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AP - Big Oil is once again being called on the carpet. Senior executives of the five largest U.S. oil companies were to appear before a congressional committee Tuesday where they were likely to find frustrated lawmakers in no mood for small talk.
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AP - Despite Russia’s displeasure with NATO’s growing ranks, President Bush is encouraging former Soviet republics like Ukraine to join up.
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Reuters - Flybe has given the term low-fare
airline an entirely new meaning: it is paying 172 people to fly
back and forth across England and the Irish Sea to help it meet
a target for passenger numbers at Norwich airport.
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AP - Fire department officials say a fireworks malfunction at a Wrestlemania event caused minor burns to about 40 people.
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“AP - A couple whose church preaches against medical care are facing criminal charges after their young daughter died of an infection that authorities said went untreated.”
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“Scientists in Japan have designed artificial molecules that when used with rats successfully reversed liver cirrhosis, a serious chronic disease in humans that until now can only be cured by transplants. Cirrhosi…”
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“Some of the greatest scientific hoaxes of all time … typically pulled off until technology caught up with the scope of the hoax. From Stone-age tribes found in the present day to the announcement that blondes will be extinct in 200 years. “
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Reuters - Violent civilian deaths in Iraq climbed
to their highest level since mid-2007, Iraqi government figures
showed on Tuesday, due to a spike in violence between Iraq
security forces and Mehdi Army militia fighters.
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AP - The Lopez twins are going pro together. Stanford sophomore Robin Lopez is joining his 7-foot brother Brook in entering the NBA draft. The brothers made their announcement to The Associated Press on Monday through their mother, Deborah Ledford.
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