Saturday, August 20, 2005

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Discovery flying back to Florida
CNN - 4 hours ago The 747 carrying the space shuttle Discovery takes off Friday from California's Edwards Air Force Base. EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, California (AP) -- The space shuttle Discovery took off again on Friday on the first leg of its flight back to Florida.

Ex-Sun-Times Publisher Charged With Fraud
Washington Post - 13 hours ago By MAURA KELLY LANNAN. CHICAGO -- Former Chicago Sun-Times publisher David Radler is cooperating with federal prosecutors in their investigation of $32 million that allegedly was fraudulently pocketed by him and others through a series of secret deals.

Explosion rattles SF financial district
San Francisco Business Times - 3 hours ago An explosion Friday morning in San Francisco's financial district injured one and rattled windows -- and nerves -- at nearby companies. The apparent underground explosion at about 9:50 am lifted the sidewalk

UPDATE 4-Texas Jury awards $253 million in first Vioxx trial
Reuters - 35 minutes ago By Matt Daily. ANGLETON, Texas, Aug 19 (Reuters) - A Texas jury on Friday found drug maker Merck & Co. Inc. (MRK.N: Quote, Profile, Research) negligent in the death of a man taking its popular painkiller Vioxx

Roberts' 1st 'Ticket' to Court Came in '84
Washington Post - 2 hours ago WASHINGTON -- Hit with a $25 traffic ticket two decades ago, John Roberts joked to his boss in the White House counsel's office that he intended to take his case "all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary.".

Woods, Singh share lead at Ohio
NDTV.com - 18 hours ago World number one Tiger Woods, Fiji's Vijay Singh and Henrik Stenson of Sweden share the lead after the first round of the World Golf Championship-NEC Invitational on Thursday. The three players all carded

Nintendo's new toy
Asia Times Online - 11 hours ago OSAKA - Nintendo Co announced Thursday that it plans to launch this fall its new Game Boy Micro palm-size portable game player successively in Japan, the US and Europe. The new device is a smaller version

Israel Evacuates Another Settlement Before Sabbath
Los Angeles Times - 54 minutes ago By Laura King, Times Staff Writer. JERUSALEM -- Hours before the start of the Jewish Sabbath, Israeli troops today finished evacuating one of the few remaining Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip, again enduring shouts of "Nazis!" and "Cowards!".

Philippoussis awarded wild-card
Australian - 5 hours ago STRUGGLING Victorian Mark Philippoussis has been handed a wild-card into the main draw of the US Open in New York, starting on Monday week. Philippoussis, 28, James Blake, 25, and a group of up-and-coming

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