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Docs give life to 7-month-old
Seeded on Sun Dec 23, 2007 9:21 PM EST (Times of India)
KOLKATA: City doctors added another feather to their cap when they operated on a seven-month-old baby to give him a second life. In a rare surgery, doctors restored the baby's liver that was growing inside his chest, making it difficult for him to breathe.
Unpaid Credit Cards Bedevil Americans
Sun Dec 23, 2007 2:33 PM EST
Americans are falling behind on their credit card payments at an alarming rate, sending delinquencies and defaults surging by double-digit percentages in the last year and prompting warnings of worse to come.
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Quads See Newborn Quads at Ohio Hospital
Fri Dec 21, 2007 5:23 PM EST
Newborn quadruplets and their parents got a send-off from the hospital from another family who's been there — a mother and her four quadruplet daughters born at the same hospital in 1990.
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Wisconsin phone number crunch eased
Seeded on Fri Dec 21, 2007 8:45 AM EST (madison.com)
People in Wisconsin's 715 and 920 telephone area codes will have a little more time before they have to worry about possibly changing their area code.
Hospital is scammed out of costly equipment
Seeded on Fri Dec 21, 2007 8:40 AM EST (madison.com)
A man who posed as a doctor and as a representative of a surgical equipment company is believed to have walked away from St.
Stewart, Colbert Returning to the Air
Thu Dec 20, 2007 5:48 PM EST
Politicians beware: Parody is returning. "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and "The Colbert Report" will resume production on Jan. 7 without their striking writers, the Comedy Central network announced Thursday.
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Fed Loans Banks $20 Billion
Wed Dec 19, 2007 10:02 AM EST
Cash-strapped banks took the Federal Reserve up on its offer of $20 billion in short-term loans to help them overcome credit problems, but the interest rate wasn't as low as some had hoped.
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Madison Cop a suspect in heroin evidence case
Seeded on Wed Dec 19, 2007 8:20 AM EST (madison.com)
Investigators believe Madison Police Detective Jeffery Hughes removed heroin from the department 's evidence room under questionable circumstances more than 10 times -- including on Nov. 20, the day he was seriously injured when he crashed his car near Edgerton while off-duty.
Madison cops avoid drug tests that others must take
Seeded on Tue Dec 18, 2007 3:51 PM EST (madison.com)
A former union president, Mahoney said testing is only done when there is a suspicion of drug or alcohol use, and that in the time since 1994 when he became involved with the union, no one has ever tested positive for drugs, though there have been instances of alcohol abuse.
Hard 'Hobbit' to Break: Jackson's In
Tue Dec 18, 2007 11:08 AM EST
Bilbo lives!
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A dirty Christmas play: The Night Before Christmas
Mon Dec 17, 2007 11:42 AM EST
Author's Note: I wrote this play for my Dramatic Lit class in college.
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Favre Becomes NFL's Passing Yards Leader
Sun Dec 16, 2007 3:33 PM EST
Brett Favre became the NFL career leader in yards passing Sunday, overtaking Dan Marino for his latest achievement in a milestone season.
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Chip-Shrinking May Be Nearing Its Limits
Sat Dec 15, 2007 12:18 PM EST
Sixty years after transistors were invented and nearly five decades since they were first integrated into silicon chips, the tiny on-off switches dubbed the "nerve cells" of the information age are starting to show their age.
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Hunting licenses lead to arrests for 19 felons
Seeded on Fri Dec 14, 2007 1:32 PM EST (madison.com)
Wisconsin authorities have used hunting licenses to arrest 19 felons for illegal gun possession.
Packers: Favre eyes 'Super' ending
Seeded on Thu Dec 13, 2007 8:25 AM EST (madison.com)
"Did I think this would happen?" Favre confessed Wednesday. "No."
My Belief (about our existence)
Tue Dec 11, 2007 4:32 PM EST
I think that we should base our beliefs on what we can see or feel or detect by scientifically established procedures (such as telescopy).
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'Avoid Death' Is Named Wackiest Label
Wed Dec 12, 2007 12:37 PM EST
A warning on a small tractor that reads "Danger: Avoid Death" has been chosen as the nation's wackiest warning label by an anti-lawsuit group.
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Man Finds Park's 1,000th Diamond of '07
Mon Dec 10, 2007 4:11 PM EST
Denis Tyrrell was walking past a hole he'd filled in while searching for gems at Crater of Diamonds State Park, when he saw a sparkle. The 3.48-carat diamond turned out to the biggest that diamond Tyrrell had found in regular digs that he began in March. The stone is also the 1,000th diamond found at the park this year, a mark last reached in 1994, park interpreter Kim Garland said Monday.
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Hear Voices? It May Be an Ad
Seeded on Mon Dec 10, 2007 2:17 PM EST (Advertising Age)
New Yorker Alison Wilson was walking down Prince Street in SoHo last week when she heard a woman's voice right in her ear asking, "Who's there? Who's there?" She looked around to find no one in her immediate surroundings. Then the voice said, "It's not your imagination."
Packers Beat Raiders to Clinch Division
Sun Dec 9, 2007 1:00 PM EST
The Green Bay Packers didn't need Brett Favre to throw the ball all over the field to clinch the NFC North on Sunday, relying on the running of Ryan Grant and a pair of special teams touchdowns from Will Blackmon in a 38-7 victory over the Oakland Raiders.
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Music Linked with Genes while Language, Traditions Change
Seeded on Mon Dec 10, 2007 11:24 AM EST (News at Nature)
A study of 39 African cultures has shown that their genetics are closely linked to the songs they sing.
'Twas a Christmas Poem Whodunit
Sat Dec 8, 2007 1:50 PM EST
Printed part way down page 3 of the Troy Sentinel on Dec. 23, 1823, it was easy to miss.
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A High Price for Healthy Food
Seeded on Thu Dec 6, 2007 10:13 AM EST (The New York Times)
Although people don't knowingly shop for calories per se, the data show that it's easier for low-income people to sustain themselves on junk food rather than fruits and vegetables, says the study's lead author Adam Drewnowski, director of the center for public health nutrit …
Colombia Proposes Hostage Talks
Fri Dec 7, 2007 12:06 PM EST
President Alvaro Uribe offered Friday to have government officials meet with unarmed leftist rebels in a rural area absent of government forces for talks aimed at freeing dozens of rebel-held hostages, including three Americans and a former presidential candidate.
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Coffee experiences in Colombia
Fri Dec 7, 2007 11:23 AM EST
We were only a couple blocks from the apartment we were staying in, but you could see the impending rain falling patchily in the mountainous Bogotá skyline.
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