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Kentucky outlasts UNC for Final Four berth

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 04:05 PM PDT

Terrence Jones scored 11 points in the WIidcats' win on Sunday.Brandon Knight scored 22 points and fourth-seeded Kentucky restored some order to the Final Four with a 76-69 win over second-seeded North Carolina on Sunday in the East Regional final.




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Sit back and enjoy a movie — at 35,000 feet

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 11:41 AM PDT

Virgin America offers a 9-inch seatback screen for every passenger, making the movie-watching experience at 35,000 feet much more intimate than the older drop-down screens.For some, watching an airplane movie is as entertaining as reading the SkyMall catalog for the third time, but airlines' upgraded entertainment offerings makes the movie watching experience much better — if your flight has them, that is.




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Rock chalk shock! VCU tops Kansas for Final Four

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 01:41 PM PDT

VCU's  Joey Rodriguez celebrates a basket. Rodriguez led the Rams to their first-ever Final Four.Jamie Skeen scored 26 points and 11th-seeded Virginia Commonwealth is crashing the Final Four after the upset of the NCAA tournament, shocking No. 1 seed Kansas 71-61 on Sunday.




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Citalopram, Finasteride recalled for label switch

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 10:51 AM PDT

Pfizer Inc's Greenstone LLC unit said on Saturday that it was voluntarily recalling two drugs in the United States because they may have been labeled incorrectly by a third-party manufacturer.

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'Wimpy Kid' rules box office with $24M opening

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 10:12 AM PDT

A wimpy kid has delivered a knock-out punch to a band of warrior vixens at the weekend box office.

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Harry Coover, creator of Super Glue, dead at 94

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 04:19 PM PDT

Harry Wesley Coover Jr., known as the inventor of Super Glue, has died at his home in Kingsport, Tenn. He was 94.

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Jobs outlook finally improving, but still shaky

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 04:23 PM PDT

The U.S. labor market is finally improving, just when many of the other economic indicators are wavering.

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Japanese nuke plant downplayed tsunami risk

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 11:45 AM PDT

In planning their defense against a tsunami, the people running Japan's now-hobbled nuclear power plant dismissed important scientific evidence and all but disregarded 3,000 years of geological history.

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Posted: 27 Mar 2011 11:45 AM PDT

Because of bust, a 'neighborhood built to fail'

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 09:24 AM PDT

Wigena Tirado has seen the damage done to Windy Ridge firsthand. She lives there. She's also helped lead the fight against the blight caused by foreclosure and shady investing.Windy Ridge is a small petri dish in a much larger experiment. Across the country, officials and non-profits are trying to stabilize neighborhoods pummeled by foreclosures.




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US reducing naval firepower aimed at Gadhafi 

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 01:55 PM PDT

Top administration officials claim major strides are  being made in bolstering rebels fighting Moammar Gadhafi's forces but acknowledged there was no timetable for ending the Libya operation.

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To rebuild or not? Japan's tsunami coast wonders

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 07:21 AM PDT

Japan is starting to confront years of post-tsunami reconstruction along its northeastern coast, grappling with an estimated 18,000 people dead and  hundreds of thousands left homeless.

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GOP appears poised to take on entitlements

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 06:56 AM PDT

If there's any place where tea partiers in Congress might hesitate to call for cuts in Social Security and Medicare to shrink the federal debt, Florida's retirement havens should top the list.

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Video: Amanda Knox team sees new hope

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 06:09 AM PDT

March 27: In surprising testimony, a witness for the prosecution may have given the American student the best chance for freedom. NBC's Keith Miller reports. (Today Show)In surprising testimony, a witness for the prosecution may have given the American student the best chance for freedom. NBC's Keith Miller reports. (TODAY)




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Video: Political pioneer Ferraro dies at 75

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 05:33 AM PDT

March 27: Geraldine Ferraro, who in 1984 became the first woman vice presidential candidate on a major U.S. party ticket, died Saturday in Boston. (Today Show)Geraldine Ferraro, who in 1984 became the first woman vice presidential candidate on a major U.S. party ticket, died Saturday in Boston. (TODAY)




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Syria: 12 killed in seaside city

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 02:57 PM PDT

Syrian pro-Assad protesters shout slogans as they carry pictures of Syrian President Bashar Assad during a sit-in in front of the Syrian embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, March 27, 2011. Hundreds of Syrians have demonstrated near their embassy in Beirut in support of the government. The nearly 2,000 demonstrators carried pictures of Assad and chanted: "our souls, our blood, we sacrifice for you." (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)Syria's government said Sunday that unknown gunmen firing from rooftops and prowling the streets of the Mediterranean city of Latakia are to blame for two days of violence that killed 12 people.




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German woman devoted to removing Nazi graffiti

Posted: 26 Mar 2011 09:32 AM PDT

Picture taken Thursday March 24, 2011 showing Irmela Mensah-Schramm (65)  from Berlin painting over a swastika sign on a street in Berlin's Schoeneweide district. For about the last 25 years Irmela Mensah-Schramm has walked through the streets of Berlin and other cities to paint over or remove paintings, stickers or slogans from neo-nazis from walls, street lamps and other places.  (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)Irmela Mensah-Schramm stopped abruptly at the crudely sprayed swastika on the wall of a pedestrian underpass. Whipping out a can of spray paint from her cotton tote bag, she quickly made short work of it, turning the neo-Nazi symbol into a nondescript black splotch.




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Posted: 26 Mar 2011 09:32 AM PDT

Libya air raids hit Gadhafi stronghold of Sirte 

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 01:47 PM PDT

International air raids targeted Moammar Gadhafi's hometown of Sirte for the first time Sunday night as rebels made a high-speed advance toward the regime stronghold.

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Taliban claims to have kidnapped 50 Afghan police

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 08:16 AM PDT

The Taliban claimed Sunday that it kidnapped 50 Afghan policemen in northeastern Afghanistan — part of the insurgents' murder and intimidation campaign against anyone affiliated with the U.S.-backed government.

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