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BERMUDA sailor and official Peter Shrubb has just been named an umpire for the finals of the America’s Cup due to start later this month off Valencia, Spain. Shrubb, who has been putting in a lot of time officiating international regattas around the ...
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MEET Dolphin Quest’s new addition, born this week to Caliban, a 14-year-old Atlantic bottlenose dolphin at the Bermuda Maritime Museum. The newest addition makes three the number of dolphin calves born at the facility this spring.
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SAN FRANCISCO — As heated as the debate over the immigration overhaul is on Capitol Hill, the divisions may run even deeper among immigrants themselves.The measure is pitting computer-science Ph.D.s against strawberry pickers, legal immigrants agains...
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TEHRAN, Iran — Iran seized three Finnish men on a fishing trip near a disputed Persian Gulf island and held them incommunicado for several days before agreeing Wednesday to release them, the men’s employer said.The three men working for Nokia Siemens...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Older women with lung cancer live longer than men the same age, US researchers reported this week, and said their finding suggests that oestrogen might affect chemotherapy. The study found that women aged over 60 who have advan...
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TORONTO (Bloomberg) — Canadian stocks fell, sending the country's main stock index to its biggest two-day drop in a year, on concern that rising global interest rates will crimp profits, reduce demand for loans and reduce the appeal of dividends.Inte...
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OVER the next few decades Bermuda’s temperature will steadily drop, with shorter, cooler summers and colder winters. Why? Because the Gulf Stream, which brings warm water up from the south, is changing — as a result of global warming.That’s according...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Wachovia Corp., the fourth-biggest US bank, plans to more than double its private-banking staff in the next three years as part of a strategy to sell more products to wealthy customers.The bank will target fast-growing markets ...
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Ocean’s ThirteenTHE third roll of the dice for George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and their merry band of casino crooks is an almost certain winner for its makers, a break-even deal at best for audiences.Glittery as a Vegas Strip stage revue, smoo...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) — A "Wall Street group" and an internet entrepreneur have expressed interest in mounting a counterbid to News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch's $5 billion offer for Dow Jones & Co. Inc. an adviser to the Dow Jones employee union said ye...
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