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Tainted milk, a baby's death and lawsuit in China
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 AP - Heartbroken at the sudden death of their baby boy, the Yi family struggled to forget what they thought was a tragic twist of fate. They burned his clothes, toys, everything but a single photo and the baby formula he drank.
Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:17:51 GMT
| Bush critic Paul Krugman wins economics Nobel
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 AP - PRINCETON, N.J. — Paul Krugman, whose relentless criticism of the Bush administration includes opposition to the $700 billion financial bailout, won the Nobel prize in economics Monday for his work on international trade patterns.
Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:55:22 GMT
| Europe puts more on the line for banks than US
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 AP - Europe put $2.3 trillion on the line Monday to protect the continent's banks, a figure that dwarfs the Bush administration's $700 billion rescue program, in its most unified response yet to the global financial crisis after a stumbling start.
Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:02:53 GMT
| Photos of North Korean leader add to uncertainly
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 AP - The first photos of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il released in two months show him in a setting very similar to photographs from August.
Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:54:33 GMT
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Romo may miss 4 weeks with broken finger (AP)
Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo has a broken finger on his throwing hand and could be out for up to four weeks. Romo broke his right pinkie on the first play of overtime in a 30-24 loss at Arizona on Sunday. The injury leaves the Cowboys (4-2) with 40-year-old Brad Johnson as the starter for Sunday's game at St.
Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:38:53 PDT
| Clemson official: Bowden out as coach (AP)
Tommy Bowden is out as Clemson's football coach. Bowden and the school split Monday in the middle of his 10th season, which started with the Tigers ranked No. 9 and picked to win the Atlantic Coast Conference. But an opening 34-10 rout by Alabama and recent losses to Maryland and Wake Forest raised calls again for Bowden's ouster despite a recent contract extension.
Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:30:10 PDT
| Emerging ace Lester faces Rays in Game 3 (AP)
Jon Lester is pitching like an ace. Just don't call him that. The strapping Red Sox left-hander hasn't allowed an earned run in 14 innings this postseason. That followed 5 2-3 shutout innings in a Game 4 win that completed a sweep of the Colorado Rockies in last year's World Series. Ace? That's not a label he seeks.
Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:03:54 PDT
| Big Brown injured, racing career over (AP)
Big Brown's racing career ended Monday when the Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner injured his right front foot during a workout at Aqueduct Race Course in New York. Michael Iavarone of IEAH Stables, co-owners of Big Brown, said the 3-year-old colt tore a three-inch piece of flesh off the foot after it collided with his right rear foot while working over Aqueduct's turf course with stablemate...
Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:13:34 PDT
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2nd out-of-state teen dropped at Omaha hospital
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 AP - A Michigan mother drove roughly 12 hours to Omaha, so she could abandon her 13-year-old son at a hospital under the state's unique safe-haven law, Nebraska officials said Monday.
Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:56:34 GMT
| Johnston speaks about Bristol Palin, Obama, baby
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 AP - Levi Johnston, who's having a baby with Gov. Sarah Palin's daughter, can't believe all the things he's hearing. No, he wasn't held against his will on the campaign trail. No, he's not being forced into a shotgun wedding with 17-year-old Bristol Palin.
Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:41:58 GMT
| Teen changes her name to CutoutDissection.com
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AP - A 19-year-old Asheville teenager said she legally changed her name to CutoutDissection.com to protest animal dissections in schools.
Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:35:13 GMT
| GM to close stamping plant near Grand Rapids
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 AP - The U.S. automotive sales slump worked its way to two Midwestern automaking towns Monday when General Motors Corp. announced it would close a Michigan metal stamping plant and stop making sport utility vehicles in Wisconsin by the end of the year.
Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:32:07 GMT
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