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Imagine that a nurse takes a child's temperature. However, the mercury thermometer being used is marked off in intervals of one degree. There is a 98° F mar...
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YANGON, Nov 4 (Reuters) - U.N. envoy Ibrahim Gambari met the
Myanmar junta's go-between with detained democracy icon Aung San
Suu Kyi on Sunday, during a mission for reform complicated by
the gene...
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Rival Lebanese leaders say they
can agree on a new president but "everything could still go
wrong," Italy's foreign minister said Saturday. Massimo D'Alema said talks to reach a...
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Mitt Romney blew away the top-ranked Republican presidential candidates in fundraising during the first three months of the year, reporting he had raised an astonishing $23 million. Rudy Giuliani a...
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With the formal demise of Fernando Ferrer’s Mayoral candidacy, an era comes to an end in New York politics.
Gone from the municipal scene are the Board of Estimate Democrats—that is, t...
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With the formal demise of Fernando Ferrer’s Mayoral candidacy, an era comes to an end in New York politics.
Gone from the municipal scene are the Board of Estimate Democrats—that is, ...
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China's thriving economy and evolving political landscape are luring companies from around the world to explore the Chinese biotechnology market.
"How big is it? How fast is it growing?" compan...
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The photographer Diane Arbus (1923-1971), on the evidence of Revelations, a retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was incapable of taking a bad picture. Each and every photograph on disp...
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U.N. envoy meets Myanmar junta go-between
