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Daily Times US pension agency’s deficit jumps to $23b WASHINGTON: The deficit at the federal agency that rescues failed US corporate pensions more than doubled to $23.3 billion in fiscal year 2004, officials said on Monday, with analysts largely blaming bankrupt airlines.
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RedNova technology Constitution Hall Among Finalists By Journal-World, Lawrence, Kan. Jun. 2--Lecompton's Constitution Hall State Historic Site is among 24 finalists to be considered one of the Eight Wonders of Kansas. Finalists were announced Friday in Inman by Marci Penner, director of the Kansas Sampler Foundation.
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San Francisco Chronicle Titans not worried about Ivan changing kickoff with Dolphins The Tennessee Titans don't plan to worry about Hurricane Ivan right now. They're too busy preparing to play the Miami Dolphins in a season opener still scheduled for Sunday.
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New York Times Stottlemyre and Mattingly Decide to Stay With Yanks At various points since the end of their season, the Yankees have had reason to believe that two pillars of the franchise would not be back.
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Reuters Business CORRECTED: Starbucks opens first coffee shop in Russia (Corrects size definition in para 6 to show that order was for a grande, or medium cappuccino)
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The Washington Post sports Fantasy Basketball In the Real World Nothing stirs the professional basketball soul like Shaq and Kobe playing against each other with playoff implications on the line.
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CNET enterprise hardware news Layoffs hit Sony's PlayStation unit Blog: At least 80 employees in the company's Foster City, Calif., office are out of work, according to a report.
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CNET personal technology news Demo '07: Let the pitches begin Stay up to the minute on the latest products from the show billed as a launchpad for emerging technologies.
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Yahoo World Floods force many to face climate change reality (Reuters) Reuters - Fisherman Peter Schneider knows the floods come each year and says they are good for business -- but few other people see any benefit as experts warn of more high water to come.
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BBC News Players attack Bettman NHL commissioner Gary Bettman has come in for fierce criticism following a meeting of locked-out players. The NHL Players Assocation leaders briefed 74 players on Tuesday about the team owners' lockout which
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Forbes IBM in Voice Services Deal With Lloyds International Business Machines Corp. said Monday it will provide voice and data services to British financial-services company Lloyds TSB Group PLC for seven years in a deal worth $971.6 million.
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Boston Globe world NATO proclaims victory in Bosnia SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- When NATO forces first came to Bosnia nearly a decade ago, they lived in heavily guarded compounds, patrolled the streets in tanks, and often wore full body armor.
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Daily Star Surging crude stays near record high BEIRUT: Oil prices remained near recent peaks on Friday, with US crude trading just below $55-a-barrel. In midday New York trading, WTI was down 21 cents at $54.
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BBC News world UK writing off poor nations' debt Gordon Brown says the UK will write off its share of debts owed by the world's poorest countries to the World Bank.
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Reuters Stocks Close Lower as Energy, J&J Weigh US stocks fell on Tuesday as a drop in oil prices pulled down shares of energy companies and health-care giant Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.
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RedNova space Outer Space Tourism Public Relations Purposes, Practices and Problems By Gibson, Dirk C This paper describes and documents the surprising importance of public relations to outer space tourism. It is no overstatement to suggest that the future of outer space tourism depends as much on public relations as on any other single factor.
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Seattle Post Intelligencer Ancient baby bird fossil found in China WASHINGTON -- The fossil of what may be one of the earliest baby birds has been found in northeast China. The fossil, estimated at 121 million years old, is curled up as though still in its shell.
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Reuters World Sarkozy confirms plans for UAE nuclear deal: paper DUBAI (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy confirmed on Sunday plans to sign a nuclear cooperation agreement with the United Arab Emirates amid reports French firms could construct up to two nuclear reactors there.
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Washington Post Business FBR Agrees to Buy Lender for $88 Million Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Group Inc. of Arlington agreed yesterday to buy a Florida mortgage lender in an effort to improve the profit on its large portfolio of mortgage assets.
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Yahoo Sports No. 10 Michigan State Routs Nicholls St. (AP) AP - Led by Maurice Ager's 19 points, No. 10 Michigan State scored more than 100 points for the third straight game in a 102-52 win over Nicholls State on Saturday.
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CARkeys Jaguar Racing Now Red Bull Very much as expected, Austrian energy drink company Red Bull - a sponsor during the 2004 season - has bought Jaguar Racing from Ford Motor Company.
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Reuters Business Harrah's, Caesars to Sell Four Casinos LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Harrah's Entertainment Inc. HET.N and Caesars Entertainment Inc. CZR.N on Monday said they have agreed to sell four casinos for $1.24 billion to privately held Colony Capital in a deal aimed to cut anti-trust concerns for Harrah's planned $5 billion takeover of Caesars.
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RedNova technology LA Opera Gets $6 Million to Stage 'Ring' By SOLVEJ SCHOU LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Opera will present Richard Wagner's epic "Der Ring des Nibelungen" for the first time here, thanks to a $6 million donation from philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad, the company announced Wednesday.
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RedNova technology Q4bis Selects Corning Data Services to Resell Its Business Intelligence Software; Groundbreaking BI Ease-of-Use and Integration Significantly Bolsters Corning Data Services, Leading Provider of JD Edwards Enterprise Solutions Q4bis, producers of an innovative and feature-packed business intelligence (BI) software solution, has selected New York-based Corning Data Services, Inc. (CDS), a leading supplier of ERP and SCM business applications, services and products, as an authorized business partner.
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Yahoo World Afghan district 'under Taliban control': defence ministry (AFP) AFP - The southern Afghan district of Musa Qala was under the control of the Taliban overnight, the Afghan defence ministry has said as NATO-led forces said the situation was still unclear.
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Reuters Sports Internationals fly under Canadian flag at Royal Montreal MONTREAL (Reuters) - Australian Ian Baker-Finch, assistant captain of the Internationals for this week's Presidents Cup against the United States, has called on Canadian fans to rally behind the home team.
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Reuters Karzai's Running Mate Escapes Afghan Mine Blast Afghan President Hamid Karzai's running mate for Saturday's historic presidential election escaped unhurt Wednesday when a mine exploded under his convoy in the remote northeast of the country.
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RedNova science New Place to Play on the Wando By Katy Stech, The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C. Feb.
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New York Times Business With No Kicks From Cocaine, Students Halt a Trademark Because of a group of law students, the makers of a controversial new energy drink have hit a snag in their attempts to register a federal trademark on Cocaine.
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Reuters Business Media exec may be interested in Dow Jones buy: report NEW YORK (Reuters) - A media executive who helped purchase the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News last year could be interested in joining a group to acquire Dow Jones & Co. , the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
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New York Times world Ernest Gallo, 97, Founder of Winery, Dies Ernest Gallo parlayed $5,900 and a wine recipe from a public library into the world’s largest winemaking empire.
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Reuters Business Sony Ericsson beats forecasts STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sony Ericsson, the world's No.4 mobile phone maker, posted better-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings on Wednesday as it shipped more phones, and said its share of the global handset market had increased.
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RedNova science Russian Court Rules Siberian Pipeline Route Unlawful Text of report by Russian news agency Ekho Moskvy Ulan-Ude, 6 June: The Republic of Buryatia's Supreme Court today ruled invalid the favourable conclusion made by the state environmental study on the route of an oil pipeline passing 800 m.
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Computerworld news Motorola settles patent dispute with Metrologic A five-year spat between Motorola and Metrologic Instruments over royalties totaling has been settled at last, according to both companies.
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New York Times sports Story has familiar ring The United States Boxing team isn't fighting its opponents any more. It's fighting self-doubt.
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Boston Globe sports Cardinals Rain Power on Astros Once Again Albert Pujols and Scott Rolen hit back-to-back homers in the eighth inning, giving St. Louis a 6-4 victory over Houston in Game 2 of the N.L.C.S.
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WMUR Channel.com Head Of Aid Organization Kidnapped In Iraq BAGHDAD, Iraq -- CARE International said the director of its operation in Iraq has been kidnapped. CARE said Margaret Hassan -- said to be an Iraqi national -- was abducted Tuesday morning in Baghdad and it does not know why.
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Reuters World French media to go on Sarkozy "detox" PARIS (Reuters) - After Smoke Free Day and Car Free Day comes Sarkozy Free Day.
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Reuters Business Bush wants $140 billion economic package WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush on Friday called for a package of tax cuts and other measures totaling around $140 billion to shore up the fragile U.S. economy.
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New York Times Science Astronauts Overcome ‘Showstopper’ in Second Spacewalk The astronauts faced a balky bolt that could have cut short an attempt to install a new $372 million truss and solar array on the International Space Station.
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San Diego Union Tribune Payton's blast puts squeeze on Giants Desperation is suiting the Padres, who yesterday kept their playoff pot warm with a 6-1 victory over one of the clubs they're chasing in the wild-card scramble.
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BBC News world NHS choice target 'may be missed' Patients may not be given a choice of hospitals by the end of the year as ministers promised, a report says.
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Yahoo World Gunmen Assassinate Iraqi Police Officer (AP) AP - Masked gunmen assassinated a high-ranking Iraqi police officer on Sunday in southwestern Baghdad and wounded his bodyguards, police said.
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The Age Kenteris says he's not a drug cheat Greece's Olympic 200 metres champion Kostadinos Kenteris, who faces expulsion from the Athens Olympics for failing to show up at a doping test, insisted Tuesday he is not a drugs cheat.
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Reuters Business Lilly Sees Profit Lifted by Newer Drugs NEW YORK (Reuters) - Eli Lilly and Co. LLY.N on Thursday said it expects earnings in 2005 to rise to between $3.05 and $3.15 per share before special items as growing sales of newer medicines more than offset disappointing sales of its top-selling schizophrenia drug.
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Forbes Obama Winning Venture Capitalists' Wallets Silicon Valley's VC community picks its favorite candidates.
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The Register <strong>[NSFW]</strong> German police hunt runaway breast implant patient Have you seen these jubs? NSFW German police are hunting a quartet of surgically-enhanced women who legged it without paying for their treatment, Bild reports.

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Wired Tech Video: Musician, Researchers Create Dark Matter 'Music Box' Scientists run an experiment at the bottom of a mine in Minnesota to search for evidence of dark matter are also making music.
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Afterdawn.com The Mozilla Firefox 1.0 is out! Even though this barely touches the topics of this site, it is well worth mentioning that the Mozilla Firefox browser has finally reached the 1.0 milestone.
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Washington Post Tech Personal Tech The Washington Post's Rob Pegoraro discusses his recent reviews and answers your personal tech questions.
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Yahoo Business Oil down, eyes $60 low (Reuters) Reuters - Oil prices fell on Monday, threatening to test a new six-month low under $60 a barrel as news of BP restoring output at Prudhoe Bay added to a sense of healthy supplies, while demand growth questions loomed large.
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Boston Globe world Justice slow in journalist's case PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- In the 18 months that the case of journalist Jean Dominique's slaying languished at the Supreme Court, two presiding judges resigned in fear for their lives, two suspects were killed in jail, and most of the evidence went missing.
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Yahoo Tech More than 20 Million TV Phones Ship in Japan (PC World) PC World - Shipments of cell phones compatible with Japan's mobile digital TV service have surged to more than 20 million units in fewer than two years since launch, according to industry data released Wednesday.
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Expatica Vivendi tax credit deal amounts to jobs in France PARIS, Aug 26 (AFP) - Vivendi Universal will create 2,100 jobs over five years as part of a deal agreed with the French government allowing the French media and communications group to book tax credits under a new regime, the finance ministry said Thursday
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Yahoo Tech Firms seek to cash in on 'casual games' (AP) AP - Anyone desperate for a break from crunching numbers, minding the kids or studying for exams knows how easy it can be to find distraction in the simple brain teasing of computer games like Sudoku, solitaire or mahjong.
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RedNova science Mid-South Memories - Gee, Dad, That's Super Feb. 4 25 years ago: 1982 Passage of a bill to merge Shelby State Community College and State Technical Institute at Memphis is virtually assured in the Senate and is supported by two-thirds of the House members from Shelby County.
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Yahoo Business Fed's Beige Book says oil price curbs spending (AFP) AFP - The US economy is expanding but the performance is patchy as roaring energy prices begin to stifle spending, the Federal Reserve's Beige Book survey showed.
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New York Times Science Florida: Shuttle Launching Is Scheduled NASA began installing a new connector in the space shuttle Atlantis’s fuel tank in hopes of launching the craft in early February.
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Yahoo Sports Ortiz, Youkilis power Red Sox past Braves (AP) AP - David Ortiz and Kevin Youkilis each hit solo home runs to power the Boston Red Sox to a 5-3 win over the struggling Atlanta Braves on Saturday.
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BBC News Sudan talks halt over no-fly zone Peace talks between the Sudanese government and Darfur rebels have stalled over the question of creating a no-fly zone over the area.
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Boston Globe sports M.L.B. Roundup: Yankees Take Step to the Left by Adding Pettitte and Igawa On Monday, Andy Pettitte was en route to New York for a physical exam to complete his new contract, and the Yankees agreed to a five-year, $20 million deal with the Japanese star Kei Igawa.
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TechNewsWorld One in Four Bird Species May Die Out This Century By the end of the century one in 10 species of birds in the world will be extinct and a further 15 percent will be on the brink of extinction.
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iseekgolf McKenzie seeks first tour win at MasterCard Masters Day three at the MasterCard Masters promised so much. Bradley Hughes has been through difficult times in recent years, battling to retain USPGA Tour playing privileges, losing them and then spending two years
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Yahoo Tech Lenovo recalls 100,000 laptop batteries (AP) AP - Lenovo Inc. recalled about 100,000 laptop computer batteries Thursday, warning that they could overheat and cause a fire.
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Reuters Court backs BAR over Button contract British Formula One driver Jenson Button should stay at BAR next season after a tribunal backed the team in a contract dispute with rivals Williams on Wednesday.
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Reuters Business SEC Charges Former NextCard Execs WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Tuesday it brought civil fraud and insider trading charges against former top executives of bankrupt credit card issuer NextCard Inc. NXCD.OB
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Reuters Tech Yamaha hooks up piano to Web -- for $35,000 Yamaha's Disklavier is an Internet-connected piano that, with its DisklavierRadio service, streams Internet radio stations suited specifically for the piano -- such as classical and jazz -- for a subscription fee of $20 per month. A new service called DisklavierMusicStore allows users to download permanent music files to the piano's built-in 80 GB hard drive.
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RedNova technology Ch. 38 Scores on Primary Night By JESSE NOYES Deval Patrick wasn't the only big winner Tuesday night. The CBS- owned Channel 38 earned major political points by flooding the zone with blanket prime-time coverage of the primary.
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Yahoo Business Pfizer profit rises on Lipitor, Celebrex sales (Reuters) Reuters - Pfizer Inc. on Thursday said second-quarter earnings from continuing operations rose about 13 percent on higher sales of medicines like cholesterol fighter Lipitor and Celebrex for arthritis.
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The Washington Post sports Murphy Acquitted of Sexual Abuse Charges NBA Hall of Famer Calvin Murphy was acquitted Monday of charges he sexually abused five of his 10 daughters more than a decade ago.
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Reuters Business Siebel Sees Sales Topping Street LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Business software maker Siebel Systems Inc. SEBL.O on Monday said third-quarter revenue would beat Wall Street estimates, driven by a rebound in licensing revenue, sending its shares up 14 percent.
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ESPN Sophomore DT didn't make trip SAN ANTONIO -- A second Oklahoma State football player has been suspended for next week's Alamo Bowl matchup against Ohio State.
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New York Times world In New Hampshire, Bill Clinton Is Finding Less Spark Campaigning for his wife, Bill Clinton has been drawing sleepy crowds in the state that revived his 1992 presidential bid.
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New York Times world China Freezes Energy Prices Responding to growing public anxiety about inflation, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao announced that China would freeze prices of oil products, natural gas and electricity in the near term.
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Washington Post USC, Oklahoma Retain Positions Southern California and Oklahoma stayed on course for a clash over college football's national title at the Jan. 4 Orange Bowl yesterday after putting more distance between their respective No.
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Yahoo World Ontario doctors reject proposed payment deal; province insists no more money (Canadian Press) Canadian Press - TORONTO (CP) - Ontario's doctors overwhelmingly rejected a much-touted fee agreement with the provincial government on Saturday, a major setback for planned health-care reforms in the province with no immediate plan to resume negotiations.
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Reuters Business Movie Gallery Bids for Hollywood Video NEW YORK (Reuters) - Movie Gallery Inc. MOVI.O on Friday offered to buy rival movie rental chain Hollywood Entertainment Corp. HLYW.O for an undisclosed sum, one week after industry leader Blockbuster Inc. BBI.N bid about $700 million for Hollywood.
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CNET enterprise hardware news IBM, Intel push 'open' blade server spec The effort to dominate their way into a de facto standard isn't sitting well with rivals HP and Dell.
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BBC News Soldier confesses to Iraq abuses A US soldier has pleaded guilty at a court martial in Baghdad to maltreating and conspiring to maltreat detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison.
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KLTV American to add flights at Dallas-Fort Worth FORT WORTH American Airlines and its regional affiliate plan to add 70 flights from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport by next summer.
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RedNova space Russians Fixing Space Station Computers By JUAN A. LOZANO HOUSTON - Russian computers that control the international space station's orientation and oxygen and water supplies were partly working again Thursday after failing the day before.
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PCWorld news Microsoft Downplays Stealth Update Concerns Calls concerns over undercover updates to Windows XP and Windows Vista a tempest in a teapot.
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Yahoo Tech Call to cut mobile roaming costs in Europe (FT.com) FT.com - Mobile phone operators face a new attack on their revenue in Europe after the UK telecoms regulator expressed concern about "extremely high" prices paid by consumers and business people for web surfing on their mobiles while abroad.
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BBC News world French party's 'yes to EU treaty' France's Socialist Party votes "yes" in an internal vote on the European Constitution, party officials say.
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InfoWorld news Vodafone launches consumer-targeted Palm Treo smartphone ( InfoWorld ) - As part of a strategy to generate greater revenue from mobile data services, Vodafone Group has collaborated with Palm to launch a smartphone modeled after the  Treo 750v  but at a fraction of the price and with a newly designed user interface. Vodafone will exclusively sell the  Palm Treo 500v , which debuts in Europe in October, for three months, after which the handset will be available to other operators and retail outlets, in Europe and Asia, Roy Bedlow, vice president and general manager of Palm Europe, said Wednesday. Vodafone had a similar agreement with Palm when the operator launched the Treo 750v last year. Pricing of the 500v will vary according to market. The handset will be available free or for a small fee together with a 12- to 18-month contract in the U.K., according to Vodafone spokeswoman Helen Brockett. In Germany, pricing for the handset will begin at €30 ($41) and increase slightly according to the conditions of the operator's two-year contracts. By comparison, the Treo 750v sold for more than €500 with a two-year contract in Germany when it was launched. However, unlike the Treo 750v, which is targeted primarily at business users, the 500v lacks touchscreen capabilities, largely to lower the handset's cost, Bedlow said. The phone runs Microsoft Windows Mobile 6 Standard operating system, which doesn't support touchscreen capability, unlike the Professional version used in the 750v model. Although the Treo 500v runs on 3G (third-generation) networks, it doesn't support the more recent version HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) protocol, again mostly for cost reasons, according to Bedlow. But the new smartphone is packed with a few features missing in the 750v, including a new interface designed to give users faster and easier access to Vodafone Live mobile Internet applications. The applications are shown in a carousel that users can manipulate for easy navigation, according to Bedlow. In addition to Live, the carousel includes a number of applications such as Google Maps, YouTube and eBay. The Treo 500v is designed for one-hand use, according to Bedlow. Like the Treo 750v, the 500v supports Microsoft Direct Push technology to deliver Outlook mail, as well as Vodafone's own push e-mail service. Users can also configure the handset to send and receive e-mail from the Vodafone account or from other e-mail accounts. "With the Treo 500v, Vodafone wants to broaden its user base for mobile data services such as the Internet and e-mail," Bedlow said. "The handset makes more features of high-end mobile phones available to more users." The new smartphone has 150MB of internal memory and a slot for a microSD expansion card. It is also equipped with Bluetooth wireless technology. As part of the European rollout, Vodafone will offer the Treo 500v next month in Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, and the U.K., with other European countries as well as the Asia-Pacific region to follow, according to Bedlow. The Treo 500v will not be available in the U.S., although Palm is planning new devices later this year for North American market, according to a company spokesman. Â
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Reuters Business Hedge fund Och-Ziff Capital files for IPO NEW YORK (Reuters) - Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC, a multi-strategy investment fund with about $26.8 billion under management, filed for an initial public offering on Monday, making it the latest alternative investment firm to seek a public listing.
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sportal.com.au Andre cruises Andre Agassi has progressed to the third round of the Madrid Masters with an authoritative straight sets win over Max Mirnyi. While Agassi battled away early in the match, saving five break points in the first
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The Washington Post world Billionaire Offers $25M Prize to Fight 'Warming' LONDON, Feb. 9 -- British billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson, with former vice president Al Gore at his side, on Friday offered a $25 million prize for anyone who can come up with a way to blunt global climate change by removing at least a billion tons of carbon dioxide a year from the Earth's...
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Search engine journal Yahoo Shopping Needs a Facelift After Yahoo! showed me their new site for the holiday season, I was pretty much underwhelmed. How could Yahoo! Shopping not introduce something incredibly bold for the holidays? And unfortunately I couldn’t even properly articulate my disappointment. I know Chris and Matt (and Haley) wanted to strangle me that afternoon… What I want [...]
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RedNova technology HP Discloses Mercury Roadmap As it promised after closing the acquisition of Mercury Interactive Corp a month ago, Hewlett Packard Co is disclosing its plans for the software business at its European user conference in Vienna this week.
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New York Times Business Travel Book Publishers Try to Reclaim the Web The Rough Guides and Lonely Planet series of travel books play catch up on the Web, after worries about giving away content.
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Yahoo World Oilfield attacked in Nigeria's restive south (AFP) AFP - Gunmen attacked an oilfield on Sunday in Nigeria's southern Bayelsa State being guarded by soldiers after nine militants were killed by the army in the same area recently, an official said.
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BBC News world Putting a face to 'Big Brother' Literally putting a face on technology could improve our interaction with hi-tech gadgets.
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RedNova general 5 U.S. Soldiers Killed in Iraq Attacks BAGHDAD, Iraq - A suicide attack and roadside bombings killed six American soldiers, the U.S. command said Wednesday, as U.S...
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CNET security news So you want to be a cybercrook... Web villains post do-it-yourself phishing kits to help any amateur become an online con artist.
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Reuters Business Dow Jones board endorses $5 bln News Corp. bid NEW YORK (Reuters) - The board of Dow Jones & Co. Inc. has endorsed a $5 billion buyout offer from Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., sending the deal to the controlling Bancroft family for final approval.
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The Washington Post world Embratel Shares Plunge in Brazil, N.Y. Shares in Embratel Particapoes SA, Brazil's largest long-distance carrier, plunged more than 10 percent in Sao Paulo and almost 14 percent on Wall Street Tuesday after the company announced it would issue $704 million in new shares but divulged few details about the plan.
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Reuters World Peru Rebel Chief Scores Publicity Coup in Court CALLAO NAVAL BASE, Peru (Reuters) - Punching the air with a fist and chanting rebel slogans, Peru's Shining Path founder Abimael Guzman scored a propaganda coup on Friday and forced his terrorism retrial to be postponed for a week.
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RedNova science Surveying the Land By Moy, Chelsi GREENOUGH - For someone like Bill Potter, who helped nurture thousands of acres of clear-cut forest back to health and who at the age of 90 still picks up a chain saw to fell trees, striving to find the best timberharvesting practices is part of a lifelong journey.
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The Republican Patriots-Cardinals highlights Running back Corey Dillon carried 32 times for 158 yards. His performance, blemished only by a fumble that led to three Arizona points, was especially important because Tom Brady did not have one of his better days.
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