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19:43 EST         27 May 2012 An Army officer commended for his bravery after twice cheating death while fighting in Afghanistan has been killed by a Taliban roadside bomb. Captain Stephen Healey, 29, of the 1st Battalion The Royal Welsh, was on patrol in the Nahr-e Saraj region of Helmand Province on [...]

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May 26, 2012 A lot has changed for the United States national team in the nearly three months since it beat powerful Italy, 1-0, in its last game. Enlarge This Image Victor Decolongon/Getty Images Until Saturday’s start against Scotland, Landon Donovan, right, had not played for the U.S. national team since September. Related U.S. 5, Scotland [...]

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Though it has yet to be determined who will represent the US in gymnastics, one thing is clear. The women have the type of depth that has other countries scrambling to equal. Jordyn Wieber, Alexandra Raisman, Gabby Douglas, McKayla Maroney, and Anna Li are the up-and-coming stars from the US camp. But don’t count out [...]

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Twenty-year-old Andrew Campbell has the international experience and the drive to take on the competition at the Olympics. The winner of the 2011 US Rowing Man of the Year, he is heading to Lucerne, Switzerland to compete in the men’s double sculls with teammate Will Daly. The duo must finish in the top three to [...]

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Born in Texas and raised in Hawaii, Bryan Clay is a staunch figure of physical athletic prowess and deserving of the title “World’s Greatest Athlete.” Since winning silver in the 2004 games, Clay has pushed forward with the gold in Beijing and the 2010 IIAF World Indoor Championships. Throughout his career, injuries have set him [...]

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May 23, 2012             6:18 PM ET Human Resources Minister Diane Finley is expected to put an end to speculation about the government’s planned changes to employment insurance when she holds a news conference Thursday morning. Officials from her department are holding a technical briefing ahead of her “important announcement” [...]

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May 23, 2012           12:44 AM ET The Canadian Pacific Railway strike means more than 2,000 non-striking unionized CP employees will be laid off, a spokesman for the company said Wednesday, as the federal labour minister said she may force an end to the work stoppage. “Unfortunately, with this unnecessary strike [...]

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May 20, 2012         11:03 am Members of Tibet’s government-in-exile urged those living and working around the Dalai Lama to remain on alert Sunday after the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader voiced concern that Chinese agents might be plotting to kill him. Ngodup Dongchung, security minister for the Tibetan exiles based in the Indian [...]

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20 May 2012          06:52 ET An earthquake in northern Italy has killed at least four people and caused serious damage to buildings in several towns, local officials say. The magnitude-six quake struck in the middle of the night, about 35km (22 miles) north of the city of Bologna. The four victims [...]

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May 16, 2012 Governor Walker’s Revised Employment Data in Context (To be updated on Thursday with the release of official BLS data.) Today, the Wisconsin DWD took the unusual — one might say unprecedented [1] [2] – step of announcing their estimates of what they call “actual job numbers” (see press release here). These are based on the unemployment [...]

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1653: GOAL     Manchester City 3-2 QPR – Sergio Aguero (90 mins) This is sheer madness. Sergio Aguero picks the ball up, runs through two men and thumps the ball in at the near post. An incredible finish. from:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18017513 ————————————————————————- Sergio Agüero was born on June 2nd, 1988 according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio_Aguero June 2nd, 1988 June 2nd 6 [...]

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May 11, 2012 Carroll Shelby, a Texas chicken farmer turned hot-rodder who went on to build innovative sports cars like the Cobra that challenged Europe’s longtime dominance of road racing, as well as high-performance versions of production cars like the Ford Mustang, died on Thursday in Dallas. He was 89. His death was announced by [...]

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May 10, 2012 In a loosely coordinated strategy, the EU’s top officials, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, have telephoned Greek party leaders in recent days to spell out that if Greece wants to stay in the euro it must abide by the terms of the EU/IMF bailout, [...]

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The flame for the London 2012 torch relay and Olympic Games has been lit during a ceremony in Olympia, Greece. It was kindled by actress Ino Menegaki, playing a high priestess, who caught the sun’s rays in a parabolic mirror. The flame went out briefly before being relit and transferred to the first torchbearer. The [...]

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May 9, 2012        5:58 p.m. The day begins around 7 a.m., at the back of the house, in a room outfitted with rows of fluorescent lights, a ping-pong table and little else. This is where Ariel Hsing comes to practice alone. She starts by crouching silently at one end of the table, [...]

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Tuesday March 13th, 2012 The Government Accountability Board announced Monday that just over 931,000 signatures had been submitted to recall GOP Gov. Scott Walker – well over the 540,208 valid signatures needed, but short of the more than 1 million signatures recall organizers had said they had turned in. It is the first time the [...]

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4 May 2012        13:33 ET Beastie Boys rapper Adam Yauch has died at the age of 47, Rolling Stone Magazine has reported. The star was diagnosed with cancer in 2009 but it is not clear whether his death was connected with the illness. Yauch had surgery and radiation therapy but said last year [...]

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04/25/2012         7:58 am It’s official: Beyonce has been named People‘s 2012 World’s Most Beautiful Woman. The new mom graces the cover of the magazine, looking as stunning as ever. The singer, who welcomed her first daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, with husband Jay-Z in January, opened up about motherhood in the special issue: “I feel more beautiful [...]

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Monday, April 23, 2012         8:55 AM EDT New Jersey state police are investigating allegations that members of the department used police vehicles to escort more than two dozen exotic cars down the Garden State Parkway to Atlantic City last month, NBC New York has learned. The complaints, leveled by private citizens [...]

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Jan 19, 2012      4:00 PM ET Canadian freestyle skier Sarah Burke died Thursday of cardiac arrest after sustaining serious injuries following a skiing accident on Tuesday, Jan. 10. Burke died at the age of 29 in hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah after tearing the artery that supplies blood to her brainstem during [...]

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