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Money-Market Rate for Euros Climbs to Seven-Week High (Kim-Mai Cutler)
(Bloomberg) -- The cost of borrowing in euros for three months rose to the highest level in seven weeks as the coordinated effort by central banks to revive lending falters.
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U.S. Mortgage Foreclosures Rise as Owners 'Give Up' (Kathleen M. Howley)
March 6 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. mortgage foreclosures rose to an all-time high at the end of 2007 as borrowers with adjustable-rate loans walked away from properties before their payments increased, the ...
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U.S. National Dragnet Is a Click Away (Robert O'Harrow Jr. and Ellen Nakashima)
Authorities to Gain Fast and Expansive Access to Records
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Top Iraq contractor skirts US taxes offshore (Farah Stockman)
Shell companies in Cayman Islands allow KBR to avoid Medicare, Social Security deductions
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Andean countries brush off UN recommendation to criminalize chewing of coca leaves (AP)
LIMA, Peru: Peru and Bolivia brushed off calls from a U.N.-affiliated drug watchdog to criminalize the chewing of coca leaves, a millennia-old tradition of indigenous populations in the Andes.
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More FBI Privacy Violations Confirmed (Laura Jakes Jordan)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI acknowledged Wednesday it improperly accessed Americans' telephone records, credit reports and Internet traffic in 2006, the fourth straight year of privacy abuses ...
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Mind-Reading Scanner Sees Images From Brain, May View Dreams (Tom Randall)
March 5 (Bloomberg) -- A new way to interpret brain signals accurately identified what people were seeing and may lead to machines that can read minds and reproduce dreams, according to scientists ...
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Cutting the Political Baby in Half (Mary Lyon)
Mary Lyon -- World News Trust -- Indiana Jones never served up a cliffhanger like this. I was SO looking forward to the Ohio/Texas/Vermont/Rhode Island results offering clarity and direction for the ...
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Rising Above Politics (Joe Bageant)
Can we quit talking and start walking? -- Joe Bageant -- World News Trust -- May 10, 2007 -- Well, lo and beshit! I never thought I’d ever see the day. But even in my hardcore Republican run ...
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Crusade Of Surge And Siege, Part 4: Into The Valley Of Catastrophe (Manuel Valenzuela)
Manuel Valenzuela -- World News Trust -- Barbarians At the Gates -- From the very beginning, the American crusade of surge and siege –- with much of it predating the invasions of Afghanistan and ...
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U.S. Economy: Service Industries Shrank Less Than Anticipated (Courtney Schlisserman)
March 5 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. service industries contracted less than forecast last month, easing concern about a prolonged slowdown in the world's largest economy.
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