Money is flowing by the barrelful into Mountrail County, N.D., transforming a tiny community into an unexpected oasis of prosperity at the heart of the nation’s biggest oil play.

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In North Dakota, a Great Divide Over Oil Riches

An 18-year-old man who died in an attack in Oxford Street in central London was stabbed in the heart, Scotland Yard says.

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West End victim ‘knifed in heart’

Says gender disparity is at the heart of economic inequality.

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Gloria Steinem Highlights OWS’ Feminist Roots

The French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, says France and Germany must pull together to ensure stability at the heart of Europe.

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Sarkozy backs closer German ties

A powerful body which is at the heart of the government’s controversial NHS reforms in England begins work on Monday.

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New NHS Board ‘will compare’ GPs

The trial of two Pakistan cricketers accused of being involved in a betting scam shows the “rampant corruption at the heart of international cricket”, prosecutors say.

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The resilience of Metro riders — both area residents and visitors — was put to the test on Saturday as the system ran Red Line trains on just one track through the heart of the District. “It’s kind of ridiculous, actually,” said one rider on the platform at Metro Center. “We’ve been waiting a half-hour, maybe,” added Mindy Carter of Charlottesville. Read full article > >

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Metro’s single-tracking tests riders

The World Shakespeare Festival is the “trump card” putting “art at the heart of the Olympics”, the head of the Cultural Olympiad says.

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Shakespeare tops London festival

CBI Scotland urges the Scottish government to put measures to aid economic growth at the heart of its upcoming Spending Review.

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CBI urges ministers to aid growth

I have been awarded a golden ticket to the heart of Silicon Valley: the Thiel Fellowship. The catch? For two years, I cannot be enrolled as a full-time student at an academic institution. For me, that’s not an issue; I believe higher education is broken.

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Opinion: College is a waste of time

Researchers use tricky means to accomplish what was thought to be an impossible experiment that gets at the heart of quantum mechanics.

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Team ‘sneaks around’ quantum rule

Thousands of Spaniards defied a ban on a preelection demonstration and mounted a protest camp in the heart of the Spanish capital to express anger at political parties and the country’s handling of the economic crisis. Read full article > >

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Demonstrations in Spain protest political parties and economic crisis

Another Thai soldier dies in border clashes with Cambodia, as Cambodia petitions the UN’s highest court to clarify a judgement at the heart of the dispute.

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Cambodia seeks UN border ruling

SAN FRANCISCO — A federal jury convicted Barry Bonds of a single charge of obstruction of justice Wednesday but failed to reach a verdict on the three counts at the heart of allegations that he knowingly used steroids and human growth hormone and lied to a grand jury about it.

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Corporate lawyer Matthew Kluger is alleged to have been at the heart of one of the largest and longest-running insider-trading schemes ever prosecuted, but when he appeared in a federal court in Alexandria on Wednesday, he said he could not afford an attorney, according to a Justice Department spokesman.

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District lawyer Kluger arrested for insider trading is assigned public defender