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UK to shake up banking, 100s of branches for sale (AP)
“AP - The Royal Bank of Scotland, Northern Rock, and Lloyds Banking Group are to sell off as many as 700 branches in the next few years in exchange for the public aid they received during the economic meltdown, a government official told The Associated Press on Saturday.”
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After all the fuss, public health plan covers few (AP)
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AP - What’s all the fuss about? After all the noise over Democrats’ push for a government insurance plan to compete with private carriers, coverage numbers are finally in: Two percent.
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New Analyses Of Dinosaur Growth May Wipe Out 1/3 Of Species
“Paleontologists Goodwin and Horner have dug for 11 years in Montana’s Hell Creek Formation in search of every dinosaur fossil they can find, accumulating specimens of all stages of development. They suggest that one-third of all named dinosaur species may never have existed, but are merely different stages in the growth of other known [...]
U.S. sends six Uighurs from Guantanamo to Palau (Reuters)
“Reuters - The Obama administration has sent six Uighur Chinese detainees from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the Pacific island nation of Palau, the Justice Department said on Saturday.”
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Game 3 of World Series starts after rain delay (AP)
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AP - Game 3 of the World Series between the Yankees and Phillies started Saturday night after a rain delay of 1 hour, 20 minutes, the second consecutive year wet weather affected the schedule in Philadelphia.
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Clinton calls Israeli concessions ‘unprecedented’ (AP)
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AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Saturday that Israel is making “unprecedented” concessions on West Bank settlement construction — a position clearly at odds with the prevailing Palestinian view.
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China taps huge copper reserves in Afghanistan (AP)
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AP - At a former al-Qaida stronghold southeast of the Afghan capital, a state-owned Chinese company is at work on a $3 billion mine project to tap one of the world’s largest unexploited copper reserves, a potential financial boon for an impoverished country mired in war.
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NASA Cat Goes Weightless for First Time
“Kitty abuse? Probably not, but I’d still love to know what was going on in the cat’s mind at the time.“
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Bombings burden Iraq’s DNA lab
“Physicians face unique risks in identifying bodies where sectarian strife has created legions of them.
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Obama says new data shows U.S. economy recovering (Reuters)
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Reuters - President Barack Obama said on Saturday this week’s positive job and economic growth figures proved that his big spending efforts to stimulate the economy were working.
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