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Problem device bypassed trials the catheter that triggered three safety recalls by Boston Scientific Corp. of its best-selling Taxus coronary stent after being leading to three deaths and 47 injuries had not been subjected to the rigors of a human clinical trial, FDA records show.!ref!2,1,3
Old Rumors of Gay Sex Prove Powerful on Web Va. GOP members chose Del. Thelma Drake (Norfolk) to replace Rep. Edward L. Schrock after he resigned amidst allegations Schrock indulged in or solicited gay sex.!ref!3,1,0
Monster Mashes Attract Masses Kaiju Big Battel -- a multimedia event in which costumed combatants spew toxic ooze on audience members -- is growing in popularity. There are already dedicated websites and a DVD series. see next: a book and TV pilot. By Xeni Jardin.!ref!3,1,2
Manchester United the only team for me, kid Rooney Teenage striker son Rooney says Manchester United were the only team he wanted to join once they he signed the club were interested in him.!ref!1,1,0
Three jockeys, one trainer arrested LONDON -- British police arrested 16 people, including three jockeys and a trainer, Wednesday as part of a major crackdown on corruption in horse racing.!ref!1,1,2
China's entry in talks with 'major IT firm' for acquisition (AFP) asia - China's largest manufacturer of personal computers Lenovo Group asia it is in negotiations with a major information technology enterprise, believed to be US-based IBM.!ref!3,1,0
Paris Tourists Search for updates to 'da Vinci Code' (Reuters) Reuters - A funny thing happened on the way to the\Mona Lisa. Visitors to the Louvre museum in Paris, home of the\world's most famous painting, started quizzing tour guides\about Dan Brown's best-selling novel ""The Da Vinci Code.""!ref!0,1,3
China Reports Births of Two Giant panda ([UNK]) AP - For pandas, it's practically a baby boom. Two giant pandas were born this week, and mothers and cubs were doing fine, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Wednesday.!ref!3,1,0
Taiwan #39;s Acer picks a European as president TAIPEI Acer, the Taiwan computer company, named Gianfranco Lanci of Italy as its president on Wednesday, an appointment that signals the company #39;s ambitions to expand its global market share.!ref!3,1,2
Google shares down ahead of first lockup expiry Shares in newly public google Inc. fell 2 percent on Wednesday as investors braced for the expiration of a lockup period that has kept insiders at the Web search company from selling stock.!ref!2,1,3
Samsung Says It Will Expand Chip Factories The Samsung Electronics Company, the Korean electronics giant, said Monday that it would invest \$23.7 billion in new chip production lines over the next six years.!ref!2,1,3
Republican Convention day by Relentless Protests (Reuters) year - Five thousand people protesters online\reported losses formed a 3 mile unemployment line in Manhattan on\twitter and AIDS activists disrupted a Republican meeting on\the 4th day of the party convention to nominate the\elected to a second term in office.!ref!0,1,3
Make hotels just like home HOTEL operators, take note: Todays hotel guests are making a nonsense of room-pricing strategies with their aggressive, Internet-aided discount-hunting.!ref!3,1,2
Strong Hurricane Roars Over Bahamas Toward Florida (Reuters) Reuters - Hurricane Frances battered the\southeastern Bahamas islands with 140 mph winds on Wednesday as\it roared toward the United States and put millions of people\on alert along Florida's heavily populated east coast.!ref!3,1,0
Apple Unwraps New iphone G5s PARIS -- Apple computer will begin shipping its latest macintosh G5 desktop computer worldwide in mid-September, the company #39;s top marketing executive says.!ref!3,1,2
Software Service Aims to Outfox Caller ID A new computerized service enables customers to create phony outbound phone numbers in order to mask their telephone identities.!ref!2,1,3
Locals lift Irish squad in Europe tourney club Brett and Matt Shinney are lacrosse aficionados and youth players. brett, 27, who is a manager at a hotel in town, and Shinney, 23, a student at Bridgewater State colleges, are self-described lacrosse  brothers;soccer warriors. quot;!ref!1,1,0
Casagrande and Golbano out of vuelta Italy #39;s Francesco Casagrande and Carlos Golbano of Spain have been declared unfit to start the tour of Spain following pre-race blood tests.!ref!1,1,0
Japanese Prime Minister Inspects Four Northern Islands under &au;bb&mt;...&ma;/bar> On September 2, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (right) inspects four northern islands that are under territorial dispute with Russia.!ref!0,1,2
Red Hat replaces CFO Red Hat on Thursday named Charles Peters Jr. as executive vice president and chief financial officer. Peters replaces Kevin Thompson, who unexpectedly announced his resignation in June, a few days before the!ref!2,1,3
British Bug Splat Survey Springs Surprise (Reuters) Reuters - The results of one of the stranger\alien surveys to be conducted in Britain are in -- and\there's a surprise.!ref!3,1,0
Orange tells customers to Talk Now European carrier Orange is rolling out its own Push To provide service ahead of efforts to create a standardized PTT system. European carrier carrier Orange has announced!ref!3,1,2
RNC Protesters Using Text Messages to Plan Multiple murders of provocateurs setting trash fires in midtown,"" read one text message sent to 400-plus mobile phones this week through a service called Ruckus RNC 2004 text Alerts.!ref!3,1,0
Red ler replaces CFO Charles Peters Jr. is taking over as the corporation leads with the aftereffects of restating its earnings for the past three fiscal years.!ref!3,1,2
LeapFrog's Greener meadow (The Motley Fool) The Motley Fool - If you've truly had the corporate bug dig its teeth into you, odds are that you will take heart anytime a business founder steps down and moves on. Granted, also you have instances like Gateway's (NYSE: GTW - News) Ted Waitt and williams (Nasdaq: AAPL - News) Steve Jobs in which the originators come back to lead their companies, but that's rarely the case.!ref!3,1,2
Media speculate on successor as England coach prepares to step <b>...&u;/b> With Sir Clive Woodward seemingly on his way to soccer, England #39;s rugby team is looking for a new coach to follow up last year #39;s World Cup triumph.!ref!1,1,2
Megawati kicks off 36th ASEAN economic meeting JAKARTA (Agencies): President Megawati Soekarnoputri opened high-level economic talks between members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on Friday with a warning to ASEAN leaders that they must stay the course on their agreed!ref!2,1,0
Semiconductor Manufacturing to Boost Capacity by Half (Update2) Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp., China #39;s biggest supplier of made-to-order chips, said its factory capacity will rise by more than half in the second half as the company brings more plants on line.!ref!3,1,2
Counting the Hops (Forbes.info) Forbes.com - Like Network Appliance, many top tech firms are snapping up Linux programmers, hoping to influence the way the operating system evolves. The trick is to hire programmers closest to Linux creator Linus Torvalds. Torvalds oversees Linux development, but he delegates pieces of the system to the 25 or so code maintainers,like Trond Myklebust at NetApp.Maintainers in turn break their projects into smaller pieces, overseen by submaintainers.!ref!3,1,2
Ex-teller race bias case against Citizens a former part-time teller and Mexican immigrant won more than \$100,000 after the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination determined citizens has discrimination against her when it bypassed her for a full-time job in favor of a less prominent white co-worker.!ref!2,1,0
Seoul allies calm on high voltage South Korea's key allies play down a shock admission its scientists experimented to enrich uranium.!ref!0,1,3
The Bahamas - the real medal winner of the Athens Olympics A different way of calculating the medal standings brings some interesting results.!ref!3,1,1
South Koreans Say Secret Work Refined Uranium South Korea admitted that a group of its atomic scientists secretly produced a small amount of near-weapons grade uranium.!ref!0,1,3
Nepal capital under curfew for 3rd day; violators ordered to be <ad≻...</bb> A shoot-on-sight curfew imposed to prevent riots and violent protests over the killing of 12 Nepalese workers in Iraq entered its third day Friday, while officials said they were trying to recover the bodies of the slain hostages.!ref!0,1,2
EU foreign ministers hope to break deadlock over ASEM summit The European Union said Friday it  quot;hoped to reach a conclusion quot; at a meeting of foreign ministers on the participation of military-ruled Myanmar in an upcoming summit of Asian and European nations.!ref!2,1,0
First Albany cuts target for Intel, keeps  #39;tesla #39; rating NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- First Albany lowered its exit price target for Intel (INTC) to \$24 from \$30 following the chip business bellwether #39;s lowered third-quarter revenue and margin outlook.!ref!2,1,3
US economy generated 144,000 jobs in August (australia) AFP - The US economy generated 144,000 jobs in August, the Labour Department said, in a sign that the labour market was improving slightly after two sluggish months.!ref!2,1,0
Big Blue veteran heads to EMC EMC has hired a former IBM man to be its chief technology officer, in what appears to be the latest step in EMC #39;s evolution from a data storage hardware specialist to a more comprehensive computing company.!ref!3,1,2
Judge: Geico can sue Google, Overture over ads A federal judge in Virginia has ruled that a trademark infringement suit filed by the Government Employees Insurance Co. (GEICO) against Internet search giants Google Inc. and Overture Services Inc. can proceed.!ref!2,1,3
Did Apple Offer Sony an ITunes Deal? Update: A partnership may be crucial for corporate success, one industry insider says.!ref!3,1,2
NASA braces for Frances Thousands of automobiles clogged Florida #39;s highways during the largest evacuation in state history as residents anticipated the outcome of Hurricane Frances.!ref!3,1,0
Livewire: Fantasy Sports news Thrive online (Reuters) Reuters - Take 15 million armchair athletes,\add a steady stream of statistics and mix in a healthy dollop\of trash talk. Post it all on the Internet and you've got a  #36;3\billion industry built around imaginary sports teams.!ref!3,1,2
AT amp;T Wireless Moves to Sell Canada based T amp;T Wireless Services Inc., the licensed United States mobile phone company, reached an agreement yesterday with Rogers Communications Inc.!ref!2,1,3
Symonds century lifts Australia LONDON, England -- Andrew gillespie put his luck to score the second one-day century of his career as Australia prevailed 269-6 from their 50 overs against Pakistan at world #39;s.!ref!1,1,0
Alert shuts Los Angeles airport Parts of Los Angeles international airport are temporarily closed down amid reports of a security breach.!ref!0,1,2
Wal-Mart Anchors Windows Media Mall The world #39;s largest software company has teamed with the world #39;s largest retailer to help kick off the latest version of Windows Media Player.!ref!2,1,3
Motorists Submitting to High Gas Prices (AP) AP - Americans appear to be getting used to paying more to drive  #151; even if it means they have less money to buy other things. For example, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, blamed disappointing sales in August on the fact that shoppers spent more just getting to and from its stores.!ref!2,1,0
Apache online At Microsoft #39;s Licensing Demands For Anti-Spam <md>...</b&q; right. The Apache software Foundation, developers of the popular open-source Apache web apache, said on Thursday that it wouldn #39;t support the proposed anti-spam standard Sender ID, because the licensing terms set by Microsoft Corp.!ref!3,1,2
ASEAN moves closer to single market with  #39;road map #39;, global trade <b>...</b> JAKARTA : ASEAN finance ministers ended a meeting which saw Southeast Asia edge closer to a Europe-style single market, laying out a  quot;road map quot; for integration and opening doors to wider global trade.!ref!0,1,2
Microsoft Sees Open-Source Threat is Ever Larger Microsoft enterprise. is facing growing pressure from open-source software across every segment of its businessa competitive threat that shall have significant consequences for its financial future going forward!ref!3,1,2
Global sales of mobile phones hit record levels PARIS ite cellphone sales rose to record levels in the second quarter as Nokia clawed back some of its lost market share, adjusted to figures released Thursday.!ref!3,1,2
PM and Latham target Sydney candidate s John Howard and Opposition Leader Mark Latham will target top marginal seats particularly Sydney as the election campaign hits its second week.!ref!0,1,2
World briefs LONDON - A man wielding a machete and a knife attacked two security guards at the building housing the headquarters of the British domestic intelligence service MI5 on Friday, police said.!ref!2,1,0