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Oil ends about $123 a barrel; gasoline just over $4 - USATODAY.com

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NEW YORK (AP) — Oil prices sank to their lowest point in weeks Friday as investors questioned whether crude has cooled enough to reflect a serious deterioration in demand. Earlier the contract dropped as far as $122.50, its...                

California bans trans fats in restaurants

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SACRAMENTO (AP) — California on Friday became the first state to prohibit restaurants from using artery-clogging trans fats in preparing their food. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed legislation that will ban restaurants and...                

Ottawa holds Air Canada to layoff rule obligations (Reuters)

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CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Air Canada must live up to its labor-code obligations to laid-off workers as it embarks on a plan to cut 2,000 jobs to deal with surging fuel prices, the Canadian government ruled on Friday. But Air...                

Ford executives say new models are on way

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DEARBORN, Mich. - A day after posting the worst quarterly loss in its history, Ford Motor Co.'s top product and manufacturing executives said the company plans to roll out new models and make its factories more efficient. They...                

Motorola wins text messaging patent case

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Motorola Inc., the world's No. 3 cell phone maker, said Friday it won a patent case filed against the company over its text messaging software. The University of Texas had sued the Schaumburg, Ill.-based company, alleging that...                

University of Texas OKs plan to sell oil reserves

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AUSTIN, Texas - The University of Texas System board of regents has unanimously approved a plan to sell some of the oil and natural gas reserves beneath the system's vast West Texas lands for about $1 billion. The university...                

$275 million a day lost to oil spill, port chief says

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NEW: Official: $275M a day is pricetag as long as Mississippi river is blocked River bends and swift currents helping to isolate oil against banks Four vessels were being allowed to move on the river channel, says Coast Guard...                

14. New York sues UBS for fraud

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New York State sued UBS on Thursday, accusing the Swiss bank of committing a "multibillion dollar fraud" by steering broker clients into auction rate securities that became impossible to sell once the credit market tightened.                

Clean Energy Fuels Buzz on Capitol Hill

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By Lea Terhune T. Boone Pickens, an octogenarian Texas oil billionaire, recently paid to air television ads promoting his plan to reduce U.S. dependency on foreign oil through developing alternative energy sources. The Pickens...                

Pentagon: 16 soldiers died from electric shock

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Sixteen American troops have died from accidental electrocutions in Iraq, the Defense Department said Friday, more than the military has previously disclosed. Most of the 11 Army soldiers and five Marines died...                

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