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Kōhei Uchimura is a Japanese artistic gymnast. He is a two-time Olympic silver medalist (all around and team) and a nine-time World medalist (all around, team, floor, high bar, and parallel bars). He is famous for winning three consecutive world all around titles (2009, 2010 and 2011) and for delivering difficult and accurately executed routines. His gymnastics skills [...]

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SWIMMER STATS NAME: RYAN LOCHTE DOB: AUGUST 3, 1984 HOMETOWN: DAYTONA BEACH, FLA. BIRTHPLACE: ROCHESTER, N.Y. CAREER HIGHLIGHTS Won five gold medals at 2011 FINA World Championsihps (800m FR-R; 200m FR; 200m BK; 400m IM; 200m IM (WR)) and became first swimmer to set a world record since the banning of polyurethane suits … Finished third in the 100m [...]

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May 25, 2012        12:17 p.m. It’s not looking good for the Spanish banking system. Standard & Poor’s just slashed the credit ratings of five banks and said the country is headed into a double-dip recession. One of them, Bankia, just asked the government for 19 billion euros in aid – a roughly [...]

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May 24, 2012 The president of the Vatican bank was effectively ousted Thursday after receiving a unanimous vote of no-confidence from bank overseers for having leaked documents and failed to do his job at a critical time in the Holy See’s efforts to show transparency in its finances, the Vatican and officials said. Ettore Gotti [...]

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May 24, 2012           7:19 AM ET A sports-gambling site has begun taking bets on potential outcomes of the Quebec student strike – and the array of betting scenarios ranges from funny to frightening. The site sets odds for when the strike will end; whether there will be a referendum on [...]

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May 20, 2012          9:45 am At age 4, Serra Crawford was doing second-grade multiplication and essentially reading at an adult level. By 6, she advanced to algebra and trigonometry. A year or two later, she was writing books about an osprey that flew around the world, her mom recalled. Serra was [...]

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Sunday May 20, 2012 I’ll Have Another poked his head out of his stall, started nibbling on his nameplate tacked to a wall and looked up at all the people watching his every move. Yes, I’ll Have Another came out of his thrilling Preakness victory over Bodemeister in “super shape,” trainer Doug O’Neill said Sunday, [...]

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May 14, 2012, 1:43 p.m. SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday released his plan to contain California’s rapidly growing deficit by closing state offices one day a week, deepening healthcare cuts and implementing a variety of short-term fixes — all in the hope that voters give the state more breathing room by approving higher taxes in November. [...]

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May 11, 2012 Social Democrat Peer Steinbrueck’s hopes of going head to head with Angela Merkel next year for the top job in German politics got a boost on Friday when the feisty ex-finance minister won the endorsement of former Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder. Steinbrueck, 65, is one of three senior lawmakers vying to lead the [...]

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May 10, 2012        4:52 am It’s being called ‘Starmageddon,’ and President Obama’s fundraiser at George Clooney’s home tonight is likely to cause some local traffic problems. Officials warn Obama’s visit to the San Fernando Valley will probably snarl rush-hour traffic in and around Studio City. Obama will be attending a dinner fundraiser at Clooney’s [...]

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May 9, 2012        6:03 p.m. President Obama’s decision to endorse same-sex marriage staked out a stance that carries uncertain political risks but one he said was rooted in the biblical admonition “to treat others the way you would want to be treated.” Obama’s endorsement Wednesday, a milestone for the gay rights movement, was the first [...]

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Monday May 7, 2012 A 25-year-old aspiring architect was killed late Sunday when she was crossing a San Francisco street with an armful of groceries and was hit by a pickup truck. Suzanne Monaco of San Francisco was walking west across Masonic Avenue near Euclid Avenue in the Laurel Heights neighborhood around 5:20 p.m. when [...]

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May 6, 2012        6:01 pm Mexico’s four candidates for president will square off tonight in a tightly controlled debate in which they will make their case to voters to lead Mexico for the next six years as the country struggles against soaring drug-related violence and economic doldrums. The debate begins at 8 p.m. [...]

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May 5, 2012        11:01PM Besides Churchill Downs and Louisville Slugger baseball bats, this old Ohio River town’s main claim to fame has been the whiskey industry. It’s the kind of place where there’s virtually a bar on every corner in the blue-collar neighborhoods. The great sportswriter Jim Murray once described Louisville as [...]

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May 5, 2012        12:04 PM ET Quebec’s four student groups, leading the fight against proposed university tuition fee hikes, are continuing negotations in Quebec City today with Education Minister Line Beauchamp and the head of the Treasury Board, Michelle Courchesne. The talks began Friday and continued into the night after the latest [...]

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May 3, 2012         2:45 PM ET European Central Bank officials voted Thursday to hold interest rates steady, even as the euro area economy slides towards recession. But ECB president Mario Draghi appeared to hint that there could be rate cuts in the future. In a widely expected move, the ECB left [...]

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May 2, 2012 8:53 A.M. In the last issue of National Review, I discussed a fascinating new paper that indicated that policy uncertainty dramatically reduced GDP and employment growth over the last few years. The article (which was written before last week’s disappointing GDP-data release) suggested that the coming Taxmageddon could be the mother of all uncertainty events, and that [...]

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JESSICA SANCHEZ was born on August 4th, 1995 according to http://americanidol11.wordpress.com/ August 4th, 1995 8 + 4 +1+9+9+5 = 36 = her life lesson = Having her work cut out for her. ————————————————————————————- August 4th, 1995 August 4th 8 + 4 +2+0+1+1 = 16 = her personal year (from August 4th, 2011 to August 3rd, 2012) = Shocks. [...]

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12:39 PM ET       04/23/2012 Federal prosecutors and defense lawyers Monday picked a jury of 10 women and 6 men to decide the fate of baseball star Roger Clemens, who is on trial this week on charges that he lied to Congress when he denied using performance-enhancing drugs. After five days of jury selection, the [...]

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numerology for Utoya victims Trond Berntsen, Johannes Buo, Gunnar Linaker, Monica Bosei, Tore Eikeland, Hanne Kristine Fridtun, Emil Okkenhaug, Ismail Haji Ahmed, Torjus Blattmann, Simon Saebo, Snorre Haller, Marianne Sandvik, Havard Vederhus, Jamil Rafal Yasin, Syvert Knudsen, Tarald Mjelde, Sondre Dale, Andrine Bakkene Espeland, Guro Vartdal Havoll, Aleksander Aas Eriksen, and Christopher Perreau

2:38pm UK, Tuesday July 26, 2011 Details have begun to emerge of some of the 68 victims who were killed by Anders Breivik during his shooting spree on the Norwegian Island of Utoya. The names of the dead were revealed as an estimated 150,000 people gathered to mourn them and the eight others who died [...]

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