All Stories from June 4, 2011 (Change date)
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Credit hotlines are open, yet phones are silentJun 04, 2011 6:30 am - NEW YORK — Toll-free numbers for nonprofit credit counselors began appearing on credit card statements more than a year ago. Yet counselors say the phones aren’t ringing...
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Venezuelans battling soaring food pricesJun 04, 2011 6:30 am - EL TIGRE, Venezuela — Soaring food prices are forcing many Venezuelans to change their eating habits, trim their shopping lists and set aside more of their earnings to f...
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Monopoly lost: Atlantic City’s rise and fallJun 04, 2011 6:30 am - ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Four years ago, some Atlantic City casino customers were shelling out $1,000 for a brownie sprinkled with edible gold dust in a Baccarat crystal th...
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Now renting: luxe condos built for the global richJun 04, 2011 6:30 am - The Rental Class has never had it so good. Due to a glut of glitzy condo towers and the need to appease skittish lenders some developers have found a new use for the gil...
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Skid Row shelter charges fees as economy toughensJun 04, 2011 6:08 am - LOS ANGELES — Skid Row resident Dadisi Komolafe points indignantly to the sign reading “Union Rescue Mission,” and grumbles that the name no longer fits since the shelte...
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How much longer can photographic film hold on?Jun 04, 2011 6:00 am - ROCHESTER, N.Y. — At Image City Photography Gallery, Gary Thompson delights in pointing out qualities of light, contrast and clarity in one of his best-selling prints — ...
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Hospitals hunt substitutes as drug shortages riseJun 04, 2011 6:00 am - WASHINGTON — A growing shortage of medications for a host of illnesses — from cancer to cystic fibrosis to cardiac arrest — has hospitals scrambling for substitutes to a...
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DNA computer used Google-like logic for math, scientists sayJun 04, 2011 6:00 am - The most complex DNA computer ever developed used the logic functions “and,” “or,” and “not” to solve math problems, the same process applied by mechanical computers, re...
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In Archie Comics miniseries, gay character focuses on Army lifeJun 04, 2011 6:00 am - PHILADELPHIA — Kevin Keller may find himself dead square in the national debate over gays in the military all because of his dad. The Archie Comics character, the compan...
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Britain delays release of anti-terror cartoon movieJun 04, 2011 6:00 am - LONDON — It was supposed to be a warning about the perils of joining the international jihad. But those behind “Wish You Waziristan” — a cartoon take on two young Briton...