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Major runway closing at JFK airport
Monday, 03.01.2010, 01:02pm
New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport isn't exactly the
poster child for on-time departures and things may get worse before
they get better for travelers using the airport this spring.
Starting Monday, JFK's busiest runway will close for four months for reconstruction.
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Whale grabbed ponytail, pulled trainer into tank, SeaWorld
Thursday, 02.25.2010, 11:26am
Whale shows at SeaWorld were canceled Thursday, and officials were
re-evaluating safety procedures a day after a 12,000 pound killer whale
grabbed a trainer's ponytail, dragged her under water and killed her in
front of shocked onlookers at Shamu Stadium.
Dawn Brancheau, 40,
was "pulled underwater for an extended period of time," by the whale,
Chuck Tompkins, SeaWorld's curator of zoological operations, told CNN's
"American Morning
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Around South, snow gives way to rain
Monday, 02.15.2010, 10:09am
Early-morning commuters in much of the Deep South, braced for the
possibility of a second round of snow and ice, had an
easier-than-expected ride Monday as warmer temperatures kept winter
weather at bay.
Most winter weather advisories and warnings were
canceled early Monday except for portions of northern Alabama and
Georgia at higher elevations. However, the advisories and warnings
stretched into Ohio and Pennsylvania.
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Toyota recalls may not solve problem, experts say
Tuesday, 02.09.2010, 09:01am
In his hectic, noisy laboratory at the University of Maryland,
Michael Pecht is wary when it comes to assessing whether Toyota's
suggested repair of sticky gas pedals will have any real impact.
"They
are in a bit of a quandary," said Pecht, a professor at Maryland's
Clark School of Engineering. "If they announce that electronics is a
problem, they are probably going to be in a lot of trouble, because
nobody's going to drive the car. So at this stage, they don't want to
announce there is any electronic problem."
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Snowbound mid-Atlantic gets set for new round
Monday, 02.08.2010, 09:40am
As the mid-Atlantic region tried to dig itself out of a
record-setting blizzard, a second weather system promised to dump more
snow this week.
Federal workers in Washington were asked to stay
home Monday except for emergency employees. Students in some schools in
the nation's capital also got a snow day.
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Another 800,000 jobs disappear
Thursday, 02.04.2010, 07:01am
As bad as the government's jobs readings numbers have been during
the Great Recession, we'll soon find out the real situation likely was
worse.
Job
losses during the recession may have been underestimated by close to a
million jobs. So instead of employers cutting just over 7 million jobs
from their payrolls since the economic downturn began in December 2007,
it's expected that the Labor Department's new estimate will be a loss
of 8 million jobs.
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Toyota pressured into recall
Wednesday, 02.03.2010, 02:21am
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Tuesday it took
pressure from the government to get Toyota to take action over its
sticking gas pedals.
"Since questions were first raised about
possible safety defects, we have been pushing Toyota to take measures
to protect consumers," LaHood said in a statement addressing the
aftermath of the automaker's massive recall.
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Toyota's woes drag down entire industry
Monday, 02.01.2010, 01:06pm
For the auto industry, 2009 was filled with calamity and heartache.
The litany of travails is long, and it extends to virtually every
cranny of the industry.
General Motors, the company once
deemed so dominant in the American marketplace that politicians
actively talked about "breaking it up," dipped so low that it fell into
an orchestrated bankruptcy, emerged as a ward of the federal
government, and for punctuation had its chief executive fired by a
government task force.
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New bin Laden tape emerges
Monday, 01.25.2010, 09:05am
A new audio tape allegedly from al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden
claims responsibility for an attempt to blow up a plane en route to
Michigan on Christmas Day and warns the United States of more attacks.
The
tape, which aired on the Arabic-language news Web site Al-Jazeera on
Sunday, says "the United States will not dream of enjoying safety until
we live it in reality in Palestine."
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American seminary student believed to have died in quake
Thursday, 01.14.2010, 06:37pm
A seminary student who was in Haiti along with his wife and cousin
is believed to have been killed in the magnitude-7.0 earthquake that
struck the island nation, his family and seminary said Thursday.
Benjamin
Larson, 25, from LaCrosse, Wisconsin, the son of two Lutheran
ministers, was in his fourth year as a master's of divinity student at
Wartburg Theological Seminary in Dubuque, Iowa.
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In late April, WHO announced the emergence of a novel influenza A virus.
This particular H1N1 strain has not circulated previously in humans. The virus is entirely new.
The virus is contagious, spreading easily from one person to another, and from one country to another. As of today, nearly 30,000 confirmed cases have been reported in 74 countries.
This is only part of the picture. With few exceptions, countries with large numbers of cases are those with good surveillance and testing procedures in place.
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