In many states, restrictions are being placed on programs like unemployment benefits and cash assistance, leaving a growing number of low-income families in worse financial trouble.

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Families Feel Sharp Edge of State Budget Cuts

A growing number of people are giving up lucrative jobs in Australia for a chance at the quick riches and adventure of old-fashioned prospecting.

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Gold Fever Gripping the Australian Outback

A growing number of recession-racked municipalities are seeking more money — just don’t use the word taxes — from nonprofit institutions that by law do not pay property taxes.

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Squeezed Cities Ask Nonprofits for More Money

New scientific evidence suggests that a growing number of creatures could disappear from the earth. One-fifth of the vertebrates and as many as a third of all sharks and rays are now threatened with extinction. Read full article > >

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Threatened species, but there’s still hope

With anti-immigrant sentiment rising across the nation, a growing number of states are considering legislation that would forbid public universities from offering in-state tuition breaks to illegal immigrants.

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Maryland moves closer to extending tuition breaks to illegal immigrants

As a nuclear disaster unfolds in distant Japan, a growing number of Indian scientists, academics and others have expressed concern about plans for a coastal nuclear plant.

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Resistance to Jaitapur Nuclear Plant Grows in India

… make money, say a growing number of online musicians

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A growing number of children are killed and injured in Afghanistan, mostly by the Taliban and other anti-government groups, a new UN report says.

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‘Afghan children hit by violence’

The federal government is cracking down on farmers running insurance scams by hiking penalties and surveying crops by satellite. A growing number of farmers have been getting taxpayer compensation for crops they claim were destroyed by weather or…

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Sneaky Farmers Plan Insurance Cons

Rieko Fukushima, who developed a way to watch 3-D TV without glasses, is among the growing number of women in Japan with children and careers.

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Leading in 3-D TV, and Breaking Japan’s Glass Ceiling

A growing number of small manufacturers are now expecting to increase production to meet rising demand, according to the CBI business group.

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Small factories ‘to raise output’

Guess it’s more than just a shiny toy, after all. Apple’s iPad is lending itself to unforeseen uses as a tool for parents with children who need speech therapy. Third-party companies have developed a growing number of apps that cater to a special-needs…

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iPad Proves Valuable in Speech Therapy

A growing number of countries are retreating from some free-market rules that have guided international trade.

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More Countries Adopt China’s Tactics on Currency

Economist Paul Krugman writes in his op-ed that “structural unemployment is a fake problem, which mainly serves as an excuse for not pursuing real solutions.” In response to a growing number of pundits and policymakers who claim that the current…

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Krugman Rejects Structural Unemployment

The growing number of chips in cars will make them smarter and safer to drive, predict experts.

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Clever cars to mean safer driving