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Israel offers short respite from strikes - CNN International

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Israel offers short respite from strikes
CNN International - 1 hour ago
JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Israel will halt its bombardment of Gaza for three hours every day to allow residents of the Hamas-ruled Palestinian territory to obtain much-needed supplies, a military spokesman said Wednesday.
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Attorneys see echoes of Burris' actions on '92 appeal - Chicago Sun-Times

Attorneys see echoes of Burris' actions on '92 appeal
Chicago Sun-Times - 43 minutes ago
BY MAURICE POSSLEY Special to the Sun-Times Roland Burris should walk away from Barack Obama's Senate seat, according to an attorney who resigned from handling criminal appeals when Roland Burris was state attorney general after he ignored her plea ...
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Bulgarian schools, some firms stay shut in gas row - Reuters

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Bulgarian schools, some firms stay shut in gas row
Reuters - 39 minutes ago
By Anna Mudeva SOFIA, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Thousands of Bulgarians spent a freezing night without central heating, and some companies and schools did not operate on Wednesday after Russian gas supplies were halted to southeastern Europe.
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Pakistan denies official involvement in Mumbai attacks - Los Angeles Times

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Pakistan denies official involvement in Mumbai attacks
Los Angeles Times - 43 minutes ago
Rajanish Kakade / AP Indians join during the funeral procession of Hemant Karkare, Mumbai's anti-terrorism chief, who was killed in the early stages of the terrorist siege.
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Sri Lanka pushes into rebel-held jungles - International Herald Tribune

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Sri Lanka pushes into rebel-held jungles
International Herald Tribune - 49 minutes ago
AP COLOMBO, Sri Lanka: Small teams of Sri Lankan soldiers have pushed ahead of the front lines in the north to root out rebels from their heavily mined jungle hide-outs, the military said Wednesday.
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Obama defends choice for CIA chief - Los Angeles Times

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Obama defends choice for CIA chief
Los Angeles Times - 4 hours ago
Obama lobbies lawmakers on behalf of Leon Panetta. One critic calls the pick a 'Hail Mary pass.' By Greg Miller and Peter Nicholas Reporting from Washington -- After promising during the campaign to restore order and accountability to the nation's spy ...
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CNN: Gupta approached about surgeon general post - The Associated Press

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CNN: Gupta approached about surgeon general post
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WASHINGTON (AP) - President-elect Barack Obama's reported choice for surgeon general, CNN medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta, could bring a dose of star power to a job that hasn't had that much clout in decades.
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Activists to file suit against California tax plan - Los Angeles Times

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Activists to file suit against California tax plan
Los Angeles Times - 16 hours ago
The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Assn. and others seek to block $9.3 billion in taxes on gasoline, sales and personal income. They say the measure requires approval from two-thirds of the Legislature.
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Li Ka-shing Seeks $524 Million Selling Bank of China - Bloomberg

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Li Ka-shing Seeks $524 Million Selling Bank of China
Bloomberg - 39 minutes ago
By Bei Hu and Luo Jun Jan. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing is raising as much as HK$4.06 billion ($524 million) selling shares in Bank of China Ltd.
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German December Unemployment Shows First Gain in Three Years - Bloomberg

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German December Unemployment Shows First Gain in Three Years
Bloomberg - 1 hour ago
By Rainer Buergin Jan. 7 (Bloomberg) -- German unemployment rose for the first time in almost three years in December as the labor market caught up with an economy that shrank during most of 2008.
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Fed Minutes Offer No Comfort - Forbes

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Fed Minutes Offer No Comfort
Forbes - 5 hours ago
The central bank's rate-setting committee expects GDP to contract 2009, with a significant rise in unemployment. The US Federal Reserve sees an economy mired in recession, with only a slow march to improvment into 2010.
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Jobs is gone and so is DRM - Afterdawn.com

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Jobs is gone and so is DRM
Afterdawn.com - 1 hour ago
This year's Macworld keynote was nothing like we have been used to. It could only be described as a disappointment until Philip Schiller, who replaced Steve Jobs, revealed DRM-free iTunes.
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The amazing vanishing Mac desktop machine - Macworld

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The amazing vanishing Mac desktop machine
Macworld - 4 hours ago
by Rob Griffiths, Macworld.com A couple years back, after the introduction of the iPhone at the January 2007 Macworld Expo, I penned a little reaction peace entitled iDisappointed, expressing my dismay at the lack of Mac hardware updates—it is, ...
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CES 2009: Asus shows touchscreen EeePC and Keyboard PC - TG Daily

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CES 2009: Asus shows touchscreen EeePC and Keyboard PC
TG Daily - 3 hours ago
By Wolfgang Gruener Las Vegas (NV) - Asus took advantage of the crowd present at the first major press conference at CES 2009 and showed off next-generation of EeePC netbooks, Windows 7 on netbooks, a multitouch EeePC as well as a 4.3” screen PC that ...
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Wecht: Unanswered Questions In Travolta's Son's Death - MSNBC

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Wecht: Unanswered Questions In Travolta's Son's Death
MSNBC - 47 minutes ago
PITTSBURGH - John Travolta and Kelly Preston are back in Florida with the remains of their 16-year-old son. Jett Travolta was found unconscious on Friday in the couple's vacation home in the Bahamas.
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Craig Blankenhorne / Associated Press - Los Angeles Times

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Craig Blankenhorne / Associated Press
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ADVERSARIES: Ellen Parsons (Rose Byrne, left) tries to bring Patty Hewes (Glenn Close) down on “Damages.” Can the second season of FX's delicious 'Damages' possibly surpass the first?
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Swayze 'may live only two years' - BBC News

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Swayze 'may live only two years'
BBC News - 58 minutes ago
Actor Patrick Swayze, who has pancreatic cancer, has admitted he may survive only two years. Speaking in his first US TV interview since he was diagnosed with the disease, the Dirty Dancing star said he was "scared" and "going through hell".
Swayze says cancer diagnosis has put him "through hell" Newsday
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Lakers run into a buzz saw - Los Angeles Times

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Lakers run into a buzz saw
Los Angeles Times - 2 hours ago
Kobe Bryant finished with 39 points but only two in the fourth quarter as the Lakers lost to the Hornets, 116-105. David West and Chris Paul combined for 72 points in Hornets' victory at Staples Center.
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Bobcats sink Celtics in OT - Boston Globe

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Bobcats sink Celtics in OT
Boston Globe - 3 hours ago
By Frank Dell'Apa CHARLOTTE, NC - The Charlotte Bobcats went small and came up big against the Celtics last night. The backcourt combination of DJ Augustin and Raymond Felton made the difference as the Bobcats took a 114-106 overtime victory, ...
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Wild slap a loss on the Bruins - Boston Globe

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Wild slap a loss on the Bruins
Boston Globe - 3 hours ago
By Fluto Shinzawa The point man had the puck during Minnesota's fourth straight power play, which came at 6:20 of the second period.
Backstrom, Wild earn second straight shutout Philadelphia Daily News
Manny Fernandez strong again Boston Herald
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Parkinson's treatment shows promise in patients, study says - Chicago Tribune

Parkinson's treatment shows promise in patients, study says
Chicago Tribune - 3 hours ago
By Deborah L. Shelton | Tribune reporter Patients with advanced Parkinson's disease who received deep brain stimulation showed greater improvement in movement and quality of life after six months than those treated with medication, a new study shows.
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Beijing Woman Dies of Avian Flu - Wall Street Journal

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Beijing Woman Dies of Avian Flu
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By GORDON FAIRCLOUGH SHANGHAI -- A 19-year-old Beijing woman has died of bird flu, the first human case of the virus in China since February last year, the government said Tuesday, putting public-health officials on higher alert for a possible ...
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Health Buzz: Teens Using MySpace and Other Health News - U.S. News & World Report

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Health Buzz: Teens Using MySpace and Other Health News
U.S. News & World Report - 19 hours ago
About 54 percent of adolescents who use the social networking website MySpace often discuss sexual behavior, substance abuse, or violence on the site, according to a pair of new studies published this month in Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent ...
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President-elect sees 'trillion-dollar deficits for years to come' - Boston Globe

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President-elect sees 'trillion-dollar deficits for years to come'
Boston Globe - 2 hours ago
Monday, President-elect Barack Obama took Capitol Hill by storm to promote his massive economic stimulus plan that, at least in the short term, will dramatically increase the federal deficit with as much as $775 billion in spending and tax cuts.
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Bush shelters ocean treasures - Chicago Tribune

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Bush shelters ocean treasures
Chicago Tribune - 2 hours ago
By Kenneth R. Weiss | Tribune Newspapers President George W. Bush created three national monuments in the Pacific Ocean on Tuesday, protecting waters near US-controlled islands that contain a rich diversity of corals, fish and other sea life as well as ...
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Slain man's family files $25-million suit in BART shooting - Los Angeles Times

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Slain man's family files $25-million suit in BART shooting
Los Angeles Times - 43 minutes ago
Oscar J. Grant III, 22, was shot early New Year's Day by a transit officer responding to a fight. His lawyer says the incident 'cries out for criminal prosecution.
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