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Briefs: Renown exec leaves Morgan Stanley

Nov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Zoe Cruz, 52, regarded as perhaps the most powerful woman executive on Wall Street and one of the most powerful in corporate America, retired Thursday as co-...
Research links graveyard shift, cancer

Associated Press
Nov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - LONDON -- Like UV rays and diesel exhaust fumes, working the graveyard shift will soon be listed as a "probable" cause of cancer. It is a surprising step validating a co...
Musharraf to end emergency

Associated Press
Nov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pervez Musharraf, newly sworn in as a civilian president and minus his trademark general's uniform, promised Thursday to lift the state of emergen...
Algae grabs the energy spotlight

Associated Press
Nov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - ST. PAUL, Minn. -- The 16 big flasks of bubbling bright green liquids in Roger Ruan's lab at the University of Minnesota are part of a new boom in renewable energy resea...
Landmark heart study expanding to genetic factors behind health

Associated Press
Nov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- Doctors didn't know cigarettes were bad and thought high blood pressure could sometimes be good when homemaker Helen Vaughn was lured by a 1948 news...
Murder sheds light on life abroad

Associated Press
Nov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - PERUGIA, Italy -- For many college students, a year abroad is an experience of a lifetime -- an opportunity to learn a new language and live in a new culture. But it's o...
China stirs speculation on canceled Navy visit

Associated Press
Nov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - BEIJING -- China hinted Thursday that Congress' honoring of the Dalai Lama and U.S. arms sales to Taiwan led it to cancel a U.S. Navy visit to Hong Kong, an incident tha...
BP subsidiary admits guilt in Alaska spill

Associated Press
Nov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- The Alaska subsidiary of British energy company BP PLC pleaded guilty Thursday to a federal environmental crime for failing to prevent a 2006 spill ...
Body may be missing student who led secret life as porn star

Associated Press
Nov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - EL DORADO, Kan. -- A body found in Kansas appears to be that of a missing college student who led a secret life as an Internet porn star, police said Thursday. Authoriti...
Hostage situation at Clinton campaign office ends peacefully

Associated Press
Nov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - ROCHESTER, N.H. _ A distraught man wearing what appeared to be a bomb walked into a Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign office Friday and demanded to speak to the candidate ...

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