BEAVER ISLAND, Mich. - Muggs Bass doesn't own a computer. She's pretty much dead set against e-mail. Anyone who calls her home on Michigan's remote Beaver Island should be prepared for a busy signal, if she's on her land-line phone. She has no cell. Full Story »
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U.S. doctors still too cozy with drug industry: survey
Reuters – Mon Nov 8, 6:54 pm ET Sent 250 timesCHICAGO (Reuters) - Doctors in the United States are still too cozy with drug companies, although they have managed to break some of those ties, U.S. researchers said on Monday. Full Story »
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Art believed destroyed by Nazis found in Berlin
AP – Mon Nov 8, 9:31 am ET Sent 241 timesBERLIN - Nearly a dozen sculptures considered by the Nazis to be "degenerate" artwork and believed to have been lost or destroyed after World War II have been unearthed during construction near Berlin's city hall and were shown to reporters Monday. Full Story »
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Scientists re-create Big Bang in lab
The Upshot – Mon Nov 8, 2:14 pm ET Sent 191 timesScientists say they have created a mini Big Bang using the world's largest atom smasher, resulting in a temperature "a millions times hotter" than the sun's center, the BBC reports. In an underground tunnel near Geneva, the European Organization for Nuclear Research smashed together particles inside the $10 billion accelerator known as the Large Hadron [...] Full Story »
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Gold sets record high amid economic fears
AP – Mon Nov 8, 4:01 pm ET Sent 175 timesInvestors looking for safer places to stow their assets pushed gold to a record price above $1,400 an ounce Monday as they become more worried about the global economy. Full Story »
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Italy: More building collapses at Pompeii possible
AP – Sun Nov 7, 2:53 pm ETROME - More buildings inside the ancient Roman city of Pompeii could collapse, Italy's culture minister said Sunday, a day after a 2,000-year-old house once used by gladiators disintegrated into rubble. Full Story »
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Govt suspects cholera has entered Haitian capital
AP – Mon Nov 8, 7:09 pm ETPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Health officials said Monday they are examining at least 120 suspected cases of cholera in Haiti's capital, the most significant warning sign yet that the epidemic has spread from outlying areas to threaten as many as 3 million people. Full Story »
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5 Moroccan troops, 1 civilian killed in W. Sahara
AP – Mon Nov 8, 6:58 pm ETRABAT, Morocco - Moroccan forces raided a protest camp in the disputed territory of Western Sahara on Monday and unrest spread to a nearby city, with buildings ablaze and rioters roaming the streets. Five Moroccan security officials and one demonstrator were killed, reports said. Full Story »
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Lady Gaga wins big at MTV Europe Music Awards
AP – Mon Nov 8, 7:49 am ETMADRID - Lady Gaga won three prizes at this year's MTV Europe Music Awards on Sunday, claiming Best Female, Song, and Pop honors, just a year after taking the plaudits for best new act. Full Story »
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Alarm glitch could have iPhone users scrambling
AP – Sun Nov 7, 3:50 am ETCUPERTINO, Calif. - Apple says the end of daylight savings time could cause problems for iPhone users. Full Story »
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Iraq's Basra hosts first foreign circus in decades
Reuters – Fri Nov 5, 8:18 am ETBASRA, Iraq (Reuters Life!) - The Iraqi audience roared with laughter as the clowns, one fat and one thin, pretended to walk along a tightrope stretched on the ground. Full Story »
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Obama backs India's drive for UN power
AFP – Mon Nov 8, 2:37 pm ETNEW DELHI (AFP) - US President Barack Obama Monday backed India's quest for a permanent UN Security Council seat, inviting the world's largest democracy to take its "rightful" place at the summit of global power. Full Story »
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Where's the Gulf oil? In the food web, study says
AP – Mon Nov 8, 9:47 am ETWASHINGTON - Scientists say they have for the first time tracked how certain nontoxic elements of oil from the BP spill quickly became dinner for plankton, entering the food web in the Gulf of Mexico. Full Story »
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1-win Cowboys fire coach Wade Phillips
AP – 2 hrs 2 mins agoIRVING, Texas - Jerry Jones never wanted to change coaches this season. As the blowout losses mounted, and Wade Phillips' defense was mostly to blame, the owner-general manager of the Dallas Cowboys had no choice. Full Story »
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Violence breaks out in Myanmar after election
AFP – 56 mins agoYANGON (AFP) - 20,000 people have crossed from Myanmar into Thailand to escape clashes between government troops and ethnic rebels following Myanmar's first elections in 20 years, Thai officials said Tuesday. Full Story »
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