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TSN.ca Brazil left looking for answers Altitude, apathy, overconfidence - Brazil groped for reasons Thursday to explain its stunning 1-0 loss to Ecuador in the World Cup qualifiers.	1Sports
New York Times Tech Internet Giants File 7 Suits Aimed at Stopping Spam The suits include the first filed by America Online against spammers who use instant messaging, a practice the online industry calls spimming.	3Sci/Tech
RedNova technology Gateway Names Lazane Smith As Senior Vice President, Human Resources IRVINE, Calif., Dec. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Gateway, Inc. today announced that Lazane Smith, 52, has been appointed senior vice president, human resources.	3Sci/Tech
InfoWorld news Borland acquires software project planning tool Focused on improving its requirements management arsenal for software development, Borland Software on Wednesday is announcing its acquisition of Estimate Professional, a software project planning and estimation tool.	3Sci/Tech
New York Times sports Mighty Ortiz makes sure Sox can rest easy Just imagine what David Ortiz could do on a good night's rest. Ortiz spent the night before last with his baby boy, D'Angelo, who is barely 1 month old. He had planned on attending the Red Sox' Family Day at Fenway Park yesterday morning, but he had to sleep in. After all, Ortiz had a son at home, and he ...	1Sports
New York Times world The View to Add Sherri Shepherd as Panelist Sherri Shepherd will be added to âThe Viewâsâ roster of panelists.	0World
Forbes Ready To Buy A Chinese Car? Chrysler, with a new owner and a new boss, is placing a big bet on a fledgling Chinese automaker.	2Business
New York Times Science Homeless, With a New Loss: Identity If your identity is being used by someone else, then his overdose is not your business.	3Sci/Tech
Yahoo Science Mystery ailment strikes honeybees (AP) AP - A mysterious illness is killing tens of thousands of honeybee colonies across the country, threatening honey production, the livelihood of beekeepers and possibly crops that need bees for pollination.	3Sci/Tech
New York Times sports Attempting the big jump There were times last season when Stephen Carriere seemed to be living a figure skating version of "Big," one without the wish machine but with a reverse gear. After skating with the juniors all fall, he turned up as the youngest contender in the senior event at the US Championships in Spokane, Wash.	1Sports
Yahoo Sports Jirsa is out as Marshall basketball coach (AP) AP - Ron Jirsa is out as Marshall's basketball coach after a 13-19 season.	1Sports
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Serena moves into China Open quarterfinals Top-seeded Serena Williams of the United States rallied in the final set Wednesday to beat Dinara Safina and reach the quarterfinals of the China Open.	1Sports
The Motley Fool Why You Hate, and Like, Social Security Is Social Security an important part of civilized society, or just another form of welfare?	2Business
New York Times sports No. 2 Charlestown pulls rank No one can accuse the Townies of backing into the boys' state basketball tournament. Just over two weeks after an impressive road win over then-No. 1 East Boston, second-ranked Charlestown welcomed No. 6 Lawrence into its gym and took a hard-fought 71-68 win in nonleague action last night.	1Sports
PCWorld news Pageflakes Adds Widgets, Features to Web tool A Google and Yahoo competitor in the Web personalization arena unveiled its Blizzard release today.	3Sci/Tech
Reuters Ukraine Poll Decides Russian or Western Orientation Ukrainian voters start choosing a new president on Sunday, a tense contest to determine whether the ex-Soviet state intensifies traditional links with Moscow or begins looking toward the West.	0World
CNET enterprise hardware news Sun scraps low-end 'Serrano' Sparc chip Server maker drops UltraSparc IIIi+ processor to focus on other, higher-priority chips.	3Sci/Tech
Yahoo Business Fed seen holding rates steady (Reuters) Reuters - Faced with a strengthening economy and scant signs of runaway prices, the Federal Reserve appeared set to keep interest rates steady on Wednesday while keeping up a verbal guard against potential inflation.	2Business
Channel News Asia Kidnapped Italian freed in southern Philippines MANILA: An Italian aid worker walked free from the southern Philippines jungle on Wednesday, a day after he was abducted by local gunmen, officials said.	0World
Reuters Sports Tsoumeleka Wins Greece's First Athletics Gold ATHENS (Reuters) - Athanasia Tsoumeleka won Greece's first athletics gold of the Olympic Games Monday with an upset victory in the women's 20km walk.	1Sports
PCWorld news Google's Top Legal Officer to Pay $700,000 in SEC Fines David Drummond agrees to pay nearly $700,000 in fines for overstating the revenue of an e-learning company while he was its CEO.	3Sci/Tech
Yahoo Business Pace of U.S. Factory Growth Climbs in Dec (Reuters) Reuters - The pace of growth at U.S. factories picked up in December, boosted by an increase in new orders and despite a decline in employment, a report showed on Monday.	2Business
PCWorld news Congress Tackles Taxing Issues Lawmakers may vote on Internet tax ban, controversial copyright bills before the end of the year.	3Sci/Tech
ktla 5 They're the 0-2 Guys Dodgers are on the verge of being swept again, and this time it's the bottom of the Cardinal order that does much of the damage.	1Sports
RedNova technology FTC Sues Mahwah Firm Over Male Fertility Enhancer Claims By Kevin G. DeMarrais, The Record, Hackensack, N.J. Jan. 30--A Mahwah-based company and two of its executives have been sued by the Federal Trade Commission for making unsubstantiated claims about a dietary supplement that supposedly enhances male fertility.	3Sci/Tech
New York Times world Changing Senate Looks Better to Abortion Foes As a result of November's election, the next Senate will have a bigger, more conservative Republican majority and several new opponents of abortion.	0World
Reuters 'After Kyoto' Takes Center Stage at Climate Talks The Kyoto agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions doesn't take effect for two months, but climate change negotiators are already fixated on what happens when it expires in 2012.	0World
Yahoo World Czech Officials Get Into Fist Fight (AP) AP - Czech's health care minister and an adviser to President Vaclav Klaus got into a fist fight in a confrontation captured by TV cameras. The fight happened Saturday in front of a group of dentists.	0World
Sauk Valley Newspapers What a difference a year makes Editors note: Sauk Valley Newspapers will run Tom Waddle's column on the Bears throughout the 2004 season. At first glance, it's hard to believe this is the same Bears organization that we've come to know over the last decade.	1Sports
IT World Microsoft loses FAT patent, wins Smart Tag case Microsoft Corp. is fighting a rejection by US patent authorities of a patent for its FAT (file allocation table) file system, the company said Thursday.	3Sci/Tech
Yahoo Sports Chelsea overwhelming favorite to repeat (AP) AP - Chelsea was already a big favorite to win the Premier League for a third year running. So what did coach Jose Mourinho do? He signed Michael Ballack and Andriy Shevchenko for good measure.	1Sports
PCWorld news Google's Carbon-Emission Plans Google has decided to become carbon-neutral by the end of the year, announces plans.	3Sci/Tech
Computerworld news HP e3000 Users Continue Push to Get Source Code Hewlett-Packard still hasn’t decided whether it will release the source code for its MPE operating system to third parties, leaving a group of users and consultants uncertain about their ability to provide support for the discontinued HP e3000 server line.	3Sci/Tech
Los Angeles Daily News Iowa St. gets second bowl win Stevie Hicks and quarterback Bret Meyer each totaled more than 100 yards in a revived running game that carried Iowa State to a 17-13 victory Tuesday night over Miami of Ohio in the Independence Bowl.	1Sports
New York Times Business Price Index Dipped a Bit Last Month Consumer prices declined slightly in July, pulled down by an incongruous drop in gasoline prices and by lower prices in other less volatile areas.	2Business
Reuters World Four Palestinians Killed in Violence After Arafat Dies GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers killed four Palestinians in violent confrontations that erupted following the death of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat in a French hospital on Thursday, Palestinians medics said.	0World
Reuters Sports Greene aims to prove age no barrier to speed RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - Maurice Greene wants to turn back the clock and rediscover life among the world's elite sprinters this year, at the age of 32.	1Sports
Toronto Star Oil prices warn the day of reckoning approaches Efforts to unseat the democratically elected president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, failed this weekend in a hotly contested recall vote that he appears to have won handily.	2Business
The Washington Post sports Backup, Go Forward It's only a matter of time before Redskins fans clamor for backup quarterback Tim Hasselbeck.	1Sports
The Washington Post sports Terps Dunk Carleton Chris McCray scores 17 points and pulls in nine rebounds to lead No. 15 Maryland to an easy 89-60 exhibition win over Carleton on Saturday.	1Sports
Boston Globe sports A Big, Easy Victory for Louisiana State The No. 2 L.S.U. Tigers stole the final scene on the sportâs grandest stage, blowing out top-ranked Ohio State to win the programâs third national championship.	1Sports
Yahoo World British food authority to check if infected poultry reached shops (AFP) AFP - Britain's food safety watchdog is investigating if meat infected with the avian flu virus entered the food chain following an outbreak of the disease on a farm run by Europe's largest poultry producer.	0World
Forbes A Year Of Awesome Auctions This year's modern and contemporary auctions obliterated sales records.	2Business
New York Times Business Site Previously for Students Will Be Opened to Others Facebook, the popular social networking Web site that has mainly focused on college students, is preparing to open its membership to everyone.	2Business
IGN DVD/HD-DVD Combo Developed December 08, 2004 - Memory-Tech Corp. and Toshiba have announced that they have developed a dual-layer disc that can store both standard DVD and HD-DVD formats, on different layers.	3Sci/Tech
Boston Globe sports Hamm Pleads Case as One and Only Paul Hamm stated his case for the all-around gold medal before the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, Switzerland. Now the waiting begins.	1Sports
The Motley Fool Butcher's Boy on the Chopping Block Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo's shady stock sales finally get some official scrutiny.	2Business
Canada.com Sony previews high-definition video camera Sony is previewing a new camcorder that takes video in digital high-definition quality for consumers. The four pound (HDR-FX1) device is set to go one sale next month in Japan and around the world by the end of the year.	3Sci/Tech
CNET enterprise hardware news One-fifth of China's 213 million netizens are mobile users Several news stories have noted that China's internet user base increased by more than 70 million in 2007 to a count 213 million at year's end. Little noted is that 23 percent of these users use the internet from mobile devices.	3Sci/Tech
sportal.com.au Silver to McGee, Mactier into final There were a couple of near misses for Australia on the second night of track cycling competition, with a silver medal to Brad McGee in the 4000m individual pursuit and fourth place to the team sprint trio.	1Sports
Wired Tech Digerati en Route to TED The annual Technology, Entertainment and Design celebrity-brainiac confab kicks off Wednesday in Monterey, California. Get ready for some high-level memes and plenty of celebrity sightings. By Kim Zetter.	3Sci/Tech
Team India Death toll of north China plane crash rises to 55 : Beijing, Nov 21 : At least 55 people, including 53 passengers and crew as well as two persons on the ground, were killed when a small commuter plane crashed into a frozen lake seconds after takeoff in Inner Mongolia in north China, local officials said.	0World
Webindia123.com Bangladesh announces 3-day mourning for Arafat The Bangladesh government on Thursday announced a three-day national mourning in memory of Palestine President Yasser Arafat, who died this morning.	0World
New York Post PRIEST-DIRECTOR SAW 'PROPER' OVITZ FIRING Father Leo O'Donovan, a Walt Disney Co. director and Jesuit priest, testified that he believed CEO Michael Eisner had the "proper authority" to boot Michael Ovitz from the company.	2Business
New York Times Business In Big Penalty, Jury Reverses a Vioxx Verdict A jury ruled that Merckâs painkiller contributed to an Idaho postal workerâs heart attack, and awarded him $20 million in damages.	2Business
New York Times Tech Corporate IT Almost Ready for Online Backup The inability of large enterprises to control exploding data growth over the next few years will fuel rapidly increasing corporate use of hosted backup services.	3Sci/Tech
Bloomberg Fed's Most Important Step Wasn't Rate Increase The most important step Federal Reserve officials took yesterday was not raising their target for the overnight lending rate by a quarter point.	2Business
Reuters Business Qantas rejects $8.6 billion takeover bid MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia's Qantas Airways Ltd. rejected on Wednesday a A$10.9 billion ($8.6 billion) buyout offer from a group led by Macquarie Bank Ltd. and private equity firm Texas Pacific Group .	2Business
Yahoo Sports Snow starts quickly as Islanders new GM (AP) AP - Garth Snow settled into his new office early Wednesday morning and took a break only to attend a luncheon in his honor. Not bad for a guy who was the New York Islanders' backup goalie one day earlier.	1Sports
Reuters Business Delta Air Lines quarterly net loss widens NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bankrupt Delta Air Lines said on Wednesday its fourth-quarter net loss widened by 60 percent, hurt by a $2.5 billion charge for reorganization costs.	2Business
The Age Ransom may buy life of Iraq hostage The brother of Iraq hostage Ken Bigley was investigating whether it might be possible to buy his sibling's life. Paul Bigley was looking into reports in a Kuwaiti newspaper that a new Iraqi militant group	0World
Reuters World Five killed in car-bomb attack on Afghan police KABUL (Reuters) - A vehicle packed with rockets blew up outside police headquarters in the Afghan capital on Saturday, killing five people and wounding two, the government said.	0World
RedNova space Op-Ed ; Taking Flight From Senses By KATE GORHAM It was a tabloid editor's dream come true - a diaper-clad, wig- sporting space shuttle astronaut traveling 900 miles by car to confront her perceived rival in a juicy NASA love triangle.	3Sci/Tech
Reuters Business Stocks fall on lower commodities, Dell NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks fell on Monday as shares of energy companies like Exxon Mobil Corp. XOM.N and those of miners fell as crude oil prices extended a six-day sell-off and bullion prices fell.	2Business
The Register Sun Solaris upgrade snuggles with Linux Turns desktops into thin clients Sun Microsystems upgraded the Solaris 10 operating system today, most notably enabling its OS to run Linux and its applications on x86 systems.âŠ	3Sci/Tech
Reuters Sports Teenager Radwanska stuns top seed Dementieva LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - Polish teenager Agnieszka Radwanska caused her second big shock in as many days when she stunned Russian top seed Elena Dementieva 7-5 6-2 in the quarter-finals of the Luxembourg Championship on Friday.	1Sports
CNET networking news Report: 12-inch MacBook Pro by end of year Blog: Rumors resurface about a 12-inch Apple MacBook Pro.	3Sci/Tech
Forbes ADV: Distance Learning Directory - Online Degrees Bachelor, Master and Post-Grad degrees online from accredited colleges and universities. Business, Education, IT, Healthcare, more. Browse by degree or program. Request info and get started today.	2Business
SymbianOne First Look: Nokia Preminet â The Next Generation In Content <b>...</b> Entering a market where there are already several well established players Nokiaâs Preminet open service model solution is being heralded as the next generation of content delivery systems for wireless devices.	3Sci/Tech
New York Times Business One World, Taking Risks Together A global economy was thought to be more stable â but not if everyone is speculating.	2Business
Yahoo Tech Moore and more documentaries (USATODAY.com) USATODAY.com - Not only does the filmmaker's Bush-bashing documentary, Fahrenheit 9/11, arrive on DVD today (Columbia TriStar, $29), but two of his previous films, Bowlingfor Columbine and The Big One, are in stores Tuesday repackaged as the Michael Moore Limited Edition DVD Collector's Set .	3Sci/Tech
Boston Globe sports Swimming: Record Set in Manhattan Swim Exhausted and shriveled from nearly a day and a half in the water, Skip Storch completed a record swim by circling Manhattan three times in 32 hours 52 minutes 30 seconds.	1Sports
Reuters Business Stocks Up on Economic Data, Earnings NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks were higher on Tuesday after strong earnings were posted by several retailers, led by Home Depot Inc. HD.N , and after U.S. economic reports for July showed that inflationary pressure was held in check and housing starts rebounded sharply.	2Business
Yahoo Sports Basso suspended for two years for doping (AP) AP - Former Giro d'Italia champion Ivan Basso received a maximum two-year doping penalty Friday from the Italian cycling federation.	1Sports
RedNova technology Pixim Announces Strategic Investment and Technology Development Agreement With In-Q-Tel Pixim, Incorporated, known for its award-winnin	3Sci/Tech
San Francisco Chronicle Jaguars unbeaten, and Del Rio says offense will get better The Jacksonville Jaguars are unbeaten and off to their best start since 1998. Adding to coach Jack Del Rio's excitement level is his belief the offense is going to only get better.	1Sports
Time World Venezuela Troops Fire on Protesters At least three students are injured after Chavez takes a television station off the air	0World
Yahoo Business Existing home sales fall in April (AP) AP - Sales of existing homes fell more than expected in April while prices slid for a record ninth consecutive month, indicating further troubles ahead for the housing market.	2Business
CNET enterprise software news Earnings alert: Linux OS sales boost Novell Plus: Salesforce quarterly revenue rises...Write-downs widen DirecTV's loss...Time Warner net income slips...Cell phone unit shores up Verizon.	3Sci/Tech
The Motley Fool You Can Go Home Again Move's Realtor.com is growing again.	2Business
Reuters Business Dollar Off; Trichet Leaves Euro Unfazed NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar slipped against the euro on Thursday after European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet reiterated that recent moves in currency markets were unwelcome, but did not use strong enough rhetoric to deter the euro from strengthening, currency traders said.	2Business
Yahoo Business Dean Foods cuts profit forecast; stock slumps (Reuters) Reuters - Dean Foods Co., the nation's largest processor and distributor of milk and dairy products, cut its profit forecast on Tuesday due to soaring costs for raw milk, sending its shares down as much as 5.5 percent.	2Business
New York Times sports It's a test of strength Would Joe Torre have written Jason Giambi's name on his lineup card last night if a playoff spot had been at stake?	1Sports
RedNova science Foster Wheeler Awarded FEED/PMC Contract for New Petrochemicals Complex in Saudi Arabia Foster Wheeler Ltd. (Nasdaq: FWLT) announced to	3Sci/Tech
Newsday Martha won't get prison immediately Martha Stewart may be anxious to begin her prison term, but intricacies of the federal prison system may mean that the homemaking maven will just have a little more time to straighten up	2Business
Reuters Business Chrysler exec backs plan, hopes to avoid new cuts WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Chrysler LLC has a "realistic" business plan in place and "hopes to avoid" future buyouts or other downsizing due to U.S. economic woes, the company's president said on Tuesday.	2Business
BBC science 'New thinking' needed on climate The global climate debate needs to embrace a "new way of thinking", UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon urges.	3Sci/Tech
New York Times sports '85 Patriots see themselves in '07 Giants It was long ago, but Steve Grogan, Pete Brock, and Steve Nelson can't help but see the spitting image of the 1985 Patriots in this season's New York Giants.	1Sports
New York Times Tech Five Years, Two Owners and a Town Still in Limbo The 29 residents of Bridgeville are sour on the idea of selling their town on eBay.	3Sci/Tech
CNET security news Deal of the day: Logitech R-10 desktop speakers, $15 shipped Blog: How often do you find a pair of speakers for under $10?	3Sci/Tech
New York Times sports Texas goes wild The Red Sox have company atop the wild-card standings. In Arlington, Texas, Laynce Nix homered and drove in three runs, including a tiebreaking sacrifice fly, and the Rangers beat the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, 6-2, yesterday to sweep the three-game series.	1Sports
Yahoo Sports Mariners batter Burnett in win over Jays (AP) AP - Jamie Moyer pitched into the sixth inning for his first win in a month, and Seattle battered Toronto starter A.J. Burnett for six runs and 10 hits in the Mariners' 7-4 win over the Blue Jays on Wednesday night.	1Sports
BBC News Business Brazil corruption charges urged More than 90 people in Brazil face possible charges after a two-year inquiry into money laundering.	2Business
Washington Post Business Iraq Contract Documents In 'Disarray,' Inspector Says An independent oversight agency said it could not complete an audit of a $1.2 billion contract to train Iraqi policemen because records kept by the State Department and by DynCorp International, the contractor, were inaccurate and in disarray.	2Business
New Ratings Continental Airlines to order 10 Boeing 7E7 jets NEW YORK, December 30 (newratings.com) - Continental Airlines (CAL.NYS) announced yesterday that it has placed an order for 10 of Boeingâs (BA) new 7E7 Dreamliners, with delivery expected to begin in 2009.	2Business
CBC News Mauresmo takes over No. 1 world tennis ranking CBC SPORTS ONLINE - French tennis star Amelie Mauresmo is now the top-ranked women's tennis player in the world. Mauresmo earned the honour Monday when the new WTA rankings were released.	1Sports
Environmental Data Interactive EPA must close loopholes in emissions law Loopholes in state laws that regulate hazardous emissions pose a serious risk to the health of millions of Americans and need to be revised, according to a report published this week.	3Sci/Tech
Sports Network West Brom acquires Inamoto Bromwich, England (Sports Network) - West Bromwich signed Japanese international Junichi Inamoto to a 2 1/2-year contract on Tuesday.	1Sports
Reuters World Mortar bomb hits Mogadishu residential area MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A mortar bomb struck a residential area of eastern Mogadishu on Thursday, wounding a young girl in the latest in a string of almost daily attacks in the chaotic seaside capital, residents said.	0World
Telegraph.co.uk Child soldiers square up to US tanks Struggling to lift a Kalashnikov, a 12-year-old with the Mahdi army militia said he could do anything in battle except fly a helicopter.	0World

TSN.ca Brazil left looking for answers Altitude, apathy, overconfidence - Brazil groped for reasons Thursday to explain its stunning 1-0 loss to Ecuador in the World Cup qualifiers.

1Sports

New York Times Tech Internet Giants File 7 Suits Aimed at Stopping Spam The suits include the first filed by America Online against spammers who use instant messaging, a practice the online industry calls spimming.

3Sci/Tech

RedNova technology Gateway Names Lazane Smith As Senior Vice President, Human Resources IRVINE, Calif., Dec. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Gateway, Inc. today announced that Lazane Smith, 52, has been appointed senior vice president, human resources.

3Sci/Tech

InfoWorld news Borland acquires software project planning tool Focused on improving its requirements management arsenal for software development, Borland Software on Wednesday is announcing its acquisition of Estimate Professional, a software project planning and estimation tool.

3Sci/Tech

New York Times sports Mighty Ortiz makes sure Sox can rest easy Just imagine what David Ortiz could do on a good night's rest. Ortiz spent the night before last with his baby boy, D'Angelo, who is barely 1 month old. He had planned on attending the Red Sox' Family Day at Fenway Park yesterday morning, but he had to sleep in. After all, Ortiz had a son at home, and he ...

1Sports

New York Times world The View to Add Sherri Shepherd as Panelist Sherri Shepherd will be added to âThe Viewâsâ roster of panelists.

0World

Forbes Ready To Buy A Chinese Car? Chrysler, with a new owner and a new boss, is placing a big bet on a fledgling Chinese automaker.

2Business

New York Times Science Homeless, With a New Loss: Identity If your identity is being used by someone else, then his overdose is not your business.

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Yahoo Science Mystery ailment strikes honeybees (AP) AP - A mysterious illness is killing tens of thousands of honeybee colonies across the country, threatening honey production, the livelihood of beekeepers and possibly crops that need bees for pollination.

3Sci/Tech

New York Times sports Attempting the big jump There were times last season when Stephen Carriere seemed to be living a figure skating version of "Big," one without the wish machine but with a reverse gear. After skating with the juniors all fall, he turned up as the youngest contender in the senior event at the US Championships in Spokane, Wash.

1Sports

Yahoo Sports Jirsa is out as Marshall basketball coach (AP) AP - Ron Jirsa is out as Marshall's basketball coach after a 13-19 season.

1Sports

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Serena moves into China Open quarterfinals Top-seeded Serena Williams of the United States rallied in the final set Wednesday to beat Dinara Safina and reach the quarterfinals of the China Open.

1Sports

The Motley Fool Why You Hate, and Like, Social Security Is Social Security an important part of civilized society, or just another form of welfare?

2Business

New York Times sports No. 2 Charlestown pulls rank No one can accuse the Townies of backing into the boys' state basketball tournament. Just over two weeks after an impressive road win over then-No. 1 East Boston, second-ranked Charlestown welcomed No. 6 Lawrence into its gym and took a hard-fought 71-68 win in nonleague action last night.

1Sports

PCWorld news Pageflakes Adds Widgets, Features to Web tool A Google and Yahoo competitor in the Web personalization arena unveiled its Blizzard release today.

3Sci/Tech

Reuters Ukraine Poll Decides Russian or Western Orientation Ukrainian voters start choosing a new president on Sunday, a tense contest to determine whether the ex-Soviet state intensifies traditional links with Moscow or begins looking toward the West.

0World

CNET enterprise hardware news Sun scraps low-end 'Serrano' Sparc chip Server maker drops UltraSparc IIIi+ processor to focus on other, higher-priority chips.

3Sci/Tech

Yahoo Business Fed seen holding rates steady (Reuters) Reuters - Faced with a strengthening economy and scant signs of runaway prices, the Federal Reserve appeared set to keep interest rates steady on Wednesday while keeping up a verbal guard against potential inflation.

2Business

Channel News Asia Kidnapped Italian freed in southern Philippines MANILA: An Italian aid worker walked free from the southern Philippines jungle on Wednesday, a day after he was abducted by local gunmen, officials said.

0World

Reuters Sports Tsoumeleka Wins Greece's First Athletics Gold ATHENS (Reuters) - Athanasia Tsoumeleka won Greece's first athletics gold of the Olympic Games Monday with an upset victory in the women's 20km walk.

1Sports

PCWorld news Google's Top Legal Officer to Pay $700,000 in SEC Fines David Drummond agrees to pay nearly $700,000 in fines for overstating the revenue of an e-learning company while he was its CEO.

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Yahoo Business Pace of U.S. Factory Growth Climbs in Dec (Reuters) Reuters - The pace of growth at U.S. factories picked up in December, boosted by an increase in new orders and despite a decline in employment, a report showed on Monday.

2Business

PCWorld news Congress Tackles Taxing Issues Lawmakers may vote on Internet tax ban, controversial copyright bills before the end of the year.

3Sci/Tech

ktla 5 They're the 0-2 Guys Dodgers are on the verge of being swept again, and this time it's the bottom of the Cardinal order that does much of the damage.

1Sports

RedNova technology FTC Sues Mahwah Firm Over Male Fertility Enhancer Claims By Kevin G. DeMarrais, The Record, Hackensack, N.J. Jan. 30--A Mahwah-based company and two of its executives have been sued by the Federal Trade Commission for making unsubstantiated claims about a dietary supplement that supposedly enhances male fertility.

3Sci/Tech

New York Times world Changing Senate Looks Better to Abortion Foes As a result of November's election, the next Senate will have a bigger, more conservative Republican majority and several new opponents of abortion.

0World

Reuters 'After Kyoto' Takes Center Stage at Climate Talks The Kyoto agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions doesn't take effect for two months, but climate change negotiators are already fixated on what happens when it expires in 2012.

0World

Yahoo World Czech Officials Get Into Fist Fight (AP) AP - Czech's health care minister and an adviser to President Vaclav Klaus got into a fist fight in a confrontation captured by TV cameras. The fight happened Saturday in front of a group of dentists.

0World

Sauk Valley Newspapers What a difference a year makes Editors note: Sauk Valley Newspapers will run Tom Waddle's column on the Bears throughout the 2004 season. At first glance, it's hard to believe this is the same Bears organization that we've come to know over the last decade.

1Sports

IT World Microsoft loses FAT patent, wins Smart Tag case Microsoft Corp. is fighting a rejection by US patent authorities of a patent for its FAT (file allocation table) file system, the company said Thursday.

3Sci/Tech

Yahoo Sports Chelsea overwhelming favorite to repeat (AP) AP - Chelsea was already a big favorite to win the Premier League for a third year running. So what did coach Jose Mourinho do? He signed Michael Ballack and Andriy Shevchenko for good measure.

1Sports

PCWorld news Google's Carbon-Emission Plans Google has decided to become carbon-neutral by the end of the year, announces plans.

3Sci/Tech

Computerworld news HP e3000 Users Continue Push to Get Source Code Hewlett-Packard still hasn’t decided whether it will release the source code for its MPE operating system to third parties, leaving a group of users and consultants uncertain about their ability to provide support for the discontinued HP e3000 server line.

3Sci/Tech

Los Angeles Daily News Iowa St. gets second bowl win Stevie Hicks and quarterback Bret Meyer each totaled more than 100 yards in a revived running game that carried Iowa State to a 17-13 victory Tuesday night over Miami of Ohio in the Independence Bowl.

1Sports

New York Times Business Price Index Dipped a Bit Last Month Consumer prices declined slightly in July, pulled down by an incongruous drop in gasoline prices and by lower prices in other less volatile areas.

2Business

Reuters World Four Palestinians Killed in Violence After Arafat Dies GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers killed four Palestinians in violent confrontations that erupted following the death of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat in a French hospital on Thursday, Palestinians medics said.

0World

Reuters Sports Greene aims to prove age no barrier to speed RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - Maurice Greene wants to turn back the clock and rediscover life among the world's elite sprinters this year, at the age of 32.

1Sports

Toronto Star Oil prices warn the day of reckoning approaches Efforts to unseat the democratically elected president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, failed this weekend in a hotly contested recall vote that he appears to have won handily.

2Business

The Washington Post sports Backup, Go Forward It's only a matter of time before Redskins fans clamor for backup quarterback Tim Hasselbeck.

1Sports

The Washington Post sports Terps Dunk Carleton Chris McCray scores 17 points and pulls in nine rebounds to lead No. 15 Maryland to an easy 89-60 exhibition win over Carleton on Saturday.

1Sports

Boston Globe sports A Big, Easy Victory for Louisiana State The No. 2 L.S.U. Tigers stole the final scene on the sportâs grandest stage, blowing out top-ranked Ohio State to win the programâs third national championship.

1Sports

Yahoo World British food authority to check if infected poultry reached shops (AFP) AFP - Britain's food safety watchdog is investigating if meat infected with the avian flu virus entered the food chain following an outbreak of the disease on a farm run by Europe's largest poultry producer.

0World

Forbes A Year Of Awesome Auctions This year's modern and contemporary auctions obliterated sales records.

2Business

New York Times Business Site Previously for Students Will Be Opened to Others Facebook, the popular social networking Web site that has mainly focused on college students, is preparing to open its membership to everyone.

2Business

IGN DVD/HD-DVD Combo Developed December 08, 2004 - Memory-Tech Corp. and Toshiba have announced that they have developed a dual-layer disc that can store both standard DVD and HD-DVD formats, on different layers.

3Sci/Tech

Boston Globe sports Hamm Pleads Case as One and Only Paul Hamm stated his case for the all-around gold medal before the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, Switzerland. Now the waiting begins.

1Sports

The Motley Fool Butcher's Boy on the Chopping Block Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo's shady stock sales finally get some official scrutiny.

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Canada.com Sony previews high-definition video camera Sony is previewing a new camcorder that takes video in digital high-definition quality for consumers. The four pound (HDR-FX1) device is set to go one sale next month in Japan and around the world by the end of the year.

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CNET enterprise hardware news One-fifth of China's 213 million netizens are mobile users Several news stories have noted that China's internet user base increased by more than 70 million in 2007 to a count 213 million at year's end. Little noted is that 23 percent of these users use the internet from mobile devices.

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sportal.com.au Silver to McGee, Mactier into final There were a couple of near misses for Australia on the second night of track cycling competition, with a silver medal to Brad McGee in the 4000m individual pursuit and fourth place to the team sprint trio.

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Wired Tech Digerati en Route to TED The annual Technology, Entertainment and Design celebrity-brainiac confab kicks off Wednesday in Monterey, California. Get ready for some high-level memes and plenty of celebrity sightings. By Kim Zetter.

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Team India Death toll of north China plane crash rises to 55 : Beijing, Nov 21 : At least 55 people, including 53 passengers and crew as well as two persons on the ground, were killed when a small commuter plane crashed into a frozen lake seconds after takeoff in Inner Mongolia in north China, local officials said.

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Webindia123.com Bangladesh announces 3-day mourning for Arafat The Bangladesh government on Thursday announced a three-day national mourning in memory of Palestine President Yasser Arafat, who died this morning.

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New York Post PRIEST-DIRECTOR SAW 'PROPER' OVITZ FIRING Father Leo O'Donovan, a Walt Disney Co. director and Jesuit priest, testified that he believed CEO Michael Eisner had the "proper authority" to boot Michael Ovitz from the company.

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New York Times Business In Big Penalty, Jury Reverses a Vioxx Verdict A jury ruled that Merckâs painkiller contributed to an Idaho postal workerâs heart attack, and awarded him $20 million in damages.

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New York Times Tech Corporate IT Almost Ready for Online Backup The inability of large enterprises to control exploding data growth over the next few years will fuel rapidly increasing corporate use of hosted backup services.

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Bloomberg Fed's Most Important Step Wasn't Rate Increase The most important step Federal Reserve officials took yesterday was not raising their target for the overnight lending rate by a quarter point.

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Reuters Business Qantas rejects $8.6 billion takeover bid MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia's Qantas Airways Ltd. rejected on Wednesday a A$10.9 billion ($8.6 billion) buyout offer from a group led by Macquarie Bank Ltd. and private equity firm Texas Pacific Group .

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Yahoo Sports Snow starts quickly as Islanders new GM (AP) AP - Garth Snow settled into his new office early Wednesday morning and took a break only to attend a luncheon in his honor. Not bad for a guy who was the New York Islanders' backup goalie one day earlier.

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Reuters Business Delta Air Lines quarterly net loss widens NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bankrupt Delta Air Lines said on Wednesday its fourth-quarter net loss widened by 60 percent, hurt by a $2.5 billion charge for reorganization costs.

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The Age Ransom may buy life of Iraq hostage The brother of Iraq hostage Ken Bigley was investigating whether it might be possible to buy his sibling's life. Paul Bigley was looking into reports in a Kuwaiti newspaper that a new Iraqi militant group

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Reuters World Five killed in car-bomb attack on Afghan police KABUL (Reuters) - A vehicle packed with rockets blew up outside police headquarters in the Afghan capital on Saturday, killing five people and wounding two, the government said.

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RedNova space Op-Ed ; Taking Flight From Senses By KATE GORHAM It was a tabloid editor's dream come true - a diaper-clad, wig- sporting space shuttle astronaut traveling 900 miles by car to confront her perceived rival in a juicy NASA love triangle.

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Reuters Business Stocks fall on lower commodities, Dell NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks fell on Monday as shares of energy companies like Exxon Mobil Corp. XOM.N and those of miners fell as crude oil prices extended a six-day sell-off and bullion prices fell.

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The Register Sun Solaris upgrade snuggles with Linux Turns desktops into thin clients Sun Microsystems upgraded the Solaris 10 operating system today, most notably enabling its OS to run Linux and its applications on x86 systems.âŠ

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Reuters Sports Teenager Radwanska stuns top seed Dementieva LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - Polish teenager Agnieszka Radwanska caused her second big shock in as many days when she stunned Russian top seed Elena Dementieva 7-5 6-2 in the quarter-finals of the Luxembourg Championship on Friday.

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CNET networking news Report: 12-inch MacBook Pro by end of year Blog: Rumors resurface about a 12-inch Apple MacBook Pro.

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Forbes ADV: Distance Learning Directory - Online Degrees Bachelor, Master and Post-Grad degrees online from accredited colleges and universities. Business, Education, IT, Healthcare, more. Browse by degree or program. Request info and get started today.

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SymbianOne First Look: Nokia Preminet â The Next Generation In Content <b>...</b> Entering a market where there are already several well established players Nokiaâs Preminet open service model solution is being heralded as the next generation of content delivery systems for wireless devices.

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New York Times Business One World, Taking Risks Together A global economy was thought to be more stable â but not if everyone is speculating.

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Yahoo Tech Moore and more documentaries (USATODAY.com) USATODAY.com - Not only does the filmmaker's Bush-bashing documentary, Fahrenheit 9/11, arrive on DVD today (Columbia TriStar, $29), but two of his previous films, Bowlingfor Columbine and The Big One, are in stores Tuesday repackaged as the Michael Moore Limited Edition DVD Collector's Set .

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Boston Globe sports Swimming: Record Set in Manhattan Swim Exhausted and shriveled from nearly a day and a half in the water, Skip Storch completed a record swim by circling Manhattan three times in 32 hours 52 minutes 30 seconds.

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Reuters Business Stocks Up on Economic Data, Earnings NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks were higher on Tuesday after strong earnings were posted by several retailers, led by Home Depot Inc. HD.N , and after U.S. economic reports for July showed that inflationary pressure was held in check and housing starts rebounded sharply.

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Yahoo Sports Basso suspended for two years for doping (AP) AP - Former Giro d'Italia champion Ivan Basso received a maximum two-year doping penalty Friday from the Italian cycling federation.

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RedNova technology Pixim Announces Strategic Investment and Technology Development Agreement With In-Q-Tel Pixim, Incorporated, known for its award-winnin

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San Francisco Chronicle Jaguars unbeaten, and Del Rio says offense will get better The Jacksonville Jaguars are unbeaten and off to their best start since 1998. Adding to coach Jack Del Rio's excitement level is his belief the offense is going to only get better.

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Time World Venezuela Troops Fire on Protesters At least three students are injured after Chavez takes a television station off the air

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Yahoo Business Existing home sales fall in April (AP) AP - Sales of existing homes fell more than expected in April while prices slid for a record ninth consecutive month, indicating further troubles ahead for the housing market.

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CNET enterprise software news Earnings alert: Linux OS sales boost Novell Plus: Salesforce quarterly revenue rises...Write-downs widen DirecTV's loss...Time Warner net income slips...Cell phone unit shores up Verizon.

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The Motley Fool You Can Go Home Again Move's Realtor.com is growing again.

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Reuters Business Dollar Off; Trichet Leaves Euro Unfazed NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar slipped against the euro on Thursday after European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet reiterated that recent moves in currency markets were unwelcome, but did not use strong enough rhetoric to deter the euro from strengthening, currency traders said.

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Yahoo Business Dean Foods cuts profit forecast; stock slumps (Reuters) Reuters - Dean Foods Co., the nation's largest processor and distributor of milk and dairy products, cut its profit forecast on Tuesday due to soaring costs for raw milk, sending its shares down as much as 5.5 percent.

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New York Times sports It's a test of strength Would Joe Torre have written Jason Giambi's name on his lineup card last night if a playoff spot had been at stake?

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RedNova science Foster Wheeler Awarded FEED/PMC Contract for New Petrochemicals Complex in Saudi Arabia Foster Wheeler Ltd. (Nasdaq: FWLT) announced to

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Newsday Martha won't get prison immediately Martha Stewart may be anxious to begin her prison term, but intricacies of the federal prison system may mean that the homemaking maven will just have a little more time to straighten up

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Reuters Business Chrysler exec backs plan, hopes to avoid new cuts WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Chrysler LLC has a "realistic" business plan in place and "hopes to avoid" future buyouts or other downsizing due to U.S. economic woes, the company's president said on Tuesday.

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BBC science 'New thinking' needed on climate The global climate debate needs to embrace a "new way of thinking", UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon urges.

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New York Times sports '85 Patriots see themselves in '07 Giants It was long ago, but Steve Grogan, Pete Brock, and Steve Nelson can't help but see the spitting image of the 1985 Patriots in this season's New York Giants.

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New York Times Tech Five Years, Two Owners and a Town Still in Limbo The 29 residents of Bridgeville are sour on the idea of selling their town on eBay.

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CNET security news Deal of the day: Logitech R-10 desktop speakers, $15 shipped Blog: How often do you find a pair of speakers for under $10?

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New York Times sports Texas goes wild The Red Sox have company atop the wild-card standings. In Arlington, Texas, Laynce Nix homered and drove in three runs, including a tiebreaking sacrifice fly, and the Rangers beat the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, 6-2, yesterday to sweep the three-game series.

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Yahoo Sports Mariners batter Burnett in win over Jays (AP) AP - Jamie Moyer pitched into the sixth inning for his first win in a month, and Seattle battered Toronto starter A.J. Burnett for six runs and 10 hits in the Mariners' 7-4 win over the Blue Jays on Wednesday night.

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BBC News Business Brazil corruption charges urged More than 90 people in Brazil face possible charges after a two-year inquiry into money laundering.

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Washington Post Business Iraq Contract Documents In 'Disarray,' Inspector Says An independent oversight agency said it could not complete an audit of a $1.2 billion contract to train Iraqi policemen because records kept by the State Department and by DynCorp International, the contractor, were inaccurate and in disarray.

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New Ratings Continental Airlines to order 10 Boeing 7E7 jets NEW YORK, December 30 (newratings.com) - Continental Airlines (CAL.NYS) announced yesterday that it has placed an order for 10 of Boeingâs (BA) new 7E7 Dreamliners, with delivery expected to begin in 2009.

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CBC News Mauresmo takes over No. 1 world tennis ranking CBC SPORTS ONLINE - French tennis star Amelie Mauresmo is now the top-ranked women's tennis player in the world. Mauresmo earned the honour Monday when the new WTA rankings were released.

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Environmental Data Interactive EPA must close loopholes in emissions law Loopholes in state laws that regulate hazardous emissions pose a serious risk to the health of millions of Americans and need to be revised, according to a report published this week.

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Sports Network West Brom acquires Inamoto Bromwich, England (Sports Network) - West Bromwich signed Japanese international Junichi Inamoto to a 2 1/2-year contract on Tuesday.

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Reuters World Mortar bomb hits Mogadishu residential area MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A mortar bomb struck a residential area of eastern Mogadishu on Thursday, wounding a young girl in the latest in a string of almost daily attacks in the chaotic seaside capital, residents said.

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Telegraph.co.uk Child soldiers square up to US tanks Struggling to lift a Kalashnikov, a 12-year-old with the Mahdi army militia said he could do anything in battle except fly a helicopter.

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