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The server and software company had planned to release its new version of the Unix operating system by the end of the year -- source code and all. | 3Sci/Tech
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RIF is a SOA-based delivery mechanism that will support Big Blueâs four retail process solutions or assets, including multichannel retail and retail business intelligence. | 3Sci/Tech
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Reuters - Most U.S. employers are planning to
further scale back health benefits offered to retirees, as
companies struggle with the upward march in the cost of medical
care and weigh increased contributions from government's
Medicare program, a survey found. | 2Business
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AP - Syrian guards foiled an attempt by suspected al-Qaida-linked militants to blow up the U.S. Embassy on Tuesday, exchanging fire outside the compound's walls with gunmen who shouted "God is great" and tried to storm in with automatic weapons and hand grenades. | 0World
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Steelcase Inc. SCS.N , the world's largest office-furniture maker, on Thursday said quarterly earnings fell sharply, though not as much as expected, helped by stronger demand and cost cuts. | 2Business
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SAITAMA, Japan (Reuters) - A United States team eschewing the trash-talking swagger of previous incarnations find themselves two wins away from the promised land. | 1Sports
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Redmond-based PlayNetwork has renewed contracts with Starbucks Coffee and TGI Friday's to deliver customized music to more than 7,600 of the retailers' locations. | 2Business
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AP - The only surviving pair of endangered pygmy rabbits released as part of a program to increase their numbers in the wild have dodged coyotes, badgers, hawks and owls to find time for love, proud scientists said Thursday in announcing the rabbits have successfully bred. | 3Sci/Tech
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US stocks to watch: ARTISAN COMPONENTS INC (ARTI) British semiconductor designer ARM Holdings Plc agreed to buy US technology firm Artisan for $913 million, to boost its product range, but ARM shares slumped on Monday on concerns it | 2Business
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By Kevin Sullivan, Washington Post Foreign Service GLASGOW, Scotland -- At 2:42 p.m. on Oct. 11, Dean Collins heard a thunderous explosion as he worked at his computer in his 30th-floor apartment in Manhattan. | 3Sci/Tech
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Marketer says the left-leaning groups are miles ahead in using the Internet for political advocacy. | 2Business
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Reuters - A flash memory joint venture owned by
STMicroelectronics , Intel Corp and
Francisco Partners will get about half the debt financing
originally intended and has delayed closing until March 28. | 2Business
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An old foe came calling just as Amelie Mauresmo reached the peak of her career. She'd spent a month as the talk of her homeland, the first French tennis player of either gender to reach the world's No. | 1Sports
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It was a devilish draw for last season's near-finalists. Chelsea's first meeting with Portuguese opposition in European competition would not normally be thunderclap news, but it comes three | 1Sports
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The fate of Michael Vick will be determined at sentencing later this year. The fate of the dogs, too violent to be let free around others, is all but sealed. | 1Sports
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Titans on offense: Vince Young's ailing right quadriceps limited his practice participation this week, but it's hard to imagine him not making his first career playoff start even on one good leg. Running Young wasn't in the Titans' game plan when they faced San Diego Dec. 9 - he had just two carries for 2 yards. Tennessee might want to ... | 1Sports
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In the latest release of its customized search engines, the groups of people to be benefited are Scholars and Scientists. The engine is called Google Scholar and as usual with Google, it is in beta. | 3Sci/Tech
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Christine Glandorf helped Yale's varsity eight win its first national title at the NCAA rowing championships as the Division 1 event concluded yesterday on Melton Hill Lake in Oak Ridge, Tenn., but the former Boston Latin student wasn't the only woman with local ties celebrating. | 1Sports
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com November 3, 2004, 11:26 AM PT. This priority retains its ranking at number five as more and more companies deploy Web services to share business logic, data and processes with each other and with clients. | 3Sci/Tech
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Featured links from the CNET Blog Network
Google Presentations gets embeddable slide shows -- The Google Docs team has introduced new features for 2008, which includes embeddable slide shows.
Using MAMP for local web development -- Sometimes you just need to sling a little code.
LG Voyager and Verizon V-Cast -- An interesting experience in the Verizon-sponsored part of the media room.
Gates gets rock star treatment for final CES keynote -- Thousands line up for four hours to see Bill Gates address the Consumer Electronics show for the last time before his imminent retirement. | 3Sci/Tech
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With Beijing attempting to influence the outcome from the sidelines, Hong Kong voters will go to the polls on Sunday for legislative elections. | 0World
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Somalia's PM gives his deputy a lower-profile ministry in a cabinet reshuffle in an effort to exert his authority. | 0World
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Several hundred Burtonsville homes and businesses lost Verizon phone and Internet service when a utility pole fire damaged a large cable early this morning, a company official said. | 3Sci/Tech
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The EU presidency says Turkey's offer to open a port to Cypriot traffic is not enough to break the deadlock. | 0World
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. intelligence satellite has
lost power and could fall to Earth sometime in February or
March, a government official said on Saturday. | 3Sci/Tech
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Blog: Dell announces its new Inspiron desktops | 3Sci/Tech
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Reuters - Microsoft Corp. said on
Thursday it will delay the release of its Office 2007 business
productivity software to improve product performance in the
latest setback for the world's largest software maker. | 3Sci/Tech
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AFP - Three people were electrocuted and more than 2,000 evacuated after the heaviest rains in 23 years left large parts of the eastern Indian city of Kolkata under water. | 3Sci/Tech
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Brief items about notable IT developments, both present and past. | 3Sci/Tech
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The Green Bay Packers and Minnesota Vikings collide in a winner-takes-all battle for the NFC North championship in a Christmas Eve showdown in the Metrodome. | 1Sports
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AP - The Devil Rays were closing in on an agreement with Japanese star infielder Akinori Iwamura and are likely to finalize a deal Friday in what would be Tampa Bay's first major move of the offseason. | 1Sports
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State and federal regulators need to widen their probe of the US insurance industry to protect consumers and the economy, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer told a congressional panel yesterday. | 2Business
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JEBALIYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip - Hamas forces armed with assault rifles and clubs beat supporters of the rival Palestinian faction Fatah as they tried to hold street prayers yesterday to protest against the Islamic group's rule in the Gaza Strip. | 0World
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AFP - Microsoft on Thursday began phasing in a slick new version of its Live Search service in a bid to gain ground on leading Internet search rivals Google and Yahoo. | 3Sci/Tech
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AP - It was Oscar De La Hoya's turn to take the podium, and he could hardly get a word in. Floyd Mayweather Jr. was busy yelling back at rowdy fans, posing for pictures and doing everything he could to annoy De La Hoya. | 1Sports
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By Fernanda Ezabella SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) - Matthew Barney haschoreographed dancing girls, filmed a demolition derby insidethe Chrysler Building and dressed up like Harry Houdini all inthe name of art. | 0World
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The unemployment rate remained unchanged at 5.4 percent. The figures are expected to sharpen a presidential debate on domestic policy set for tonight. | 2Business
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AFP - Poland is braced for rival demonstrations planned by members of the governing conservatives and liberal opposition as the country's tumultuous politics spilled onto Warsaw's streets. | 0World
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CARACAS : An audit of last Sunday's recall vote in Venezuela, which favored keeping President Hugo Chavez in office, found no evidence of fraud, as the opposition had charged, electoral officials said. | 2Business
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The Indonesian government on Thursday opened the retrial of an Indonesian cleric who is charged with leading an al Qaeda-linked group and inciting its members | 0World
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The government has set the stage for the testimony of a former HealthSouth Corp. executive who could be their most important witness in the fraud trial of ousted chief executive Richard Scrushy. | 2Business
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US actor Roy Scheider, best known for playing the police chief in the first two Jaws movies, dies at the age of 75. | 0World
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It says much for the progress made by Jose Antonio Reyes that the Spain international has become an important part of Arsenal's bid to win the Champions League which continues tonight against Rosenborg. | 1Sports
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Hamas militants say there will be no let-up in efforts to fire missiles at Israel, despite a major Israeli military operation. | 0World
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( InfoWorld ) - Salesforce.com plans to widen the capabilities of its AppExchange Web site in 2007 to more closely resembles the online presence already established by companies such as Apple Computer and eBay.
At an event due to take place Tuesday in San Francisco, the on-demand vendor will lift the curtain on work already underway at the company to turn AppExchange into a fully functioning online marketplace for hosted software.
The idea is to make it as easy for customers to buy on-demand software  from AppExchange as it is to purchase songs from Apple's iTunes music store, according to Kendall Collins, senior vice president of product marketing at Salesforce.com.
Ever since Salesforce.com officially launched AppExchange  in January, there's been a question mark as to how the company will generate significant revenue from the service, he said. The site showcases both Salesforce.com and third-party hosted applications
To date, AppExchange has functioned mostly as a central place where users of Salesforce.com's hosted software can go to find and try related applications and tools provided by the company, independent software vendors (ISVs) and developers.
When a customer wants to buy a vendor's application, they have to individually contract with that company, meaning small development shops have had to provide the necessary infrastructure themselves to deal with selling, invoicing and deploying their products. Next year, Salesforce.com will make those capabilities available to any of its partners willing to pay for the services through an initiative the company's dubbed AppStore.
There are several planned AppStore components. The AppStore Standard Referral Program will be available in February 2007, followed in August by AppStore Premium Referral Program and then AppStore Checkout in December next year.
The Referral programs provide partners with access to Salesforce.com's marketing services, while the Checkout service will give them access to online ordering, billing, invoicing and collection services.
Partners using Checkout will pay Salesforce.com 20 percent of the first year's revenue they obtain from any sale they close through AppExchange and the same percentage for subsequent years. The Referral services will work out at 10 percent of the first year's revenue of a sale for the standard version and 25 percent for the premium version, with nothing to pay in subsequent years.
Checkout is a very significant development project for Salesforce.com, Collins said, essentially committing the company to take all the services and infrastructure it uses to run its own business and making those capabilities available to any of its partners worldwide. The vendor is already testing a prototype of the service able to handle multiple currencies and languages along with local sales tax requirements with some of its partners and developers.
The prototype features single sign-on technology and includes an option for customers to purchase more Salesforce software licenses as they're buying AppExchange applications. Customers can also renew and upgrade their AppExchange subscriptions as well as purchase add-on technologies. | 3Sci/Tech
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WASHINGTON : World finance chiefs meeting in Washington this week will express satisfaction with a rebounding global economy, but also highlight risks from surging oil prices, turmoil in Iraq and other factors. | 2Business
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Chicago, IL (Sports Network) - The Chicago White Sox and infielder Juan Uribe avoided arbitration Thursday by agreeing to terms on a three-year, $9.75 million contract with a club option for 2008. | 1Sports
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AFP - England named an unchanged squad Sunday for the third Test against West Indies as they aim to win the series at Old Trafford. | 0World
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AFP - Altlandsberg in eastern Germany has long been known for its medieval church and its stork nests, but today it is known, above all, for its long-serving Indian mayor Ravindra Gujjula. | 0World
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NEW YORK -- Exxon Mobil Corp. has posted the largest annual profit in U.S. history at $39.5 billion, despite a 4 percent decline in fourth-quarter profit. | 2Business
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MARK Viduka was back among the goals yesterday after going through his longest spell without scoring in England. Viduka scored twice to inspire Middlesbrough to a 3-2 Premier League home win over Manchester City, ending a 12-match goal drought. | 1Sports
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The Boston Red Sox beat Anaheim, 9-3, and have the look of a team intent on making things easier for themselves this year. | 1Sports
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of U.S. workers applying for unemployment aid fell unexpectedly by 15,000 last week, according to government data on Thursday that could help ease concerns the labor market was deteriorating rapidly. | 2Business
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Google.org incites others to share its love for plug-in hybrid vehicles and other cleaner forms. | 3Sci/Tech
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The New York Giants added depth to their backfield on Monday, signing veteran running back Mike Cloud. Cloud, 29, led Super Bowl champions the New England Patriots with five rushing touchdowns while playing in just five games last season. | 1Sports
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Sochi. (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko announced they have set a new deadline - January 1, 2006 - for the introduction of a common currency in their nations. | 2Business
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Reuters - U.S. home builder optimism grew in
October to its strongest level in 2004 on low mortgage rates
and heavy traffic of potential buyers, rebounding from a
decline in September, an industry report said on Monday. | 2Business
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The outside directors of Marsh & McLennan (MMC.N: Quote, Profile, Research) have talked to New York's attorney general about having its chief executive step aside amid a probe into its business practices, the Wall Street Journal said | 2Business
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The 20th anniversary of the stock market's brutal 1987 crash has triggered explosive debate about whether today's raging, yet dubious, bull market in world stocks is headed for the same fate. | 2Business
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shawn Marion had 21 points and Amare Stoudemire contributed 20 and 14 rebounds as the Phoenix Suns crushed the Indiana Pacers 124-89 on Sunday, improving their NBA best record to 30-4. | 1Sports
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(Sports Network) - The Boston Red Sox acquired pitcher Curt Schilling in the offseason so they would be able to experience the jubilation of finally winning a World Series for the first time since 1918. | 1Sports
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This is the 10th game, after all, and their start had nothing to do with their 101-94 victory over the Raptors in Toronto last night at Air Canada Centre. | 1Sports
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BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. (Reuters) - The worst U.S. defeat in Ryder Cup history was dumped at the feet of the team's leading three players, who buckled under the weight of expectation and the force of a European juggernaut. | 1Sports
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Alex Rodriguez helped the New York Yankees end their five-game losing streak with his bat -- and his mouth. | 1Sports
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The Entertainment Software Association announced the 2008 E3 Media & Business Summit, but it appears it will still lack the glitz and fanfare of past shows. | 3Sci/Tech
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The banking industry warns online customers to guard against a new wave of sophisticated cyber-fraud. | 3Sci/Tech
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Mikhail S. Gorbachev has decided to devote his post-presidential years to campaigning for the protection of the environment. | 3Sci/Tech
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NEW YORK - Unfairly, unbelievably, Serena Williams was robbed of a point by an umpire's mistake at the U.S. Open, just like her sister was at Wimbledon... | 0World
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In his first game in a Lakers uniform, Pau Gasol scored 24 points and grabbed 12 rebounds in 35 minutes to help Los Angeles defeat the Nets on Tuesday night. | 1Sports
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MIAMI (Reuters) - Catcher Miguel Olivo signed a one-year deal with the Kansas City Royals on Thursday. Olivo had been the Florida Marlins number one catcher the last two years and batted .237 with six home runs and 60 RBI in 122 games in 2007. | 1Sports
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Who would have thought that the Dallas Cowboys' offense would be the least of coach Bill Parcells problems? After cutting their starting quarterback in training camp, signing a controversial | 1Sports
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LONDON (Reuters) - Oil prices held firm on Monday, clinging to gains made in the last week as the key heating oil consuming region of the U.S. Northeast braced for a cold snap that could test low winter fuel supplies. | 2Business
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HP will continue to design Itanium chipsets and develop the market for its Itanium 2-based Integrity servers, which it has positioned as a replacement for PA-RISC systems. | 3Sci/Tech
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In the wake of yesterday's court decision that vindicated the European Commission's antitrust action against Microsoft, EC commissioner Neelie Kroes made some odd statements regarding Microsoft's dominance of the digital media market. | 3Sci/Tech
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Version 2 of the free image-editing app enhances organizational, sharing features. | 3Sci/Tech
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By Henry Brean By HENRY BREAN REVIEW-JOURNAL The federal government will press on with two projects designed to conserve Colorado River water, some of it for use in Nevada, Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne told a conference of water managers in Las Vegas on Friday. | 3Sci/Tech
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Plagued by mounting attacks by Islamist militants loyal to al Qaeda, Pakistan now faces a second wave of violence as its minority Shi'ite Muslims prepare for their annual mourning period. | 0World
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Sammy Sosa becomes the fifth player to reach 600 home runs in the Rangers' 7-3 win over the Cubs on Wednesday. | 1Sports
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Sydney's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade, one of the biggest of its kind in the world, is going green this year with a message to Australians that they must take action to protect a threatened environment. | 0World
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Brazilian soccer is in mourning after Sao Caetano defender Serginho died following an apparent heart attack during Wednesday's match against Sao Paulo. | 1Sports
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He almost made it. Randy Moss aided Tom Brady in winning his first Most Valuable Player Award, played a major role in spurring the Patriots to a 17-0 record, broke Jerry Rice's 20-year-old record for touchdown receptions in a season, and accomplished all of it without a hint of negativity or controversy - until now. | 1Sports
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AP - The Supreme Court is meeting to issue decisions and hear arguments in a case involving allegations of retaliation against a worker who complained of racial discrimination. | 0World
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Boston - Tucked deep in the bowels of Fenway Park, spewed champagne was crisscrossing the cramped victorious clubhouse. The Boston Red Sox were doused, every one of them, and their eyes stung from the sticky, acidy alcohol. | 1Sports
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AFP - The White House expressed hope that Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's call for early elections will help quell violence in the region. | 0World
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WASHINGTON In an act of pre-election largess, US House and Senate negotiators have approved a sprawling corporate tax bill that would shower corporations and farmers in politically sensitive states with about $145-billion worth of new tax cuts. | 2Business
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AFP - Europe's main stock markets fell Thursday, with global investors rattled after former US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan warned of a possible "dramatic contraction" in Chinese share prices. | 2Business
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The Eagles could say that losing the conference championship the last three years was ancient history. But Ike Reese would not allow that line of thinking. | 1Sports
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Former chess champion Bobby Fischer demanded Friday that the Japanese government release him from immigration detention and allow him to travel to Iceland "as soon as possible. | 0World
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Double Olympic champion Kelly Holmes of Britain overpowered Tatyana Tomashova in the stretch and won the 1,500 meters at the World Atheltics Final on Saturday, confirming her status as the premier women's middle distance runner. | 1Sports
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AFP - England coach Brian Ashton has said its vital to the champions' hopes of a successful defence of the World Cup that they put in a polished performance against the United States in their Pool A opener in Lens on Saturday. | 0World
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WASHINGTON - Federal safety regulators want 600,000 Dodge Durangos and Dakota trucks recalled because their wheels could fall off, but the auto maker doesnât believe the defect is dangerous, a company spokesman said. | 2Business
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CARACAS - President Hugo Chávez threatened yesterday to take over any private schools refusing to submit to the oversight of his socialist government, a move some Venezuelans fear will impose leftist ideology in the classroom. | 0World
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The military has been working for years on a pain ray that heats up the skin, sending crowds running. Wired News' Sharon Weinberger decides to find out what the screams are all about -- and gets zapped herself. | 3Sci/Tech
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Share prices rise, but when will the free cash flow? | 2Business
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - CME Group Inc , parent of the world's largest derivatives exchange, said on Tuesday quarterly profit nearly doubled, driven by strong volume growth. | 2Business
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Manchester United's Dutch forward Ruud van Nistelrooy could be out of action for up to six weeks, manager Alex Ferguson said on Saturday. | 1Sports
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SINGAPORE, OCT 5: US oil prices scrambled back over $50 a barrel on Tuesday, kept on edge by a prolonged production outage in the Gulf of Mexico at a time when major exporters are already pumping nearly full tilt. | 2Business
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FOXBOROUGH -- Looking back at the first round of the 2003 draft, it appears that the Patriots will end up looking pretty good. | 1Sports
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TOKYO (Reuters) - When Japan's top women wrestlers greeted the new year by plunging into the icy depths of Tokyo Bay, shivering onlookers chuckled in disbelief. | 1Sports
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