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BOGOTA (Reuters) — Peace remains a distant prospect in Colombia despite the disarming of more than 31,000 right-wing militia members, as cocaine has come to replace ideology as the main fuel for Latin America’s longest-running war.The paramilitaries,...
DATE: Dec 21, 2006
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — For not much more than the price of the top porterhouse at New York’s Kobe Club restaurant, you could give a whole heifer to a needy family — and notch up a last- minute tax deduction at the same time.At the height of the holid...
DATE: Dec 21, 2006
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In all the places, in all the countries, in all the major cities, even the little towns along the way, what were the odds that Santa would manage to barely miss a passing airplane and crash land here? Well, not that he had much choice; transatlantic ...
DATE: Dec 21, 2006
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When Jeff Conyers and seven other business people pooled resources to found Bermuda’s first independent brokerage firm back in 1991, there was no shortage of people telling them their enterprise would flop.
But with hindsight, it is clear the gamble ...
DATE: Dec 21, 2006
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SUNRISE, Florida — A teenager who had been unwilling to leave her home in Haiti after a football-sized tumour enveloped her face went on a public shopping spree yesterday.“Thank you,” Marlie Casseus, 14, said with a smile to one woman who handed her ...
DATE: Dec 21, 2006
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"Great, this is just perfect, "I said, my voice practically oozing with sarcasm as I turned off my cell phone. My dad had just informed me that we would be spending Christmas with my stepmother's family.
So it seems Evelyn, or "Evil-lyn", as I secret...
DATE: Dec 21, 2006
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0NEW YORK (Reuters Health) — People who use plenty of olive oil in their diets may be helping to prevent damage to body cells that can eventually lead to cancer, new research suggests.In a study of 182 European men, researchers found evidence that ol...
DATE: Dec 21, 2006
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The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index closed unchanged for a second straight day yesterday.
Butterfield Bank saw the main activity as 500 of its shares changed hands for $56.25. Meanwhile, HSBC Holding plc sold 100 shares at a price of $18.3...
DATE: Dec 21, 2006
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ZURICH (Bloomberg) ? Natural and man-made catastrophes in 2006 cost insurers $15 billion in losses, the lowest amount in almost a decade, according to Swiss Reinsurance Co.
?After years of record losses, property insurers appear to be getting off lig...
DATE: Dec 21, 2006
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BEIJING (Bloomberg) — The yuan held near its highest close since the end of a dollar link as China may allow faster currency gains to prevent its record trade surplus from further increasing foreign-exchange reserves.China can let the yuan strengthen...
DATE: Dec 21, 2006
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