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Jobless: 10 Percent Is Tougher Than It Used to Be

Unemployment tops 10 percent again _ and it's tougher off the job than a generation ago By JEANNINE AVERSA AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON November 7, 2009 (AP) The Associated Press Post a Comment It hurts more to be unemployed...

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Ford Learns The Price Of Solvency

But what has the UAW learned? The modifications were designed to bring the Ford-UAW agreement into parity with concessions the UAW gave to GM and Chrysler as part of their government-brokered bankruptcies. This rejection also...

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Credit card reforms mean mailings to consumers may include big change

Clear out the holiday catalogues, the Christmas cards and the coupons, and your mailbox may look less than festive. Now that the credit card industry is required to warn you about any changes they're planning, you should be...

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West African Giraffes Defy Extinction

Numbering Only 50 in 1996, Niger Subspecies of Giraffe Swells to 200 Today Thanks to Conservation Efforts (AP) A crisp African dawn is breaking overhead, and Zibo Mounkaila is on the back of a pickup truck bounding across a...

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Newsweek: India seeks green super power status

Manmohan Singh's new stand on Copenhagen is just part of a plan to reposition India as a global power. In place of the resentful leader of poor, postcolonial nations, Singh is defining India as an emerging powerhouse that can...

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Helene Gayle: Leading the anti-AIDS war

It is not as though Dr. Helene Gayle didn't have enough on her hands fighting poverty across the globe as president and CEO of CARE. But she has never been known to turn down a chance to do battle against HIV/AIDS.

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Indie Film Shakeout: There Will Be Blood

General view of atmosphere at "Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man" Screening held at Yonge Dundas Square during the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2009 in Toronto, Canada. Arthur Mola / WireImage / Getty The...

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All-inclusive vs. cruise: What's a better deal?

By Arline and Sam Bleecker Special to the Tribune With winter coming, an onslaught of new megavessels brimming with amenities and creative creature comforts again steams toward the Caribbean. Whet your appetite on Oasis' most...

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Cavern could collapse, taking part of city

Cavern could collapse, taking part of N.M. city Carlsbad is famous for caverns, but this one was made by oil industry This brine well collapsed near Artesia, N.M., in July 2008 and has similar characteristics to a well that...

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Tuna: The Hidden Cost of the World's Priciest Fish

Nearly every day at dawn, John Heitz falls a little bit in love. That's why he lives and works in General Santos City in the southern Philippines, one of the planet's great tuna-fishing ports. In September, the European...

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