Nation and World
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Chicago hedge fund to buy part of E-Trade
Nov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- E-Trade Financial Corp., which flirted with collapse amid the growing mortgage crisis, said Thursday it is getting a $2.55 billion cash infusion from Citadel...
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Sudan convicts British teacher
Nov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - KHARTOUM, Sudan -- A Sudanese court convicted a British teacher Thursday of insulting Islam for letting her students name a teddy bear Muhammad and sentenced her to 15 d...
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Where will Putin take Russia?
Nov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - MOSCOW -- Russians vote Sunday in the fifth parliamentary elections in their post-Soviet history, a contest the Kremlin calls evidence of Russia's political maturity, bu...
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Facebook gives users more control over new ad system after complaints
Nov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - SAN FRANCISCO -- Seeking to keep the peace in its popular online hangout, Facebook Inc. has overhauled a new advertising system that sparked privacy complaints by turnin...
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Olmert warns Israel of apartheid-like struggle
Nov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - JERUSALEM -- In unusually frank comments, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert warned in an interview published Thursday that "the state of Israel is finished" if a Palestinian st...
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Scientists map which genes are switched off before they are passed on
Nov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Remember biology class where you learned that children inherit one copy of a gene from mom and a second from dad? There's a twist: Some of those genes arri...
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Atlasjet plane with 56 people on board crashes in Turkey; no survivors
Nov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - YESILYURT, Turkey -- An Atlasjet plane crashed on a rocky mountain shortly before it was due to land in southwest Turkey early Friday, killing all 56 people on board. Th...
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Briefs: Renown exec leaves Morgan StanleyNov 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-...
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Research links graveyard shift, cancer
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...
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Musharraf to end emergency
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...