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Illinois Primary On Tuesday: Is Obama’s State Up For Grabs?

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

CHICAGO — President Barack Obama’s old Senate seat and the Illinois governorship, held by Democrats, are GOP November takeover targets as voters head to the polls for Tuesday’s primary, the earliest in the nation for the 2010 election cycle.

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Illinois Primary On Tuesday: Is Obama’s State Up For Grabs?

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Amazon.com Pulls Macmillan Books From Site In E-Book Price Dispute

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

NEW YORK — New copies of Hilary Mantel’s “Wolf Hall,” Andrew Young’s “The Politician” and other books published by Macmillan were unavailable Saturday on Amazon.com, a drastic step in the ongoing dispute over e-book prices. Macmillan CEO John Sargent said he was told Friday that its books would be removed from Amazon.com, as would e-books for Amazon’s Kindle e-reader.

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Argentine leader sacks bank boss

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

Argentina’s president signs a decree sacking the nation’s central bank chief, who had refused to use currency reserves to pay debt.

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Burma leader in election warning

Monday, January 4th, 2010

Burma’s military leader Than Shwe urges people to make “correct choices” this year, in the nation’s first poll for two decades.

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G-spot may be a myth, researchers say

Monday, January 4th, 2010

The elusive erogenous zone said to exist in some women may be a myth, say researchers who have hunted for it.

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Poll of Detroit residents finds grim conditions but optimistic outlooks

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

DETROIT — The decline of the auto industry and the nation’s economic slide have left many residents here trapped, without work, in houses they can’t sell, in neighborhoods where they fear for their safety, in schools that offer their children a hard road out.

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