Tuesday, March 09

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Top Stories
| Obama using 'bounty hunters' for health care fraud (AP) |
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| Feds to probe cause of runaway Prius in California (AP) |
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| Biden condemns new Israeli settlement plan (AP) |
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| Massa denies he sexually groped male staffer (AP) |
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| Ohio State janitor's gunfire kills co-worker, self (AP) |
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World
| Law bars Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi from elections (AP) |
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| Israel, Syria pursue nuclear-powered Mideast (AP) |
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| Ex-spy chief: US misled allies over detainees (AP) |
| AP - United States intelligence agencies misled key allies, including Britain, about its mistreatment of suspected terrorists, the former head of the country's domestic spy agency, MI5, said Tuesday. |
| Suspect: Charges in Argentine bomb case are 'lies' (AP) |
| AP - An Iranian accused of masterminding the 1994 bombing of a Jewish cultural center that killed 85 people dismissed the allegations as "lies" on Tuesday and said he won't appear before an Argentine court. |
| China, India give qualified nod to climate deal (AP) |
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Sports
| Dunleavy, Los Angeles Clippers sever ties (AP) |
| AP - Mike Dunleavy and the Los Angeles Clippers parted company for good Tuesday, barely a month after he relinquished his head coaching duties to focus solely on being general manager. |
| Alex Rodriguez 'at ease' with Canadian doctor (AP) |
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| NASCAR puts Carl Edwards on probation for 3 races (AP) |
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| Strasburg makes long-awaited spring debut for Nats (AP) |
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| Greene leads No. 1 UConn to 16th Big East title (AP) |
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Business
| Soaring China home prices thwart ordinary buyers (AP) |
| AP - The luxury apartment buildings Yang Xuhua passes on her way to work are a daily reminder of her own frustrated efforts to buy a home. Prices for even modest apartments in Shanghai have soared, putting home purchases out of reach for white collar workers and professionals. |
| Job openings up sharply in January to 2.7M (AP) |
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| Obama: Greece, facing bad days, has US as ally (AP) |
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| Asian stock markets trade in narrow range again (AP) |
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| Kan. mulling new soda tax, raising other levies (AP) |
| AP - Kansas would impose a new tax on soda — a penny for every teaspoon of sugar — under a proposal that a key legislator outlined Tuesday while lawmakers considered raising taxes to erase a projected budget shortfall. |
Technology
| Samsung, Panasonic start selling 3-D TVs this week (AP) |
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| MySpace outlines makeover after exec shake up (AP) |
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| On latest guitar game, players strum real strings (AP) |
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| `Nobel of computing' goes to early PC designer (AP) |
| AP - A Microsoft Corp. researcher won the $250,000 Turing Award, one of technology's most coveted prizes, on Tuesday for his work helping design and build what is widely considered the first modern personal computer. |
| Google welcomes chance to export to Iran, Cuba (AP) |
| AP - A senior Google executive welcomed on Tuesday a U.S. decision to relax restrictions on exporting Internet communications services to Iran, Sudan and Cuba. |
Entertainment
| Fawcett omission from Oscar segment no accident (AP) |
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| Mass. Sen. Scott Brown to release memoir in 2011 (AP) |
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| TV producer admits attempting Letterman shakedown (AP) |
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| Sequel to 'Phantom of the Opera' opens in London (AP) |
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| Leibovitz can keep portfolio under new debt deal (AP) |
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Health
| Hoped-for drop in childbirth deaths not happening (AP) |
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| Researchers: AIDS virus can hide in bone marrow (AP) |
| AP - The virus that causes AIDS can hide in the bone marrow, avoiding drugs and later awakening to cause illness, according to new research that could point the way toward better treatments for the disease. |
| WHO: over 85M African kids get polio vaccination (AP) |
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| Gene test claims to show what diet works best (AP) |
| AP - Diet not working? Blame your genes. That's the pitch behind a new test that claims to show whether people will do better on a low-fat or a low-carb weight loss plan. |
| Appetite may be partly linked to germs in the gut (AP) |
| AP - Germs in the gut may help drive appetite, says new research into the link between obesity and bacteria. |
























