Nation and World
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BlackBerry upgrade resulted in outage
Feb 12, 2008 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- The company behind the BlackBerry smart phones said a three-hour e-mail outage Monday was caused by an upgrade designed to increase capacity. Research in Mot...
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Buzz-off device isn't music to Brits' ears
Feb 12, 2008 10:00 pm - LONDON -- England's commissioner for children and a civil liberties group joined in a campaign Tuesday to ban high-frequency devices intended to drive away kids who cong...
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Photos find distant galaxy 13 billion years in the past
Feb 12, 2008 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Astronomers took pictures of a far-off lumpy galaxy just forming 13 billion years ago, putting it among the earliest and most distant cosmic objects ever p...
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Kenya's Valentine's Day exports survive violence
Feb 12, 2008 10:00 pm - NAIVASHA, Kenya -- In a country strangled by anger and fear, it is taking armed escorts and emergency airlifts to make sure that Kenya's most warmhearted export -- the r...
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Societe Generale moves to recoverFeb 11, 2008 10:00 pm - PARIS -- Societe Generale SA, reeling from the biggest-ever loss blamed on a single trader, launched a heavily discounted rights issue on Monday, seeking nearly $8 billi...
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Poll: Obama has slight edge over McCain
Feb 11, 2008 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Democrat Barack Obama would narrowly defeat Republican John McCain if they were matched today in the presidential election, while McCain and Hillary Rodham...
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Congress loses only Holocaust survivor
Feb 11, 2008 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Rep. Tom Lantos, who escaped the Nazis and grew up to become a forceful voice for human rights all over the world, has died. He was 80. The California Demo...
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A tiny find with big implications
Feb 11, 2008 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- As pterodactyls go, it was small, toothless and had unexpectedly curved toes -- yet scientists are welcoming their new find as another piece in the puzzle ...
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Castro says McCain not telling truth
Feb 11, 2008 10:00 pm - HAVANA -- Ailing leader Fidel Castro on Monday denied U.S. presidential hopeful John McCain's claim that Cuban agents helped torture American prisoners of war in Vietnam...
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Russian bombers get a little close to U.S. carrier
Feb 11, 2008 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- U.S. fighter planes intercepted two Russian bombers, including one that buzzed an American aircraft carrier in the western Pacific during the weekend, The ...