| MILESTONES |
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World's
Oldest Woman Celebrates
115th Birthday
She enjoys "every
minute of it." |
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| BUSINESS |
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Talk of Downturn Leads to
Upturn
But optimism quickly turns to pessimism. |
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Amazon Reports First
Quarterly Profit
Amazon Rainforest reports 1,012th
consecutive quarterly loss. |
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| ENTERTAINMENT |
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Record Company Pays Mariah
Carey $28 Million to End Her Contract
Tops by $3 million reward for finding bin
Laden. |
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Limp Bizkit Holding Open
Auditions for New Guitarist
Looking for an unusually bad speller. |
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| After
Cochlear Implant, Rush
Limbaugh Can Hear Himself
Again
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| Still can't hear anyone
else, "But so
what?" he adds. |
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| SCIENCE |
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Cosmologists Speculate There
May Be Infinite Number of
Alternate Universes
Ours probably one of the alternates. |
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Breakthrough: Atom-Sized
Computers That Fit on the
Head of a Pin
New devices could revolutionize sewing
industry. |
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| KNOW
YOUR WORLD |
| IN
A NUTSHELL: COLOMBIA |
| Years of civil war:
38 |
| U.S. military aid to Gov't:
$1.6
billion |
Gov't ties to death
squads on State
Dept. terrorist
list: yes |
| Odds of winning drug
war:
same as ever |
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| CORRECTION |
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Last week, we referred to the
"cozy relationship" between the
Bush Administration and Enron President
Kenneth Lay as "incestuous,
sinister, and criminal." In fact,
Kenneth Lay was the CEO of Enron. We
apologize for any confusion this may have
caused. |
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