectal cancer
patients appear to have a higher risk of developing colon
tumours, a survey in Hong Kong has found, as doctors made
renewed calls for more regular screening.



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Exercise May Help Ward Off Parkinson's Disease (HealthDay)

HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, April 25 (HealthDay News) -- New research suggests
more evidence of yet another benefit of regular exercise: It could keep
Parkinson's disease at bay.



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Health Tip: Using Car Seats (HealthDay)

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Car seats can protect children in the event
of an accident, but only if they are used properly.



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Clinical Trials Update: April 25, 2007 (HealthDay)

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy
of Thomson CenterWatch:



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China may require student fitness tests (AP)

AP - Good grades alone may not be enough to earn a place in Chinese universities — students also may have to prove their physical fitness under an Education Ministry proposal, state media reported Thursday.



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Dozens sick after meal at Chinese school (AP)

AP - More than 50 children were poisoned by a kindergarten breakfast in central China, state media said Thursday, in the latest case highlighting problems in the country's food supply chain.



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Paper: Prince Harry's Iraq role unclear (AP)

AP - A British newspaper reported Thursday that army chiefs were reconsidering their decision to allow Prince Harry to fight in Iraq with his army regiment.



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Wal-Mart cutting manager jobs at Sam's Club (Reuters)

Reuters - Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the
world's largest retailer, is cutting about 1,000 management
positions at its Sam's Club stores, a spokeswoman for the
company's warehouse chain said on Thursday.



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WaMu offers new all-in-one mortgage (AP)

AP - Washington Mutual Inc. has begun offering a new mortgage and home equity line of credit bundled into a single loan that allows customers to reset interest rates or switch between fixed and adjustable rates up to twice a year without having to refinance.



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UK economy expands in first quarter (FT.com)

FT.com - The Bank of England is almost certain to raise interest rates next month, economists said, after official figures showed the economy continued to expand briskly in the first three months of the year. Gross domestic product grew by 0.7 per cent in the first quarter, compared with the previous three months, according to the Office for National Statistics .



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Corrected: Ericsson Q1 profit up 24 pct, still sees '07 growth (Reuters)

Reuters - Ericsson (ERICb.ST), the world's
largest supplier of equipment for mobile phone networks,
reported a 24 percent rise in first-quarter pretax earnings on
Thursday and said it was taking market share from rivals.



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Lincoln National explores sale of unit: WSJ (Reuters)

Reuters - Life insurer Lincoln National Corp.
is in the process of hiring advisers for a potential
sale of its broadcast and media unit, the Wall Street Journal
reported on its Web site on Thursday.



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Documents provided in contract probe (AP)

AP - The White House has turned over to a House committee about 200 pages of documents related to a contract with a company run by a man who pleaded guilty to bribing a congressman.



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Q&A on melamine contamination of food (AP)

AP - First, cats and dogs were sickened and died after they ate pet food contaminated with an industrial chemical. Then, it was disclosed that hogs were fed the same pet food, raising concerns that the chemical had entered the human food supply.



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258-year-old gay rights text documented (Planet Out)

Planet Out - SUMMARY: Excerpts from "Ancient and Modern Pederasty Investigated and Exemplified" are preserved in court papers used to suppress author Thomas Cannon.



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Exercise May Help Ward Off Parkinson's Disease (HealthDay)

HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, April 25 (HealthDay News) -- New research suggests
more evidence of yet another benefit of regular exercise: It could keep
Parkinson's disease at bay.



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Health Tip: Using Car Seats (HealthDay)

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Car seats can protect children in the event
of an accident, but only if they are used properly.



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Clinical Trials Update: April 25, 2007 (HealthDay)

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy
of Thomson CenterWatch:



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Report: States lag in hospice oversight (AP)

AP - A significant number of Medicare hospice programs were not checked by state inspectors for nine years and were long overdue for certification, according to a federal report released Tuesday.



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Most docs let drug makers buy them food (AP)

AP - Four out of five doctors surveyed said they let drug and device makers buy them food and drinks despite recent efforts to tighten ethics rules and avoid conflicts of interest.



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Poul Anderson's Literature Was Out Of This World (Investor's Business Daily)

Investor's Business Daily - Poul Anderson liked to keep his work simple. That way, he said, he could devote more time to pleasing his readers.



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Goldman and Grossman's 'Tom Jones' Musical Gets NYC Reading with Henshall, Larsen and Moses (Playbill)

Playbill - The late James Goldman's musical adaptation of Henry Fielding's 18th-century novel, "Tom Jones," resurfaces in a private Manhattan reading April 27.



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Fox revokes "Drive" license (Reuters)

Reuters - It's been a short
"Drive" for Fox's midseason drama, which has been pulled off
the schedule after two weeks on the air.



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Archbishop blasts Sheryl Crow appearance (AP)

AP - Archbishop Raymond Burke denounced a Catholic charity Wednesday for scheduling a benefit-concert appearance by Sheryl Crow, who supports abortion rights.



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"Aces" high on DVD charts (Reuters)

Reuters - The crime thriller
"Smokin' Aces" burned up the latest DVD sales and rental
charts, while Oscar winner "The Last King of Scotland" debuted
at No. 2 on both tallies, according to data issued Wednesday.



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Patience paid off for fund investors (AP)

AP - Mutual fund investors who held their ground after the stock market's late February pullback didn't have to wait long to see the wisdom of their decision.



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Amazon surges on strong earnings (FT.com)

FT.com - Wall Street cheered a string of better than expected earnings and a rise in reported capital spending on Wednesday, propelling the Dow Jones Industrial Average through the 13,000 threshold for the first time.



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Colombian senator: They want to kill me (AP)

AP - A leading opposition senator went public with an alleged assassination plot on Tuesday, accusing a former army colonel who has provided security for the U.S. coal company Drummond of conspiring to kill him.



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Contractor wants indictments dismissed (AP)

AP - Lawyers for a defense contractor accused of bribing a congressman and committing fraud with a top CIA official have asked a judge to dismiss charges.



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Bush's `Confidence' May Not Mean Gonzales Is Secure (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg - April 24 (Bloomberg) -- For the third time in five weeks,
President George W. Bush said Attorney General Alberto Gonzales
has his full confidence. That may not be good news for Gonzales.



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UN: Baghdad violence not reduced (AP)

AP - Sectarian violence continued to claim the lives of a large number of Iraqi civilians in Sunni Arab and Shiite neighborhoods of Iraq's capital, despite the coalition's new Baghdad security plan, the U.N. said Wednesday.



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Genetic Susceptibility Linked to Rare Brain Tumor (HealthDay)

HealthDay - TUESDAY, April 24 (HealthDay News) -- A person's genetics may increase
their risk of developing a radiation-associated brain tumor called
meningioma, according to a new study of 525 families.



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TV Food Ads Lead to Weight Gain in Kids: Study (HealthDay)

HealthDay - TUESDAY, April 24 (HealthDay News) -- Television food ads
prompted a 134 percent increase in the amount of food eaten by obese
children, says a study by British researchers.



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Clinical Trials Update: April 24, 2007 (HealthDay)

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy
of Thomson CenterWatch:



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Report: States lag in hospice oversight (AP)

AP - A significant number of Medicare hospice programs were not checked by state inspectors for nine years and were long overdue for certification, according to a federal report released Tuesday.



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Former White House aide writing memoir (AP)

AP - A memoir by former White House press secretary Scott McClellan will be published next spring by PublicAffairs.



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An "Ugly" week in ratings for old, new favorites (Reuters)

Reuters - Last week was a tough one
for the broadcast networks, with several big-time shows such as
ABC's "Ugly Betty" and Fox's "American Idol" hitting season or
series lows.



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Arctic Monkeys see slower sales for new album (Reuters)

Reuters - The new album by the Arctic Monkeys
sold well on its first day of release in Britain, but failed to
match the pace of the rock quartet's debut release.



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IBM gains boost Dow (FT.com)

FT.com - Wall Street stocks held within tight margins on Tuesday after a string of solid earnings reports helped soothe concerns about weak home sales.



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WellPoint posts higher quarterly profit (Reuters)

Reuters - WellPoint Inc. reported a 7
percent rise in first-quarter profit on Wednesday, helped by
gains in membership, but the insurer projected a key
medical-cost gauge would be worse than expected for the year.



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PepsiCo 1st-qtr profit rises (Reuters)

Reuters - PepsiCo Inc. reported higher
quarterly profit on Wednesday as strong sales of its Frito Lay
snacks helped offset weakness in its North American soft drink
business.



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EU clears GE's buy of two Abbott diagnostics units (Reuters)

Reuters - U.S. conglomerate General Electric Co.
won permission on Wednesday from the European Commission
to buy two of Abbott Laboratories Inc.'s diagnostics
business units for $8.13 billion in cash.



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Genetic Susceptibility Linked to Rare Brain Tumor (HealthDay)

HealthDay - TUESDAY, April 24 (HealthDay News) -- A person's genetics may increase
their risk of developing a radiation-associated brain tumor called
meningioma, according to a new study of 525 families.



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Genes May Predict Elderly Blindness Risk (HealthDay)

HealthDay - TUESDAY, April 24 (HealthDay News) -- Two genes could determine
an older person's vulnerability to an advanced form of age-related macular
degeneration (AMD), researchers report.



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TV Food Ads Lead to Weight Gain in Kids: Study (HealthDay)

HealthDay - TUESDAY, April 24 (HealthDay News) -- Television food ads
prompted a 134 percent increase in the amount of food eaten by obese
children, says a study by British researchers.



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Clinical Trials Update: April 24, 2007 (HealthDay)

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy
of Thomson CenterWatch:



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Study: Breast-feeding won't deter obesity (AP)

AP - While breast-feeding has many benefits, it won't prevent a child from becoming fat as an adult, says a new study that challenges dogma from U.S. health officials.



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Report praises vision restoration study (AP)

AP - Electrodes inserted in the brain may point the way to restoring sight lost to eye disease or trauma.



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Study urges new system for elderly care (AP)

AP - The aging baby boom generation is likely to increase the nation's disabled population, and a study says the United States needs a better system to provide care for them. More than 40 million Americans currently have some sort of disability, the Institute of Medicine reported Tuesday.



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Teens studied in history and culture (AP)

AP - "Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture" (Viking, 576 pages, $29.95) — Jon Savage: Long before we called them called "teenagers," adolescents roamed the Earth. They slogged through the muck between childhood innocence and adult self-awareness to carve out a unique and somewhat awkward place in history.



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Hasbro, Mattel results leave toy industry smiling (Reuters)

Reuters - Surprisingly strong first- quarter
results from Mattel Inc. and Hasbro Inc., the world's top two
toy makers, have the industry buzzing, with one analyst
forecasting 2007 would be the strongest year for toy sales
within the last half-decade.



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James Brown's band plans series of shows (AP)

AP - The Soul Generals, the band that backed musical icon James Brown for his last 20 years, will carry on the Godfather's legacy with a series of appearances this year.



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Funds step away on climate change issues (AP)

AP - Investors pressing companies to say more about the possible financial effects of global warming haven't found an ally in large mutual funds.



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FTSE loses ground as real estate stocks fall (FT.com)

FT.com - London equities reversed early gains on Tuesday as the index was hit by worries about the real estate sector in Spain.



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Economy - Tuesday (Investor's Business Daily)

Investor's Business Daily - Average pay for the top 25 hedge fund managers rose 57% in '06 vs. '05 to $570 mil, Alpha magazine said. Three managers earned more than $1 bil last year. They were James Simons of Renaissance Technologies ($1.7 bil), Ken Griffin of Citadel Investment Group ($1.4 bil) and Edward Lampert of ESL Investments ($1.3 bil).



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ABN says would consider superior offer to Barclays (Reuters)

Reuters - Dutch takeover target ABN AMRO
said it would consider a superior proposal to its
roughly $87 billion takeover by British bank Barclays Plc
-- but that it has no responsibility to actively
solicit a rival offer.



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Honesty about abstinence-only (The Christian Science Monitor)

The Christian Science Monitor - It wasn't supposed to turn out this way. The abstinence-only sex-education programs on which the federal government has been spending around $176 million a year have been shown to have zero effect. That's right: zero.



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Campaign to End Gun Trade Ramps Up (OneWorld.net)

OneWorld.net - UNITED NATIONS, April 24 (OneWorld) - As the United Nations prepares itself to take further action on a proposal to adopt an arms control treaty, civil society groups are stepping up pressure on governments to take a firm stand.



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Ecuador reinstates 51 ousted lawmakers (AP)

AP - Ecuador's highest court on Monday reinstated 51 lawmakers ousted last month for allegedly interfering with a referendum on the South American nation's need for a new constitution.



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Shady practices taint college loan business (USATODAY.com)

USATODAY.com - Shady practices taint college loan business



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Baghdad security plan puts US forces, civilians perilously close (The Christian Science Monitor)

The Christian Science Monitor - A massive funeral tent stood on the street in Baghdad's Al Amel neighborhood. Taped verses from the Koran echoed from loudspeakers. Black-clad women wailed and slapped their faces in sorrow.



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U.S. study shows no breast cancer/abortion link (Reuters)

Reuters - Abortions and miscarriages do not
raise the risk of breast cancer, despite claims by some groups
and some studies that suggest they do, researchers said on
Monday.



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Clinical Trials Update: April 23, 2007 (HealthDay)

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy
of Thomson CenterWatch:



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"Mary Poppins" leads theater nominations (Reuters)

Reuters - "Mary Poppins" and "The
Coast of Utopia" led the nominations for the Outer Critics
Circle Awards, announced Monday.



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Basinger denies leaking Baldwin rant (AP)

AP - Kim Basinger denies she leaked a voicemail in which her ex-husband, Alec Baldwin, calls their 11-year-old daughter a "rude, thoughtless little pig."



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Wall Street lower in light trading (FT.com)

FT.com - Wall Street stocks were lower in light trade on Monday following a run-up to a number of psychologically significant benchmarks.



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Consumer confidence falls in April (AP)

AP - Consumer confidence crumbled in April as rising gasoline prices undermined how Americans feel about the prospects for economic growth, a widely watched gauge of the economy showed on Tuesday.



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Ex-aide to plead guilty in ethics probe (AP)

AP - An aide to Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, accepted $30,000 worth of tickets from influence peddler Jack Abramoff and went on a golf junket to Scotland in exchange for assisting the lobbyist, according to court papers filed Monday in the Abramoff scandal.



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U.S. sees 200th DNA conviction reversal (Reuters)

Reuters - A man convicted of rape in 1982 was
exonerated on Monday on the basis of DNA evidence, the 200th
time in the United States that such technology has reversed a
conviction, lawyers who worked for the man said.



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Deadliest attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq (AP)

AP - Some of the deadliest attacks and air disasters suffered by U.S. troops in Iraq since the war began in March 2003:



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Social, Health Care Factors Make Colon Cancer Deadlier for Blacks (HealthDay)

HealthDay - MONDAY, April 23 (HealthDay News) -- Social, economic and health
care inequalities -- not genes -- are probably to blame for black
Americans' higher rate of colorectal cancer death compared to whites, a
new study finds.



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Elderly Need to Watch Vitamin D Levels (HealthDay)

HealthDay - MONDAY, April 23 (HealthDay News) -- A lack of vitamin D may encourage
disability in older adults, a new study finds.



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Health Tip: When Your Child Outgrows a Car Seat (HealthDay)

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) --If your child has already moved from a car
seat to a booster seat and is outgrowing that as well, it's time to make
sure she can safely ride in a car strapped in with a safety belt.



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Clinical Trials Update: April 23, 2007 (HealthDay)

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy
of Thomson CenterWatch:



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Obese File Twice as Many Workers' Comp Claims (HealthDay)

HealthDay - MONDAY, April 23 (HealthDay News) -- A new study of almost 12,000 Duke
University employees found that obese workers filed twice the number of
workers' compensation claims, had seven times higher medical costs from
those claims, and had 13 times more lost work days due to work
injury/illness than non-obese employees.



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Vision restoration study shows promise (AP)

AP - Electrodes inserted in the brain may point the way to restoring sight lost to eye disease or trauma. The research in monkeys is in very early stages, but has shown some promise, Harvard Medical School researchers report in Tuesday's issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.



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Study doesn't back abortion-cancer link (AP)

AP - A Harvard study released Monday supports earlier findings by a panel of experts that having an abortion doesn't increase a woman's risk of getting breast cancer.



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Study: Breast-feeding won't deter obesity (AP)

AP - While breast-feeding has many benefits, it won't prevent a child from becoming fat as an adult, says a new study that challenges dogma from U.S. health officials.



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List of books by David Halberstam (AP)

AP - Books by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Halberstam, who was killed Monday in a car crash near San Francisco:



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Chita Rivera takes thrilling "Life" on the road (Reuters)

Reuters - Chita Rivera does Broadway
proud in the national touring company of her Tony-nominated
"Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life," which I caught last week at
the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach, Fla.



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Washington Post's Graham defends Times ownership (Reuters)

Reuters - Washington Post Co. Chairman Donald
Graham defended closely held rival New York Times Co. on
Monday, saying shareholder efforts to change its control
structure could be a blow to journalism.



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Bacon takes "Chance" on HBO TV movie (Reuters)

Reuters - Kevin Bacon is making a
rare foray into television to star in the Iraq war drama
"Taking Chance."



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"Rock the Bells" documents hip-hop shenanigans (Reuters)

Reuters - A hip-hop variation of
"Gimme Shelter" without the snuff aspect, "Rock the Bells" is
less a concert film than a behind-the-scenes music documentary
chronicling a nearly disastrous show.



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`American Idol' hits high C, for charity (AP)

AP - "American Idol" viewers are getting the chance to weigh in on a cause bigger than their favorite singer — those in need in America and Africa.



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Economy - Monday (Investor's Business Daily)

Investor's Business Daily - Investors' confidence in the U.S. economy fell for a 3rd straight month, to its lowest since Sept. '06. The UBS/Gallup Index of Investor Optimism fell to 74 in April from 78 in March and 105 in Jan. Nearly three-quarters of investors surveyed believed energy prices were hurting the current investment climate, up from 63% in March and 58% in Feb. That's the most concern about energy since Aug. '06. Investors were also concerned about continued weakness in the housing market.



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China warns U.S. piracy case will harm trade tries (Reuters)

Reuters - U.S. complaints to the WTO over
commercial piracy in China will "badly damage" cooperation,
Vice Premier Wu Yi warned on Tuesday, insisting that China has
made great strides in protecting patents and copyrights.



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Apple ex-CFO settles with SEC: report (Reuters)

Reuters - Computer maker Apple Inc.'s
ex-chief financial officer Fred Anderson has settled with the
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on his alleged
participation in the backdating of stock options, the Wall
Street Journal reported on its Web site on Monday.



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DNA exonerates man who served 25 years (AP)

AP - A man who spent 25 years in prison for rape was exonerated Monday as a judge threw out his convictions because DNA evidence showed he couldn't have committed the attack. An advocacy group said it was the 200th such case.



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Canada rocked by fresh Afghan abuse allegations (Reuters)

Reuters - Critics demanded the resignation of
Defense Minister Gordon O'Connor on Monday over fresh
allegations that Afghan prisoners, detained by Canadian
soldiers and handed to local authorities, had been tortured.



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From Virginia to Iraq (USATODAY.com)

USATODAY.com - From Virginia to Iraq



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U.S. food safety strained by imports (AP)

AP - The same food safety net that couldn't catch poisoned pet food ingredients from China has a much bigger hole.



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Pentagon may be shorting troop benefits (AP)

AP - An injured soldier's disability should be determined by Veterans Affairs officials — and not the Pentagon — because the Army might be shortchanging troops, a presidential commission was told on Monday.



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Recent studies on cancer and aspirin (AP)

AP - Some recent research on aspirin and cancer:



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Vitamin D affects physical function in elderly (Reuters)

Reuters - Older men and women who fail to
get enough vitamin D -- either from their diets or exposure to
the sun -- are at heightened risk for muscle weakness and poor
physical performance, a study shows. This is troubling,
researchers say, given the high numbers of older folks who are
deficient in vitamin D.



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Health Tip: When Your Child Outgrows a Car Seat (HealthDay)

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) --If your child has already moved from a car
seat to a booster seat and is outgrowing that as well, it's time to make
sure she can safely ride in a car strapped in with a safety belt.



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Clinical Trials Update: April 23, 2007 (HealthDay)

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy
of Thomson CenterWatch:



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Demand high for cancer vaccine in N.H. (AP)

AP - Demand for the vaccine against cervical cancer is outstripping supply as New Hampshire offers the shots for free, leading some providers to create waiting lists.



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Can aspirin prevent cancer? Jury's out (AP)

AP - The research could give you whiplash: Aspirin prevents cancer, one study says. Oops, maybe not, says another.



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NBC to host U.S. skating championships (AP)

AP - The U.S. Figure Skating Championships are headed to NBC in a deal that involves no rights fees for the national governing body.



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FTSE lower on fears of Dutch banking auction (FT.com)

FT.com - London equities were little changed in midday trade on Monday with banking stocks falling furthest on concern that Barclays (NYSE:BCS)' record EU67bn offer for ABN Amro could trigger a costly bidding war for the Dutch group.



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Royal aiming to be first female leader (AP)

AP - Segolene Royal can see it in her mind's eye: She, Hillary Rodham Clinton and German Chancellor Angela Merkel forming a triumvirate of women leading over a big part of the free world.



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Teen pockets $25,000 in texting contest (AP)

AP - OMG! Thirteen-year-old Morgan Pozgar, of Claysburg, Pa., was crowned LG National Texting champion on Saturday after she typed "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" from "Mary Poppins" in 15 seconds.



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Chinese scientist finds wealth in solar (AP)

AP - Physicist Shi Zhengrong spent the 1990s in an Australian lab studying solar power, a field he picked by chance. He expected to devote his life to science.



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Alternative vehicles showcased in China (AP)

AP - One experimental clean-energy car runs on natural gas. Another uses ethanol distilled from corn. A third has a zero-emissions electric motor powered by a hydrogen fuel cell.



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12 to be charged in Turkey Bible murders (AP)

AP - A court jailed five suspects Sunday on murder charges linked to the killings of three Christians who were tied up and had their throats slit at a publishing house which had drawn protests by nationalists for distributing Bibles.



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Potential rabies treatment fails two children (Reuters)

Reuters - An experimental rabies treatment
that saved the life of a teenager in 2004 has failed to help
two other children infected with the deadly virus, U.S. experts
said on Friday.



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Pilot buzz heating up as time winds down (Reuters)

Reuters - Not all pilots are
created equal. So as the fall 2007 hopefuls are getting final
tweaks by studio executives and heading to the networks, some
of them are entering the fray with stronger buzz than others.



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Iraqi film on war wins rave reviews in Baghdad (Reuters)

Reuters - Making a film about the war in Iraq is
a challenge. Shooting on location, as Iraqi director Mohammed
al-Daradji discovered, can be a near-death experience.



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FTSE bounce back with help from Next (FT.com)

FT.com - Next was among the leading performers Friday as the FTSE 100 bounced back after three sessions of losses.



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KKR, Carlyle join race for Thomson unit: source (Reuters)

Reuters - Private equity firms Kohlberg Kravis
Roberts and Carlyle Group have joined the race for the text
book publishing unit of Canada's Thomson Corp., a source close
to the matter said on Monday.



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Tepid growth expected later this year: survey (Reuters)

Reuters - U.S. corporate profits will be
smaller, demand for goods will diminish, hiring will slow and
weaker growth is expected later this year, a survey released on
Monday showed.



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China's 'sun king' hails clean-energy (AP)

AP - Physicist Shi Zhengrong spent the 1990s in an Australian lab studying solar power, a field he picked by chance. He expected to devote his life to science.



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Bush administration under a cloud (AP)

AP - A rundown of Bush appointees who left under a cloud or face conflict-of-interest allegations



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Germany says Wolfowitz situation unacceptable (Reuters)

Reuters - Germany believes Paul Wolfowitz's
position at the helm of the World Bank has become
unsustainable, a German minister was quoted as saying on
Sunday.



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Queen musical 'We Will Rock You' opens (AP)

AP - For more than 10 years, the Pantages, a restored movie and vaudeville house on a shabby block of Yonge Street, was home to "The Phantom of the Opera," the wildly popular Andrew Lloyd Webber musical.



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Review: 'Frost/Nixon' slick and showy (AP)

AP - Playwright Peter Morgan and director Michael Grandage have more than nostalgia on their minds in "Frost/Nixon," a slick, showy docudrama about the historic television interviews between David Frost and the 37th president of the United States.



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'Disturbia' peeks in at top slot again (AP)

AP - The face of Hannibal Lecter was no match for Shia LaBeouf in a box-office battle of murder thrillers. DreamWorks and Paramount's "Disturbia," starring LaBeouf as a teen who suspects a neighbor of murder, took in $13.5 million to hold the top weekend movie spot for a second straight weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.



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On London: UK shrugs off dollar pain (FT.com)

FT.com - The pound bursting through $2. Inflation at 10-year highs. Interest rates heading upwards. There was plenty to damp sentiment in the UK stock market this week. Yet the FTSE 100 actually ended higher than it started.



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NYC pledges 1 million new trees by 2017 (AP)

AP - One million new trees will join the urban landscape of New York City by the year 2017 to reduce air pollution, cool temperatures and help improve the city's long term sustainability, officials said Saturday.



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Man drowns in moat at Missouri casino (AP)

AP - A man fleeing security drowned early Saturday after he leaped over a railing into a moat surrounding a casino, authorities said.



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Electronic Anti-Mosquito Devices Don't Work (HealthDay)

HealthDay - FRIDAY, April 20 (HealthDay News) -- Electronic mosquito repellants --
handheld devices that emit a high-frequency buzz to repel the blood
suckers -- don't stop bites and don't prevent malaria, says a review of 10
studies conducted in North America, Russia and Africa.



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Warming Climate Reverses Sex of Lizards (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - High temperatures can reverse the sex of dragon lizards before they hatch, turning males into females.

The finding, detailed in the April 20 issue of the journal Science, could have implications for the development of life as the planet's climate warms.

The research reveals that extreme temperatures could inactivate a gene on the male sex chromosomes of dragon lizards and thus turn male embryos into females. The sex-reversed lizards look female and have female organs but genetically they are male, said lead author Alexander Quinn of the University of Canberra in Australia. ...



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Security Experts Warn of Satellite Navigation Hacks (PC World)

PC World - Two security experts have discovered a way to inject false messages-- some amusing and others potentially frightening-- into car satellite navigation systems.



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Grandmother makes emergency landing (AP)

AP - A grandmother of five was flying her small plane cross-country when the engine quit in mid-air and she was forced to make an emergency landing in a muddy field.



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HIGH PRICE OF MOM'S HELP IS DRAG ON FAMILY BUSINESS (Dear Abby)

Dear Abby - DEAR ABBY: Twenty years ago, my sister and I bought a business from our mother. We all love and respect one another and get along well. We will be finished paying off the business in two years.



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Google Apps Draw Converts (PC World)

PC World - Google Inc. has pushed further into Microsoft Corp.'s turf with a major upgrade of its Google Apps hosted suite. Like the free Standard and Education Edition versions, the new Premier offering has Gmail Web mail (with BlackBerry support), Calendar shared scheduling, IM and integrated Docs & Spreadsheets apps. But for US$50 per user per year, Premier customers will get 10GB of e-mail storage per user, instead of 2GB. A Premier subscription also buys a 99.9 percent uptime guarantee, IT management tools and phone support, and tools for integration with other business data.



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Report: 8 rare tigers missing in India (AP)

AP - Eight tigers are missing from a reserve in western India, raising new concerns about the country's dwindling big cat population, a news report said Sunday.



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Merged sciences may aid cancer treatment (AP)

AP - Western science and traditional Eastern medicine could be combined to enhance treatment of cancer and other diseases, an oncology professor told a medical forum Sunday.



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Indonesia awaits Newmont pollution case verdict (Reuters)

Reuters - An Indonesian court is due to give a
verdict on Tuesday in a pollution trial involving Newmont
Mining Corp . that is seen as a test of attitudes toward
foreign firms and environmental protection.



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Pair find winning lotto ticket in trash (AP)

AP - A couple picking up trash along a roadside found a winning scratch-off lottery ticket that led them to a $1,000 jackpot. Ronnie and Tina Abbott said they found a lottery ticket worth $15 Sunday while picking up garbage along a Clinton County road near Frankfort, about 55 miles northwest of Indianapolis.



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War becomes personal at academy (AP)

AP - War is what cadets train for at the nation's oldest private military academy.



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Calif. officials impose moth quarantine (AP)

AP - State agricultural authorities have expanded their efforts to stop the spread of a voracious Australian moth by imposing a quarantine on the hundreds of plants the pest eats in a five-county region.



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Ruling puts Texas Vioxx lawsuits on hold (AP)

AP - More than 1,000 personal injury lawsuits filed in Texas over the once-popular pain medication Vioxx were put on hold Friday after a judge ruled the drug's manufacturer had given adequate warnings about the drug.



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Man drowns in moat at Missouri casino (AP)

AP - A man fleeing security drowned early Saturday after he leaped over a railing into a moat surrounding a casino, authorities said. Police said the man ran away while being questioned about a fake identification card at the Isle of Capri casino.



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Engineer accused of taking codes to Iran (AP)

AP - A former engineer at the nation's largest nuclear power plant has been charged with taking computer access codes and software to Iran and using it to download details of plant control rooms and reactors, authorities said.



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Human Brain Has Origin in Lowly Worm (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - The origin of the human brain has been traced back to primitive central nervous systems in worms and bugs, researchers now say.

Humans and other vertebrates evolved from an ancient common ancestor that also gave rise to insects and worms, scientists have long known. But they're of course quite different today.

Vertebrates have a spinal cord running along their backs, but insects and annelid worms such as earthworms, which have simple organs that barely resemble a brain, have clusters of nerves organized in a chain along their bellies. ...



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Black Hole Cluster Breathes Out Enormous Gas Cloud (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - Astronomers have spotted a giant cloud of superheated gas 6 million light years wide that might be generated by a cluster of supermassive black holes.



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Sun's Atmosphere Sings (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - Astronomers
have recorded heavenly music bellowed out by the Sun's atmosphere.



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13 indicted in $3M credit card fraud (AP)

AP - The diners didn't know it, but their credit cards were going to pay for more than their meals, prosecutors said. Waiters in about 40 restaurants, in New York and elsewhere, quietly recorded customers' credit card information and passed it on to people who used the information to make more than $3 million worth of worth of illegal purchases, according to prosecutors.



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Power deregulation brought few bargains (AP)

AP - This wasn't supposed to happen with deregulation. Electric bills were supposed to go down. Instead, Ellie Dorchincez can almost see the dollars evaporating every time she turns on the lights or opens the freezer at her small Farm Fresh grocery store.



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Democrats threaten new flurry of subpoenas (Reuters)

Reuters - A Democratic committee chairman in
the U.S. House of Representatives threatened on Friday to
subpoena Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice if she refuses to
testify voluntarily about claims made in the run-up to the Iraq
war.



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U.S. bomb technicians honor their dead (AP)

AP - When Sgt. Tim Weiner volunteered to become an explosives ordnance disposal technician in 1991 he told his family it was one of the safest jobs in the military — how often did a stray bomb need disarming?



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AP IMPACT: Sounding alarm over pet drug (AP)

AP - The first hints of trouble came with vague warnings from the outer reaches of the bureaucracy.



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Reading program referred to Justice (AP)

AP - A federal investigator looking into allegations of conflict of interest and mismanagement in a $1 billion-a-year Education Department reading program said Friday he has referred the matter to the Justice Department.



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Database with private info was open to public: USDA (Reuters)

Reuters - A database that included Social
Security numbers and other private information for about 63,000
people who received loans and other funding from the
Agriculture Department was accessible to the public, the U.S.
government said on Friday.



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Asia's cancer rates to spike by 2020 (AP)

AP - The number of cancer cases in Asia is set to rise dramatically by 2020 due largely to longer life spans and changing lifestyles, threatening a health crisis as poorer countries in the region struggle to afford care.



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BA cuts Branson from in-flight Bond film (AP)

AP - LONDON (AP) — British Airways cut a cameo by Richard Branson from its in-flight version of the latest James Bond film and blurred out the tail fin of a Virgin Atlantic plane seen in the movie.



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Fed breach leaks Social Security numbers (AP)

AP - The Social Security numbers of 63,000 people who received Agriculture Department grants have been posted on a government Web site since 1996, but they were taken down last week. Free credit monitoring is being offered to those affected.



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Marine Corps honors 23 lost in Iraq (AP)

AP - Harry Chaires said he awoke with a start before dawn on Oct. 25 at his north Florida farm. Seven time zones away in Iraq, his 20-year-old son had just died from combat wounds in Al Anbar province.



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Democrats nearly erase GOP money edge (AP)

AP - National Democrats have nearly eliminated the fundraising advantage that their Republican rivals have had since campaign finance laws were changed five years ago.



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Studies Assess Risk of Developing Primary, Secondary Cancers (HealthDay)

HealthDay - FRIDAY, April 20 (HealthDay News) -- The risk of developing
primary or secondary cancer is dependent on the interaction of genetics,
personal habits and environmental exposure, new research suggests.



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Health Tip: When the Elderly Should Stop Driving (HealthDay)

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- When you begin to notice the inevitable signs
that an elderly loved one should no longer drive, Helpguide.org from
Rotary International offers these suggestions on how to discuss this
sensitive issue:


Tell the person that you are concerned for his or her safety, as well
as the safety of others.
Mention other transportation options, so the person doesn't feel
trapped at home.
Talk about how much money can be saved in gas and maintenance by no
longer driving.
Offer to take the person to regular appointments, the grocery store,
and other errands.



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