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Join the army
Sunday, September 02, 2007 news.yahoo.com
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Foreign Affairs
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Willard McCormick decided that life at the horse farm was boring. Military service beckoned when the Army dangled its new, $20,000 recruiting bonus the decision got a lot easier."I wasn't going to go right away, but I heard about the bonus and decided to jump on it," McCormick, 19, stated after signing up.
The new bonus comes with a "Quick Ship" provision that cuts the average 40-day wait time
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Arnold Chase occupies Avon Mountain
Sunday, September 02, 2007 news.yahoo.com
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It has the two-levels, 33,500-square-foot basement complex, complete with a 103-seat movie theater, ticket booth, concession stand, game room and music annex, that will make it New England's largest occupied single-family home. At nearly 50,900 square feet, the Chase home will be larger than billionaire Bill Gates' home in Washington, about 4,000 square feet smaller than the White House and 20 t
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Chupacabra
Sunday, September 02, 2007 news.yahoo.com
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Foreign Affairs
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She was an African resident for four years.Phylis Canion has been a hunter all her life and has the mounted heads of a zebra and other exotic animals in her house. But the roadkill she found last month outside her ranch in Texas was new to her, it was worth putting in a freezer hidden from curious onlookers: Canion believes she may have the head of the mythical, bloodsucking chupacabra.It is one u
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SA Prez vs Archbishop
Sunday, September 02, 2007 news.yahoo.com
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Foreign Affairs
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SA president called critics of his health minister "wild animals" in support of a woman decried by AIDS activists for advocating beets and garlic as remedies for the disease.His defense of Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang was opposed to Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a Nobel laureate often regarded as the moral conscience of the nation. On Friday he stated that the Health Ministry "has presided
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David vs Goliath
Sunday, September 02, 2007 news.yahoo.com
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Sports - Soccer
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The scores: Appalachian State 34, No. 5 Michigan 32.In all probablity, most of the 110,000 fans at the Big House may had not known the exact location of the Appalachian State. By the time they saw a blocked field goal in final seconds, it was certain that the Mountaineers had pulled off one of the greatest coups in college football history.
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Filmy war
Sunday, September 02, 2007 news.yahoo.com
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Entertainment
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Two Oscar-winning films of director Paul Haggis' "In the Valley of Elah," starring Tommy Lee Jones and Charlize Theron, and director Brian de Plama "Redacted" focus on the horrors of war and provide a powerful commentary on how society is suffering. Brian De Palma says he wants to stop the war with his film by exposing a wider audience to images of horror that he says are not being delivered by
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Juanita Bynum's fairytale ends
Sunday, September 02, 2007 news.yahoo.com
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Religion
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"The very thing she's been preaching and proclaiming has now blown up in her own life," said Duke University theology professor J. Kameron Carter. "She becomes Exhibit A for her own message." Her example, of living one's life as an empowered Christian single woman turned spouse, now shifts to spouse turned survivor.She who is admired by thousands as a fiery evangelist who brooks no-nonsense and
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Interest rates likely to fall
Sunday, September 02, 2007 news.yahoo.com
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Business
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The Federal Reserve hasn't sliced a key interest rate — now at 5.25 percent — in four years.Where the Fed is headed, has invited much curiosity on the side. The gathering focused on housing, which has been in a deep slump.
Talk also turned to how Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is handling a global credit crunch that rocked Wall Street it raised new dangers to the country's economic health. A grow
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China's gigantic growth
Sunday, September 02, 2007 news.yahoo.com
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Foreign Affairs
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For the past thirty years Chinese peasants left their villages and lived in crowded dormitories and sweaty assembly lines, churning out cheap goods in bulk for world markets. Now, the tables are turned.For years, China's booming economy touched daily life in the West most visibly through the "made-in-China" label on everything from clothes to computers. Economic growth is now giving rise to — a s
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Miners feared dead
Sunday, September 02, 2007 news.yahoo.com
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Foreign Affairs
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A mountain shudder early on Aug. 6 left mine ribs to shattered. The search for the six men trapped has been given up."It's a hard thing. Some are coping with it better than others," said Colin King, the lawyer for families of the six miners who were trapped in the collapse four weeks ago . "They're still dealing with the fact they have to accept now that these miners are not going to be recovere
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