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train	Michael Bloomberg, NYC Mayor: "I'm gonna try march with a number of different groups.	The Hispanic population increased by 9.8per cent from the April 2000 census figures, despite less favourable social and economic conditions than in the 1990s.	2.6
train	The index, which measures activity in the service sector, climbed to 50.7 last month from 47.9 in March.	An Ohio law that bans a controversial late-term abortion procedure is constitutionally acceptable and the state can enforce it, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday.	3.857
train	As part of a restructuring Peregrine sold its Remedy help desk software unit last year to BMC Software Inc.	Several shots rang out Wednesday night, but no gators were killed then.	3
train	Licensing revenue slid 21 percent, however, to $107.6 million.	Former model Lady McCartney lost a leg in a road accident in 1993 and is understood to have steel plates fitted in her hips which would make natural childbirth difficult.	5
train	London-based NCRI official Ali Safavi told Reuters: "We condemn this raid, which is in our view illegal and morally and politically unjustifiable."	Altria Group Inc. MO.N fell 50 cents, or 1.2 percent, to $41.81.	2.5
train	Common side effects include nasal congestion, runny nose, sore throat and cough, the FDA said.	On Monday, EchoStar (DISH: news, chart, profile) shares shrank $1.40, or 4.4 percent, to $30.63.	2.667
train	He was taken to a hospital for precautionary X-rays on his neck.	Israeli soldiers began tearing down settlement outposts in the West Bank yesterday - an Israeli obligation under a new Mideast peace plan.	3
train	Waksal has pleaded guilty to securities fraud and is to be sentenced next week.	The Communications Workers Union, which represents more than 2,300 Comcast employees, called the executive pay package excessive when a typical union employee makes about $27,000 annually.	4
train	Its former chief Mickey Robinson was fired for cause when he left in September, the company said.	The consumer-confidence index came in at 83.5 in June, down slightly from a revised 83.6 in May, the Conference Board said.	3.6
train	Russ Britt is the Los Angeles Bureau Chief for CBS.MarketWatch.com.	The union said it would reveal later which chain would be targeted.	3.8
train	He also said the academy will get its own internal report next week detailing the seriousness of the remaining problem.	On Sunday, a U.S. soldier was killed and another injured when a munitions dump they were guarding exploded in southern Iraq.	1.5
train	Peace Rules defeated Funny Cide in the Louisiana Derby.	CBS said the show "does not present a balanced portrayal of the Reagans for CBS and its audience.	4.4
train	While some other parts of Africa have been used as staging grounds for the terror group, Malawi previously had not been a major focus of investigations into al-Qaida.	Consumer groups oppose the changes, saying they would concentrate too many outlets in too few media empires.	1.273
train	Gemstar's shares gathered up 2.6 percent, adding 14 cents to $5.49 at the close.	Amnesty International said that over the past 20 years it had collected information about 17,000 disappearances in Iraq.	3.4
train	He said the attackers left behind leaflets urging staff at the Ishtar Sheraton to stop working at the hotel and demanding U.S. forces leave Iraq.	Further out the curve, the benchmark 10-year note US10YT=RR shed 18/32 in price, taking its yield to 3.24 percent from 3.17 percent.	4.8
train	The Food and Drug Administration rejected ImClone's 2001 application to sell Erbitux, citing shoddy research.	Colgate shares were down 30 cents at $56 in morning trade on the New York Stock Exchange.	3.75
train	The Bishop of Armidale, Peter Brain, was forthright.	Asked if he felt any regret about theOctober 12 attack, the answer was an adamant "no".	3.75
train	On Sunday, a U.S. soldier was killed and another injured in southern Iraq when a munitions dump exploded.	Shares of McDonald's and Wendy's continued their recent recovery Monday, rising more than 1 percent on the New York Stock Exchange in afternoon trade.	3.6
train	Bulger's brother is now on the agency's ''10 Most Wanted'' list, sought in connection with 21 murders.	U.S. forces struck dozens of targets on Monday, killing six guerrillas and arresting 99 others during 1,729 patrols and 25 raids conducted over 24 hours.	3.25
train	The broad Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX gained 19.72 points, or 1.98 percent, to 1,015.69.	Shares jumped almost 7 percent in pre-open trading, rising to $18.26 from $17.05 at Tuesday's close.	4.5
train	"I'm real excited to be a Cleveland Cavalier," James said.	He refused to say what percentage of domestic flights had security officers on board.	4.25
train	The drop in core wholesale prices in April reflected falling prices for cars, trucks, men's and boy's clothes and cigarettes.	"My understanding of this is that there is a lower percentage of successful impregnations with frozen," Ezzell said.	3.2
train	At midnight on Wednesday, 68 percent of voters said "no" to the tax, with 97 percent of the votes counted.	Amazon and the New York attorney general's office have already settled with one of the alleged e-mail forgers.	3
train	The only other person who had not been accounted for Sunday was a man from Fort Worth, Texas.	In Nairobi, the provost of All Saints Cathedral, the Very Reverend Peter Karanja, said the US Episcopal Church was alienating itself from the Anglican Communion.	2.333
train	Once converted, BayStar will own an aggregate of approximately 2.95 million shares of SCO common stock or 17.5 percent of the company's outstanding shares.	A Caesarean had originally been planned in mid- November, two weeks early.	5
train	That took the benchmark 10-year note US10YT=RR down 9/32, its yield rising to 3.37 percent from 3.34 percent late on Thursday.	The British Foreign Office said it had mediated the two men's release.	3.4
train	Forecasters said warnings might go up for Cuba later Thursday.	The Federal Trade Commission asked Congress yesterday for broader powers to attack the rapidly growing problem of spam, which new studies show accounts for half of all e-mail traffic.	3.75
train	Sayliyah was the command base for the Iraq war, but Central Command sent hundreds who ran the war back home to Tampa, Florida.	SCO changed its name to Tarantella, and Caldera later changed its name to the SCO Group.	4.8
train	Women who eat potatoes and other tuberous vegetables during pregnancy may be at risk of triggering type 1 diabetes in their children, Melbourne researchers believe.	International rescue workers hacked desperately through flattened debris for survivors and cemeteries overflowed in Iran's ancient Silk Road city of Bam yesterday.	5
train	Albertsons and Kroger's Ralphs chain locked out their workers in response.	The MSN Messenger 6 software will be available from 11 a.m. PST on Wednesday, according to Microsoft.	3.6
train	The mother also alleged in the lawsuit that she was sexually assaulted by one of the guards.	While federal prosecutors refuse to discuss the investigation, lawyers and others familiar with it say it remains focused on Campbell.	2.4
train	However, we have decided to opt for the European consortium's engine as the best overall solution and due to the substantial price efforts made".	But Itar-Tass news agency said four of his bodyguards were among those killed by the bomb.	1
train	The army said the raid, which comes just days after Israeli troops shot and killed Abdullah Kawasme, the Hamas leader in the city, targeted militants in Hamas.	DRINKING green tea can dramatically reduce the risk of men contracting prostate cancer, a study by Australian researchers has discovered.	3.6
train	The others were given copies of "Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution" and told to follow it.	The new worm affects these Windows systems: 2000, XP, NT 4.0 and Server 2003.	3.6
train	"It is about a third of what I owe in the world," he told reporters.	Prices for Treasury securities also rose, with the yield on the benchmark 10-year note falling to 4.19 percent.	4
train	Republicans had pledged to complete a Medicare drug package by August, then extended the deadline to Oct. 17, and they are still working on it.	Wal-Mart has told its top 100 suppliers that they'll need to have radio-frequency ID systems in place for tracking pallets of goods through the supply chain by Jan. 25, 2005.	3.2
train	Since early May, the city has received 1,400 reports of dead blue jays and crows, Jayroe said.	But the inadequate performance of students in various subgroups, such as race, pushed the state onto the needs-improvement list under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.	3.75
train	It exploded in his hands, but the former Italian prime minister was unhurt.	Maximum sustained winds were around 40 mph, with stronger gusts.	4
train	The consumer group generated $4.47 billion of profit and $20 billion of revenue from January to June, 53% of Citigroup's profit and revenue.	The crates are full of hardback copies of "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix."	1.8
train	The elderly and those with weakened immune systems are also urged to protect against mosquito bites.	Since early May, the city has received 1,400 reports, he said.	4.5
train	Another shooting linked to the spree occurred Nov. 11 at Hamilton Central Elementary in Obetz, about two miles from the freeway.	Analysts polled by Thomson Financial First Call had been expected to see a loss of about 11 cents a share from continuing operations.	3.25
train	The author is one of several defense experts expected to testify.	An audiotape aired last week by the Arab al-Jazeera television network may be the strongest evidence yet that Saddam survived the war.	5
train	According to SunnComm's Peter Jacobs, "MediaMax performs exactly as 'advertised' to the companies who purchased it.	"The average track error for the five-day (forecast) is 323 nautical miles.	3.8
train	Graham is expected to be nominated and elected to a second one-year term today and will deliver the presidential address.	Both studies are published on Thursday in Nature, the British weekly science journal.	4
train	The injured passenger at John Peter Smith Hospital died later Friday morning, Jones said.	The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX rose 6.48 points, or 0.66 percent, to 990.51.	3
train	The New York Mets then selected outfielder Lastings Milledge from Lakewood Ranch High School in Florida.	The tech-laden Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC shed 8 points, or 0.45 percent, to 1,645.	3.4
train	ISRAELI soldiers knocked down empty mobile homes and water towers in 10 tiny West Bank settlement outposts overnight as part of a US-backed Mideast peace plan.	The central bank's policy board left rates steady for now, as widely expected, but surprised the market by declaring that overall risks were weighted toward weakness.	5
train	Bremer, 61, is a onetime assistant to former Secretaries of State William P. Rogers and Henry Kissinger and was ambassador-at-large for counterterrorism from 1986 to 1989.	But church members and observers say they anticipate that the decision here could pose doctrinal problems for some Episcopalians who believe the Bible prohibits homosexuality.	1.6
train	The two-year note US2YT=RR fell 5/32 in price, taking its yield to 1.23 percent from 1.16 percent late on Monday.	Texas Instruments climbed $US1.37 to $US19.25 and Novellus Systems advanced $US1.76 to $US36.31, each having been raised to "overweight" by Lehman.	2.769
train	The meeting was scheduled to end Wednesday night, with attendees approving resolutions that express the denomination's view on issues but that are not binding on churches.	It added it had "co-operated fully" with police since November.	3.25
train	On health care, the NDP says there will be no privatization and no health-care premiums.	Its safe to assume the Senate is prepared to pass some form of a cap....The level of it is to be debated.	3.2
train	Mr Pollard said: "This is a terrible personal tragedy and a shocking blow for James's family.	In 2006, Asia Pacific will report growth of 7.9 percent to $81.8 billion.	4.75
train	The ADRs fell 10 cents to $28.95 at 10:06 a.m. in New York Stock Exchange composite trading today.	The mother also contended that she was sexually assaulted by one of the guards during the 1998 confrontation.	3.4
train	Pataki praised Abraham's decision, and LIPA Chairman Richard Kessel said the cable should be kept in operation permanently.	Police believe Wilson then shot Jennie Mae Robinson once in the head before turning the gun on herself.	4
train	Police using pepper spray arrested 12 people Monday night at a march and rally by about 400 activists protesting an annual training seminar of the Law Enforcement Intelligence Unit.	"I marched in the streets against Richard Nixon and the Vietnam War," she said.	3.2
train	Aventis, based in Strasbourg, France, is one of a handful of companies that still make the flu vaccine.	"But at this stage, given the early detection, the outlook in such instances would be positive," he said.	4.25
train	Meningitis is an infection of the spinal cord fluid and the tissue around the brain.	People who once thought their blood pressure was fine actually need to start exercising and eating better, according to new U.S. guidelines published on Wednesday.	3
train	The tech-loaded Nasdaq composite rose 20.96 points to 1595.91, ending at its highest level for 12 months.	Later this year, the command will send trainers with soldiers from four North African nations on patrolling and intelligence gathering missions.	3.6
train	Google's investors include prominent VC firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital, the paper noted.	The Nasdaq composite index fell 2.95, or 0.2 percent, for the week to 1,912.36 after stumbling 37.78 yesterday.	3.4
train	Shares in BA were down 1.5 percent at 168 pence by 1420 GMT, off a low of 164p, in a slightly stronger overall London market.	Selenski used the mattress to scale a 10-foot razor wire, Fischi said.	3
train	The Episcopal Church ''is alienating itself from the Anglican Communion,'' said the Very Rev. Peter Karanja, provost of the All Saints Cathedral, in Nairobi.	Excluding patent litigation, RIM's loss for the quarter was $700,000, or 1 cent per share.	0.889
train	Dixon was otherwise the class of the field at Pikes Peak International Raceway.	The judge scheduled another oversight hearing for late January.	0.25
train	"It was a little bit embarrassing the way we played in the first two games," Thomas said.	The privately held Google is believed to be profitable.	3
train	On Monday, as first reported by CNET News.com, the RIAA withdrew a DMCA notice to Penn State University's astronomy and astrophysics department.	In addition, "fewer than 10" FBI offices have conducted investigations involving visits to Islamic mosques, the Justice Department said.	3.6
train	The Winston-Salem, North Carolina company opened six stores during the quarter, bringing the total to 282.	The currency briefly weakened on Monday morning but rebounded to trade at 55.25/29, little changed from Friday.	1.5
train	Shares in EDS closed on Thursday at $18.51, a gain of 6 cents.	Mr. Powell told a crowd at a cemetery with a thousand headstones, many of them marking the graves of entire families.	3.6
train	Florida's Supreme Court has twice refused to hear the case.	FirstEnergy Corp. should have determined that modernizing one of its plants would increase overall pollution emissions, U.S. District Judge Edmund Sargus ruled Thursday.	3.333
train	He had been arrested twice before for trespassing and barred from the complex - home to his mother and two children.	IBM shares closed up $1.75, or 2.11 percent, at $84.50 on the New York Stock Exchange.	3.6
train	"Tomorrow at the Mission Inn, I have the opportunity to congratulate the governor-elect of the great state of California.	There were 293 human cases of West Nile in Indiana in 2002, including 11 deaths statewide.	4.5
train	Thirty-three of the 42 men had been arrested by Wednesday evening, said Daniel Bogden, U.S. attorney in Nevada.	Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Tuesday it will take time to locate die-hard remnants of Saddam Hussein's deposed regime in Iraq.	3.8
train	INTEL TODAY disclosed details of its next-generation XScale processor for mobile phones and handheld devices here in San Jose.	"IT is the only vehicle on which established economies will be able to compete" with fast-growing economies such as China and India, Barrett said.	3.667
train	"It is safe to assume the Senate is prepared to pass some form of cap," King said.	Vice President Dick Cheney says Mississippi Republican Haley Barbour would be a good governor because of his government and business savvy.	2.6
train	Micron has declared its first quarterly profit for three years.	"Spending taxpayer dollars to create terrorism betting parlors is as wasteful as it is repugnant," Wyden and Dorgan said Monday in a letter to the Pentagon.	2.75
train	Bashir felt he was being tried by opinion not on the facts, Mahendradatta told Reuters.	The results are to be published in Wednesday's issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association.	2
train	On the other hand, if this will help further establish Steve's innocence, we welcome it."	Dennehy, who transferred to Baylor last year after getting kicked off the University of New Mexico Lobos for temper tantrums, became a born-again Christian in June 2002.	3.75
train	The government did not identify the taikonauts — a term coined from ‘‘taikong,’’ the Chinese word for space — who would travel on the second mission.	Following California's lead, several states and the federal government passed similar or tougher bans.	3
train	"People are obviously inconvenienced," said Dr. Jim Young, Ontario's commissioner of public safety.	Through Sunday, Sept. 21, Site Finder has been visited over 65 million times by Internet users.	3.8
train	Mr. Turner transferred about 10 million shares to a charitable trust before they were sold.	The grant also funds beach testing in King George County, Norfolk and Virginia Beach.	2.4
train	Heather, 35, who lost a leg in a road accident, is thought to have steel plates fitted in her hips, which would make natural childbirth impossible.	The virus spreads when unsuspecting computer users open file attachments in emails that contain familiar headings like "Thank You!" and "Re: Details".	3.4
train	Russin did not comment; his lawyer did not attend the hearing and did not return phone messages.	Thousands of revellers, celebrating the decision, vowed to push for more legal rights, including same-sex marriages.	4.2
train	Hispanics, the fastest growing ethnic group in the US, have overtaken blacks to become the largest minority in the US, according to newly released government figures.	The product also streams Internet radio and comes with a 30-day free trial for RealNetworks' Rhapsody digital music subscription service.	2.75
train	GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP, N.J. Annika Sorenstam drew the crowds, Michelle Wie got the publicity but Angela Stanford took her first LPGA victory.	The blue-chip Dow Jones industrial average .DJI tacked on 97 points, or 1.14 percent, to 8,699.	1.75
train	Revenues for "The Hulk" came in well below those of last month's Marvel Comics adaptation, "X2: X-Men United," which grossed $85.6 million in its opening weekend.	"He hasn't got much choice," said the Bishop of Armidale, Peter Brain.	1.8
train	Now, with the agency's last three shuttles grounded in the wake of the Columbia disaster, that wait could be even longer.	"Reloaded" is the second installment of a trilogy; "The Matrix Revolutions" is slated for debut in November.	3.667
train	"These changes may affect a large number of existing Web pages," the statement continued.	The royal household was bracing itself for any more revelations in A Royal Duty, based on the former servant’s time with Diana, Princess of Wales.	4.2
train	The American Stock Exchange biotech index .BTK surged 5 percent.	More than 130 people have been arrested and $17 million worth of property seized in an Internet fraud sweep announced Friday by three U.S. government agencies.	3.273
train	Advanced Micro Devices said Fujitsu Siemens Computers is offering a high-end workstation based on AMD's Opteron 200 Series.	Klarman was arrested by FBI agents Monday morning at his home in New York.	4.176
train	The upcoming second-quarter earnings season will be particularly important in offering investors guidance, they say.	"Saddam is gone, but we want the (U.S.) occupation to end."	4.4
train	Captain Robert Ramsey of the US 1st Armoured Division said a truck had exploded outside the building about 11am, and that one of the compound's outer walls had collapsed.	Bremer, 61, is a former assistant to former Secretaries of State William P. Rogers and Henry Kissinger.	3
train	The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC rose 17.26 points, or 1.06 percent, to 1,640.06, based on the latest data.	License sales, a key measure of demand, fell 21 percent to $107.6 million.	3.25
train	Kollar-Kotelly has scheduled another antitrust settlement compliance hearing for January.	Ankara says all four suicide bombers were Turkish.	2.6
train	The Portuguese weather service said Europe's heatwave was caused by a mass of hot, dry air moving from the southeast.	Twenty-four players broke par in the first round, the third highest figure in U.S. Open history.	4.6
train	According to the Census Bureau, the Hispanic population increased by 9.8 percent from the April 2000 census figures.	The arrests came just days after Israeli troops shot and killed Abdullah Kawasme, the militant group's leader in Hebron.	3.8
train	The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index <.SPX> was 0.46 points lower, or 0.05 percent, at 997.02.	She took the highly unusual step of skipping cabinet to attend a meeting with the presidents of Rwanda and Uganda.	2.8
train	Amnesty International has said that over the past 20 years it has collected information about 17,000 disappearances in Iraq but the actual figure may be much higher.	Early Monday, insurgents threw a homemade bomb at a U.S. convoy in northern Baghdad, killing an American soldier.	3
train	A search for three missing teenagers uncovered at least two bodies buried beneath freshly poured concrete in the basement of a house, authorities said Wednesday.	They say second-quarter earnings reports will be key in giving investors that guidance.	4
train	The camp hosts summer religious retreats for children and other events year-round, according to its Web site.	Hickenlooper clobbered city Auditor Don Mares, 46, in the Tuesday runoff.	4
train	The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI was off 58.69 points, or 0.64 percent, at 9,137.86.	Bishop O'Brien, aged 67, had told police he thought he had hit a dog or cat.	3
train	It later emerged that he had broken his right thigh and bones in his right wrist and elbow.	Wells' other series include NBC's "ER" and "Third Watch."	3
train	The Nasdaq Composite Index rose 19.67, or 1.3 percent, to 1523.71, its highest since June 18.	GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP, N.J. >> Annika Sorenstam and Michelle Wie drew the crowds, but Angela Stanford took her first LPGA victory.	1.75