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Three separate fires broke out on Wednesday at the Devon Spring's Recycling Centre causing an estimated $15,000 worth of damage.
The Bermuda Fire and Rescue Service is unsure of what caused the system fire, which ripped through the western part of th...
DATE: Aug 21, 2008
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Hewlett-Packard Co. rose the most in six months as chief executive officer Mark Hurd reported better-than-anticipated earnings and a forecast that indicates the computer maker may be shielded from a slowing global economy.
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DATE: Aug 21, 2008
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Today is Thursday, August 21, the 234th day of 2008. There are 132 days left in the year.
ON THIS DATE:
1791 - Slaves rise, beginning the Haitian Revolution
1862 - British sailor Billy Barker strikes gold in western Canada's Cariboo mountains, diggin...
DATE: Aug 21, 2008
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NEW YORK (AP) - Wall Street scored a moderate gain after a volatile session yesterday that saw the major indexes ratchet up and down on the see-sawing price of oil and mixed feelings about the financial sector.
Concerns about mortgage financiers Fann...
DATE: Aug 21, 2008
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Bermuda 158-9
West Indies 159-4
A gutsy Bermuda bowed out of the Scotiabank Series Cup in Toronto yesterday with their heads held high after forcing the West Indies to sweat it out for a six-wicket victory.
After being sent in to bat on a damp strip,...
DATE: Aug 21, 2008
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The call came from space, and sent a chill through a roon full of engineers who instantly knew they were in a dire situation.
The now famous words, "Houston we have a problem", shattered the calm of the NASA control room as Apollo 13, bound for the m...
DATE: Aug 21, 2008
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The Bank of Bermuda plans to reassign its call centre staff to other parts of the business after announcing plans to outsource the operation to Canada.
The bank said last year it would be moving its call centre to Markham, Ontario in a bid to improve...
DATE: Aug 21, 2008
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BEIJING (AP) — Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang will not make a claim against a 100 million yuan ($14.5 million) insurance policy after an injury forced him to pull out of the Olympics, a team official said yesterday.
Ping An Insurance Co. issued the person...
DATE: Aug 21, 2008
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — LeRoi Moore, the versatile saxophonist whose signature staccato fused jazz and funk overtones onto the eclectic sound of the Dave Matthews Band, died of complications from injuries he suffered in an all-terrain vehicle accident, th...
DATE: Aug 21, 2008
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Arsenic, a naturally occurring poison and carcinogen found in ground water, is strongly linked to adult-onset diabetes, US researchers said on Tuesday.
Odorless, tasteless, colorless and easily soluble in water or wine, arsenic ha...
DATE: Aug 21, 2008
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