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U.S. drug cartel crackdown misses the money
Every day, criminals shove proceeds from U.S. drug sales in their shoes, tape it to their torsos, stash it under dashboards — or just wire it electronically to Mexico. It all adds up to $25 billion a year.
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CQ: Women carry corporate success to campaigns
Spurred in part by the rising anti-incumbent mood and the economic crisis, female executives have emerged as serious contenders for statewide political office in several states.
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Stocks slide after jobless claims rise
A stronger dollar and disappointing corporate news muscled stocks lower over concerns that the economy will struggle to recover. Major stock indexes slid more than 1 percent.
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Colts, not Pats, best-run franchise in NFL
Howard: Watching the Patriots bicker amongst themselves the past week has been a reminder of something that’s hardly being said: Indianapolis has eclipsed New England as the NFL’s best-run organization.
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Scoop: Were Barkley, Jordan models for Woods?
Tiger Woods’ “indiscretions” began with a pair of bad influences, claims one of his former mistresses.
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Sunshine states are the happiest, study shows
People in sunny, outdoorsy states — Louisiana, Hawaii, Florida — say they’re the happiest Americans, and researchers think they know why.
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Check your Facebook privacy settings. Now!
If Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg can't figure out his social networking site's privacy settings after they were ripped open earlier this month, what hope is there for the rest of us?
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Offbeat holiday celebrations
There are some places that put an offbeat spin on the holidays with everything from oversize ice-sculptures to New Year’s Eve events where big yellow Peeps drop from the sky.
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