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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal appeals court on Friday cut in half a $5 billion jury award for punitive damages against Exxon Mobil Corp. in the 1989 Valdez oil spill that smeared black goo across roughly 1,500 miles of Alaskan coastline.The case, on...
DATE: Dec 27, 2006
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) — Optimists may enjoy longer lives than people with a dimmer outlook on the future, a long-term study suggests.Researchers found that of nearly 7,000 adults followed since their college days in the 1960s, those who were opti...
DATE: Dec 27, 2006
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The resignation and forced departure of Australian chef Anthony Reynolds after he made what all seem to be agree was a joke about putting arsenic in Premier Dr. Ewart Brown's food has divided the community.
There are many who think that the actions t...
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Premier Division
December 19
Devonshire Cougars 4 North Village 3
December 22
Somerset Trojans 0 Boulevard 1
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Boulevard 2 Devonshire Cougars 3
First Division
December 19
Southampton Rangers 0 Devonshire Colts 4
December 22
Ireland Ra...
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BALI, Indonesia — Sirens blared and thousands of people fled the coast yesterday as Indonesia held its largest-ever tsunami drill. Others across Asia prayed at mass graves, chimed temple bells and lit candles two years after devastating waves claimed...
DATE: Dec 27, 2006
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ben Stiller’s “Night at the Museum” was the main exhibit at theatres, debuting with $30.8 million to lead a rush of new movies over the holiday weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.Starring Stiller as a guard at a museum w...
DATE: Dec 27, 2006
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SAN FRANCISCO (Bloomberg) ? Lucy Morris, a retired school custodian in Pensacola, Florida, is waiting for help from $220 million of bonds issued to improve housing for the poor. She lives alone in her one-bedroom apartment, decorated with red and yel...
DATE: Dec 27, 2006
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DENVER — The stranded travellers were gone from Denver’s airport by yesterday, but the stranded suitcases were not.The airport’s two biggest airlines, United and Frontier, said they had cleared out the backlog of travellers stuck when a blizzard dump...
DATE: Dec 27, 2006
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — US holiday retail sales rose a disappointing three percent from 2005 as a slowing housing market and higher energy costs cut into spending, MasterCard Advisors said.The gain is less than the 5.2 percent increase last year and t...
DATE: Dec 27, 2006
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Education Minister Randy Horton will meet with representatives from industry and education in the New Year to discuss ways to improve the technical education offered on the Island.
The meeting follows on from a forum held at Bermuda College last mont...
DATE: Dec 27, 2006
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