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(AP) Research In Motion Ltd. on Monday is introducing its first major new BlackBerry model in more than a year: the Bold, a high-end model that further demonstrates the company's desire to make tools for both work and play.The Bold, or 9000, has twice the screen resolution of the current Curve ...
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(AP) Once upon a time, people bonded with their co-workers on office softball teams and traded gossip at the watercooler.OK, so those days aren't gone yet. But as big companies parcel Information Age work to people in widely dispersed locations, it's getting harder for colleagues to develop the camaraderie that comes ...
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(AP) Families claiming that a mercury-based preservative in vaccines triggers autism will challenge mainstream medicine Monday as they take their case to a federal court.They seek vindication and financial redress from a government fund that helps people injured by shots.Two 10-year-old boys from Portland, Ore., will serve as the test cases ...
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(AP) Depression, teens and marijuana are a dangerous mix that can lead to dependency, mental illness or suicidal thoughts, according to a White House report being released Friday.A teen who has been depressed at some point in the past year is more than twice as likely to have used marijuana as ...
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(AP) EBay Inc. is exploring whether to require customers to use its online payment service PayPal, a move that has angered users and prompted antitrust scrutiny in Australia, where a PayPal-only rule takes effect next month.It's unclear whether eBay will institute a similar policy in the United States and other countries. ...
1 day, 18 hours ago
(AP) EBay Inc. is exploring whether to require customers to use its online payment service PayPal, a move that has angered users and prompted antitrust scrutiny in Australia, where a PayPal-only rule takes effect next month.It's unclear whether eBay will institute a similar policy in the United States and other countries. ...
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(AP) Depression, teens and marijuana are a dangerous mix that can lead to dependency, mental illness or suicidal thoughts, according to a White House report being released Friday.A teen who has been depressed at some point in the past year is more than twice as likely to have used marijuana as ...
1 day, 22 hours ago
(AP) Jon Edwards often manages what appears impossible. He has recovered precious data from computers wrecked in floods and fires and dumped in lakes. Now Edwards may have set a new standard: He found information on a melted disk drive that fell from the sky when space shuttle Columbia disintegrated in ...
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(AP) The centerpiece for the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial on the National Mall has drawn criticism from a federal arts panel, which says the proposed statue looks "confrontational" and resembles the head of a socialist state more than a civil rights leader.Models of the 28-foot tall statue depict King emerging ...
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(AP) A Japanese man accused of killing his wife can be absent from a Los Angeles courtroom when his attorney argues for the charges to be dismissed, a judge said Friday.Kazuyoshi Miura, 60, is in custody in Saipan, a U.S. territory where he was arrested in February. Authorities say he had ...
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(AP) A federal sting of four companies accused of arranging fraudulent marriages for U.S. citizenships, complete with wedding photos of brides in gowns and elaborate fake cakes, has netted more than 80 arrests, authorities said Friday.Immigrants, Americans and company officials were among the 83 arrested. The immigrants paid as much as ...
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(AP) Amber Parker watched on television as the storm near her home grew into a tornado threat. Then, when the roaring wind outside suddenly fell silent, she grabbed her two toddlers and rushed to get under the stairwell."We just got inside the door frame when I was pushed inside ... then ...
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(AP) Daniel Suson has a doctorate in astrophysics and has worked on the superconducting super collider and a forthcoming NASA probe. Now he's heading back to school to take on an even trickier task _ getting elected to public office.He is among a growing number of scientists who feel slighted and ...
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(AP) A woman who said she was raped by co-workers while employed by a contractor in Iraq can take her claims to trial, a federal judge ruled Friday.Jamie Leigh Jones filed a federal lawsuit last year, saying she was attacked while working for a Halliburton Co. subsidiary at Camp Hope, Baghdad, ...
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(AP) The mayor of Passaic City resigned Friday after he pleaded guilty to attempted extortion and admitted he accepted $5,000 in cash to influence government contracts.Samuel Rivera, a former police officer, is the latest of about 130 public officials to be found guilty of corruption in New Jersey since 2002 in ...
