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Guard Reports Serious Drop in Enlistment The Army National Guard has failed for two months to meet its recruiting quotas, falling about 30 percent below its overall target.	0	World
Colombia Won't Extradite Top Warlord President Alvaro Uribe pledged Thursday not to extradite the country's top right-wing paramilitary leader to the United States to face drug trafficking charges provided he ceases all illegal activities and stays in peace talks.	0	World
Nikkei Surges to Highest Close in 4 Weeks TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei average surged to its highest close in four weeks on Friday as hopes for a seasonal year-end rally and the imminent inclusion of oil and gas developer INPEX Corp. into the TOPIX index spurred buying in a wide range of stocks.	2	Business
Houston court rules on suspending sale of Yukos subsidiary Russia #39;s oil giant Yukos requested to block the auctioning off of its main production unit Yuganskneftegaz in Moscow on Sunday.	2	Business
Cell phones in the air: Convenience or curse? Just when air travel seems to have become our national gripe, along comes a possibility to make us appreciate flight as we now know it: A cabin full of people talking, loudly and simultaneously, on their cell phones.	2	Business
SEC Orders Fannie Mae to Restate Securities and Exchange Commission chief accountant Donald Nicolaisen has requested that the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) restate its financials from 2001 through mid-2004 to eliminate the use of hedge accounting.	2	Business
eBay buys Rent.com for \$415 million eBay announced late Thursday that it had acquired the apartment rental service Rent.com for \$415 million, the latest move in its expansion beyond Internet auctions.	2	Business
Carey #39;s Career-High Carries Longhorns DENTON, Texas -- Texas coach Jody Conradt told Jamie Carey to shoot more, and it worked out very well. Carey scored a career-high 30 points to lead the fourth-ranked Longhorns to a 79-54 victory Thursday night over North Texas.	1	Sports
For These Quarterbacks, The Smaller the Better The starting quarterbacks in tonight #39;s NCAA Division I-AA football championship at Finley Stadium in Chattanooga thought they would be playing for a trophy on a much bigger stage.	1	Sports
Mary Hardin-Baylor, continuing rapid rise, poised to win first <b>...</b> Make no mistake. The players and coaches on the Mary Hardin-Baylor football team are making every effort to win Saturday #39;s NCAA Division III championship game in Salem, Va.	1	Sports
Saddam has first meeting with his lawyer Preparations to put Saddam Hussein on trial intensified on Thursday with a first meeting between the ousted Iraqi president and a member of the defence team appointed by his family.	0	World
EU Expects Turkey to Initial Deal on Cyprus Friday BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union expects Turkey to initial an accord Friday giving Cyprus de facto recognition and sign it before Ankara opens EU membership talks on Oct. 3, 2005, a draft summit statement said Friday.	0	World
Euthanasia seeker dies in India A terminally-ill Indian chess champion who has been the focus of a euthanasia debate, dies in hospital.	0	World
Irish trio 'have fled Colombia' Three Irishmen convicted of training rebels in Colombia have fled the country, its attorney general tells Reuters.	0	World
Agreement offers flexibility and cash to bankrupt airline SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- ATA Holdings, the bankrupt parent of ATA Airlines, took a key step Thursday toward salvaging more of its struggling operations.	2	Business
No. 6 Stanford Advances To NCAA Championship With 3-1 Win Over <b>...</b> Senior Ogonna Nnamani leads the team with 33 kills, 21 digs and five blocks on the night. Long Beach, Calif. - Senior outside hitter Ogonna Nnamani had 33 kills, 21 digs and five blocks to lead the sixth-ranked	1	Sports
7 North Koreans take refugee at Japanese Embassy in North Korea BEIJING -- Seven men and women, apparently North Korean defectors, sought refugee at a Japanese school early Friday morning. Japanese diplomats in Beijing said that they were two men, four women and a girl.	0	World
Property Fund Says to Hold YUKOS Auction (Reuters) Reuters - Russia's Federal Property Fund said on\Friday it intended to go ahead with an auction of oil major\YUKOS' main unit Yuganskneftegaz despite a U.S. court decision\to freeze the state-imposed sale.	2	Business
Property Fund Says to Hold YUKOS Auction MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Federal Property Fund said on Friday it intended to go ahead with an auction of oil major YUKOS' main unit Yuganskneftegaz despite a U.S. court decision to freeze the state-imposed sale.	2	Business
EBay to Buy Rent.com for \$415 Mln in Cash and Stock (Update2) EBay Inc., the world #39;s largest Web auctioneer, agreed to buy privately held Rent.com for \$415 million in cash and stock to expand in the online real-estate market.	2	Business
Microsoft Software to Remove Spyware (AP) AP - Microsoft Corp. disclosed plans Thursday to offer frustrated users of its Windows software new tools within 30 days to remove spyware programs secretly running on computers. But it might cost extra in coming months.	3	Sci/Tech
AN AMAZIN #39; DAY What you realized very quickly yesterday was that this was not just the celebration of a marquee signing or pristine ace. What you realized was that the new face of the Mets arrived yesterday.	1	Sports
UNIT ABOUT TO LAND IN BRONX If LA #39;s Shawn Green waives a no-trade clause and agrees to land in Arizona and Johnson gives his OK to work in The Bronx, the Dodgers, Diamondbacks and Yankees will have put together a blockbuster	1	Sports
Controversy continues to follow Bryant Seldom has someone insisted on privacy more while behaving in ways that guaranteed him less. There are places we #39;re not supposed to go, but we #39;re continually being dragged	1	Sports
Lakers 115, Kings 99 When the Lakers were dismantled last summer, the Sacramento Kings thought their biggest rivalry was finished. Turns out Kobe Bryant and his new teammates are ready to start it up again.	1	Sports
Apple's IPod in Short Supply at Holidays (AP) AP - Retailers expected Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod music player to be a hot item this holiday season but are still struggling to keep up with demand.	3	Sci/Tech
Computer Users Sued for Swapping Music (AP) AP - Recording companies filed copyright infringement lawsuits against 754 computer users Thursday, the latest round of legal action in the industry's effort to squelch unauthorized swapping of music online.	3	Sci/Tech
Ill. Gov. Seeks Ban on Violent Video Games (AP) AP - Gov. Rod Blagojevich is proposing to make it a misdemeanor for businesses to sell violent and sexually explicit video games to minors, a step that other states have tried with little success.	3	Sci/Tech
Alabama Troopers Issue Electronic Tickets (AP) AP - Alabama state troopers are getting on the information highway. Fifty state trooper cars are already equipped with laptop computers, scanners and printers that allow them to issue traffic tickets electronically, and the goal is to have the equipment in all 325 patrol cars within two years, state Public Safety Director Mike Coppage said Thursday.	3	Sci/Tech
After Merger, Gradual Changes (washingtonpost.com) washingtonpost.com - Cell phone shoppers looking for new deals and features didn't find them yesterday, a day after Sprint Corp. and Nextel Communications Inc. announced a merger that the phone companies promised would shake up the wireless business.	3	Sci/Tech
Adobe Profit Up, Shares Fall on Outlook (Reuters) Reuters - Software maker Adobe Systems\Inc. on Thursday posted a quarterly profit that rose\more than one-third from a year ago, but shares fell 3 percent\after the maker of Photoshop and Acrobat software did not raise\forecasts for fiscal 2005.	3	Sci/Tech
Cassini Craft Spies Saturn Moon Dione (AP) AP - The Cassini spacecraft's close flyby of Saturn's mysterious moon Titan this week revealed clouds that will give clues to its weather, but the pass left scientists still puzzled about its surface.	3	Sci/Tech
Wash. Orcas Get Feds' 'Threatened' Status (AP) AP - Two years after denying Endangered Species Act protection to killer whales that live much of the year near Washington's San Juan Islands, the federal fisheries agency said Thursday it plans to list the struggling population as a threatened species.	3	Sci/Tech
EU Expects Turkey to Initial Deal on Cyprus Friday BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union expects Turkey to initial an accord on Friday giving Cyprus de facto recognition and sign it before Ankara opens EU membership talks on Oct. 3, 2005, a draft final summit statement said on Friday.	0	World
Los Alamos Laser to Be Launched to Mars (AP) AP - A laser developed by a Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist will be aboard the Mars Science Laboratory to be launched to the red planet in 2009.	3	Sci/Tech
Group Urges Doable Shuttle Repair Method (AP) AP - NASA needs to supply astronauts with a "reasonable, doable and practicable" way to plug space shuttle holes in orbit before resuming launches, an advisory group said Thursday.	3	Sci/Tech
Nikkei Surges to One-Month High TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei share average rose to its highest close in four weeks on Friday as hopes grew for a seasonal year-end rally.	2	Business
More Thumbnails Please \\Using images to denote context has been within UIs for year.\\When Internet Explorer ipmlemented support for favicons I was really impressed.\Gravatars provide images for users and even FOAF provides support for\associating an image with a profile.\\Rojo has a cool feature where we thumbnail blogs that don't provide images\within their RSS feed.\\Here are two examples:\\My question is why can't I have Linux show me a thumbnail for processes while\I'm switcing between them with Alt-Tab in KDE? \\OS X can do it! Windows XP can do it!\\	3	Sci/Tech
Nikkei Surges to Highest Close in 4 Weeks Japan #39;s Nikkei average surged to its highest close in four weeks on Friday as hopes for a seasonal year-end rally and the imminent inclusion of oil and gas developer INPEX Corp.	2	Business
Young counters O #39;Keefe, saying the culture at NASA hasn #39;t changed A day after outgoing NASA Administrator Sean O #39;Keefe said the space agency #39;s broken safety culture has vastly improved since the Columbia accident, legendary astronaut John Young begged to differ.	3	Sci/Tech
Marion Jones wants BALCO founder to take lie detector Continuing efforts to clear her name that includes a \$25 million lawsuit filed this week against Victor Conte, Olympic sprinter Marion Jones on Thursday challenged the Bay Area Laboratory	1	Sports
Johnson bound for Yankees: report CBC SPORTS ONLINE - The Arizona Diamondbacks, who made a big splash before and during baseball #39;s winter meetings, soon could be facing life without the Big Unit.	1	Sports
NBA Game Summary - LA Lakers at Sacramento Sacramento, CA (Sports Network) - Kobe Bryant tallied 31 points, 12 assists and six rebounds to lead the Los Angeles Lakers to a 115-99 victory over the Sacramento Kings at ARCO Arena.	1	Sports
Stanford wins, to play for title Long Beach -- Stanford will make its third appearance in the NCAA women #39;s volleyball final in four years after defeating Pacific-10 Conference #39;s champion Washington 3-1 Thursday night.	1	Sports
Colombia judges order arrests, but whereabouts of trio linked to <b>...</b> A court on Thursday convicted three IRA-linked men of training Colombian rebels in terrorist tactics and sentenced them to up to 17 1/2 years in prison.	0	World
Gaza Strip Mortar Attack Injures 11 Israeli Soldiers (Update3) A mortar attack on an Israeli military post in the southern Gaza Strip injured 11 soldiers, the Israel Defense Forces said. Israeli troops hours later raided the Khan Younis refugee camp, the Haaretz newspaper reported.	0	World
U.S. Army Aims to Halt Paperwork with IBM System SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - No more passing the buck.	3	Sci/Tech
Gradual Changes to Come for Sprint, Nextel Cell phone shoppers looking for new deals and features didn't find them Thursday, a day after the phone companies announced a merger that they promised would shake up the wireless business. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</b></font>	3	Sci/Tech
Settlement Includes Tight Controls for AOL America Online Inc.'s settlement with the Justice Department imposes a strict new set of controls on the company, including requirements that the Internet giant hire a corporate monitor and disclose serious wrongdoing discovered internally to the government. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</b></font>	3	Sci/Tech
Merger Activity Hits Record High Johnson Johnson's \$25.4 billion takeover of Guidant Corp. and the \$35 billion union of Sprint Corp. and Nextel Communications Inc. are leading the busiest quarter for mergers in more than four years. <br> <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</b></font>	3	Sci/Tech
BearingPoint Warns of Continued Turmoil, Acknowledges Subpoena BearingPoint Inc. disclosed more troubles yesterday, saying that it will take a restructuring charge of as much as \$67 million and may not be able to report that it has adequate procedures in place to prevent accounting fraud.	3	Sci/Tech
Russia to Hold YUKOS Auction MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Friday it would go ahead with an auction to sell the key asset of embattled oil company YUKOS <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=YUKO.MM target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">YUKO.MM</A> despite a U.S. bankruptcy court decision to block it for several days.	2	Business
Microsoft fixes 'critical' XP firewall issue Microsofthas quietly released an update to Windows XP to fix a potentially serious configuration problem in the firewall that ships as part of Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2).	3	Sci/Tech
Borland folding CBuilder into Delphi Borland Software in 2005 plans to fold its CBuilder developer tool line into the companys Delphi IDE tool family for Windows application development, thus answering the question about what the company had planned to do with the technology.	3	Sci/Tech
Legal questions dog Microsoft antispyware buy With the ink barely dry on Microsoft's acquisition of antispyware company Giant Company Software questions have arisen about the ownership of the antispyware code Microsoft bought.	3	Sci/Tech
P-to-P backers propose new distribution models WASHINGTON - A complete rewrite of the U.S. copyright system was just one proposal aired Thursday during a contentious series of panel discussions at a U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) workshop on peer-to-peer technology.	3	Sci/Tech
Multicore designs might force Intel off its bus As Intel moves in step with the rest of the chip industry toward the multicore design era, it is preparing to overhaul the memory bus architecture that has served it well for so many years, according to company executives and analysts.	3	Sci/Tech
RIAA files 754 new file-trading lawsuits The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has filed 754 new lawsuits against alleged file-traders using peer-to-peer services, the trade group announced Thursday.	3	Sci/Tech
HP drops Itanium development SAN FRANCISCO - Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) is getting out of the chip-making business. The Palo Alto, California, company on Thursday announced that it reached an agreement with Intel Corp. that would see HP's Itanium processor design team move to Intel in January. The agreement effectively puts an end to the last microprocessor development effort within the company.	3	Sci/Tech
W3C publishes Web architecture The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) this week published a final version of its Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume 1 document, looking to set forth codified principles for the Web itself.	3	Sci/Tech
More questions than answers in Symantec, Veritas deal Security company Symantec's acquisition of Veritas Softwarehas the potential to benefit customers and shareholders of both companies, but details of the \$13.5 billion deal leave some important questions unanswered, according to interviews with executives and industry experts.	3	Sci/Tech
Microsoft Fixes 'Critical' XP Firewall Issue Fix prevents users from sharing their files and printers with the entire Internet.	3	Sci/Tech
Symantec Will Buy Veritas Deal will merge antivirus vendor with maker of backup and archiving software.	3	Sci/Tech
Technology SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Retailers expected Apple Computer Inc. #39;s iPod music player to be a hot item this holiday season but are still struggling to keep up with demand.	2	Business
Russia to Hold YUKOS Auction (Reuters) Reuters - Russia said on Friday it would go ahead\with an auction to sell the key asset of embattled oil company\YUKOS despite a U.S. bankruptcy court decision to\block it for several days.	0	World
Gazpromneft Will Not Pull Out of Auction (AP) AP - The oil wing of Russia's state-controlled natural gas giant Gazprom does not intend to pull out of this weekend's auction of the main production unit of the embattled Yukos oil company, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported Friday.	0	World
Wenger puts ticking-off behind him Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has pledged to put his Football Association misconduct charge behind him and keep his side #39;s title challenge on track at Portsmouth on Sunday.	1	Sports
Feeling jilted, DC? We #39;ve been there, done that One minute, you feel as if you have won the lottery. The next, the bully down the street swiped your ticket. You have been conned, swindled, taken.	1	Sports
Montana keeps tradition going despite youth No players are pictured on the front or back covers of the Montana football media guide. Displayed instead are images of the two NCAA championship trophies the Grizzlies have won	1	Sports
AP: Colombia Troops Being Sought for Iraq (AP) AP - Recruiters working for U.S. contractors are hiring former Colombian soldiers #151; and luring away active-duty ones #151; for security jobs in Iraq, according to a former army officer who met with the recruiters.	0	World
Turkey Agonizes on Cyprus as Last EU Hurdle Turkey agonized over pressure to recognize Cyprus in the last hurdle to an historic agreement as EU leaders held a crucial summit on Thursday on opening membership talks with Ankara.	0	World
Hunters pursue killer great white stalking Australian death beach (AFP) AFP - A great white shark that killed a teenage surfer off the South Australian capital Adelaide will be hunted down and destroyed after it returned to stalk the city's beaches, authorities said.	0	World
Australian Party Leader to Join Hunger Strike (Reuters) Reuters - The leader of a small Australian\political party will begin a hunger strike on Saturday in\support of about 20 Iranian asylum seekers held at a rural\immigration detention center who have refused food for almost\two weeks.	0	World
Ask Jeeves Launches Desktop Search Ask Jeeves has launched a beta desktop search application, capping off a very busy year in the desktop search space.	3	Sci/Tech
States #39; Pocketbooks Are Fuller, but Health Costs Stall Recovery The fiscal condition of the states improved this year, but soaring health costs have made it difficult for them to recover from the worst fiscal crisis in six decades, the National Governors Association said Thursday.	2	Business
.mobi domain approved ICANN, the body that oversees the core functionality of the Internet and is responsible for regulating top level domains or TLDs (such as .	3	Sci/Tech
Pistons stop James and Cavaliers Get INQ7 breaking news on your Smart mobile phone in the Philippines. Send INQ7 BREAKING to 386. AUBURN HILLS, Michigan, United States of America -- National Basketball Association champions Detroit held LeBron	1	Sports
Greg Paulus named Gatorade National Player of the Year Despite heading to Duke to play basketball, Greg Paulus of Christian Brothers Academy is the 2004 Gatorade National Football Player of the Year.	1	Sports
Website audiotape believed bin Laden CAIRO, EGYPT -- A man identified as Osama bin Laden, speaking on an audiotape posted on an Islamic website yesterday, praised the men who attacked a US consulate in Jidda, Saudi Arabia, earlier this month and called on militants to stop the flow of oil to	0	World
Australians vow to destroy #39;killer shark #39; Sydney - Australian police and wildlife officers were ordered on Friday to destroy a large shark which killed a teenage surfer in a savage attack as his horrified schoolfriends looked on.	0	World
Russia to Hold YUKOS Auction MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Friday it would go ahead with an auction to sell the key asset of embattled oil company YUKOS despite a U.S. bankruptcy court decision to block it for several days.	2	Business
Historic buildings to be sold Boston Wharf offered \$97m Boston Wharf Co. today is set to sell about half of its remaining portfolio of historic brick buildings in the Fort Point Channel area to Berkeley Investments Inc. for \$97 million, Berkeley executives said yesterday.	2	Business
Boston sampler Citizens Energy boss Joe Kennedy, like his famous uncle Ted, opposes the huge wind farm proposal in Nantucket Sound, his backyard. But the "Call Joe-4-Oil" Kennedy is working hard to also become "Joe-4-Wind" elsewhere.	2	Business
IPod demand white-hot Many holiday shoppers are struggling to find one of the most explosively popular gifts in years: Apple's iPod digital music player that stores 5,000 songs in a device no bigger than a deck of cards.	2	Business
Gillette hopes to create a buzz with vibrating women's razor Gillette Co. yesterday unveiled its newest razor -- one that promises to make a buzz in women's shaving.	2	Business
Symantec to acquire Veritas Computer security giant Symantec Corp. is buying storage and backup program specialist Veritas Software Corp. to create the world's fourth-largest software maker, marking the latest merger in an industry trend that's expected to compress the competition to a few juggernauts.	2	Business
Board rules options be counted as expenses The nation's accounting rule maker decided yesterday that companies will have to begin deducting the value of stock options from their profits next year, reining in a cheap way to compensate workers that had been abused by executives and clouded earnings.	2	Business
US deficit widens to \$164.7 billion The deficit in the broadest measure of trade climbed to a record high of \$164.7 billion in the third quarter of this year, reflecting Americans' hardy demand for imported oil and foreign-made goods.	2	Business
Banknorth-TD Bank merger gets backing Banknorth Group's largest shareholder, Private Capital Management, said it plans to vote in favor of the merger with Canada's TD Bank Financial Group after expressing reservations several months ago. The change increases the likelihood the merger will go through. Several of Banknorth's major shareholders had reservations because of the deal's structure. TD plans to acquire a majority stake in the ...	2	Business
Ex-Pennichuck CEO settles In an unusual settlement to a lengthy investigation of the former chief executive of one of New Hampshire's largest utilities, state and federal regulators yesterday said Pennichuck Corp. will make a special payment of \$280,000 to its shareholders.	2	Business
The Dollar Extends Gains TOKYO (Reuters) - The dollar extended gains on Friday after a positive batch of U.S. economic data prompted speculators to buy the currency before trade trickles down during the year-end holiday season.	2	Business
Harvard cardiologist a key player in Guidant deal Beverly H. Lorell took a leave from her academic job last year to become chief medical and technology officer for Guidant Corp. The post puts her at the center	2	Business
Board rules options be counted as expenses The nation #39;s accounting rule maker decided yesterday that companies will have to begin deducting the value of stock options from their profits next year, reining	2	Business
Braves sign Smoltz to 2-year deal CBC SPORTS ONLINE - John Smoltz will open Spring Training 2005 in the Atlanta Braves #39; rotation and armed with a new contract. General manager John Schuerholz spent a busy Thursday coming to terms on a two-year pact with his former closer.	1	Sports
NBA: LA Lakers 115, Sacramento 99 Kobe Bryant made all six of his field-goal attempts in a big third quarter Thursday night as the Los Angeles Lakers rolled past Sacramento, 115-99.	1	Sports
Dravid, Gambhir blast Bangladeshi bowlers Gautam Gambhir scored a half century in his second consecutive innings after India suffered an early setback on the first day of the second and final cricket Test against Bangladesh at Chittagong today.	1	Sports
Stanford stops Huskies LONG BEACH, Calif. -- The University of Washington #39;s magical volleyball season unraveled long before it ended with Oganna Nnamani #39;s strong, graceful swing slamming a ball to the floor to give Stanford the	1	Sports
SADDAM MEETS HIS LAWYER December 17, 2004 -- AMMAN, Jordan - Saddam Hussein met yesterday with a defense lawyer for the first time since his capture a year ago, said the chief of the tyrant #39;s legal team.	0	World
Eurotunel plans to reduce its freight shuttle service (AFP) AFP - Eurotunnel, the French-British group that operates rail traffic under the Channel linking France and Britain, plans to reduce its freight shuttle service by 15 percent from January 1, the company said in a statement.	0	World
Growth was key to J amp;J, Guidant deal Guidant Corp. #39;s 10-year run as one of Indiana #39;s most successful public companies will end with a \$25 billion sale to health products giant Johnson amp; Johnson.	2	Business

Guard Reports Serious Drop in Enlistment The Army National Guard has failed for two months to meet its recruiting quotas, falling about 30 percent below its overall target.

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Colombia Won't Extradite Top Warlord President Alvaro Uribe pledged Thursday not to extradite the country's top right-wing paramilitary leader to the United States to face drug trafficking charges provided he ceases all illegal activities and stays in peace talks.

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Nikkei Surges to Highest Close in 4 Weeks TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei average surged to its highest close in four weeks on Friday as hopes for a seasonal year-end rally and the imminent inclusion of oil and gas developer INPEX Corp. into the TOPIX index spurred buying in a wide range of stocks.

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Houston court rules on suspending sale of Yukos subsidiary Russia #39;s oil giant Yukos requested to block the auctioning off of its main production unit Yuganskneftegaz in Moscow on Sunday.

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Cell phones in the air: Convenience or curse? Just when air travel seems to have become our national gripe, along comes a possibility to make us appreciate flight as we now know it: A cabin full of people talking, loudly and simultaneously, on their cell phones.

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SEC Orders Fannie Mae to Restate Securities and Exchange Commission chief accountant Donald Nicolaisen has requested that the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) restate its financials from 2001 through mid-2004 to eliminate the use of hedge accounting.

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eBay buys Rent.com for \$415 million eBay announced late Thursday that it had acquired the apartment rental service Rent.com for \$415 million, the latest move in its expansion beyond Internet auctions.

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Carey #39;s Career-High Carries Longhorns DENTON, Texas -- Texas coach Jody Conradt told Jamie Carey to shoot more, and it worked out very well. Carey scored a career-high 30 points to lead the fourth-ranked Longhorns to a 79-54 victory Thursday night over North Texas.

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For These Quarterbacks, The Smaller the Better The starting quarterbacks in tonight #39;s NCAA Division I-AA football championship at Finley Stadium in Chattanooga thought they would be playing for a trophy on a much bigger stage.

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Mary Hardin-Baylor, continuing rapid rise, poised to win first ... Make no mistake. The players and coaches on the Mary Hardin-Baylor football team are making every effort to win Saturday #39;s NCAA Division III championship game in Salem, Va.

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Saddam has first meeting with his lawyer Preparations to put Saddam Hussein on trial intensified on Thursday with a first meeting between the ousted Iraqi president and a member of the defence team appointed by his family.

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EU Expects Turkey to Initial Deal on Cyprus Friday BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union expects Turkey to initial an accord Friday giving Cyprus de facto recognition and sign it before Ankara opens EU membership talks on Oct. 3, 2005, a draft summit statement said Friday.

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Euthanasia seeker dies in India A terminally-ill Indian chess champion who has been the focus of a euthanasia debate, dies in hospital.

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Irish trio 'have fled Colombia' Three Irishmen convicted of training rebels in Colombia have fled the country, its attorney general tells Reuters.

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Agreement offers flexibility and cash to bankrupt airline SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- ATA Holdings, the bankrupt parent of ATA Airlines, took a key step Thursday toward salvaging more of its struggling operations.

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No. 6 Stanford Advances To NCAA Championship With 3-1 Win Over ... Senior Ogonna Nnamani leads the team with 33 kills, 21 digs and five blocks on the night. Long Beach, Calif. - Senior outside hitter Ogonna Nnamani had 33 kills, 21 digs and five blocks to lead the sixth-ranked

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7 North Koreans take refugee at Japanese Embassy in North Korea BEIJING -- Seven men and women, apparently North Korean defectors, sought refugee at a Japanese school early Friday morning. Japanese diplomats in Beijing said that they were two men, four women and a girl.

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Property Fund Says to Hold YUKOS Auction (Reuters) Reuters - Russia's Federal Property Fund said on\Friday it intended to go ahead with an auction of oil major\YUKOS' main unit Yuganskneftegaz despite a U.S. court decision\to freeze the state-imposed sale.

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Property Fund Says to Hold YUKOS Auction MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Federal Property Fund said on Friday it intended to go ahead with an auction of oil major YUKOS' main unit Yuganskneftegaz despite a U.S. court decision to freeze the state-imposed sale.

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EBay to Buy Rent.com for \$415 Mln in Cash and Stock (Update2) EBay Inc., the world #39;s largest Web auctioneer, agreed to buy privately held Rent.com for \$415 million in cash and stock to expand in the online real-estate market.

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Microsoft Software to Remove Spyware (AP) AP - Microsoft Corp. disclosed plans Thursday to offer frustrated users of its Windows software new tools within 30 days to remove spyware programs secretly running on computers. But it might cost extra in coming months.

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AN AMAZIN #39; DAY What you realized very quickly yesterday was that this was not just the celebration of a marquee signing or pristine ace. What you realized was that the new face of the Mets arrived yesterday.

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UNIT ABOUT TO LAND IN BRONX If LA #39;s Shawn Green waives a no-trade clause and agrees to land in Arizona and Johnson gives his OK to work in The Bronx, the Dodgers, Diamondbacks and Yankees will have put together a blockbuster

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Controversy continues to follow Bryant Seldom has someone insisted on privacy more while behaving in ways that guaranteed him less. There are places we #39;re not supposed to go, but we #39;re continually being dragged

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Lakers 115, Kings 99 When the Lakers were dismantled last summer, the Sacramento Kings thought their biggest rivalry was finished. Turns out Kobe Bryant and his new teammates are ready to start it up again.

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Apple's IPod in Short Supply at Holidays (AP) AP - Retailers expected Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod music player to be a hot item this holiday season but are still struggling to keep up with demand.

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Computer Users Sued for Swapping Music (AP) AP - Recording companies filed copyright infringement lawsuits against 754 computer users Thursday, the latest round of legal action in the industry's effort to squelch unauthorized swapping of music online.

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Ill. Gov. Seeks Ban on Violent Video Games (AP) AP - Gov. Rod Blagojevich is proposing to make it a misdemeanor for businesses to sell violent and sexually explicit video games to minors, a step that other states have tried with little success.

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Alabama Troopers Issue Electronic Tickets (AP) AP - Alabama state troopers are getting on the information highway. Fifty state trooper cars are already equipped with laptop computers, scanners and printers that allow them to issue traffic tickets electronically, and the goal is to have the equipment in all 325 patrol cars within two years, state Public Safety Director Mike Coppage said Thursday.

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After Merger, Gradual Changes (washingtonpost.com) washingtonpost.com - Cell phone shoppers looking for new deals and features didn't find them yesterday, a day after Sprint Corp. and Nextel Communications Inc. announced a merger that the phone companies promised would shake up the wireless business.

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Adobe Profit Up, Shares Fall on Outlook (Reuters) Reuters - Software maker Adobe Systems\Inc. on Thursday posted a quarterly profit that rose\more than one-third from a year ago, but shares fell 3 percent\after the maker of Photoshop and Acrobat software did not raise\forecasts for fiscal 2005.

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Cassini Craft Spies Saturn Moon Dione (AP) AP - The Cassini spacecraft's close flyby of Saturn's mysterious moon Titan this week revealed clouds that will give clues to its weather, but the pass left scientists still puzzled about its surface.

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Wash. Orcas Get Feds' 'Threatened' Status (AP) AP - Two years after denying Endangered Species Act protection to killer whales that live much of the year near Washington's San Juan Islands, the federal fisheries agency said Thursday it plans to list the struggling population as a threatened species.

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EU Expects Turkey to Initial Deal on Cyprus Friday BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union expects Turkey to initial an accord on Friday giving Cyprus de facto recognition and sign it before Ankara opens EU membership talks on Oct. 3, 2005, a draft final summit statement said on Friday.

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Los Alamos Laser to Be Launched to Mars (AP) AP - A laser developed by a Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist will be aboard the Mars Science Laboratory to be launched to the red planet in 2009.

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Group Urges Doable Shuttle Repair Method (AP) AP - NASA needs to supply astronauts with a "reasonable, doable and practicable" way to plug space shuttle holes in orbit before resuming launches, an advisory group said Thursday.

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Nikkei Surges to One-Month High TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei share average rose to its highest close in four weeks on Friday as hopes grew for a seasonal year-end rally.

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More Thumbnails Please \\Using images to denote context has been within UIs for year.\\When Internet Explorer ipmlemented support for favicons I was really impressed.\Gravatars provide images for users and even FOAF provides support for\associating an image with a profile.\\Rojo has a cool feature where we thumbnail blogs that don't provide images\within their RSS feed.\\Here are two examples:\\My question is why can't I have Linux show me a thumbnail for processes while\I'm switcing between them with Alt-Tab in KDE? \\OS X can do it! Windows XP can do it!\\

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Nikkei Surges to Highest Close in 4 Weeks Japan #39;s Nikkei average surged to its highest close in four weeks on Friday as hopes for a seasonal year-end rally and the imminent inclusion of oil and gas developer INPEX Corp.

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Young counters O #39;Keefe, saying the culture at NASA hasn #39;t changed A day after outgoing NASA Administrator Sean O #39;Keefe said the space agency #39;s broken safety culture has vastly improved since the Columbia accident, legendary astronaut John Young begged to differ.

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Marion Jones wants BALCO founder to take lie detector Continuing efforts to clear her name that includes a \$25 million lawsuit filed this week against Victor Conte, Olympic sprinter Marion Jones on Thursday challenged the Bay Area Laboratory

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Johnson bound for Yankees: report CBC SPORTS ONLINE - The Arizona Diamondbacks, who made a big splash before and during baseball #39;s winter meetings, soon could be facing life without the Big Unit.

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NBA Game Summary - LA Lakers at Sacramento Sacramento, CA (Sports Network) - Kobe Bryant tallied 31 points, 12 assists and six rebounds to lead the Los Angeles Lakers to a 115-99 victory over the Sacramento Kings at ARCO Arena.

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Stanford wins, to play for title Long Beach -- Stanford will make its third appearance in the NCAA women #39;s volleyball final in four years after defeating Pacific-10 Conference #39;s champion Washington 3-1 Thursday night.

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Colombia judges order arrests, but whereabouts of trio linked to ... A court on Thursday convicted three IRA-linked men of training Colombian rebels in terrorist tactics and sentenced them to up to 17 1/2 years in prison.

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Gaza Strip Mortar Attack Injures 11 Israeli Soldiers (Update3) A mortar attack on an Israeli military post in the southern Gaza Strip injured 11 soldiers, the Israel Defense Forces said. Israeli troops hours later raided the Khan Younis refugee camp, the Haaretz newspaper reported.

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U.S. Army Aims to Halt Paperwork with IBM System SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - No more passing the buck.

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Gradual Changes to Come for Sprint, Nextel Cell phone shoppers looking for new deals and features didn't find them Thursday, a day after the phone companies announced a merger that they promised would shake up the wireless business. -The Washington Post

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Settlement Includes Tight Controls for AOL America Online Inc.'s settlement with the Justice Department imposes a strict new set of controls on the company, including requirements that the Internet giant hire a corporate monitor and disclose serious wrongdoing discovered internally to the government. -The Washington Post

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Merger Activity Hits Record High Johnson Johnson's \$25.4 billion takeover of Guidant Corp. and the \$35 billion union of Sprint Corp. and Nextel Communications Inc. are leading the busiest quarter for mergers in more than four years. -The Washington Post

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BearingPoint Warns of Continued Turmoil, Acknowledges Subpoena BearingPoint Inc. disclosed more troubles yesterday, saying that it will take a restructuring charge of as much as \$67 million and may not be able to report that it has adequate procedures in place to prevent accounting fraud.

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Russia to Hold YUKOS Auction MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Friday it would go ahead with an auction to sell the key asset of embattled oil company YUKOS <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=YUKO.MM target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">YUKO.MM</A> despite a U.S. bankruptcy court decision to block it for several days.

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Microsoft fixes 'critical' XP firewall issue Microsofthas quietly released an update to Windows XP to fix a potentially serious configuration problem in the firewall that ships as part of Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2).

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Borland folding CBuilder into Delphi Borland Software in 2005 plans to fold its CBuilder developer tool line into the companys Delphi IDE tool family for Windows application development, thus answering the question about what the company had planned to do with the technology.

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Legal questions dog Microsoft antispyware buy With the ink barely dry on Microsoft's acquisition of antispyware company Giant Company Software questions have arisen about the ownership of the antispyware code Microsoft bought.

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P-to-P backers propose new distribution models WASHINGTON - A complete rewrite of the U.S. copyright system was just one proposal aired Thursday during a contentious series of panel discussions at a U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) workshop on peer-to-peer technology.

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Multicore designs might force Intel off its bus As Intel moves in step with the rest of the chip industry toward the multicore design era, it is preparing to overhaul the memory bus architecture that has served it well for so many years, according to company executives and analysts.

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RIAA files 754 new file-trading lawsuits The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has filed 754 new lawsuits against alleged file-traders using peer-to-peer services, the trade group announced Thursday.

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HP drops Itanium development SAN FRANCISCO - Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) is getting out of the chip-making business. The Palo Alto, California, company on Thursday announced that it reached an agreement with Intel Corp. that would see HP's Itanium processor design team move to Intel in January. The agreement effectively puts an end to the last microprocessor development effort within the company.

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W3C publishes Web architecture The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) this week published a final version of its Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume 1 document, looking to set forth codified principles for the Web itself.

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More questions than answers in Symantec, Veritas deal Security company Symantec's acquisition of Veritas Softwarehas the potential to benefit customers and shareholders of both companies, but details of the \$13.5 billion deal leave some important questions unanswered, according to interviews with executives and industry experts.

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Microsoft Fixes 'Critical' XP Firewall Issue Fix prevents users from sharing their files and printers with the entire Internet.

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Symantec Will Buy Veritas Deal will merge antivirus vendor with maker of backup and archiving software.

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Technology SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Retailers expected Apple Computer Inc. #39;s iPod music player to be a hot item this holiday season but are still struggling to keep up with demand.

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Russia to Hold YUKOS Auction (Reuters) Reuters - Russia said on Friday it would go ahead\with an auction to sell the key asset of embattled oil company\YUKOS despite a U.S. bankruptcy court decision to\block it for several days.

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Gazpromneft Will Not Pull Out of Auction (AP) AP - The oil wing of Russia's state-controlled natural gas giant Gazprom does not intend to pull out of this weekend's auction of the main production unit of the embattled Yukos oil company, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported Friday.

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Wenger puts ticking-off behind him Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has pledged to put his Football Association misconduct charge behind him and keep his side #39;s title challenge on track at Portsmouth on Sunday.

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Feeling jilted, DC? We #39;ve been there, done that One minute, you feel as if you have won the lottery. The next, the bully down the street swiped your ticket. You have been conned, swindled, taken.

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Montana keeps tradition going despite youth No players are pictured on the front or back covers of the Montana football media guide. Displayed instead are images of the two NCAA championship trophies the Grizzlies have won

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AP: Colombia Troops Being Sought for Iraq (AP) AP - Recruiters working for U.S. contractors are hiring former Colombian soldiers #151; and luring away active-duty ones #151; for security jobs in Iraq, according to a former army officer who met with the recruiters.

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Turkey Agonizes on Cyprus as Last EU Hurdle Turkey agonized over pressure to recognize Cyprus in the last hurdle to an historic agreement as EU leaders held a crucial summit on Thursday on opening membership talks with Ankara.

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Hunters pursue killer great white stalking Australian death beach (AFP) AFP - A great white shark that killed a teenage surfer off the South Australian capital Adelaide will be hunted down and destroyed after it returned to stalk the city's beaches, authorities said.

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Australian Party Leader to Join Hunger Strike (Reuters) Reuters - The leader of a small Australian\political party will begin a hunger strike on Saturday in\support of about 20 Iranian asylum seekers held at a rural\immigration detention center who have refused food for almost\two weeks.

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Ask Jeeves Launches Desktop Search Ask Jeeves has launched a beta desktop search application, capping off a very busy year in the desktop search space.

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States #39; Pocketbooks Are Fuller, but Health Costs Stall Recovery The fiscal condition of the states improved this year, but soaring health costs have made it difficult for them to recover from the worst fiscal crisis in six decades, the National Governors Association said Thursday.

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.mobi domain approved ICANN, the body that oversees the core functionality of the Internet and is responsible for regulating top level domains or TLDs (such as .

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Pistons stop James and Cavaliers Get INQ7 breaking news on your Smart mobile phone in the Philippines. Send INQ7 BREAKING to 386. AUBURN HILLS, Michigan, United States of America -- National Basketball Association champions Detroit held LeBron

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Greg Paulus named Gatorade National Player of the Year Despite heading to Duke to play basketball, Greg Paulus of Christian Brothers Academy is the 2004 Gatorade National Football Player of the Year.

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Website audiotape believed bin Laden CAIRO, EGYPT -- A man identified as Osama bin Laden, speaking on an audiotape posted on an Islamic website yesterday, praised the men who attacked a US consulate in Jidda, Saudi Arabia, earlier this month and called on militants to stop the flow of oil to

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Australians vow to destroy #39;killer shark #39; Sydney - Australian police and wildlife officers were ordered on Friday to destroy a large shark which killed a teenage surfer in a savage attack as his horrified schoolfriends looked on.

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Russia to Hold YUKOS Auction MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Friday it would go ahead with an auction to sell the key asset of embattled oil company YUKOS despite a U.S. bankruptcy court decision to block it for several days.

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Historic buildings to be sold Boston Wharf offered \$97m Boston Wharf Co. today is set to sell about half of its remaining portfolio of historic brick buildings in the Fort Point Channel area to Berkeley Investments Inc. for \$97 million, Berkeley executives said yesterday.

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Boston sampler Citizens Energy boss Joe Kennedy, like his famous uncle Ted, opposes the huge wind farm proposal in Nantucket Sound, his backyard. But the "Call Joe-4-Oil" Kennedy is working hard to also become "Joe-4-Wind" elsewhere.

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IPod demand white-hot Many holiday shoppers are struggling to find one of the most explosively popular gifts in years: Apple's iPod digital music player that stores 5,000 songs in a device no bigger than a deck of cards.

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Gillette hopes to create a buzz with vibrating women's razor Gillette Co. yesterday unveiled its newest razor -- one that promises to make a buzz in women's shaving.

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Symantec to acquire Veritas Computer security giant Symantec Corp. is buying storage and backup program specialist Veritas Software Corp. to create the world's fourth-largest software maker, marking the latest merger in an industry trend that's expected to compress the competition to a few juggernauts.

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Board rules options be counted as expenses The nation's accounting rule maker decided yesterday that companies will have to begin deducting the value of stock options from their profits next year, reining in a cheap way to compensate workers that had been abused by executives and clouded earnings.

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US deficit widens to \$164.7 billion The deficit in the broadest measure of trade climbed to a record high of \$164.7 billion in the third quarter of this year, reflecting Americans' hardy demand for imported oil and foreign-made goods.

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Banknorth-TD Bank merger gets backing Banknorth Group's largest shareholder, Private Capital Management, said it plans to vote in favor of the merger with Canada's TD Bank Financial Group after expressing reservations several months ago. The change increases the likelihood the merger will go through. Several of Banknorth's major shareholders had reservations because of the deal's structure. TD plans to acquire a majority stake in the ...

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Ex-Pennichuck CEO settles In an unusual settlement to a lengthy investigation of the former chief executive of one of New Hampshire's largest utilities, state and federal regulators yesterday said Pennichuck Corp. will make a special payment of \$280,000 to its shareholders.

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The Dollar Extends Gains TOKYO (Reuters) - The dollar extended gains on Friday after a positive batch of U.S. economic data prompted speculators to buy the currency before trade trickles down during the year-end holiday season.

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Harvard cardiologist a key player in Guidant deal Beverly H. Lorell took a leave from her academic job last year to become chief medical and technology officer for Guidant Corp. The post puts her at the center

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Board rules options be counted as expenses The nation #39;s accounting rule maker decided yesterday that companies will have to begin deducting the value of stock options from their profits next year, reining

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Braves sign Smoltz to 2-year deal CBC SPORTS ONLINE - John Smoltz will open Spring Training 2005 in the Atlanta Braves #39; rotation and armed with a new contract. General manager John Schuerholz spent a busy Thursday coming to terms on a two-year pact with his former closer.

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NBA: LA Lakers 115, Sacramento 99 Kobe Bryant made all six of his field-goal attempts in a big third quarter Thursday night as the Los Angeles Lakers rolled past Sacramento, 115-99.

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Dravid, Gambhir blast Bangladeshi bowlers Gautam Gambhir scored a half century in his second consecutive innings after India suffered an early setback on the first day of the second and final cricket Test against Bangladesh at Chittagong today.

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Stanford stops Huskies LONG BEACH, Calif. -- The University of Washington #39;s magical volleyball season unraveled long before it ended with Oganna Nnamani #39;s strong, graceful swing slamming a ball to the floor to give Stanford the

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SADDAM MEETS HIS LAWYER December 17, 2004 -- AMMAN, Jordan - Saddam Hussein met yesterday with a defense lawyer for the first time since his capture a year ago, said the chief of the tyrant #39;s legal team.

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Eurotunel plans to reduce its freight shuttle service (AFP) AFP - Eurotunnel, the French-British group that operates rail traffic under the Channel linking France and Britain, plans to reduce its freight shuttle service by 15 percent from January 1, the company said in a statement.

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Growth was key to J amp;J, Guidant deal Guidant Corp. #39;s 10-year run as one of Indiana #39;s most successful public companies will end with a \$25 billion sale to health products giant Johnson amp; Johnson.

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