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Hugo Chavez Is 'Well' After His Latest Round Of Cancer Surgery
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is making steady progress after cancer surgery in Cuba and the respiratory infection he developed earlier in the week has been contained, aides said Thursday."He's...
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Your 'Cheap' Car Is Actually Safer Than That Ferrari You've Been Longing For
New crash tests replicating some of the most deadly head-on collisions show less expensive midsize cars do a better job protecting the driver and front seat occupants than many luxury and near luxury...
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Here's The Real Reason Why Obama Won The Election
For all the talk about Team Obama’s amazing campaign machine, it sure didn’t hurt that the economy turned in a pretty solid performance in the the third quarter.The Commerce Department has upwardly...
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There's A Smart Way And A Dumb Way To Cut The Federal Debt
At last check, President Obama is offering $1.3 trillion in revenue increases and $930 billion in spending cuts, not including saved interest expense, in his fiscal cliff negotiations with House...
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Why Boehner's 'Plan B' Doesn't Make Any Sense
I’ve been trying to figure out what House majority leader John Boehner is up to. He ably negotiated a plan with the President that of course has tax increases—once Obama won reelection, that was baked...
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Everything You Need To Know About The Mayan Apocalypse, By The Numbers
Many Americans are confident that the world isn't really going to cease to exist on Friday, Dec. 21, the day of the supposed Mayan apocalypse.Still, plenty of people around the world are taking...
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The Best And Worst Performances By The Same Actors In 2012
Remember when Sandra Bullock was feted as the year's Best Actress (an Oscar for "The Blind Side") and the Worst Actress (a Razzie for "All About Steve") of the year? Consistency is a tricky business...
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Congress Just Approved This Sweeping Defense Bill
The US Senate on Friday approved a $633 billion defense spending bill for next year that tightens penalties on Iran, funds the war in Afghanistan and boosts security at US missions worldwide.The...
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Britain's Government Is On The Brink Of Collapse
Sometimes prediction is easy. As 2011 bled into 2012, there was panic everywhere about the euro: It was doomed and it was going to take the global economy with it.It was easy for a calm, rational...
View Article5 Fastest Growing Startups of 2012
As our economy tries to pull itself out of the pains of recession, startups are coming to the rescue by creating jobs and offering innovative technologies and solutions.While thousands of entrepreneurs...
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The US Ambassador To Finland Sent This Unbelievable Christmas Card
There’s sending a Christmas card and then there’s sending a Christmas card. U.S. Ambassador to Finland Bruce Oreck knows how to send a Christmas card. Get a load of his holiday greeting:ABC News...
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Merriam-Webster Reveal The Words People Looked Up Most This Year
Political lexicon inundated more than just TV commercials and newspaper columns this election season. It also drove Americans to Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary, helping them make sense of the...
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Looks Like America's Religious Minorities Go For The Priciest Real Estate
America’s largest non-Christian religious minorities tend to live in bigger, more expensive metros.As a share of the total metro population, New York has the most Jews; Chicago and Detroit have the...
View ArticleThe EU Bailout Oligarchy Issues A Report About Itself
On Friday before Christmas when nobody was paying attention, when people were elbowing their way through department stores or heading out for vacation, the European Commission issued its report on bank...
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THE ECONOMIST: 9 Charts That Show Everything That Happened In 2012
FIVE years on from the start of the financial crisis, the global economy is enduring a feeble convalescence. The euro zone’s debt crisis became less acute in 2012, thanks largely to the promise by...
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El-Erian: Ugh, Recession Is Now More Likely
Here is a simple way to think about the political calculus of Washington's latest twists and turns. And — unfortunately — it suggests that economic and market dislocations may be needed to get our...
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Charity Gives Poor Kenyan Families $1000 — No Strings Attached
Every holiday season, the vast majority of America's charitable dollars are donated to local religious and educational institutions, or to particular causes, like protecting endangered species or...
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A Surprising Winner Arose From The Instagram-Twitter Spat
BABBAGE'S inbox was swamped one recent morning with hundreds of e-mail notifications. Various friends and acquaintances wanted to add him as a contact on Flickr, a photo-sharing service which once set...
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Obama Calls For A Scaled-Back Deal To Avoid The 'Cliff'
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has throttled back his ambitions for a sweeping budget bargain with Republicans. Instead, he's calling for a scaled-back measure sufficient to prevent the...
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Hamid Karzai Says Americans Made Afghanistan One Of The Most Corrupt...
President Hamid Karzai on Saturday blamed foreigners for most of the corruption in Afghanistan and said the withdrawal of NATO troops in 2014 would help rid the country of graft.More than 11 years...
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