Nation and World
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Crave chocolate? Blame the microbes
Oct 11, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- If that craving for chocolate sometimes feels like it is coming from deep in your gut, that's because maybe it is. A small study links the type of bacteria...
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Retailers report sales sluggish on fall items
Oct 11, 2007 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- With disappointing September sales behind them, the nation's retailers are now left with a big mess: piles of cashmere sweaters, coats and other heavy fall i...
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Refinery outage sparks gas linesOct 11, 2007 11:00 pm - CARACAS -- Venezuelans formed long lines this week to buy gasoline in a major provincial city after outages at a refinery prompted rare worries of supply shortages in on...
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Genocide vote riles ally Turkey
Oct 11, 2007 11:00 pm - ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkey, a key supply route to U.S. troops in Iraq, recalled its ambassador to Washington on Thursday and warned of serious repercussions if Congress la...
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More technology getting smuggled out of U.S.
Oct 11, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Missile technology, fighter jet parts, night vision goggles and other U.S. wartime equipment increasingly are being illegally smuggled to potential adversa...
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New super glue inspired by natureOct 11, 2007 11:00 pm - HONG KONG -- Inspired by the toe pads of tree frogs and crickets, researchers in India have created a form of sticky coating that is both strong and reusable. When conve...
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Giuliani, Romney scored; Huckabee offered candorOct 11, 2007 11:00 pm - Fred Thompson did not disgrace himself in his first formal debate as a Republican presidential candidate, but he also did not dominate the stage full of White House hope...
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Can you spare some change -- for reparations?
Oct 11, 2007 11:00 pm - PORTLAND, Ore. -- It was panhandling, it was performance art -- and it was a political statement about the legacy of slavery and reparations for black people. A dozen vo...
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Police say student talked of attacking Pa. high schoolOct 11, 2007 11:00 pm - PHILADELPHIA -- A home-schooled teenager who felt bullied amassed a cache of guns, knives and hand grenades and tried to recruit another boy for a possible school attack...
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U.N. questions if shootings were war crimes
Oct 11, 2007 11:00 pm - BAGHDAD -- U.N. officials in Iraq stepped up pressure on the United States on Thursday to prosecute any unjustified killings of Iraqi civilians by private security contr...