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Surprise rebound in housing, outlook still shaky
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 The Tribune San Luis Obispo 
Surprise rebound in housing, outlook still shaky
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER | AP Economics Writer | WASHINGTON -- | Construction of new homes posted the biggest increase in more than two years in April. While it was a rare spot of good news for the housin... (photo: WN / James)
Potomac River, looking downstream, at Hancock, Maryland
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 Business Journal 
D.C. budget does not include tourism marketing funds
> | D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty's $5.7 billion budget for 2009 -- which was approved Tuesday by the D.C. Council -- does not include funding to help lure visitors to the city. | Destination D.C., the city... (photo: Creative Commons / Aude )
1002 Area: Polar Bear sow and two cubs on the Beaufort Sea coast  Examiner 
Polar bear gets new protection
WASHINGTON (Map, News) - Put at risk by global warming, the polar bear is getting a life line as the government officially has declared it a threatened species in need of increased protection. But ano... (photo: Alaska Image Library)

Endangered   Globalwarming   Photos   Polarbear   Protection  
 Pediatric polysomnogram/aaeh  Examiner 
Bill could give federal oversight to private clinics for children and would require FDA inspections
Washington, D.C. (Map, News) - In a move that could have implications for D.C.’s troubled special education system, a panel of lawmakers Wednesday passed sweeping legislation that gives federal auth... (photo: creative commons)

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 Real Estate, property, industry, market, housing, industrial, devlopment, construction. tp1 Asbury Park Press
Housing "crisis" upside: Market is becoming more affordable
| Lewis Carroll, call your office. Or, better still, the author of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" should call Washington, where the government's determination to solv... (photo: WN/Theresa Poongan)
Finance   Housing   Market   Photos   Washington  
Plastic Baby Bottles The Boston Globe
FDA defends safety of baby bottle chemical
| WASHINGTON - The US Food and Drug Administration yesterday said that it sees no reason to tell consumers to stop using products such as baby bottles made with a controv... (photo: WN / Janice Sabnal)

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FDA Defends Safety of Baby Bottle Chemical
By Will Dunham | May 14, 2008 | FONT SIZE | Recent reports suggest that a chemical called bisphenol-A, or BPA, that is used to make a wide variety of plastic goods, inclu... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc)
Babybottle   Chemical   Health   Photos   Plastic  
Polar Bear Globe and Mail
Giant study pinpoints warming effects
| Human-generated climate change made flowers bloom sooner and autumn leaves fall later, turned some polar bears into cannibals and some birds into early breeders, a vast... (photo: Creative Commons / Edinburgh Blog)

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Baby Bottle Reuters
FDA defends safety of baby bottle chemical
Wed May 14, 2008 1:54pm ET | | By Will Dunham | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Wednesday said it sees no reason to tell consumers to... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc)
Bisphenol   Bottles   Chemical   Photos   Plastics  
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Landlines go dead as more users rely on cell phones
| WASHINGTON (AP) -- For nearly three in 10 households, don't even bother trying to call them on a landline phone. They either only have a cell phone or seldom if ever ta... (photo: Public Domain / Alanedwardes)
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Pakistani protesters shout slogans as they burn an effigy of U.S. President George Bush and country's President Pervez Musharraf during a rally to condemn an alleged U.S. missile attack in Pakistan's tribal area of Bajour which killed several people, in Multan, Pakistan on Friday, May 16, 2008. Pakistan protests killer missile strikeCNN
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks at his campaign rally at Memorial Hall in Racine, Wis., on Wednesday Feb. 13, 2008. (AP Photo/Journal Times, Mark Hertzberg) Obama blasts Bush, McCain over attacksCNN
Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., right, his wife his wife Cindy, center, and daughter Meghan watch the Blue Angels flyover during "Wings over Meridian" Air Show on the McCain field at the Meridian Naval Base Sunday, March 30, 2008 in Meridian, Miss. Democrats accuse McCain of hypocrisy on HamasExaminer
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FUEL - PETROLEUM - OIL - GASOLINE TRANSPORT TRUCK Oil prices retreat from last week's record close near US$126 a barrel The Star
PETRON - GASOLINE STATION - FUEL - PETROLEUM - OIL - KEROSENE - DIESEL Oil prices retreat from $126 a barrel record Houston Chronicle
GASOLINE STATION - FUEL - PETROLEUM - OIL Oil breaches $120, a new record-high The Manila Times
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CALTEX - FUEL - OIL - PETROLEUM - GASOLINE STATION Oil prices higher in Asian trade Turkish Press
Fruits and Vvegtables,K L, Malaysia . NY apples exported to Russia for first time The Boston Globe
cancer drugs Global market expected to drive cancer drug growth Chicago Tribune
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Baltimore Orioles Washington Nationals (18-24) at Baltimore Orioles (21-19), 7:05 p.m. The News & Observer
Ortiz throws Horse racing, prep softball, college baseball Toledo Blade
Knicks City Dancers Notebook: Seattle Prep assistant named boys basketball coach at Edmonds-Woodway Seattle Times
Business Economy
- Microsoft, One Laptop per Child nonprofit in deal
- Olympia safest midsize city, says survey
- D.C. Council and CFO debate Hoffman/ Struever Bros. subsidy
- YMCA of Metropolitan Washington gets $1M to fund obesity fig
- Wireless Lifestyle debuts first Sprint store in downtown St.
- Washington Post Co.'s longtime finance chief to retire
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., greets supporters as she makes a campaign stop at the Don Haskin Arena in El Paso, Texas, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2008 (tmg1)
Clinton's surge may be too late for anything but doubts
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- Surprise rebound in housing, outlook still shaky
- Treasury secretary says markets are calmer now
- Treasury secretary says markets are calmer now
- Surprise rebound in housing, outlook still shaky
- Bush asks Saudis to increase oil production
- Toward a new Washington Consensus
Surprise rebound in housing, outlook still shaky
Surprise rebound in housing, outlook still shaky
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Stock Market Trade & Industry
- Treasury secretary says markets are calmer now
- Feds will stop sending oil into reserves
- Treasury secretary says markets are calmer now
- WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury secretary describes financi
- Utility customers fear proposed sale
- Cheneys richer than Bushes, financial reports show
 US-TREASURY SECRETARY-HENRY PAULSON (BM5)
Treasury secretary says markets are calmer now
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- Experts: Hunger crisis demands better farming
- Dollar mixed before new economic reports
- Analysis: Good economic news something of a mirage
- WTO agriculture deal advances
- U.S. pressure on Europe to lift poultry ban threatens to bac
- Braves acquire Norton from Seattle
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Experts: Hunger crisis demands better farming
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- Surprise rebound in housing, outlook still shaky
- Seattle Genetics' lymphoma data are promising
- Housing "crisis" upside: Market is becoming more a
- Taxes catch up to online sales
- Corporate A-listers visit Microsoft
- Investment in feedback pays off
Surprise rebound in housing, outlook still shaky
Surprise rebound in housing, outlook still shaky
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- Interpol says no tampering on FARC laptops
- Analysis: Polar bear's impact on people is felt
- Republicans abandon Bush on food, energy issues
- McCain tries to ease nuclear-power worries
- Hezbollah's shots ring in Bush's ears
- Lawmakers want to end shipments to U.S. oil reserve
A Colombian soldier guards the area where the helicopter carrying OAS, Organization of American States, Secretary-General Jose Miguel Insulza, of Chile, will land to visit a coca field in El Azul, in the Putumayo state, near Colombia's southern border with Ecuador, Tuesday, March 11, 2008. Insulza heads an OAS commission that will investigate a Colombian cross-border military raid on a rebel camp that killed a top rebel leader in Ecuador and sparked a diplomatic crisi
Interpol says no tampering on FARC laptops
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