When I travel abroad, which I do frequently for work, I try to run every day for an hour. It gives me energy and a great look at my new surroundings. After starting a run in Manila recently, I stopped three minutes into it. My breathing was shallow and labored. I also had nagging pain in my calves. The discomfort had been with me since I landed in the Philippines four days earlier. Read full article > >

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An achy calf and shortness of breath point a traveler to deep vein thrombosis

BEIJING — In the days after Kim Jong Il’s death, China’s most powerful leaders hurried to the North Korean Embassy in Beijing, where they fanned across the embassy’s parquet floor and bowed three times to Kim’s portrait. One Chinese state councilor was “hardly” able to keep back tears , North Korea’s state-run news agency later said. Read full article > >

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Amid N. Korea succession, China makes push for stability

BERLIN — Economist Lucas Papademos will be Greece’s next prime minister, the Greek president’s office announced Thursday, giving Europe a partner who promises to implement a bailout plan that forces tough austerity measures on the country before elections are held next year. The selection of Papademos, a former vice president of the European Central Bank, ended four days of squabbling by the country’s bitterly divided political parties over how to structure a unity government. Read full article > >

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Economist Papademos to lead Greece’s unity government

SALT LAKE CITY — A 64-year-old man who broke his leg while hiking crawled through the Utah desert for four days near Canyonlands National Park before rangers rescued him. Amos Wayne Richards of Concord, N.C. is now recovering at home. He was hiking alone Sept. 8 in the rugged Maze District when he fell 10 feet. Read full article > >

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Man with broken leg survives 4 days in Utah desert after rangers find him crawling to safety

He just got in the race, but Rick Perry is already Republicans’ top choice for the presidential nomination, according to a new Gallup Poll . In the first long-running national poll taken since the Texas governor jumped into the 2012 presidential contest, Perry nabbed 29 percent of respondents’ support in the survey of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents. The poll was taken August 17 to 21, four days after Perry announced his candidacy. Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney , heretofore the weak front-runner of the GOP pack, placed a distant second, with 17 percent Read full article > >

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Rick Perry, new GOP frontrunner

There is no more argument that the days of Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez as the prototypical five-tool player.

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On Baseball: Plenty of Time Left to Regret Rodriguez’s Contract

In four days of assault on port city.

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Syrian Forces Kill 35 in Latakia

Festivalgoers facing muddy conditions on the first day of Glastonbury are warned to expect more heavy downpours over the next four days.

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Mud greets Glastonbury arrivals

Some customers of Tesco Bank are still locked out of their accounts, four days after a the bank’s computer systems crashed.

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Tesco bank accounts still locked

Are the days of “public broadcasting” over? PBS officials have told member stations that the science shows Nature and Nova will have “promotional breaks” during the show rather than airing before and after as they currently do. The plan has been hotly…

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PBS to Air Promotional Breaks

PHOENIX — Matthew Salenger etched 54 phrases in a circular piece of steel, building Arizona’s Sept. 11 memorial one story at a time. He wanted everyone’s story to be told. Phrases like “10:28 a.m. WTC North Tower Collapses” stated undisputed facts. Then there was “Must Bomb Back” and its polar opposite: “You Don’t Win Battles of Terrorism With More Battles.”  Gary Bird, a businessman and Arizona’s sole Sept. 11 victim, was listed. So was a Sikh who was killed in a hate crime outside Phoenix, four days later. Read full article > >

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In Arizona, 9/11 memorial preaches vengeance and tolerance, rivaling stories etched in steel

Dominique Strauss-Kahn resigned Wednesday as head of the International Monetary Fund, denying the accusations that led to his arrest four days ago.

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I.M.F. Chief Quits in Wake of Charges of Sexual Attack

Four days after American forces killed Osama Bin Laden, President Obama has laid a wreath at Ground Zero in New York.

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President Obama traveled to New York to meet with 9/11 survivors and lay a wreath at ground zero, four days after the killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

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Obama visits ground zero, honors 9/11 victims

Workers entered one of the damaged reactor buildings at Japan’s stricken nuclear power plant Thursday for the first time since it was rocked by an explosion in the days after a devastating earthquake, the country’s nuclear safety agency said.

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