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| 1 |  | Pitino, defense attorney have testy court exchange
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AP - Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino and the attorney for a woman accused of attempting to extort him have started the trial's fourth day of testimony with a heated exchange.
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| 2 |  | Northrop Grumman 2Q profit soars, raises year view
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AP - Defense contractor Northrop Grumman Corp. said Thursday its second-quarter earnings nearly doubled, partly due to a tax benefit, and it raised its outlook for the year.
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| 3 |  | Mortgage rates hit low of 4.54 percent
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AP - Mortgage rates dropped to the lowest level on record for the fifth time in six weeks, making homebuying and refinancing the most attractive in decades for those who can get loans.
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| 4 |  | Up to 138 killed in DR Congo boat accident
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Reuters - As many as 138 people died when an overloaded boat carrying passengers and goods capsized in rough water in Democratic Republic of Congo, police said on Thursday. |
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| 5 |  | Gulf spill lacks societal punch of Santa Barbara
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AP - In 1969, Sen. Gaylord Nelson was so moved after seeing the devastation of an oil spill off the California coast near Santa Barbara that he called for a national teach-in on the environment. The resulting "Earth Day" the following year kick-started the modern environmental movement and shaped the way Americans thought about their air, water and soil.
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| 7 |  | Amazon CEO hopes new Kindles stoke sales
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AP - Jeff Bezos isn't just confident you'll want a Kindle e-book reader. The CEO of Amazon.com is bracing for a future in which you'll also want ones for your kid heading to college, your spouse in a book club and perhaps even Grandpa.
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| 8 |  | Medvedev boosts KGB successor
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Reuters - President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a new law to boost Russia's security service, restoring a Soviet-era practice of issuing warnings to people it believes are about to commit a crime, the Kremlin said on Thursday.
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| 9 |  | Festival announces 79 world premieres for Venice
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AP - Sofia Coppola's comic drama "Somewhere," and Darren Aronofsky's "Black Swan" will make their world premieres at the Venice Film Festival, among 22 titles that organizers announced Thursday will vie for the prestigious Golden Lion. |
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| 10 |  | One For Me, One For You: A New Approach to Holiday Giving at Gap
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Fashion Wire Daily - In a technology-obsessed world, where new gadgets top everyone's holiday gift wish-lists, it's up to clothing retailers to come up with new ways to entice customers to give wearable items as gifts. Gone are the days when a new pair of socks or pajamas can hold their own against a video game console or smartphone, which is something that Gap's creative director Patrick Robinson had in mind when he designed the Holiday 2010 collection.
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