American Idol winner sparks smoking debate

BOGOR, Indonesia â€“ Just a few miles after passing a towering Marlboro Man ad, a second billboard off the highway promotes cigarettes with a new […]

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Iceland’s Volcanic Ash Halts Flights Across Europe

Civil aviation authorities say flights won’t start departing or arriving in Britain until at least Friday morning because of a huge ash cloud spewed by […]

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10 Big Commercial Real Estate Busts

As acute as the pain has been in the U.S. housing market, commercial real estate has been no stranger to trouble. Here is a glimpse […]

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Billionaires Who Live Below Their Means

At least once in your life – maybe even once a week or once a day for that matter – you have fantasized about coming […]

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Pay Garnishments Rise as Debtors Fall Behind

When the bank sued Leann Weaver for not paying her credit card balance, her reaction was typical for someone in that situation. Personal and financial […]

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UN’s Ban calls Aral Sea ‘shocking disaster’

The drying up of the Aral Sea is one of the planet’s most shocking environmental disasters, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Sunday as he urged […]

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Grocery Card In Your Pocket Can Pinpoint Salmonella

As they scrambled recently to trace the source of a salmonella outbreak that has sickened hundreds around the country, investigators from the Centers for Disease […]

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World’s Billionaires 2010

Carlos Slim Helu takes No. 1 spot on Forbes World’s Billionaires list as a record 164 10-figure titans return to the ranking amid the global […]

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Gas Pipeline Probe

A dozen previously unknown shipwrecks, some of them believed to be up to 1,000 years old, were discovered in the Baltic Sea during a probe […]

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Oldest person In US Dies

Mary Josephine Ray, the New Hampshire woman who was certified as the oldest person living in the United States, has died at age 114 years, […]

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