 Reuters - The U.S. government on Sunday seized
control of mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie
Mac in an aggressive move to help the distressed U.S. housing
market and economy.
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 Reuters - Dangerous Hurricane Ike roared toward
Cuba with 135 mph (215 kph) winds on Sunday and was expected to
sweep into the Gulf of Mexico where it could threaten the U.S.
oil patch and possibly New Orleans.
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 AFP - Some 5,000 years ago, on a day with weather much like today's, a prehistoric person tread high up in what is now the Swiss Alps, wearing goat leather pants, leather shoes and armed with a bow and arrows.
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Reuters - Cindy McCain or Michelle Obama for the
White House?
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 Reuters - Pakistan's new president, Asif Ali
Zardari, must dispel the perception he is an artful politician
and urgently address a deteriorating economy and worsening
militant violence, newspapers said on Sunday.
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 Reuters - Boeing Co's
27,000-strong machinists' union walked off the job on Saturday
after the plane maker failed to improve its contract offer
following two days of emergency talks.
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 Reuters - Republican nominee John
McCain said in an interview aired on Sunday he would bring
Democrats into his Cabinet and administration as part of his
attempt to change the political atmosphere in Washington.
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U.S. News & World Report - ST. PAUL--Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's prime time acceptance speech last night "clearly improved" her standing among women who participated in two focus groups in Nevada after the speech, according to Democratic pollsters at Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research.
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Reuters - Europeans do not get to vote in
the November U.S. presidential election, but many wish they
did, and their foreign ministers decided that they would at
least take a gamble behind closed doors.
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U.S. News & World Report - The
abundance of new research on how teenage brains work, aside from being
cool for its own sake--teen brains are developing madly, pruning
synapses and insulating neurons to build a lean computing machine--is
fueling a new movement to help kids make the most of the brain they've
got. Think of it as a user's manual for a machine that's still being
wired.
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AFP - Russian archaeologists said Wednesday they had found the long-lost capital of the Khazar kingdom in southern Russia, a breakthrough for research on the ancient Jewish state.
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