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train	Thirty-three of the 42 men had been arrested by Wednesday evening, said Daniel Bogden, U.S. attorney in Nevada.	The commission estimated California lost $937 million to corporate tax shelters in 2001.	1.8
train	Pataki praised Abraham's decision, and LIPA Chairman Richard Kessel said the cable should be kept in operation permanently.	U.S. forces struck dozens of targets on Monday, killing six guerrillas and arresting 99 others during 1,729 patrols and 25 raids conducted over 24 hours.	3.8
train	Fighting erupted after four North Korean journalists confronted a dozen South Korean activists protesting human rights abuses in the North outside the main media centre.	Kernan, who was O'Bannon's lieutenant governor, friend and political partner, was sworn in six hours after O'Bannon died Saturday.	3.6
train	The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.7 per cent to 9,547.43 while the S&P 500 was 0.8 per cent weaker at 1,025.79.	Authorities performed an autopsy Thursday on one of three bodies recovered from beneath a layer of freshly poured concrete in the basement of a northwest Indiana home.	4
train	Sequent representatives could not immediately be reached for comment on the SCO announcement.	They say second-quarter earnings reports will be key in giving investors that guidance.	4.2
train	Bremer, 61, is a onetime assistant to former Secretaries of State William P. Rogers and Henry Kissinger and was ambassador-at-large for counterterrorism from 1986 to 1989.	Both studies are published on Thursday in Nature, the British weekly science journal.	4.6
train	Druce is still being held at the prison and is now in isolation, she said.	Dusty had surgery for cancer in 2001 and had a kidney removed.	2.8
train	At 12 months there was still a difference in function, although it was not a significant one.	Moore, the suspended chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, stands trial before the Alabama Court of the Judiciary.	4.8
train	Waksal has pleaded guilty to securities fraud and is to be sentenced next week.	"There's very strong interest in getting money back to the ratepayers as quickly as possible," Commissioner Susan Kennedy said.	2.667
train	Meningitis is an infection of the spinal cord fluid and the tissue around the brain.	"MediaMax performs EXACTLY as "advertised" to the companies who purchased it," Jacobs said in the statement.	3.333
train	Added Mr. Prodi: "Maybe, but the old age helps us to understand our strengths and our weakness."	Twenty-four players broke par in the first round, the third highest figure in U.S. Open history.	4
train	On Sunday, a U.S. soldier was killed and another injured in southern Iraq when a munitions dump exploded.	The researchers gave copies of "Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution" to the carb-cutters.	3
train	Families stuck on the highway remained in their cars, and used their cell phones to call home.	The Hispanic population increased by 9.8per cent from the April 2000 census figures, despite less favourable social and economic conditions than in the 1990s.	1.75
train	The findings are published in the November 6 edition of the journal Nature.	In a show of corporate solidarity, Kroger Co., which owns Ralphs, and Albertson Inc. locked out their workers the next morning.	3.692
train	ISRAELI soldiers knocked down empty mobile homes and water towers in 10 tiny West Bank settlement outposts overnight as part of a US-backed Mideast peace plan.	The Dow Jones industrial average <.DJI> fell 44 points, or 0.46 percent, to 9,568.	3
train	Beleaguered telecommunications gear maker Lucent Technologies is being investigated by two federal agencies for possible violations of U.S. bribery laws in its operations in Saudi Arabia.	"We've put a lot of effort and energy into improving our patching progress, probably later than we should have.	1.4
train	MediaQ's customers include major handheld makers Mitsubishi, Siemens, Palm, Sharp, Philips, Dell and Sony.	Police believe Wilson then shot Jennie Mae Robinson once in the head before turning the gun on herself.	3.333
train	Google's investors include prominent VC firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital, the paper noted.	Despite problems in the job market, the latest snapshot of the labor markets was slightly better than economists were expecting.	3.6
train	The currency briefly weakened slightly on Monday to trade at 55.34/39, not far from its record low of 55.75.	Officials are trying to retrieve the bodies from the water," police official J.D. Tambe told Reuters.	4
train	Since early May, the city has received 1,400 reports of dead blue jays and crows, Jayroe said.	The injured passenger at John Peter Smith died later in the morning; his name has not been released, Jones said.	3.8
train	The commission estimates California lost $1.34 billion -- the most of any state -- to tax shelters in 2001.	License sales, a key measure of demand, fell 21 percent to $107.6 million.	3.25
train	The technology-packed Nasdaq Composite Index <.IXIC> dropped 37.78 points, or 1.94 percent, to 1,912.36.	The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC declined 16.68 points, or 1.01 percent, at 1,636.94.	4.5
train	Florida's Supreme Court has twice refused to hear the case.	The dollar was at 117.85 yen against the Japanese currency, up 0.1 percent.	2.25
train	In 2006, the group says the market will rebound 29.6 percent to $21.3 billion in sales.	The currency briefly weakened on Monday morning but rebounded to trade at 55.25/29, little changed from Friday.	3.4
train	Sources within the racing industry have told the Daily Bulletin that Fontana will get a second NASCAR race on Labor Day weekend starting next season.	Zambrano pitched seven innings and allowed two runs on five hits and four walks.	3.333
train	Microsoft has identified the freely distributed Linux software as one of the biggest threats to its sales.	When Ragin's address was raided, authorities found more than 1,000 credit cards and duplicating machines.	4
train	The pressure may well rise on Thursday, with national coverage of the final round planned by ESPN, the cable sports network.	CELF's founding members are Hitachi, Matsushita, NEC, Philips, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, and Toshiba.	3.5
train	The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI was off 58.69 points, or 0.64 percent, at 9,137.86.	BlueCore3-Multimedia contains an open platform DSP co-processor and also includes a 16-bit stereo audio codec with dual ADC and DAC for stereo audio.	4.6
train	According to SunnComm's Peter Jacobs, "MediaMax performs exactly as 'advertised' to the companies who purchased it.	The grant also funds beach testing in King George County, Norfolk and Virginia Beach.	3.5
train	The rapper's lawyer, Mark Gann, didn't return calls for comment.	"I'm really excited about going to Cleveland," James told ESPN.com.	3.4
train	He was referring to John S. Reed, the former Citicorp chief executive who became interim chairman and chief executive of the exchange last Sunday .	However, we have decided to opt for the European consortium's engine as the best overall solution."	4
train	MEN who drink tea, particularly green tea, can greatly reduce their risk of prostate cancer, a landmark WA study has found.	The Communications Workers Union, which represents more than 2,300 Comcast employees, called the executive pay package excessive when a typical union employee makes about $27,000 annually.	3
train	During a screaming match in 1999, Carolyn told John she was still sleeping with Bergin.	The government recently shelved peace talks being brokered by neighbouring Malaysia after a spate of attacks on Mindanao, including three deadly bombings, that it blamed on the MILF.	4
train	As part of a restructuring Peregrine sold its Remedy help desk software unit last year to BMC Software Inc.	The same survey found the median household income rose by $51, when accounting for inflation, to $43,057.	4.25
train	By Sunday night, the fires had blackened 277,000 acres, hundreds of miles apart.	Ridge said that no actual explosives or other harmful substances will be used.	4
train	"Spin and manipulative public relations and propaganda are not the answer," it said.	Bishop O'Brien, aged 67, had told police he thought he had hit a dog or cat.	3.6
train	Richard Miller remained hospitalized after undergoing a liver transplant, but his wife has recovered.	The results are to be published in Wednesday's issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association.	4.6
train	The network is also dropping its Friday night "Dateline" edition.	The cradle for the h2200 has space for recharging a second battery.	4
train	Amazon also reported that the New York Attorney General's office had settled civil fraud charges with one of the spoofers it identified.	A Cuban architect was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday for using two fake grenades to hijack a passenger plane from Cuba to Florida in April.	4
train	Excluding litigation charges, RIM's loss narrowed even further to 1 cent a share.	The boy fired once into a wall and sprayed the room with fire extinguishers, making it hard to see, the chief said.	4.2
train	Investigators uncovered a 4-inch bone fragment from beneath the concrete slab Thursday, but it turned out to be an animal bone, authorities said.	Since early May, the city has received 1,400 reports, he said.	3
train	The index, which measures activity in the service sector, climbed to 50.7 last month from 47.9 in March.	International rescue workers hacked desperately through flattened debris for survivors and cemeteries overflowed in Iran's ancient Silk Road city of Bam yesterday.	3.6
train	Kroger Co., which owns Ralphs, and Albertsons Inc. bargain jointly with Safeway and locked out their union workers the next day.	In his letter, McBride charges the Free Software Foundation and Red Hat with trying to undermine U.S. copyright laws.	3.6
train	A Washington County man may have the countys first human case of West Nile virus, the health department said Friday.	Netgear prices the WGT634U Super Wireless Media Router, which will be available in the first quarter of 2004, at under $200.	1.75
train	The Senate agreed Tuesday to lift a 10-year-old ban on the research and development of low-yield nuclear weapons.	Their belief was based on speculation that estrogen prevents cell damage and improves blood flow.	3.5
train	At midnight on Wednesday, 68 percent of voters said "no" to the tax, with 97 percent of the votes counted.	Republicans had pledged to complete a Medicare drug package by August, then extended it to Oct. 17.	3
train	Ms. Cripps-Prawak left last Friday, two days after the department introduced a plan to distribute medical marijuana through doctors' offices.	In that case, the court held that the city of Cincinnati had violated the First Amendment in banning, in the interest of aesthetics, only the advertising pamphlets.	3.2
train	Another shooting linked to the spree occurred Nov. 11 at Hamilton Central Elementary in Obetz, about two miles from the freeway.	"We're being hyper-vigilant," said Dr. James Young, Ontario's commissioner of public safety.	3
train	"I am proud that I stood against Richard Nixon, not with him," Kerry said.	"He hasn't got much choice," said the Bishop of Armidale, Peter Brain.	3.4
train	"Saddam is gone, but we want the (U.S.) occupation to end," said Hit resident Abu Qasim.	Police used pepper spray and rubber bullets to disperse a downtown march and rally last night by activists protesting an annual police intelligence-training seminar.	3.75
train	Hilsenrath and Klarman each were indicted on three counts of securities fraud.	The helicopter was owned by Las Vegas-based Sundance Helicopters Inc., according to the sheriff's office.	4.8
train	State Education Commissioner Kent King said Wednesday that the scores on the Missouri Assessment Program tests disappointed him.	ESPN reported that Knight's two-year deal is worth $2.38 million, including a $300,000 signing bonus.	5
train	Griffith, a Mount Airy native, now lives on the North Carolina coast in Manteo.	Analysts polled by Thomson Financial First Call had been expected to see a loss of about 11 cents a share from continuing operations.	3.2
train	He claimed Red Hat and the Free Software Foundation with trying to undermine U.S. copyright and patent law.	He ran last year for the Democratic nomination for Texas governor, but lost the primary to multimillionaire Tony Sanchez.	2.75
train	Founders of the group are Matsushita Electric, Sony, Hitachi, NEC, Royal Philips Electronics, Samsung, Sharp and Toshiba.	Fujitsu Siemens Computers on Tuesday made good on a promise to offer a workstation based on Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron processor.	2.6
train	Scientists believed Stardust trapped thousands of particles of dust.	She, in turn, occasionally told John that she was still sleeping with an ex-boyfriend, "Baywatch" hunk Michael Bergin.	3.8
train	After Freitas' opening statement, King County Superior Court Judge Charles Mertel recessed trial until after the Thanksgiving weekend.	Total shipments reached 19.5 million units last year, compared with 8.9 million units in 2001.	3.2
train	"There is the real potential for a secondary collapse," Gov. James McGreevey said.	He refused to say what percentage of domestic flights had security officers on board.	4.6
train	Plofsky said the commission won't investigate because the three-year statute of limitations has expired.	Douglas Robinson, CA senior vice president, finance, will fill the position in the interim.	3.75
train	Shares of Allergan fell 14 cents to close at $78.12 on the New York Stock Exchange (news - web sites).	A tropical storm rapidly developed in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday and could have hurricane-force winds when it hits land somewhere along the Louisiana coast Monday night.	4
train	The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC rose 17.26 points, or 1.06 percent, to 1,640.06, based on the latest data.	Investigators uncovered a 4-inch bone fragment Thursday night, but authorities said it was from an animal.	1.75
train	He had been arrested twice before for trespassing and barred from the complex - home to his mother and two children.	Peregrine sold its Remedy business unit to BMC Software in November for $355 million.	3.25
train	The House has passed prescription-drug legislation in the last two sessions, but the Senate has failed to do so.	Hispanics have officially overtaken African Americans as the largest minority group in the US, according to a report released by the US Census Bureau.	5
train	Oracle Corp's Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison didn't rule out sweetening the company's unsolicited offer to acquire rival PeopleSoft Inc.	Ankara says all four suicide bombers were Turkish.	4.8
train	MSN Messenger 6 will be available for download starting at 6 p.m. GMT on Wednesday from http://messenger.msn.com/download/v6preview.asp.	Perry has since called two special legislative sessions to try force the redistricting plan through.	3
train	They said they had concluded that the film failed "to present a balanced portrayal" of the Reagans.	While federal prosecutors refuse to discuss the investigation, lawyers and others familiar with it say it remains focused on Campbell.	3.4
train	He allowed two runs in seven innings and struck out six.	The Arizona-based ISM reported Monday that its non-manufacturing index rose to 50.7 last month, from 47.9 in March.	1.75
train	Russin did not comment; his lawyer did not attend the hearing and did not return phone messages.	Major fires had burned 264,000 acres by early last night.	2
train	"If you pass this bill, Big Brother will be watching you," said Rep. John Mabry, D-Waco.	Perry said he backs the Senate's efforts, including the fines, to force the Democrats to return.	3.8
train	When fully operational, the facility is expected to employ up to 1,000 people.	Corixa's stock barely flinched on the news, dipping 12 cents to close at $6.88.	3.75
train	Licensing revenue slid 21 percent, however, to $107.6 million.	Through Sunday, Sept. 21, Site Finder has been visited over 65 million times by Internet users.	5
train	FRIENDS of Robert De Niro yesterday rallied around him after he was diagnosed with prostate cancer.	Cavender did say: "I felt that if I disagreed with Rosie too much I would lose my job."	4
train	In an E-mail statement to the Knoxville News Sentinel, Shumaker said, ''I am not giving any consideration to resignation.	As Sayliyah was the command base for the Iraq war, but hundreds who ran the war have returned to the United States.	3
train	On July 22, Moore announced he would appeal the case directly to the U.S. Supreme Court.	The crates are full of hardback copies of "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix."	2.25
train	The officials did not say whether U.S. forces crossed into Syrian territory and were vague about how the Syrian border guards became involved.	The vulnerability exists in the way Microsoft's Visual Basic for Applications checks document properties passed to it when a document is opened.	2.5
train	"Tomorrow at the Mission Inn, I have the opportunity to congratulate the governor-elect of the great state of California.	Of the 24 million phone votes cast, Studdard was only 130,000 votes ahead of Aiken.	3.5
train	According to market research from The NPD Group, the number of people downloading music dropped from 14.5 million in April to 10.4 million in June.	The blue-chip Dow Jones industrial average .DJI fell 86.56 points, or 0.94 percent, to 9,109.99, after giving up more than 1 percent earlier.	2.4
train	When the bomb exploded at the Casa de España, customers were eating dinner and playing bingo.	Lay had refused to turn over the papers, asserting his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.	4.2
train	A tropical storm rapidly developed in the Gulf of Mexico Sunday and was expected to hit somewhere along the Texas or Louisiana coasts by Monday night.	The MDC called the week-long protest to urge Mugabe either to resign or to negotiate a settlement of the crisis gripping the country.	3.25
train	According to law enforcement officials, the person arrested was a known sophisticated hacker.	The fire spread to several surrounding structures on the property and destroyed them as deputies held back firefighters.	2.75
train	The CWA, which represents more than 2,300 Comcast employees, called that excessive when a typical union employee makes about $27,000 a year.	He and the other lawyers planned to stay until the river starts receding.	2.4
train	"We put a lot of effort and energy into improving our patching process, probably later than we should have and now we're just gaining incredible speed.	The Dodgers won their sixth consecutive game and seventh in their last nine as they beat Colorado 3-2 on Wednesday in front of a crowd of 25,332 at Dodger Stadium.	1.667
train	The bank's shares fell 45 cents in trading yesterday to $91.51 per share.	Said Mr. Burke: "It was a textbook landing considering the circumstances."	1.4
train	Colgate shares closed Monday at $56.30 on the New York Stock Exchange.	Cisco executives were encouraged by $1.3 billion in cash flow and the increase in net income, but said they remained ``cautiously optimistic'' about a rebound.	4
train	Linda Saunders pleaded guilty in federal court to six charges, including extortion, money laundering and conspiracy.	Each week 138 million shoppers visit Wal-Mart's 4,750 stores.	3.25
train	The Standard & Poor's 500 index advanced 6.48, or 0.7 per cent, to 990.51.	Selenski used the mattress to scale a 10-foot razor wire, Fischi said.	3.75
train	Before it was removed, the site listed in broken English the rules for hackers who might participate.	Shevaun Pennington disappeared on Saturday morning after arranging to meet 31-year-old Toby Studabaker.	3.2
train	In a not-too-subtle swipe at Dean, he predicted Americans would not elect a Democrat "who sounds an uncertain trumpet in these dangerous times."	But neither he nor Peace Rules could keep Funny Cide from drawing away.	4.6
train	The American Stock Exchange biotech index .BTK surged 5 percent.	To force a recall election of Davis, the valid signatures of 897,158 registered California voters must be turned in to election officials.	4.75
train	Dean told reporters traveling on his 10-city "Sleepless Summer" tour that he considered campaigning in Texas a challenge.	Heatley underwent surgery Saturday for a broken jaw and an MRI found two torn ligaments in his right knee.	4.8
train	"The figures are becoming catastrophic," said Dr. Patrick Pelloux, the president of the association of emergency room physicians.	"Saddam is gone, but we want the (U.S.) occupation to end."	4.5
train	The findings appear in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association (news - web sites).	Chief Executive Mickey Robinson was fired for cause in September, the company said last month.	2.5
train	Lowe's, with about half as many stores, reported a 33 percent increase in third-quarter profit behind a 12 percent jump in same-store sales.	Stardust was designed to gather thousands of dust particles streaming from Wild 2.	3
train	Young has 28 days to file a response and ask the NASD for a hearing.	Moore of Alabama says he will appeal his case to the nation's highest court.	4.4
train	The companies, Chiron and Aventis Pasteur, together made about 80 million doses of the injected vaccine, which ordinarily would have been enough to meet U.S. demand.	Vermillion, Posey and Madison County populations will decline.	1.8
train	Higher courts have ruled that the tablets broke the constitutional separation of church and state.	"I'm not going to be sponsoring it because it's not our proposal, but I'm not responding to it in a negative way," he said.	3
train	The first health-care worker in the country to die of SARS was a Filipina-Canadian who contracted the disease at North York General Hospital, the site of the second outbreak.	The arrests came just days after Israeli troops shot and killed Abdullah Kawasme, the militant group's leader in Hebron.	3.6
train	National Breast Cancer Centre chief executive Professor Christine Ewan said it was too early to quantify the risk to women.	"Spending taxpayer dollars to create terrorism betting parlors is as wasteful as it is repugnant," Wyden and Dorgan said Monday in a letter to the Pentagon.	5
train	Its shares jumped to $54.50 in pre-open trading from $50.90 at Wednesday's close.	Amazon and the New York attorney general's office have already settled with one of the alleged e-mail forgers.	4.2
train	The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX rose 3.47 points, or 0.36 percent, to 977.59.	Frankel said Peace Rules will run in the Preakness Stakes on May 17.	3.8