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Bradley Wiggins may sound more like a character in Coronation Street than a sporting hero but yesterday his name added lustre to Britain's golden Saturday. | 1Sports
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Manchester United fans are hoping people power can help beat off an Old Trafford takeover bid from American billionaire Malcolm Glazer. | 1Sports
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No more math required to figure out how many calories are in that 20-ounce bottle of soda. Revised labels will calculate it for you starting next year. | 2Business
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Reuters - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. , the
world's largest retailer, is moving its top lobbyist in
Washington to its headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, where
he will become vice president of corporate affairs. | 2Business
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AP - Former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar on Friday called for the release of dozens of inmates in Cuba, charging they're political prisoners held "simply because they have a different opinion from the official line." | 0World
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SAN DIEGO, California (Reuters) - Tiger Woods shrugged off three consecutive bogeys while cruising to an eight-shot victory at the Buick Invitational on Sunday for his 62nd PGA Tour title. | 1Sports
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( InfoWorld ) - Microsoft finally rolled its Vista operating system out the door Tuesday, billing it as its most secure operating system ever, but what are the security features that will really matter to enterprise users?
To answer this question, IDG News Service asked Russ Humphries, a senior program manager with the Vista security team, to list the three Vista features that will have the biggest effect. Here's his list:
1) UAC (user account control)
Before Vista, Windows automatically gave users too much power over their systems, Microsoft has said.
With UAC, Windows will require a few extra steps before the user can do things such as install new programs. The feature will make it much easier for corporate administrators to lock down desktops and prevent users, or malicious programs, from messing around with the system or installing unauthorized software.
UAC has been one of Vista's most controversial features with early testers complaining that they were overwhelmed with pop-up messages warning them about every little change they made to the system. But these warnings will not slow down most enterprise users because they won't be installing device drivers or software, Humphries said. "Most corporate users are going to get a corporate image that will have all their applications already installed on the image," he said.
2) Windows Defender
With Vista, Microsoft has built a defense against pop-up ads and unwanted spyware right into the operating system. Although Defender has been criticized for not being as effective as commercial products , the fact that it will be so widely deployed is bound to improve things. "Adware is a huge annoyance, a security risk, and a bit of a machine hog, " Humphries said. "This has benefits for home users, small and medium-sized enterprises, and even large organizations."
3) BitLocker
There have been more than 100 million U.S. victims of data breaches over the past two years, according to Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. BitLocker aims to prevent the next 100 million from getting hit quite so quickly by giving corporate users a way to encrypt and password-protect their data. With BitLocker encrypting Vista's data, a stolen PC doesn't turn into a front-page data breach story, as was the case with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs last year .
BitLocker can also ensure that the operating system hasn't been tampered with at boot-up time, but customers seem to particularly appreciate the fact that it will help keep their companies out of the newspapers every time a laptop is lost. "I've had a lot of thank-yous from our customers," Humphries said. | 3Sci/Tech
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Tiny endangered tiger cubs from Siberia have been kitted out with radio collars so that scientists can track them. They are the youngest tigers to wear the special elastic collars, says the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). | 3Sci/Tech
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NeoPharm Inc., a biotechnology company developing cancer treatments, said it regained ownership of two cancer compounds after Pfizer Inc. | 2Business
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Reuters - Two container ships collided and
spilled some 450 tons of fuel oil off China's southern coast,
the country's worst oil spill in five years, a maritime
official said on Thursday. | 3Sci/Tech
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While the combined company makes a formidable No.3 player in the wireless market, it may be hard pressed to match the firepower of its larger rivals. | 0World
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The federal judge handling lawsuits against the nation's telecoms rules the companies have to answer spying allegations. But the real point is to force the feds to show their cards. In 27B Stroke 6. | 3Sci/Tech
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Shares of eBay Inc. posted their biggest one-day drop since November 2000 on Thursday after its quarterly profit missed Wall Street expectations and raised "red flags" about growth prospects at the online marketplace. | 2Business
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Japan's newest high-speed prototype leans into turns like a race bike. From Crave, CNet's new gadgets blog. | 3Sci/Tech
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The top two U.S. wireless providers
are starting to let customers use their mobile phones to
remotely record television shows, hoping the new service will
help them better compete against rivals. | 3Sci/Tech
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MALDEN -- Kate Spade, Ann Taylor and Evan Picone have added a bit of designer flair to a tired corner of Malden Square. | 2Business
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There are no major scientific or technological barriers to burying UK nuclear waste underground, scientists say. | 3Sci/Tech
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FRANKFURT, Oct 9 (AFP) - Germany's Deutsche Telekom is to reintegrate its Internet arm T-Online, Europe's largest Internet provider, via a swap for Telekom shares and a share buyback offer, the company said Saturday. | 2Business
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Citigroup Inc., the world's largest financial services firm, said Monday that Citibank Brazil will increase its ownership stake in Brazil's Credicard to 50 percent from 33 percent. | 2Business
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AP - Elizabeth Adak Shindu paid a high price to return home. She walked for 30 days, endured hunger and disease and used up the last of her life savings. When she finally reached this sprawling, dusty town, she found another family living on her land. | 0World
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Calpers joins group of big PeopleSoft investors backing a $9.2 billion Oracle buyout. | 3Sci/Tech
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Baseball pitching great Roger Clemens, who denies claims he used steroids, was asked on Friday to testify before a U.S. congressional panel investigating use of performance-enhancing drugs. | 1Sports
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AP - Is Notre Dame really back this time? For those with short memories, the Fighting Irish thrilled the gold-clad faithful in 2002 by winning nine games in Tyrone Willingham's debut season. He was fired just two years later when the program slumped badly after that promising start. | 1Sports
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Asked who might be the first big-name player to be traded this season, Knicks president Isiah Thomas answered Eddy Curry and 76ers president Billy King guessed Kurt Thomas. | 1Sports
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Greenhouse gases have contributed to a gradual warming of the ecologically-fragile Arctic region, causing massive climate changes, including melting glaciers and sea ice, according to a soon-to-be-released environmental study. | 3Sci/Tech
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While the American forces are preparing to launch a large- scale attack against Falluja and al-Ramadi, one of the chieftains of Falluja said that contacts are still continuous yesterday between members representing the city's delegation and the interim | 0World
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Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova stuns an injury-hit Lindsay Davenport at the U.S. Open, ending the American's hopes of regaining the world number one ranking. | 1Sports
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A voracious Australian moth is threatening to infest one of the nationâs most important agricultural regions. | 0World
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Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced Adobe® Visual Communicator® 3 software, which enables educators and students to easily create scripted, television-quality broadcasts. | 3Sci/Tech
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AP - Miguel Tejada is under FBI scrutiny, officials said Thursday after opening a preliminary investigation into whether the former AL MVP lied when he told federal authorities he never took steroids or other performance-enhancing drugs. | 1Sports
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The European Commission launches new investigations into whether Microsoft breaks competition laws. | 0World
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Will CEO Terry Semel's ouster really change anything? | 2Business
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RAFAH, Egypt (Reuters) - Egyptian forces fired water cannons at Palestinians trying to force their way across the Gaza-Egypt border on Friday and warned over loudspeakers the border would close at 3 p.m. (1300 GMT), witnesses said. | 0World
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock index futures suggested a higher market open on Friday before a report on consumer prices as the Dow industrials stood at a record high on optimism about corporate earnings and economic growth. | 2Business
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The maven of S.&P. numbers, Howard Silverblatt, points out that today ranks No. 6 among the worst first days of a year for the S.&P. 500. The index fell by 1.4 percent. Every one of the previous five came when the economy was in a recession, or not far from one. Here's the list: 1. 1932, [...]. | 0World
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Bradley Horowitz, a Yahoo vice president who left this week for Google, pens a loving note to his troubled ex-employer. | 0World
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PC World - Enterprise search companies and analysts say Microsoft's deal to buy FASTshows the market has arrived. | 3Sci/Tech
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Facing criticism, Network Solutions has stepped back from some elements of a new process to register Internet domain names. | 3Sci/Tech
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Alec Petro of Duxbury has challenged his body to perform under the most strenuous conditions. From triathlons to a 24-hour bike ride, Petro could be considered fearless. But nothing compares to what he and three teammates recently accomplished. | 1Sports
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American fortunes in Iraq are ever more dependent on feuding Iraqis who seem, at times, almost heedless to American appeals. | 0World
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The old-fashioned letter is far from dead, especially during the holidays. | 2Business
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Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) chairman Mahmud Abbas has called for an end to the armed uprising, the Arab newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat reported on Tuesday. | 0World
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In the instant it took for the baseball to reach the right hand of Javier Vazquez, even someone with an outlook as rosy as Joe Torre's had time to gasp and initiate worry. | 1Sports
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Don't get suckered by the banker in the expensive suit. | 2Business
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The doping case involving Greek sprinters Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou and their former coach, Christos Tzekos, finally moved forward yesterday when they were suspended by the International Association of Athletics Federations. | 1Sports
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Sidney Ponson pitched a two-hitter for his fourth career shutout, and Rafael Palmeiro hit one of the Baltimore Orioles' three homers yesterday in a 7-0 victory in New York over the suddenly punchless Yankees. | 1Sports
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AFP - Australian Prime Minister John Howard met the Dalai Lama on Friday in defiance of warnings from China that relations between the two countries could be damaged. | 0World
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BOSTON (Reuters) - United Parcel Service Inc. , which was Airbus' last remaining customer for the freighter version of the A380 superjumbo jet, said on Friday it planned to cancel its order for the delayed plane. | 2Business
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Canadian Press - BEIJING (AP) - China's leaders pledged at a key policy meeting to keep the economy on track next year while raising farm incomes, promoting energy conservation and holding down investment in overheated industries, state media said Monday. | 0World
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InfoWorld - Hewlett-Packard introduced an entry-level rack server in India on Thursday, part of its strategy to design lower-cost servers specifically for Asian countries. | 3Sci/Tech
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By PETER SVENSSON NEW YORK - Chip designer Alereon Inc. said Monday it is releasing the first chip that uses a frequency band that is legal all over the world for wireless USB, a technology with the potential to cut the tangle of cables surrounding computers. | 3Sci/Tech
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AFP - At least 10 people were killed and dozens wounded when a passenger train derailed early Wednesday in southern Pakistan, police said. | 0World
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The New York Mets fired manager Art Howe yesterday but left him in the dugout for the final 2 1/2 weeks of a season gone bad after the All-Star break. | 1Sports
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AP - Swiss-based insurer Zurich Financial Services AG has sold its reinsurance business because of the risk of losses associated with asbestos and other environmental risks, the company said Friday. | 0World
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Tropical Storm Jeanneâs death toll in Haiti rose to more than 1,500 and UN peacekeepers were sending reinforcements to help keep order among desperate survivors who have been looting aid trucks and mobbing food distribution centres. | 0World
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Players and fans exchanged punches in the stands as an NBA game turned so ugly a police investigation was necessary. Indiana's Ron Artest and Stephen Jackson charged into the stands and fought with fans in | 1Sports
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BSkyB sees its share price rise after it reports better-than-expected new subscriber numbers. | 3Sci/Tech
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AP - Armed police broke up a prayer meeting planned to protest government policies on Sunday, arresting Zimbabwe's country's main opposition leader and dozens of others, witnesses said. | 0World
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TORONTO, Dec. 6 -- An environmental group borrowed the tactics of Victoria's Secret -- using models wearing little but angel wings -- to persuade the lingerie company Wednesday not to print catalogues on paper manufactured from endangered forests in Canada. | 0World
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AP - An Oregon massage therapist who worked with Olympian Marion Jones and other elite athletes denied rubbing a cream containing testosterone on sprinter Justin Gatlin's body. | 1Sports
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Multinational firms like Wal-Mart, Target and Tyco International on Wednesday endorsed a new Web site where companies and individuals can report bribery and corruption in countries where they do business. | 2Business
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Inside the mobile matrix, part 1
If you're a developer working with mobile devices few decisions will be more critical than the platform you choose to focus on. With the correct choice, your skills and creativity may pay off both financially and personally when thousands of users enjoy something that you brought into the world.⊠| 3Sci/Tech
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A panel commissioned by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to draft a plan to broaden the UN Security Council is expected to issue its recommendations tomorrow. | 0World
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - IAC/InterActiveCorp will invest hundreds of millions of dollars in Internet programming, betting that professionally produced entertainment will win over Web viewers, Chief Executive Barry Diller said on Wednesday. | 2Business
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American sees a 13-point halftime lead cut to two early in the second half before reassuming control and defeating Colgate, 78-59, Sunday. | 1Sports
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By Paul Kelbie and Jonathan Brown It may be just over a week to go until Christmas but parts of the natural world are behaving as if it were still late summer. | 3Sci/Tech
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Germany coach JÃŒrgen Klinsmann revealed that he has been working on the confidence of his strikers after Wednesday's 3-0 success over Cameroon in Leipzig. | 1Sports
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OfficeMax Inc. said its new chief financial officer resigned and said its fourth-quarter earnings report will be delayed because of accounting problems, compounding recent financial turmoil at the nation's number three office products retailer. | 2Business
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 (Reuters) Â A Senate vote this week on a bill threatening to impose steep tariffs on Chinese exports to the United States was put into doubt on Tuesday after the billÂs authors said they were unsure whether to press ahead with the vote. | 2Business
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Reuters - Hong Kong found traces of a red
industrial dye in one chicken egg from the central Chinese
province of Hunan on Wednesday and promptly suspended imports,
the latest in a string of food safety scares. | 0World
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General Motors Acceptance Corp. plans to sell $2.7 billion of securities backed by auto loans on Wednesday, a person familiar with the deal said on Tuesday. | 2Business
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Two Western Illinois football players were suspended from the team Wednesday after being charged in a weekend burglary. Defensive back William Penn and defensive lineman Michael Black were each charged with | 1Sports
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PARIS -- Thieves stole two diamonds worth more than $14.2 million from a display case at a Paris antique show near the Louvre on Monday, police said. | 0World
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No word on how they were lost
NASA's Spitzer observatory has logged more than 1,000 previously unknown dwarf galaxies hiding out in a giant cluster of galaxies.⊠| 3Sci/Tech
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AFP - Clashes between the Sudanese army and former rebels have broken out in southern Sudan over recent days, in one of the worst incidents since a north-south peace deal was signed two years ago, the United Nations has said. | 0World
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AP - Gunmen in military uniforms raided a Baghdad bank Tuesday, stealing the equivalent of $709,000, police said. The attackers drove up to the Zuwiyah Bank in the Karradah neighborhood in four vehicles, jumped out and fired their weapons into the air, police said. | 0World
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PalmOne Inc.'s long-awaited update to the Treo 600 will come with a new processor, sharper display and flash memory, as the company continues to improve its flagship product. | 3Sci/Tech
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Never have so many market bubbles existed simultaneously. | 2Business
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AP - When a state Senate race just north of New York City wound up too close to call, each side accused the other of mischief — like intimidating old ladies at the polls or importing voters from the Bronx — and went to court. Three months later, it's still there. | 0World
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Upon entering the NFL as a rookie free agent out of the University of Massachusetts in 2001, running back Marcel Shipp's first instinct was survival. He simply hoped to make the Arizona Cardinals' 53-man roster. | 1Sports
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Soupy sales and loopy trails will color in the week that lies ahead. | 2Business
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By MICHAEL LIEDTKE SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc.'s privacy practices are the worst among the Internet's top destinations, according to a watchdog group seeking to intensify the recent focus on how the online search leader handles personal information about its users. | 3Sci/Tech
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AP - Miss Peru, Maria Julia Mantilla Garcia, an aspiring high school teacher, was crowned Miss World 2004 on Saturday night in this southern Chinese beach resort. | 0World
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Brock Davis' intriguing 3-D self-portrait shows off the power of the game's map-customization tool. | 3Sci/Tech
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The US economy created a disappointing 96,000 new jobs last month, raising questions about the economic recovery and ensuring that the job market will be a hotly debated topic | 2Business
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AP - Point guard Daniel Horton was suspended from Michigan's basketball team Tuesday, a day after being charged with domestic violence for allegedly choking his girlfriend. | 1Sports
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An American and a Norwegian won the 2004 Nobel Memorial Prize in economic sciences yesterday for research on how government policies affect economies and why supply-side shocks like high oil prices can dampen business cycles. | 2Business
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Reuters - Health insurer Humana Inc. on
Monday said second-quarter net income rose 10 percent, helped
by better-than-expected results in its Medicare Advantage and
commercial and Tricare units. | 2Business
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The former management of Russian oil company Yukos condemn the move to auction off the company's assets. | 2Business
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- PacifiCare driver Bruno Junqueira assured that the chase for the Vanderbilt Cup would go down to the final round in Mexico City after closing his pre-race deficit to leader Sebastien Bourdais from 28 to 22 after winning the 57-lap Lexmark Indy 300 on | 1Sports
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Reuters - China could take action on Friday to
cool its red-hot economy by raising interest rates or scrapping
a withholding tax on interest income, analysts said on Friday. | 2Business
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The dollar surged against the euro, yen and Swiss franc on Monday as, with a Group of Seven rich nations meeting out of the way, the greenback was free to join a wave of optimism about the US economy. | 2Business
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Carrefour shares rise amid speculation that Europe's biggest retailer will revamp its management. | 2Business
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The season may be young, but No. 6 Syracuse has already made a statement. Facing two Top 25 teams in two nights in the Coaches vs. | 1Sports
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HONG KONG (dpa) - A Hong Kong bank was facing massive compensation claims after admitting Tuesday it accidentally destroyed 83 of its customers' safety deposit boxes. | 0World
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InfoWorld - The U.K. is considering letting mobile phone operators run 3G (third-generation) services on frequencies reserved for 2G services, a change that could mean better 3G coverage and lower costs for the public, the government's telecommunications regulator said Thursday. | 3Sci/Tech
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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak gets personal on personal computers and the early days of Apple."/> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="http://audio/takingstock/rss2.aspx | 2Business
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HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba's armed forces will marshal their Soviet-era arsenal in a parade on Saturday to show the world, especially the arch-enemy United States, they remain a force to be reckoned with as their ailing leader Fidel Castro fades. | 0World
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedes Joachim Johansson and Robin Soderling both flexed their muscles on home soil on Tuesday to blast in the second round of the 650,000 euros Stockholm Open tennis tournament. | 1Sports
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