NEW YORK (AP) Stock prices are firm in the first few minutes of trading. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is up 32 points in today's early going. The Nasdaq Composite Index is up 2 points and the Standard-and-Poor's 500 Stock Index is also up 2 ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - The same kind of deep brain stimulation used to treat some patients for Parkinson's disease also helped a few people suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder, French scientists reported. Their study involved only 16 patients, but ...
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Secaucus, N.J. — At first glance, the crowded exhibition hall of Kosherfest 2008 seemed to have everything a kosher consumer could want, from candy to blintzes to Jewish-themed toilet covers. But perhaps the most notable item at this year’s ...
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RIFLE, COLO.—It's a little after 5 a.m. on a workday. Dozens of men are piling out of cars and trucks, shuffling across the parking lot, and boarding buses heading north to the natural gas fields. They are wearing jackets, jeans, and baseball caps ...
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Lean times and lean bodies? Not at all. The stress from a nose-diving economy gives rise to the urge to eat. "When you feel deprived -- or potentially deprived -- one of the ways to feel safe and secure is to feed yourself," says Diane Barth, a ...
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It looks like a small house quietly facing Volunteer Boulevard, but this small house is open to any of the 26,000 students on campus. The waiting room is quiet; three or four students sit and fill out paperwork, read a magazine, tap on a cell phone ...
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300 dpi 6 col x 14.25 in / 295x362 mm / 1004x1231 pixels Kirk Lyttle color illustration of stressed-out employee with too much paperwork sitting behind a desk being squeezed in on both sides by a giant vice. St. Paul Pioneer Press 2005__With BC-WRK ...
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