Articles filed under Associated Press
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Adult-onset asthma rates spike among 9/11 rescuersSep 02, 2007 11:00 pm - A new survey of Sept. 11-related illnesses has found an alarming increase in asthma -- 12 times higher than normal -- among those who toiled on the toxic debris piles of...
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Woods, Mickelson rip 64s to drive into contentionSep 01, 2007 11:00 pm - NORTON, Mass. -- Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and Vijay Singh delivered the kind of golf everyone expected. Mike Weir and Rich Beem played the golf they badly needed. Woo...
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Martian dust storm can't keep rovers downSep 01, 2007 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- They're old and dirty, but NASA's Mars rovers are back in the exploration business after enduring a lengthy Red Planet dust bowl that blocked most of the ...
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Army's signing bonus attracting thousandsSep 01, 2007 11:00 pm - LEXINGTON, S.C. -- Bored with life on his family's South Carolina horse farm, Willard McCormick decided that military service was the right plan for his future. And when...
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Hundreds of Illinois spans get poor structural ratingsSep 01, 2007 11:00 pm - More than 1,500 Illinois bridges, some used by tens of thousands of people each day, carry worse structural ratings than the Minneapolis span that collapsed last month a...
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Remorseful Craig quietly steps downSep 01, 2007 11:00 pm - BOISE, Idaho -- In a subdued ending to a week of startling political theater, Sen. Larry Craig announced his resignation Saturday, bowing to pressure from fellow Republi...
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Dallas coach Wilson suspendedSep 01, 2007 11:00 pm - Dallas quarterbacks coach Wade Wilson was suspended for five games by the NFL on Saturday for buying and using performance-enhancing substances. Wilson, a 48-year-old fo...
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Felix now a hurricaneSep 01, 2007 11:00 pm - ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada -- Hurricane Felix gathered strength Saturday and pounded Grenada with heavy rains and winds, snapping small boats loose from their moorings and to...
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Pope prays to reverse collapse of marriagesSep 01, 2007 11:00 pm - LORETO, Italy -- Pope Benedict XVI decried the collapse of marriages, telling tens of thousands of young Catholics on Saturday that he was praying a crisis in traditiona...
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Red Sox' Buchholz no-hits OriolesSep 01, 2007 11:00 pm - BOSTON -- The call-up came up with all zeros. Clay Buchholz threw a no-hitter in his second major-league start, just hours after the Boston Red Sox promoted him from the...