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Nov 19, 2009
Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Suntech Power Holdings Co. and TrinaSolar Ltd. plan to increase production of solar power modulesnext year after third-quarter sales and profits beat analystestimates. The companies rose in U.S. trading.
Suntech Chief Executive Officer Zhengrong Shi intends toboost ...Read More
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U.S.|
Nov 14, 2009
He’d regularly used his bully pulpit to blast President Barack Obama for not publicly showing his birth certificate and recently asserted that threats against him had escalated to the point where someone shot at his house. He’d even made an ...Read More
The insertion of John King to replace veteran anchor Lou Dobbs cements a long-term CNN strategy to toe the center line.
King, a CNN newscaster and reporter for 12 years, will take over for Dobbs early next year with a 7 ...Read More
Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- A suspected suicide bomber struck apolice post in Pakistan’s northwestern Peshawar city, killing atleast four people in the second attack there in two days.
Three people were wounded in the bombing, police officerSaheb Zada said in a ...Read More
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World|
Nov 6, 2009
SANTIAGO, Nov. 6 (Xinhua) -- Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said on Friday that the dialogue with the de facto government of his country has finished, after the de facto leader Roberto Micheletti announced that he will lead the Government ...Read More
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Nov 4, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO Cisco Systems, the world's largest maker of computer-networking gear, on Wednesday said its first-quarter earnings sank, but profit beat Wall Street expectations, and the tech giant said it is starting to rebound.
The results offer fresh evidence that ...Read More
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Sports|
Nov 4, 2009
Virtually every time the Pulaski Academy Bruins face fourth down, the prep school team from Little Rock, Ark., goes for it. No matter the distance.
And here's the thing — the strategy works.
Coach Kevin Kelley and his Bruins won the state ...Read More
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Business|
Nov 3, 2009
HONG KONG—A third leading Chinese movie studio is aiming for a listing -- this time on the New York Stock Exchange -- as the country's entertainment companies turn to the capital markets to raise funds.
Beijing Polybona Film Distribution Co. is ...Read More
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SciTech|
Nov 2, 2009
Climate change could cause the legendary snow and ice atop Mount Kilimanjaro to disappear within the next 25 years, scientists report today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
For the first time in almost 12,000 years, based ...Read More
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World|
Oct 31, 2009
Nov. 1 (Bloomberg) -- The Philippines was recovering todayafter Typhoon Mirinae passed across Manila and southern Luzonyesterday, leaving 14 people dead and four missing, the NationalDisaster Coordinating Council said in its 8 a.m. bulletin.
“We’re back to normal,” Admiral Wilfredo Tamayo,commandant ...Read More