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Nice try, DoubleGoo.	2Business
There are times to go with the strong -- and there are times to go against the weak. In this case, Buffalo, Houston, and Miami. Each looked miserable last week and the hunch is this week will be more of the same.	1Sports
For vivid reporting from the enormous zone of tsunami disaster, it was hard to beat the blogs.	3Sci/Tech
MEDELLIN, Colombia (Reuters) - The United States would break faith with a strong Latin American ally that has rescued itself from failure if the U.S. Congress refuses to approve a free-trade agreement with Colombia, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday.	0World
RIO DE JANEIRO: Romario, the man who led Brazil to their 1994 World Cup victory, says he's retiring, Brazilian media reported on Tuesday.	1Sports
The Go! Team created a music video for their song "Junior Kickstart" in which they run around the streets of New York City playing live-action Pac-Man. From Crave, CNET's gadgets blog.	3Sci/Tech
( InfoWorld ) - Dell has decided build a factory in Poland to take advantage of low labor costs, a well-educated workforce and close proximity to markets in Central and Eastern Europe, including Scandinavia. The U.S. computer maker will spend â¬200 million ($253 million) to erect a state-of-the-art production facility in Lodz, the company said Monday. The plant, which will create around 1,000 jobs, is scheduled to begin producing Dell's Latitude and Inspiron notebooks in the third quarter of 2007. Dell's new Polish facility will cut delivery time of its computers to customers in Central and Eastern Europe as well as Scandinavia by two days, the company said. Dell also operates a factory in Limerick, Ireland. In addition, the company runs customer support centers in Germany, Slovakia, and Scotland.	3Sci/Tech
AP - Jeff Gordon spun out Matt Kenseth with four laps to go, then held on to win Sunday's Nextel Cup race at Chicagoland Speedway.	1Sports
Dana Stubblefield was the first N.F.L. player charged in the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative investigation.	0World
Dell is to open its first factory in India, in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, as part of wider international expansion plans.	2Business
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) have killed 12 Palestinians in less than a week, including a 7-year old child, 4 extra-judicially executed, and 4 died in sporadic tank shelling inside their homes, to vindicate the Arab League chief Amr Mousaâs statement	0World
BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich.âHal Sutton has made it very clear this week who he expects to be his main man in the Ryder Cup starting Friday at Oakland Hills, and also made a bold prediction about how he will play.	1Sports
Reuters - The Chinese state is behind almost daily Internet espionage attacks on German companies and government bodies, a top German intelligence official said on Monday.	3Sci/Tech
A convoy carrying Vice President Nematullah Shahrani was attacked by remote-control explosives Monday in northern Afghanistan, just four days after President	0World
Reuters - U.S. stocks tumbled for a second day on Thursday as Middle East violence pushed oil to a record and drove investors to safe-haven assets, such as bonds and gold.	2Business
The Japanese automaker rolls out cool concept cars, including a hybrid fuel cell vehicle, at the Los Angeles Auto Show. In Autopia.	2Business
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (Sports Network) - NBC Sports chairman Dick Ebersol and his son Charlie were released from the hospital Monday, a week after surviving a charter plane crash that killed three people, including Ebersol's youngest son.	1Sports
AP - The homeland security chief on Sunday scolded the Senate for failing to pass an immigration bill and said it will be difficult for the government to crack down on illegal workers.	0World
ABU DHABI (Reuters) - BAE Systems and Abu Dhabi government-owned Mubadala Development Company are in talks to develop an aerospace business in the UAE, the regional head of the British defense company said on Sunday.	2Business
The airline is offering the buyouts in an effort to cut costs as the discount carrier heads into a period of expected slower growth.	2Business
Billy Traber pitches on short notice but the Nationals commit three errors, and a baserunning blunder stifles a late rally as Washington falls, 3-1, to the Rockies on Friday.	1Sports
Roman Ruler will go to Lone Star Park as a probable favorite for the $1.5 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile on Oct. 30 and the full confidence of trainer Bob Baffert.	1Sports
Co-operation needs human touch The Home Affairs Select Committee has advised government to put its weight behind neglected European efforts to hold the rapidly emerging system of police databases answerable to human rights legislation.âŠ	3Sci/Tech
Two senior officials - from the European Union and the United Nations - are told to leave Afghanistan.	0World
Wal-Mart expects slower sales growth over the next three years and will spend less on new stores.	2Business
Carlos Checa upstaged team-mate Valentino Rossi to take pole position for the inaugural Qatar Grand Prix at Losail. The track, new to the MotoGP calendar, has sprung several surprises throughout practice and	1Sports
Wall Street is nervous. Yet credit problems aside, it's not nearly as bad as it may seem.	2Business
Netscape Navigator, the worldâs first commercial Web browser and the starting point of the Internet boom, will be pulled off life support Feb. 1 after a 13-year run.	3Sci/Tech
Reuters - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday that Senate testimony by a veteran FDA researcher regarding safety risks for five drugs does not reflect the views of the agency.	2Business
AP - As of Thursday, Dec. 20, 2007, at least 3,896 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes eight military civilians. At least 3,171 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.	0World
We asked search marketers how they would envision a combined Microsoft-Yahoo, in terms of search technology, search advertising, and social media.	3Sci/Tech
Freeing the most hyped cell phone ever for use on the networks of other carriers -- including overseas ones -- a 17-year-old New Jersey kid unlocks the iPhone and says he's using it on T-Mobile's network.	3Sci/Tech
Wall Street pulled back yet again after a Federal Reserve official suggested that rising inflation could prevent the central bank from making further interest rate cuts.	2Business
Park surged into the lead at the Wachovia LPGA Classic on Saturday, shooting a 7-under-par 65 for a two-stroke advantage over Jill McGill through three rounds.	1Sports
Austin Kearns knows he'll be back home in Louisville, Ky., once the regular season ends on Sunday. The Cincinnati Reds outfielder did his best Wednesday to keep the Chicago Cubs	1Sports
Lloyds TSB is moving another 1,000 jobs to India, increasing its workforce in Bangalore and Mumbai to 2,500 by the end of next year.	2Business
A perilous spot for surfers off the coast of Southern California had been surfed only a handful of times in the past decade. Four of the most experienced big-wave surfers in the world were not fazed.	1Sports
AP - Republican Fred Thompson said Saturday people around the world are looking for any signs the U.S. is relenting in combating Islamic radicals.	0World
The University of Hawaii has offered Coach June Jones a contract that would make him the highest-paid coach in the Western Athletic Conference or the Mountain West Conference.	1Sports
LOS ANGELES Dec 27, 2004 - With Texas preparing for its first Rose Bowl, coach Mack Brown is in line for a raise. Brown already is one of college football's highest-paid coaches with a salary of slightly more than $2 million a year.	1Sports
PARIS Palestinian officials say a medical report on Yasser Arafat's condition will be issued tomorrow or Wednesday. They say he's not suffering "from any serious problem.	0World
The University of Colorado Hospital will use a robot to mix drugs for patients, which its developers say will eliminate human error and protect technicians from potentially dangerous drugs.	3Sci/Tech
CHARKHAI, Bangladesh -- The village doctor's diagnosis was dire: Marium needed immediate surgery to replace two heart valves.	0World
Ministerial aide Jim Devine quits over plans to renew the UK's Trident nuclear weapons.	0World
AP - Vince Young agreed to terms with the Tennessee Titans on Thursday, a day before the team is scheduled to open training camp.	1Sports
Sprint Corp. and AT&T Corp. have agreed to pay a total of nearly $1.5 million to settle government charges that they denied or limited phone service to hundreds of thousands of customers they considered credit risks without notifying the consumers of their rights.	2Business
Euro channel programme rollout rolls on	3Sci/Tech
The best beach in the United States this year is in the Carolinas _ Ocracoke Lifeguard Beach, on the southermost inhabited island in the Outer Banks. It heads the list of top 10 beaches released Thursday by Stephen P. Leatherman, known as "Dr.	3Sci/Tech
Reuters - General Motors Corp in its contract negotiations with the United Auto Workers union has proposed one option that excludes establishing a union-run healthcare trust but calls for deeper cuts in several areas, the Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition.	2Business
ISLAMABAD, Oct. 9. - Two Chinese engineers and their Pakistani security guard were kidnapped earlier today by unidentified men in Pakistanâs South Waziristan tribal area, bordering Afghanistan, where security	0World
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - U.S. video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc expects China to join Japan and South Korea as one of its three largest markets by revenue in Asia-Pacific in two to three years.	3Sci/Tech
It was about taking care of business, or maybe it was about the Boston Red Sox not â-gain. The Yankees didnât play their best game, but because the Red	1Sports
Don't fall for insurance hype.	2Business
GONAIVES, Haiti - At a local college being used as a hospital, an elderly woman named Madame Edmey Cimeus shouted "Jezu! Jezu!	0World
TABA, Egypt - A car bomb and a suicide bomber tore through a resort hotel in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula where Israelis were vacationing at the end of a Jewish holiday Thursday night. Estimates of the death toll ranged from 19 to about 60...	0World
Trevor Sinclair is Manchester City's only doubt after picking up a knock in the game against Everton. Antoine Sibierski stands by to replace him, but Steve McManaman is still out with an Achilles problem.	1Sports
AP - The Bush administration plans to allow about 7,000 Iraqi refugees to settle in the United States over the next year, a huge expansion at a time of mounting international pressure to help millions who have fled their homes in the nearly four-year-old war.	0World
Jason Kidd, who underwent off-season knee surgery, made his long-awaited season debut for the Nets on Monday night and turned in an impressive effort.	1Sports
The discovery of water on Mars was the scientific breakthrough of 2004, according to one of the world's leading science journals.	3Sci/Tech
Firefighters in California battle to stem fires that have scorched hundreds of homes as rain eases Alaskan fires.	0World
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two U.S. soldiers were killed and 17 wounded when insurgents launched a coordinated attack on an outpost north of Baghdad on Monday in what appeared to be one of the biggest such assaults in months.	0World
Jose Mourinho will take Chelsea to Barcelona, the club where he honed his raw coaching talent, for the most glamorous tie of the first knock-out phase of the Champions League.	1Sports
MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish police have arrested 13 North Africans as part of a probe into an alleged plot to bomb the Madrid High Court, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday.	0World
Atlantis touched down in Florida Wednesday, wrapping up a five-million-mile journey.	3Sci/Tech
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey is considering a ground operation against Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq, private broadcaster CNN Turk quoted Foreign Minister Ali Babacan as saying on Tuesday.	0World
Blog: Here's some tidbits that didn't make it into our stories from Denver, including Microsoft's plans for a fall launch for Office Communications Server.	3Sci/Tech
'Trust us, it's OK on human rights'	3Sci/Tech
JERUSALEM _ In quarantine under protective netting, a palm sapling coaxed from a seed nearly 2,000 years old is growing in southern Israel.	3Sci/Tech
The method could also be used to determine if more than one hand was involved in creating the work, something physical forensic science has never been able to do.	3Sci/Tech
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday let stand a lower court decision holding that the recording industry can't force internet service providers to turn over the names of users trading music files online, effectively stopping one of the legal	3Sci/Tech
Nebraska capitalized on four Pittsburgh turnovers and batted down a pass in the end zone on the game's final play yesterday to preserve a 24-17 win in the first meeting of the teams since 1958.	1Sports
AP - Sen. George V. Voinovich, the Ohio Republican who frustrated his GOP colleagues by opposing President Bush's choice for U.N. ambassador, announced Thursday he now supports John Bolton and would no longer stand in the way of his confirmation.	0World
Reuters - The U.S. State Department said on Friday it believed a blast at an Islamabad hotel was probably caused by a bomb, differing from the Pakistani view that it appeared to be the result of an electrical fault.	0World
Sears, Roebuck & Co. said yesterday it will double the number of stores it operates in San Diego County by acquiring five Kmart locations and converting them to Sears units over the next 15 months.	2Business
AP - Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday that terrorism is threatening to erase any gains made in reducing sectarian killings and establishing democratic principles in his country.	0World
AP - Rare Abyssinian lion cubs are being poisoned at a zoo because staff cannot afford to keep them, a wildlife official said Wednesday.	3Sci/Tech
RUSSIAN investigators have found explosive residue on the wreckage of the second of two airliners which crashed at almost the same time, a security spokesman said yesterday.	0World
US Attorney General John Ashcroft heralded the success of Operation Web Snare, a multi-agency crackdown on cybercrime that led to the arrrest or conviction of more than 150 people for a variety	3Sci/Tech
AP - President Bush signed legislation Monday that gives the Department of Homeland Security about $33 billion to shore up the nation's borders, inspect incoming cargo, protect potential terror targets and train first responders.	0World
AP - Republican convention organizers have crafted a stage lineup aimed at showing a diverse party, giving a spotlight to Education Secretary Rod Paige, who is black; Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, an Asian American; and minority musical groups.	0World
AP - Sean Taylor has fired his agent, been fined for leaving the rookie symposium early, hired another agent, signed a contract and again fired his agent, only to rehire the first one. And he stopped talking to the media.	1Sports
Federal judge denies Justice Department's request to record parts of phone calls sans a wiretap order, concluding it violates the 4th Amendment.	3Sci/Tech
AP - A bus carrying a wedding party plunged into a gorge in mountainous northern India, killing at least 18 people and injuring another 27, a government official said Tuesday.	0World
AP - Kevin Everett made more significant strides over the weekend in his recovery from a life-threatening spinal cord injury.	1Sports
By Princess R. Moss Editor, Times-Dispa	3Sci/Tech
People lined up for food and water while others searched in vain for generators in the sweltering heat as Florida residents began cleaning up all over again, demoralised by the fourth hurricane in six weeks to batter the state.	2Business
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's Ariel Sharon has rejected his army's request to scale back its Gaza offensive, seeking to avoid any show of weakness after deadly bombings hit Egyptian resorts crowded with Israelis, security sources said.	0World
GRAHAM Bird from Sutton Coldfield has proved that at 63 years- old it really is never too late to learn or change career. He was in his fifties when he was made redundant from his job as a chartered insurance practitioner.	3Sci/Tech
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A new political accord between Iraq's main Sunni Arab, Shi'ite and Kurdish leaders will not be enough to lure boycotting Sunni Arabs back into the government, a spokesman for the biggest Sunni Arab bloc said on Monday.	0World
By Diana Bowley, Bangor Daily News, Maine Feb. 20--A back draft from a wood-fired boiler caused dust to ignite early Monday at the Vic Firth Manufacturing Corp. plant in Newport.	3Sci/Tech
Ask Jeeves Search Engine Gets Slim and Personal Ask Jeeves has introduced new changes which have totally made over the search engine which hopes to give Yahoo, MSN and Google a run for their money. The new changes at Ask.com include MyJeeves personal search, a revamped local search, and an update ...	3Sci/Tech
Cincinnati, OH (Sports Network) - The Cincinnati Reds have scheduled a press conference for 4 pm (et) today, at which time the club is expected to announce that shortstop Barry Larkin will not be re-signed.	1Sports
With 25 games left on the schedule, the New Jersey Institute of Technology has much more to learn about playing on college basketball's biggest stage.	1Sports
AFP - Discovery's astronauts scanned the space shuttle's heat shield for potential damage, a day after a launch that apparently did not damage the orbiter, NASA said.	3Sci/Tech
FRESNO, Calif. -- A former basketball coach at Fresno State says she'll accept a $6.6 million judgment in a high-profile gender discrimination case she filed against the school.	1Sports
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AFP - US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Tuesday he had been in contact with his foreign counterparts on measures to restore calm to roiling global stock markets.	2Business
( InfoWorld ) - A U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) wiretapping program can continue while President George Bush's administration appeals a ruling by a Michigan judge who said the program was illegal. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, in an order released Wednesday, said the Bush administration successfully argued that the program would be irreparably harmed if it were shut down pending the government's appeal of the earlier ruling. On Aug. 17, Â Judge Anna Diggs Taylor of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan ruled that the program, used to wiretap telephone and Internet traffic without court-issued warrants, was illegal and should be halted immediately. The NSA program has allegedly listened in on U.S. residents' conversations with people who have suspected terrorism links. Several lawsuits have targeted the NSA program. In addition to the Michigan lawsuit, brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Council on American-Islamic Relations and others, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and other groups have brought lawsuits being heardÂ in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California . A judge thereÂ has ruled against the U.S. government and AT&T Inc., which had requested the EFF case be thrown out. In the Michigan appeal, a three-judge panel issued a two-page ruling Wednesday, saying simply the Bush administration's arguments had met the standard for a stay of Taylor's ruling. Among the panel's considerations were the likelihood the Bush administration could win on appeal, whether the program and the U.S. government would be irreparably harmed, and the public interest, the judges wrote.	3Sci/Tech
In one of its gloomiest forecasts yet, the Independent Budget Office projected a $3.1 billion budget deficit in the 2009 fiscal year, rising to $4.6 billion in 2010 and $6.3 billion in 2011.	0World
TEMPE, Ariz. - Since the day he became coach of the Giants, Tom Coughlin has stressed the importance of dominating the line of scrimmage.	1Sports

Nice try, DoubleGoo.

2Business

There are times to go with the strong -- and there are times to go against the weak. In this case, Buffalo, Houston, and Miami. Each looked miserable last week and the hunch is this week will be more of the same.

1Sports

For vivid reporting from the enormous zone of tsunami disaster, it was hard to beat the blogs.

3Sci/Tech

MEDELLIN, Colombia (Reuters) - The United States would break faith with a strong Latin American ally that has rescued itself from failure if the U.S. Congress refuses to approve a free-trade agreement with Colombia, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday.

0World

RIO DE JANEIRO: Romario, the man who led Brazil to their 1994 World Cup victory, says he's retiring, Brazilian media reported on Tuesday.

1Sports

The Go! Team created a music video for their song "Junior Kickstart" in which they run around the streets of New York City playing live-action Pac-Man. From Crave, CNET's gadgets blog.

3Sci/Tech

( InfoWorld ) - Dell has decided build a factory in Poland to take advantage of low labor costs, a well-educated workforce and close proximity to markets in Central and Eastern Europe, including Scandinavia. The U.S. computer maker will spend â¬200 million ($253 million) to erect a state-of-the-art production facility in Lodz, the company said Monday. The plant, which will create around 1,000 jobs, is scheduled to begin producing Dell's Latitude and Inspiron notebooks in the third quarter of 2007. Dell's new Polish facility will cut delivery time of its computers to customers in Central and Eastern Europe as well as Scandinavia by two days, the company said. Dell also operates a factory in Limerick, Ireland. In addition, the company runs customer support centers in Germany, Slovakia, and Scotland.

3Sci/Tech

AP - Jeff Gordon spun out Matt Kenseth with four laps to go, then held on to win Sunday's Nextel Cup race at Chicagoland Speedway.

1Sports

Dana Stubblefield was the first N.F.L. player charged in the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative investigation.

0World

Dell is to open its first factory in India, in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, as part of wider international expansion plans.

2Business

Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) have killed 12 Palestinians in less than a week, including a 7-year old child, 4 extra-judicially executed, and 4 died in sporadic tank shelling inside their homes, to vindicate the Arab League chief Amr Mousaâs statement

0World

BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich.âHal Sutton has made it very clear this week who he expects to be his main man in the Ryder Cup starting Friday at Oakland Hills, and also made a bold prediction about how he will play.

1Sports

Reuters - The Chinese state is behind almost daily Internet espionage attacks on German companies and government bodies, a top German intelligence official said on Monday.

3Sci/Tech

A convoy carrying Vice President Nematullah Shahrani was attacked by remote-control explosives Monday in northern Afghanistan, just four days after President

0World

Reuters - U.S. stocks tumbled for a second day on Thursday as Middle East violence pushed oil to a record and drove investors to safe-haven assets, such as bonds and gold.

2Business

The Japanese automaker rolls out cool concept cars, including a hybrid fuel cell vehicle, at the Los Angeles Auto Show. In Autopia.

2Business

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (Sports Network) - NBC Sports chairman Dick Ebersol and his son Charlie were released from the hospital Monday, a week after surviving a charter plane crash that killed three people, including Ebersol's youngest son.

1Sports

AP - The homeland security chief on Sunday scolded the Senate for failing to pass an immigration bill and said it will be difficult for the government to crack down on illegal workers.

0World

ABU DHABI (Reuters) - BAE Systems and Abu Dhabi government-owned Mubadala Development Company are in talks to develop an aerospace business in the UAE, the regional head of the British defense company said on Sunday.

2Business

The airline is offering the buyouts in an effort to cut costs as the discount carrier heads into a period of expected slower growth.

2Business

Billy Traber pitches on short notice but the Nationals commit three errors, and a baserunning blunder stifles a late rally as Washington falls, 3-1, to the Rockies on Friday.

1Sports

Roman Ruler will go to Lone Star Park as a probable favorite for the $1.5 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile on Oct. 30 and the full confidence of trainer Bob Baffert.

1Sports

Co-operation needs human touch The Home Affairs Select Committee has advised government to put its weight behind neglected European efforts to hold the rapidly emerging system of police databases answerable to human rights legislation.âŠ

3Sci/Tech

Two senior officials - from the European Union and the United Nations - are told to leave Afghanistan.

0World

Wal-Mart expects slower sales growth over the next three years and will spend less on new stores.

2Business

Carlos Checa upstaged team-mate Valentino Rossi to take pole position for the inaugural Qatar Grand Prix at Losail. The track, new to the MotoGP calendar, has sprung several surprises throughout practice and

1Sports

Wall Street is nervous. Yet credit problems aside, it's not nearly as bad as it may seem.

2Business

Netscape Navigator, the worldâs first commercial Web browser and the starting point of the Internet boom, will be pulled off life support Feb. 1 after a 13-year run.

3Sci/Tech

Reuters - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday that Senate testimony by a veteran FDA researcher regarding safety risks for five drugs does not reflect the views of the agency.

2Business

AP - As of Thursday, Dec. 20, 2007, at least 3,896 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes eight military civilians. At least 3,171 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.

0World

We asked search marketers how they would envision a combined Microsoft-Yahoo, in terms of search technology, search advertising, and social media.

3Sci/Tech

Freeing the most hyped cell phone ever for use on the networks of other carriers -- including overseas ones -- a 17-year-old New Jersey kid unlocks the iPhone and says he's using it on T-Mobile's network.

3Sci/Tech

Wall Street pulled back yet again after a Federal Reserve official suggested that rising inflation could prevent the central bank from making further interest rate cuts.

2Business

Park surged into the lead at the Wachovia LPGA Classic on Saturday, shooting a 7-under-par 65 for a two-stroke advantage over Jill McGill through three rounds.

1Sports

Austin Kearns knows he'll be back home in Louisville, Ky., once the regular season ends on Sunday. The Cincinnati Reds outfielder did his best Wednesday to keep the Chicago Cubs

1Sports

Lloyds TSB is moving another 1,000 jobs to India, increasing its workforce in Bangalore and Mumbai to 2,500 by the end of next year.

2Business

A perilous spot for surfers off the coast of Southern California had been surfed only a handful of times in the past decade. Four of the most experienced big-wave surfers in the world were not fazed.

1Sports

AP - Republican Fred Thompson said Saturday people around the world are looking for any signs the U.S. is relenting in combating Islamic radicals.

0World

The University of Hawaii has offered Coach June Jones a contract that would make him the highest-paid coach in the Western Athletic Conference or the Mountain West Conference.

1Sports

LOS ANGELES Dec 27, 2004 - With Texas preparing for its first Rose Bowl, coach Mack Brown is in line for a raise. Brown already is one of college football's highest-paid coaches with a salary of slightly more than $2 million a year.

1Sports

PARIS Palestinian officials say a medical report on Yasser Arafat's condition will be issued tomorrow or Wednesday. They say he's not suffering "from any serious problem.

0World

The University of Colorado Hospital will use a robot to mix drugs for patients, which its developers say will eliminate human error and protect technicians from potentially dangerous drugs.

3Sci/Tech

CHARKHAI, Bangladesh -- The village doctor's diagnosis was dire: Marium needed immediate surgery to replace two heart valves.

0World

Ministerial aide Jim Devine quits over plans to renew the UK's Trident nuclear weapons.

0World

AP - Vince Young agreed to terms with the Tennessee Titans on Thursday, a day before the team is scheduled to open training camp.

1Sports

Sprint Corp. and AT&T Corp. have agreed to pay a total of nearly $1.5 million to settle government charges that they denied or limited phone service to hundreds of thousands of customers they considered credit risks without notifying the consumers of their rights.

2Business

Euro channel programme rollout rolls on

3Sci/Tech

The best beach in the United States this year is in the Carolinas _ Ocracoke Lifeguard Beach, on the southermost inhabited island in the Outer Banks. It heads the list of top 10 beaches released Thursday by Stephen P. Leatherman, known as "Dr.

3Sci/Tech

Reuters - General Motors Corp in its contract negotiations with the United Auto Workers union has proposed one option that excludes establishing a union-run healthcare trust but calls for deeper cuts in several areas, the Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition.

2Business

ISLAMABAD, Oct. 9. - Two Chinese engineers and their Pakistani security guard were kidnapped earlier today by unidentified men in Pakistanâs South Waziristan tribal area, bordering Afghanistan, where security

0World

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - U.S. video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc expects China to join Japan and South Korea as one of its three largest markets by revenue in Asia-Pacific in two to three years.

3Sci/Tech

It was about taking care of business, or maybe it was about the Boston Red Sox not â-gain. The Yankees didnât play their best game, but because the Red

1Sports

Don't fall for insurance hype.

2Business

GONAIVES, Haiti - At a local college being used as a hospital, an elderly woman named Madame Edmey Cimeus shouted "Jezu! Jezu!

0World

TABA, Egypt - A car bomb and a suicide bomber tore through a resort hotel in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula where Israelis were vacationing at the end of a Jewish holiday Thursday night. Estimates of the death toll ranged from 19 to about 60...

0World

Trevor Sinclair is Manchester City's only doubt after picking up a knock in the game against Everton. Antoine Sibierski stands by to replace him, but Steve McManaman is still out with an Achilles problem.

1Sports

AP - The Bush administration plans to allow about 7,000 Iraqi refugees to settle in the United States over the next year, a huge expansion at a time of mounting international pressure to help millions who have fled their homes in the nearly four-year-old war.

0World

Jason Kidd, who underwent off-season knee surgery, made his long-awaited season debut for the Nets on Monday night and turned in an impressive effort.

1Sports

The discovery of water on Mars was the scientific breakthrough of 2004, according to one of the world's leading science journals.

3Sci/Tech

Firefighters in California battle to stem fires that have scorched hundreds of homes as rain eases Alaskan fires.

0World

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two U.S. soldiers were killed and 17 wounded when insurgents launched a coordinated attack on an outpost north of Baghdad on Monday in what appeared to be one of the biggest such assaults in months.

0World

Jose Mourinho will take Chelsea to Barcelona, the club where he honed his raw coaching talent, for the most glamorous tie of the first knock-out phase of the Champions League.

1Sports

MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish police have arrested 13 North Africans as part of a probe into an alleged plot to bomb the Madrid High Court, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday.

0World

Atlantis touched down in Florida Wednesday, wrapping up a five-million-mile journey.

3Sci/Tech

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey is considering a ground operation against Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq, private broadcaster CNN Turk quoted Foreign Minister Ali Babacan as saying on Tuesday.

0World

Blog: Here's some tidbits that didn't make it into our stories from Denver, including Microsoft's plans for a fall launch for Office Communications Server.

3Sci/Tech

'Trust us, it's OK on human rights'

3Sci/Tech

JERUSALEM _ In quarantine under protective netting, a palm sapling coaxed from a seed nearly 2,000 years old is growing in southern Israel.

3Sci/Tech

The method could also be used to determine if more than one hand was involved in creating the work, something physical forensic science has never been able to do.

3Sci/Tech

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday let stand a lower court decision holding that the recording industry can't force internet service providers to turn over the names of users trading music files online, effectively stopping one of the legal

3Sci/Tech

Nebraska capitalized on four Pittsburgh turnovers and batted down a pass in the end zone on the game's final play yesterday to preserve a 24-17 win in the first meeting of the teams since 1958.

1Sports

AP - Sen. George V. Voinovich, the Ohio Republican who frustrated his GOP colleagues by opposing President Bush's choice for U.N. ambassador, announced Thursday he now supports John Bolton and would no longer stand in the way of his confirmation.

0World

Reuters - The U.S. State Department said on Friday it believed a blast at an Islamabad hotel was probably caused by a bomb, differing from the Pakistani view that it appeared to be the result of an electrical fault.

0World

Sears, Roebuck & Co. said yesterday it will double the number of stores it operates in San Diego County by acquiring five Kmart locations and converting them to Sears units over the next 15 months.

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AP - Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday that terrorism is threatening to erase any gains made in reducing sectarian killings and establishing democratic principles in his country.

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AP - Rare Abyssinian lion cubs are being poisoned at a zoo because staff cannot afford to keep them, a wildlife official said Wednesday.

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RUSSIAN investigators have found explosive residue on the wreckage of the second of two airliners which crashed at almost the same time, a security spokesman said yesterday.

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US Attorney General John Ashcroft heralded the success of Operation Web Snare, a multi-agency crackdown on cybercrime that led to the arrrest or conviction of more than 150 people for a variety

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AP - President Bush signed legislation Monday that gives the Department of Homeland Security about $33 billion to shore up the nation's borders, inspect incoming cargo, protect potential terror targets and train first responders.

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AP - Republican convention organizers have crafted a stage lineup aimed at showing a diverse party, giving a spotlight to Education Secretary Rod Paige, who is black; Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, an Asian American; and minority musical groups.

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AP - Sean Taylor has fired his agent, been fined for leaving the rookie symposium early, hired another agent, signed a contract and again fired his agent, only to rehire the first one. And he stopped talking to the media.

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Federal judge denies Justice Department's request to record parts of phone calls sans a wiretap order, concluding it violates the 4th Amendment.

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AP - A bus carrying a wedding party plunged into a gorge in mountainous northern India, killing at least 18 people and injuring another 27, a government official said Tuesday.

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AP - Kevin Everett made more significant strides over the weekend in his recovery from a life-threatening spinal cord injury.

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People lined up for food and water while others searched in vain for generators in the sweltering heat as Florida residents began cleaning up all over again, demoralised by the fourth hurricane in six weeks to batter the state.

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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's Ariel Sharon has rejected his army's request to scale back its Gaza offensive, seeking to avoid any show of weakness after deadly bombings hit Egyptian resorts crowded with Israelis, security sources said.

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GRAHAM Bird from Sutton Coldfield has proved that at 63 years- old it really is never too late to learn or change career. He was in his fifties when he was made redundant from his job as a chartered insurance practitioner.

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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A new political accord between Iraq's main Sunni Arab, Shi'ite and Kurdish leaders will not be enough to lure boycotting Sunni Arabs back into the government, a spokesman for the biggest Sunni Arab bloc said on Monday.

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By Diana Bowley, Bangor Daily News, Maine Feb. 20--A back draft from a wood-fired boiler caused dust to ignite early Monday at the Vic Firth Manufacturing Corp. plant in Newport.

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Ask Jeeves Search Engine Gets Slim and Personal Ask Jeeves has introduced new changes which have totally made over the search engine which hopes to give Yahoo, MSN and Google a run for their money. The new changes at Ask.com include MyJeeves personal search, a revamped local search, and an update ...

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Cincinnati, OH (Sports Network) - The Cincinnati Reds have scheduled a press conference for 4 pm (et) today, at which time the club is expected to announce that shortstop Barry Larkin will not be re-signed.

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With 25 games left on the schedule, the New Jersey Institute of Technology has much more to learn about playing on college basketball's biggest stage.

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AFP - Discovery's astronauts scanned the space shuttle's heat shield for potential damage, a day after a launch that apparently did not damage the orbiter, NASA said.

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FRESNO, Calif. -- A former basketball coach at Fresno State says she'll accept a $6.6 million judgment in a high-profile gender discrimination case she filed against the school.

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AFP - US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Tuesday he had been in contact with his foreign counterparts on measures to restore calm to roiling global stock markets.

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( InfoWorld ) - A U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) wiretapping program can continue while President George Bush's administration appeals a ruling by a Michigan judge who said the program was illegal. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, in an order released Wednesday, said the Bush administration successfully argued that the program would be irreparably harmed if it were shut down pending the government's appeal of the earlier ruling. On Aug. 17, Â Judge Anna Diggs Taylor of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan ruled that the program, used to wiretap telephone and Internet traffic without court-issued warrants, was illegal and should be halted immediately. The NSA program has allegedly listened in on U.S. residents' conversations with people who have suspected terrorism links. Several lawsuits have targeted the NSA program. In addition to the Michigan lawsuit, brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Council on American-Islamic Relations and others, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and other groups have brought lawsuits being heardÂ in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California . A judge thereÂ has ruled against the U.S. government and AT&T Inc., which had requested the EFF case be thrown out. In the Michigan appeal, a three-judge panel issued a two-page ruling Wednesday, saying simply the Bush administration's arguments had met the standard for a stay of Taylor's ruling. Among the panel's considerations were the likelihood the Bush administration could win on appeal, whether the program and the U.S. government would be irreparably harmed, and the public interest, the judges wrote.

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In one of its gloomiest forecasts yet, the Independent Budget Office projected a $3.1 billion budget deficit in the 2009 fiscal year, rising to $4.6 billion in 2010 and $6.3 billion in 2011.

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TEMPE, Ariz. - Since the day he became coach of the Giants, Tom Coughlin has stressed the importance of dominating the line of scrimmage.

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