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S. Korean struggle to clean up, contain country's largest oil spill

Associated Press
Dec 07, 2007 10:00 pm - MALLIPO BEACH, South Korea -- Residents and emergency workers used buckets to remove dense crude oil from South Korea's western shore as the Coast Guard struggled in hig...
Study links weight gain, breast cancer fatalities

Associated Press
Dec 07, 2007 10:00 pm - Breast cancer patients might have a powerful incentive to avoid gaining weight: better odds of surviving the disease. New research suggests that for every 11 pounds a wo...
A tale of two candidate visits

By Erin Holmes Daily Herald Staff
Dec 07, 2007 10:00 pm - Two presidential contenders stopped in Chicago on Friday to give a little attention -- in their own, unique ways -- to Illinois voters in the march toward the state's Fe...
Shuttle might launch Sunday

Reuters
Dec 07, 2007 10:00 pm - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. --NASA plans to tighten its launch rules and send the shuttle Atlantis into space with a European science lab Sunday, provided a troublesome fuel se...
UAL approves $250 million to shareholders

Associated Press
Dec 07, 2007 10:00 pm - CHICAGO -- United Airlines parent UAL Corp. said Friday it has approved a $250 million special distribution to shareholders and paid down $500 million in debt, citing a ...
Hershey's to reconsider powdered mint design

Associated Press
Dec 07, 2007 10:00 pm - HARRISBURG, Pa. -- The Hershey Co. says it is considering changes to the design of a mint that Philadelphia police say looks nearly identical to a tiny heat-sealed bag u...
Stocks barely budge after jobs report

Associated Press
Dec 07, 2007 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Wall Street paused from its big rally Friday, with stocks closing narrowly mixed after the government's November labor report showed tepid job growth as well...
Trump can't hedge on this

Dec 07, 2007 10:00 pm - Donald Trump's hedge is history. The Rancho Palos Verdes (Calif.) City Council has voted unanimously to order the celebrity mogul to remove a 10-foot-high hedge of ficus...
Unemployment rate holds steady

Associated Press
Dec 07, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- It was far from a hiring spree. But with the economy buffeted by speculation that another recession looms, the fact that the nation's payrolls are still gr...
CIA, Justice Department open investigation into video destruction

Associated Press
Dec 07, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department and CIA announced a joint inquiry Saturday into the spy agency's destruction of videotapes of interrogations of two suspected terror...

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