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Heart-shock device may disrupt quiet hospice death
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- If you have a heart-zapping defibrillator implanted in your chest but now are dying of something else, when do you have it tur...
DATE: Mar 17, 2010
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LONDON (Reuters) - A former senior trader at Merrill Lynch in London has been banned for at least five years for deliberately overvaluing his trading positions to hide his losses, forcing the US bank to make a $456 million writedown.
The Financial Se...
DATE: Mar 17, 2010
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Bermuda Press (Holdings) Ltd. (BPH) yesterday reported a profit of $63,000 for the year through September 2009 — a 96 percent fall from the prior year’s earnings of $1.78 million.
The owner of The Royal Gazette and a portfolio of other local business...
DATE: Mar 17, 2010
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A groundbreaking scientific research mission sponsored by a Bermuda-based company has started work in the Arctic to learn more about the effects of air pollution on the ocean.
The Catlin Arctic Survey 2010, kicked off on Sunday as a team of veteran p...
DATE: Mar 17, 2010
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NEW YORK (AP) - The Federal Reserve's mildly upbeat take on the economy and its plans to hold interest rates low gave stocks a lift.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose almost 44 points yesterday for its sixth straight gain. Broader indexes also po...
DATE: Mar 17, 2010
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Jenaya Wade-Fray and her team-mates will go up against Oklahoma State University (OSU) in the first round of the NCAA Women's basketball tournament this Saturday.
And all eyes will be focused on the Bermudian star, one of the most influential players...
DATE: Mar 17, 2010
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Talk show host Oprah Winfrey must defend a defamation suit over remarks she made about a headmistress at her girls' school in South Africa after a sex-abuse scandal erupted there, a US judge ruled.
The case is now set for trial on...
DATE: Mar 17, 2010
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NEW YORK (AP) — The Americans who populate the ABC series "FlashForward" are, on balance, a morose lot. And justifiably so: They are paralyzed by their 137-second visions of the future, part of a weird global bout of unconsciousness in which all huma...
DATE: Mar 17, 2010
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Feds are on Facebook. And MySpace, LinkedIn and Twitter, too.
US law enforcement agents are following the rest of the Internet world into popular social-networking services, going undercover with false online profiles to communi...
DATE: Mar 17, 2010
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Emmy-award winning composer Jim Dooley will be one of the judges in this year's BIFF festival, it was announced yesterday.
Mr Dooley, who received his first Emmy Award in 2008 for Best Original Music Composition for a Series, ABC's Pushing Daisies, w...
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