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University of Calif. imposes $2,500 fee increase as police in riot gear watch over protest

Armed, campus police officers point Taser guns as they seize a bag from an unidentified student, after they refused to leave a meeting room on the University of California, Los Angeles campus on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009. UCLA...

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1969 Alcatraz takeover 'changed the whole course of history'

From Nicole Lapin and Jason Hanna, CNN Native Americans occupied Alcatraz for 19 months, starting in November 1969 Indians wanted to focus on "broken treaties, broken promises," professor says Occupiers didn't get demands but...

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More Stocks May Not Make a Portfolio Safer

Not putting all your eggs in one basket is the most basic principle of investing. But this research on diversification was based on the average results of a large number of portfolios randomly generated by computer. Don Chance,...

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The New Mammogram Guidelines: What You Need to Know

Blanca Rubio performs a mammogram on a 65-year-old patient at Evanston Hospital in Evanston, Ill., on Oct. 16 Chicago Tribune / MCT / Landov If the brouhaha following a government advisory panel's recent change in...

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An Inconvenient Solution

Bill McKibben: Al Gore Again Explains What Must Be Done. Al Gore speaks about the key of solving the climate crisis is to have a strong grassroots consensus and how many people are beginning to stand up. Gore, I think, has...

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Medvedev Is Reinventing the Red Army

How Medvedev plans to reform the military—and why Obama should not be worried. Natalia Kolesnikova / AFP-Getty Images By Owen Matthews and Anna Nemtsova | NEWSWEEK From the magazine issue dated Nov 30, 2009 On a chilly day...

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Five cities that will rise in the New Economy

In Houston, the Texas Medical Center is expanding so quickly that it will soon become the seventh largest downtown in the US. By itself. The hospital complex brims with restaurants, shops, and hotels, and employs 100,000 people...

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New Economy cities: Boston is magnet for high-skilled workers

Stu Haber has seen the future and it is trash. His employees at Infoscitex, a Boston-area start-up, built a machine that can transform everything from carpet to yesterday’s lunch into electricity or heat without any hazardous...

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New Economy cities: Huntsville eyes next launchpad for growth

You should probably leave the rocket scientist jokes at home when visiting Huntsville, Ala. The chances are good (1 in 12, in fact) you’ll meet one here. In a state beset with educational challenges, this mid-size city (pop....

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Earth Talk - Little is known of hard-to-track orcas

Orcas are very susceptible to pollution, due to their place at the top of the ocean food chain. By The Editors of E Magazine | November 16, 2009 edition NEWSCOM A pod of orca whales surfaces off San Juan Island in Washington,...

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