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- July 4 (Bloomberg) — UBS AG , the European bank hardest hit by the U.S. subprime crisis, said it may avoid a loss in the second quarter after about 3 billion Swiss francs ($2.9 billion) in tax credits. |
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- NEARLY a quarter of the staff at a top tourist attraction are being axed, it was announced yesterday. |
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- MORE than a quarter of staff at Glasgow Science Centre are to lose their jobs in a funding cut by the Scottish Government. |
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- The law of political point-scoring came into effect yesterday. Science was the catalyst. This might have been appropriate. But it was unhelpful that the new funding package for Glasgow Science Centre should be the focus of a spat between the Westminster and Holyrood governments. |
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- Hansa Group AG / Veröffentlichung der Gesamtzahl der Stimmrechte 04.07.2008 Veröffentlichung der Gesamtzahl der Stimmrechte nach § 26a WpHG, übermittelt durch die DGAP - ein Unternehmen der EquityStory ... |
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- Market breadth continues to be bullish - out of nearly 2,500 scrips traded, nearly 1,400 have logged gains, and 1,000 have declinedView Full Content at washingtonpost.com |
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- Thousands of people are told to leave their homes as wildfires burn in large areas of the US state of California.View Full Content at AP |
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- Three new female contestants will join the Big Brother house later, the C4 reality series announces.View Full Content at AP |
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- AP - Only two Democratic presidential candidates have carried Montana since 1948. Barack Obama is betting he can do it in November.View Full Content at AP |
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- AP - Wish "Yankee Doodle" a happy 250th birthday. Maybe.View Full Content at AP |
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- PC World - The perception of Lenovo as a laptop innovator has paid dividends in the enterprise space, but the reputation may not… |
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- PC World - Asustek will offer an Eee PC later this year with built-in 3G connectivity. |
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- Reuters - Phillip Bennett, the former chief executive of Refco, was sentenced to 16 years in prison on Thursday for fleecing investors of more than $2.4 billion in a fraud that destroyed the world’s largest independent commodities broker. |
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- AP - Many more job cuts, likely totaling more than 6,000, are likely at American Airlines as the nation’s largest airline hunkers down and tries to survive record high fuel costs. |
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- Reuters - Texas rock trio ZZ Top has signed to producer Rick Rubin’s American Recordings imprint, hoping for a commercial and critical revitalization along the lines of prior Rubin clients Johnny Cash and Neil Diamond. |
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- AP - Hundreds of mainland Chinese tourists Â? some in matching white or pink shirts Â? arrived in Taiwan on Friday on the first regular commercial flights in nearly six decades between the old foes. |
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- The unemployment rate held steady as 62,000 jobs disappeared in June, the Labor Department reported. |
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- The nation lost jobs for a sixth month in a row in June, a storm of pink slips drenching this year’s July Fourth holiday for more than 60,000 Americans and leaving thousands more worried about the future. Weighed down by energy prices and the housing crisis, employers laid off workers in stores, factories and forsaken [...] |
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- Reuters - Fellow musicians have paid tribute to Mel Galley, former guitarist in British hard rock band Whitesnake who died of cancer this week aged 60. |
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- Dear Margo - DEAR MARGO: I despise going to wakes and funerals. |
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- AP - Gunmen lobbed a grenade and sprayed a police checkpoint with gunfire in southern Afghanistan, killing eight officers, Kandahar’s police chief said Friday. |
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- AP - A former accountant for Rachael Ray’s TV cooking show has filed a $1 million lawsuit saying he was forced out of his job because he has an eating disorder. |
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- AP - Dismissing privacy concerns, a federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the popular online video-sharing service to disclose who watches which video clips and when. |
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- Reuters - Canada’s U.S. embassy apologized on Thursday for a party invitation that featured a prominent figure in Canadian history brandishing a large plate of French fries covered in cheese curds and gravy. |
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- AP - This doesn’t sound good: The nonprofit agency in charge of the Internet’s addresses recently lost track of its own. |
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- AFP - Chelsea striker Didier Drogba, Germany captain Michael Ballack and Liverpool’s England midfielder Steven Gerrard are amongst the stars set to play a charity match in Munich next week to help raise money for Africa. |
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- This distribution has been tested as part of the cpan-testerseffort to test as many new uploads to CPAN as possible. Seehttp://testers. cpan. org/--This report was machine-generated by CPAN:: |
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- According to recent research, up to 40% of sales managers fail in their first year* because their skills fail to meet the needs of their position. (PRWeb Jul 3, 2008) Read the full story at http://www. prweb. com/releases/sales_training/sa htm |
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- Dr. Emil Chynn of the Park Avenue Laser Vision (PALV) Center recently appeared on Fox Weekend News as a featured guest to discuss the issue of offering his patients discounts for posting videos of their LASIK and LASEK surgeries on the popular video sharing site, YouTube. (PRWeb Jul 3, 2008) Read the full story at http://www. prweb. |
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- Fast growing Canadian technology company Protus IP Solutions responded today to a competitor’s patent infringement suit by noting that the asserted patents are not relevant to the company or any of its products. (PRWeb Jul 3, 2008) Read the full story at http://www. prweb. |
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- Marketing and Branding Agency Partners with One of the Industry's Leading Web Analytics Consulting Firms (PRWeb Jul 3, 2008) Read the full story at http://www. prweb. com/releases/2008/07/prweb1069 htm |
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- Mobile CRM software vendor W-Systems has announced the successful acquisition of its 200th small business customer, reinforcing its position as the leading global supplier of mobile CRM solutions for the small business market. (PRWeb Jul 3, 2008) Read the full story at http://www. prweb. com/releases/2008/07/prweb1071 htm |
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- UR-InThePaper Ltd, the largest personalised newspaper company in the UK, today announced that their Managing Director, Rebecca Philipson, has met the British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, for the second time in two years. 24-year-old Rebecca was invited by Durham MP, Hilary Armstrong, to celebrate the success of local entrepreneurs at a private reception held at Number 10 Downing Street on June 23rd, 2008. (PRWeb Jul 3, 2008) Read the full story at http://www. prweb. |
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- Simply Retail Inc., the nation's leader in customized healthcare retail systems, has just launched a customized training and assessment program specifically designed to teach a healthcare organization's retail buyer effective buying and inventory processes. The new Buyer Mentoring program serves as an opportunity for healthcare systems to leverage existing retail revenues through better merchandising practices and as an investment in the system' |
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- The U.S. Border Patrol, in partnership with RecruitMilitary, LLC, will present a free career fair and open house for job seekers who have military backgrounds in Edinburg, Texas, on Saturday, July 19. The event will take place from 9 a.m. |
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- 760 Media recently recieved the Communicator Award for developing a political brand design for local city council candidate. (PRWeb Jul 3, 2008) Read the full story at http://www. prweb. com/releases/2008/07/prweb1070 htm |
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- HuffingtonPost.com - Colombia’s audacious rescue of hostages held by the FARC, including American contractors Marc Gonsalves, Thomas Howes and Keith Stansell, adds an extra bang to the July 4 holiday. But we shouldn’t forget the alarming backstory leading up to their captivity, which reveals a lot about the failings of government contracting, and government in [... |
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- Ted Rall - One Amendment from Column A, Another from Column B |
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- Reuters - Thomas Beatie, who was born a woman but after surgery and hormone treatment lives as a man, has given birth to a girl at an Oregon hospital, People magazine reported on Thursday. |
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- AP - Larry Harmon, who turned the character Bozo the Clown into a show business staple that delighted children for more than a half-century, died Thursday of congestive heart failure. He was 83. |
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- AP - A suburban Chicago man locked his two young daughters in a wire cage hidden in the back of his pickup truck because he didn’t have a baby sitter, officials said Thursday. |
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- AP - A Vermont man whose 12-year-old niece was found dead near his home carefully orchestrated events and e-mails to make it appear she had gone to see someone she met online, prosecutors said Thursday as they charged him with kidnapping. |
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- Reuters - Film historians had doubted they would ever find the missing portions of “Metropolis” — until three reels of the science fiction film made in Germany a long time ago, were discovered in a country far, far away. |
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- AP - Benjamin Franklin and Betsy Ross celebrated the eve of the Fourth of July not with fireworks but with wedding vows. |
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- AP - A college student claimed it was all a joke when he put his vote in this fall’s presidential election up for sale on the Web auction site eBay. But prosecutors didn’t see the humor. |
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- AP - An Illinois woman says her beloved miniature dachshund gnawed off her right big toe while she was asleep. Linda Floyd told the Alton Telegraph for a story Wednesday that her beloved Roscoe was euthanized because of safety concerns. |
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- AP - An 1851 artillery gun carried into battle by Arkansas military school students who joined the Confederate Army was unveiled in its home state Thursday after nearly 150 years. |
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- AP - He’s gone from hot-dog top dog to underdog. Renowned competitive eater Takeru Kobayashi is aiming to chomp his way back to the top of the annual Fourth of July hot dog eating competition on Coney Island after a disappointing three-dog loss last year shattered his six-year winning streak. |
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