Archive for November, 2007
November 21st, 2007 at 08:57am
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AP - Almost 70 years after “The Wizard of Oz” premiered at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, a few of the film’s Munchkins made a grand entrance there Tuesday to receive a collective star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Paulson: Home loan defaults to rise in 2008: WSJ (Reuters)
Reuters - U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said the number of potential U.S. home-loan defaults “will be significantly bigger” in 2008 than in 2007, the Wall Street Journal’s online edition reported.
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Target 3Q profit slips, misses estimates (AP)
AP - Discount retailer Target Corp. said Tuesday that third-quarter earnings dipped 4 percent, missing Wall Street forecasts, because of weak sales in high-margin categories such as clothing and home furnishings.
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Citrus Juice Gives Boost to Green Tea Antioxidants (HealthDay)
HealthDay - TUESDAY, Nov. 20 (HealthDay News) — Adding citrus juices or vitamin C to green tea may raise its antioxidant goodness, a new study suggests.
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November 21st, 2007 at 08:57am
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Reuters - Circuit City Stores Inc , which replaced 3,400 workers earlier this year with lower-paid employees, is asking some former staff to return, the Wall Street Journal said Wednesday in its online edition.
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Teen Millionaire
Not so long ago, teen Ashley Qualls lived in a one-bedroom apartment with her mom and sister. But with her computer and savvy business sense she made a better life for all of them.
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Oil price jump lifts energy shares and Wall St (Reuters)
Reuters - U.S. stocks clawed back from three-month lows on Tuesday as surging oil prices lifted Exxon Mobil Corp and offset falls in financial shares on new concerns about the housing market.
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Rapid Response Teams Can Save Hospitalized Kids (HealthDay)
HealthDay - TUESDAY, Nov. 20 (HealthDay News) — Incorporating a rapid response team of experts at a children’s hospital can cut rates of patient deaths, heart attacks and respiratory arrests outside the intensive care unit, a new study suggests.
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Fed minutes show October rate cut was “close call” (Reuters)
Reuters - The Federal Reserve was unsure last month whether lower borrowing costs were needed to cushion the U.S. economy from a housing slump and credit woes but decided to cut interest rates as a form of insurance.
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Forgetting long-time bonds, Alzheimer’s patients fall in love (AFP)
AFP - When her husband of 55 years began seeing another woman, former US Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O’Connor did not begin high-profile divorce proceedings or condemn his infidelity.
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Paulson: Home loan defaults to rise in 2008: WSJ (Reuters)
Reuters - U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said the number of potential U.S. home-loan defaults “will be significantly bigger” in 2008 than in 2007, the Wall Street Journal’s online edition reported.
Source: news.yahoo.com
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November 21st, 2007 at 08:57am
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AP - Archaeologists on Tuesday unveiled an underground grotto believed to have been revered by ancient Romans as the place where a wolf nursed the city’s legendary founder Romulus and his twin brother Remus.
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Bush phones Saudi king ahead of Mideast meet (AFP)
AFP - US President George W. Bush telephoned Saudi King Abdullah to discuss the Middle East on Tuesday, the state SPA news agency reported, as Washington began issuing invitations for a key peace conference.
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Egypt offers broad support for Annapolis talks (Reuters)
Reuters - Egypt offered broad support on Tuesday for peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians in the United States next week but again pressed for a firm timetable for setting up a Palestinian state.
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Mideast peace talks to be held November 27: US (AFP)
AFP - The United States will host an international Middle East conference on November 27 aiming to kickstart the moribund peace process, US officials said Tuesday.
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Telecommuting found to boost morale, cut stress (Reuters)
Reuters - Tired of traffic jams, late trains, packed buses? Telecommuting can be a big plus for workers and employers because it boosts morale and job satisfaction and cuts stress, researchers said on Monday.
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November 21st, 2007 at 08:57am
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AP - An Indonesian housekeeper broke down in sobs Tuesday after testifying that one of her employers forced her to punish a fellow servant by covering her naked body in plastic wrapping tape and ripping it off. Read more…..
AFP - The first summit of women leaders held in New York Friday and Saturday issued a call for action on global warming, terrorism, poverty and women’s security.
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AP - As a civil engineer, Om Goel had faith that Chicago’s world-famous El, however old, rickety and perennially cash-strapped, was maintained well enough that the trains would at least stay on the tracks.
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AP - A labor rights group alleged Tuesday that crucifixes sold in religious gift shops in the U.S. are produced under “horrific” conditions in a Chinese factory with more than 15-hour work days and inadequate food.
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Reuters - The Federal Reserve was unsure last month whether lower borrowing costs were needed to cushion the U.S. economy from a housing slump and credit woes but decided to cut interest rates as a form of insurance.
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AP - After months of angry public hearings over possible fare increases, transit officials announced Tuesday that the base cost for New York’s 7.3 million daily subway and bus riders will remain at $2 through 2009. Read more…..
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November 21st, 2007 at 08:57am
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Reuters - Researchers have decoded the gene map of a strain of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis and said on Tuesday their work has identified mutations that may help develop better treatments.
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Chavez, Ahmadinejad to work against US (AP)
AP - The presidents of Venezuela and Iran boasted Monday that they will defeat U.S. imperialism together, saying the fall of the dollar is a prelude to the end of Washington’s global dominance.
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Call for action issued at first summit of women leaders (AFP)
AFP - The first summit of women leaders held in New York Friday and Saturday issued a call for action on global warming, terrorism, poverty and women’s security.
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Bush homeland security adviser resigns (AP)
AP - Fran Townsend, the leading White House-based terrorism adviser who gave public updates on the extent of the threat to U.S. security, is stepping down after 4 1/2 years.
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As order slides, Palestinian women face honor killings (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor - All the women in the family say Wafa Wahdan was wonderful.
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Congo to form nature reserve for bonobos (AP)
AP - Congo is setting aside more than 11,000 square miles of rain forest to help protect the endangered bonobo, a great ape that is the most closely related to humans and is found only in this Central African country.
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Stem cell breakthrough uses no embryos (AP)
AP - Scientists have made ordinary human skin cells take on the chameleon-like powers of embryonic stem cells, a startling breakthrough that might someday deliver the medical payoffs of embryo cloning without the controversy.
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November 21st, 2007 at 08:57am
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AP - Think cooking the perfect Thanksgiving dinner is stressful? Something else is far more likely to raise your blood pressure: salt hidden in all those goodies. Don’t blame the chef. Much of that salt was hidden from him or her, too.
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Forgetting long-time bonds, Alzheimer’s patients fall in love (AFP)
AFP - When her husband of 55 years began seeing another woman, former US Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O’Connor did not begin high-profile divorce proceedings or condemn his infidelity.
Source: news.yahoo.com
Abbas set to get US peace meet invite Tuesday (AFP)
AFP - Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas is due on Tuesday to receive an official invitation to a key US peace meeting expected to take place next week, a Palestinian official told AFP.
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Bush, Putin, discuss upcoming Middle East meeting (AFP)
AFP - US President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday discussed the upcoming US-hosted Middle East peace conference and US missile defense plans, the White House said.
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FEC eases rules on ads before elections (AP)
AP - Unions and businesses may pay for TV and radio “issue ads” that name candidates in the days before elections, federal regulators said Tuesday, easing previous restrictions and opening the way for interest groups to influence next year’s elections with big-money advertising campaigns.
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Egypt offers broad support for Annapolis talks (Reuters)
Reuters - Egypt offered broad support on Tuesday for peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians in the United States next week but again pressed for a firm timetable for setting up a Palestinian state.
Source: news.yahoo.com
Bush phones Saudi king ahead of Mideast meet (AFP)
AFP - US President George W. Bush telephoned Saudi King Abdullah to discuss the Middle East on Tuesday, the state SPA news agency reported, as Washington began issuing invitations for a key peace conference.
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Blair announces 4 Palestinian projects (AP)
AP - International Mideast envoy Tony Blair announced four economic projects Monday designed to create thousands of jobs for Palestinians and bolster peace efforts with Israel.
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November 21st, 2007 at 08:57am
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AP - A judge dismissed an assault complaint Tuesday against a handyman once investigated in the deaths of four prostitutes after another woman who accused him of trying to strangle her failed to show up in court.
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