QUES: At midday Monday , the 10-year note US10YT = RR had slipped 12 / 32 in price giving a yield of 3.16 percent from 3.12 percent .

Further out the curve , the benchmark 10-year note US10YT = RR shed 25 / 32 in price , taking its yield to 3.26 percent from 3.17 percent .

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QUES: In Toronto , police said they arrested 38 people and reported 114 incidents , mostly for looting and other thefts .

Toronto police made 38 arrests linked to the blackout and reported 114 incidents , mostly for looting and other thefts , said Constable Mike Hayles .

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QUES: Peter Lyman and Hal Varian of Berkeley 's School of Information Management and Systems say that information production has increased by 30 percent each year between 1999 and 2002 .

That task appealed to two masters of the megabyte , Peter Lyman and Hal Varian , professors at the University of California-Berkeley 's School of Information Management and Systems .

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no