All Stories from May 29, 2011 (Change date)
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U of I student uses sun to water plantsMay 29, 2011 6:00 am - URBANA — During his high school days, Trey Ward had a summer job watering municipal flower beds in Hinsdale. Three days a week, he traveled around town with a tank holdi...
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Voters deliver blow to Quebec’s separatistsMay 29, 2011 6:00 am - QUEBEC CITY — For all the stereotypes of Canada as a ho-hum, steady-as-she-goes sort of place, politics here can be a wild ride. With virtually no warning from pollsters...
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German Catholic Church finds faithful leavingMay 29, 2011 6:00 am - AUGSBURG, Germany — A year after a widespread sex scandal rocked Roman Catholics in Pope Benedict XVI’s homeland, German intellectuals and faithful alike are turning the...
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Banks offer cash transfers to cell numbers, emailsMay 29, 2011 6:00 am - WASHINGTON — Three of the nation’s four largest banks are launching a system that lets customers transfer money from their checking accounts using only a mobile number o...
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Troubled home market creates generation of rentersMay 29, 2011 6:00 am - WASHINGTON — A growing number of Americans can’t afford a home or don’t want to own one, a trend that’s spawning a generation of renters and a rise in apartment construc...
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Young, Angolan singer sits on the cusp of stardomMay 29, 2011 6:00 am - WEST HARTFORD, Conn. — This is the world Nelson Hebo was born into: a world of poverty and violence and disease, where soldiers dragged young men from streets at rifle-p...
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At 84, ‘Guardian angel’ still watching over Route 66May 29, 2011 6:00 am - SELIGMAN, Ariz. — Just after lunchtime in a town that is a monument to yesteryear, an old man is cruising down Route 66 using an eight-speed bicycle. He is tidily dresse...
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Bond expert: It’s not your father’s muni marketMay 29, 2011 6:00 am - BOSTON — It wasn’t long ago that municipal bond funds provided a reliable refuge from stock market volatility. Investors could expect steady returns of 4 to 5 percent a ...
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Downstate jeweler closes after 50 yearsMay 29, 2011 6:00 am - MOWEAQUA, Ill. — A diamond is forever, and ever. But diamond experts and their iconic businesses, not so much. All good things come to an end, and so we’re now in the la...
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For-profit college costs higher than at nonprofit peersMay 29, 2011 6:00 am - The average cost of attending a four-year for-profit college surpassed expenses at both U.S. state and private nonprofit universities, a government report found. Full-ti...