Nation and World
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Algae grabs the energy spotlight
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...
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Landmark heart study expanding to genetic factors behind health
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...
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Murder sheds light on life abroad
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...
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China stirs speculation on canceled Navy visit
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...
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BP subsidiary admits guilt in Alaska spill
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 ...
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Body may be missing student who led secret life as porn star
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...
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Hostage situation at Clinton campaign office ends peacefully
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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Vivid contrasts in style in battle between Giuliani, RomneyNov 28, 2007 10:00 pm - BEDFORD, N.H. -- Call them Mr. Rough and Mr. Smooth. Or maybe Mr. Nasty and Mr. Nice. The intense battle between Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney for supremacy in the Jan. ...
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Shows to resume on Broadway after strike ends with tentative contract
Nov 28, 2007 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Curtain up. Broadway raced to reopen for business Thursday after stagehands and theater producers reached a tentative agreement, ending a crippling strike th...
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Briefs: Unemployment up in Chicago areaNov 28, 2007 10:00 pm - CHICAGO -- Chicago was one of two metropolitan areas that experienced the largest October unemployment rate increase year-over-year. The Chicago-Naperville-Joliet area u...