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October 6, 2009 He's a well-known movie star who's fodder for the tabloids, but Jude Law wants you to think of him — for the next few months, at least — as the Prince of Denmark. And as Law prepares for his Broadway opening in a much-anticipated production of Hamlet, director Michael Grandage says that shouldn't be too much of a stretch. Audiences in England, says Grandage, already think of

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October 7, 2009 If you're thinking of buying your first home, there are 8,000 good reasons to do it now. As part of its effort to prop up the housing market, the federal government is offering an $8,000 tax credit to first-time buyers. But the offer is set to expire at the end of November. "All the first-time homebuyers that have been procrastinating basically have to have their home under

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The global economic downturn has affected nearly every industry, including advertising. While we think ad spending will remain weak in 2009, we anticipate a rebound in 2010. However, it may be too late for investors to play this rebound, as the stocks of most advertising-related companies have appreciated considerably since the market lows of the past year. According to TNS Media Intelligence,

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October 7, 2009 The Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered the biggest but never-before-seen ring around the planet Saturn, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced late Tuesday. The thin array of ice and dust particles lies at the far reaches of the Saturnian system and its orbit is tilted 27 degrees from the planet's main ring plane, the laboratory said. JPL spokeswoman Whitney Clavin said

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October 6, 2009 If you read blogs or use Facebook and Twitter, you might have friends who share information about coffee, makeup, toys or other products they like. Advertisers are trying to take advantage of those relationships by paying bloggers and tweeters. The Federal Trade Commission has announced rules that will require bloggers and tweeters to be open about those connections. Among

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October 6, 2009 This is the story of an al-Qaida assassination plot that failed — or did it? The two main characters are a Saudi prince and an al-Qaida suicide bomber. The prince survived their meeting in August. The bomber did not. And yet, the episode has sent a chill through Western security circles. The assailant had a bomb hidden inside his body in an elaborate effort to kill the Saudi

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October 6, 2009 Animal-rights groups and free-speech advocates squared off in a major First Amendment battle Tuesday, as the U.S. Supreme Court prepared to decide whether videos of illegal dogfights are protected speech. In oral arguments, the Obama administration asked the justices to reinstate the Federal Depiction of Animal Cruelty statute. The 10-year-old law prohibits the sale of videos and

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October 6, 2009 The Dalai Lama began his latest trip to Washington on Tuesday by receiving a human rights award and being feted by powerful lawmakers on Capitol Hill. But there was one big gap in his schedule. The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader will not have a meeting with President Obama. The White House decided to put off such a meeting until after Obama goes to China in November. The

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Ryan Bird writes that he's Canadian, so he's used to the ideal and the reality of government--provided universal health care. Now Bird lives in Taiwan, where he loves the system: There are no waiting lines, as one can visit a specialist without a recommendation. There is one billing department, so bureaucracy is minimal. Everything is on smart cards, so the doctor knows what's up with you and

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October 5, 2009 The first doses of vaccine against swine flu — officially known as H1N1 of 2009 — will start arriving at hospitals, doctors' offices and clinics around the country this week. That's record time for a new vaccine — only a little more than five months after scientists discovered the now-pandemic virus. The swine flu vaccination campaign is moving from planning to implementation,

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In a brutal job market, here's a task that might sound easy: Fill jobs in nursing, engineering and energy research that pay $55,000 to $60,000, plus benefits. Yet even with 15 million people hunting for work, even with the unemployment rate nearing 10 percent, some employers can't find enough qualified people for good-paying career jobs. Ask Steve Jones, a hospital recruiter in

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Rescue workers in Indonesia raced to clear debris and reach survivors of a pair of powerful earthquakes that struck the island of Sumatra, as the official death toll from the disaster reached 777 on Thursday and authorities warned it would most likely climb higher. Earth movers were pressed into service to extricate victims trapped under the rubble a day after a 7.6 magnitude offshore quake

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Underwater earthquakes in the Pacific and Indian oceans are not uncommon, but rarely do they trigger deadly tsunamis. The December 2004 tsunami in Indonesia caught the world by surprise — with deadly consequences. Despite improvements in earthquake monitoring and warning systems, some coastal areas still receive alerts only minutes before it's too late. Below, a look at how three significant

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Iran must grant international inspectors access to its newly disclosed nuclear enrichment facility within two weeks, President Obama said Thursday after Iran pledged to allow inspections soon. "Talk is no substitute for action," Obama said at the White House after talks ended earlier in the day in Switzerland. "Our patience is not unlimited." The president's statement came a few hours after a

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Iran has pledged to open its recently revealed uranium enrichment plant to U.N. inspectors — perhaps in the next few weeks — a senior European envoy said Thursday after a seven-nation meeting outside Geneva. Javier Solana, the EU's top foreign policy official, also confirmed that Iran and six world powers, including the United States, will hold a new set of talks this month on international

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The Empire State Building seems to be grappling with a color problem — specifically the color of its upper levels. Building management got into hot water this week over plans to illuminate the top floors with red lights — in honor of the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China. Tibet-issues activists and other protesters turned out to denounce the recognition. But it turns out the

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Until a year ago, Beverly Harvey was more familiar with balance sheets than attendance sheets. Harvey had spent 25 years in the banking industry before switching careers and becoming an elementary-school teacher. Every year, schools in the U.S. hire a quarter of a million new teachers. Desperate to boost the number of top-quality educators, school districts are luring people from other

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Dave Koenig gets private insurance through his employer and couldn't be happier. A conservative, he thinks private health care is the way to go, but he supports some changes to the insurance industry to protect patients from losing their coverage. Tall and with a buzz cut, Koenig, 49, works as a manager for a tech company, Hitachi Data Systems. He lives in a pristine suburb of Sacramento,

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Just two years before Bernard Schriever retired from the Air Force, director Stanley Kubrick finished the movie Neil Sheehan just talked about a few minutes ago, "Dr. Strangelove." In that film, which became a defining Cold War satire, leaders from the United States and Russia worked to prevent a terrible weapon from being triggered. (Soundbite of film, "Dr. Strangelove") Mr. Peter BULL (Actor)

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Three different space probes have gathered evidence that the top layer of the moon's surface contains hidden stores of water. The moon is generally thought to be a dry place, although scientists have long suspected that ice might be trapped in cold, permanently shadowed craters. A NASA mission will test that theory next month, by smashing a spent rocket part into a dark crater near the moon's

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In the summer of 2005, at a U.S. Navy base on the island of Bahrain in the Persian Gulf, a young man was duct-taped to a chair, and then left in a kennel with dogs barking and feces all around. Later, he was forced to simulate sex acts on videotape. He was not a detainee. He was a U.S. sailor: Joseph Christopher Rocha. Rocha enlisted in the U.S. Navy on his 18th birthday in 2004. He remembers

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NEW ORLEANS – Bullet-makers are working around the clock, seven days a week, and still can't keep up with the nation's demand for ammunition. Shooting ranges, gun dealers and bullet manufacturers say they have never seen such shortages. Bullets, especially for handguns, have been scarce for months because gun enthusiasts are stocking up on ammo, in part because they fear President Barack Obama

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