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| Meyer, Ohio St Talk of the Big Ten on Season's Eve | | | Urban Meyer was hailed as a savior when he agreed to take over Ohio State in the wake of the tattoo scandal that sullied the program. That support became even more frenzied when he coached the Buckeyes to a 12-0 record in his first season. |
| Women lawyers hitting glass ceiling | | | The scales of justice are beginning to balance as an increasing number of women enter the legal profession. In the UK, it is an even 50% split of gender representation, while in the U.S., female lawyers make up 70% of staff attorneys. |
| When cooking can kill | | | For nearly half of the world's population, building and maintaining a fire is a daily -- and often deadly -- chore. |
| Wall Street bounces back; Zynga cuts staff | | | June 3 - Summary of business headlines Market recovers some of Friday's sell-off as data suggest Fed has economic cover to keep buying; Zynga to slash jobs in bid to save up to $80 million per year; Merck drug shows early promise, stock gains. Conway G. Gittens reports. |
| Man wanted in Algeria gas attack charged in New York | | | Federal prosecutors in New York on Friday charged a one-eyed veteran Islamist fighter with crimes related to a brazen attack on a gas facility in Algeria earlier this year that left 37 hostages dead, including three Americans. |
| Planning for a generation that will live past 100 | | | BOSTON (Reuters) - More than half of the babies born today may expect to live past the age of 100, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, which forecasts the number of Americans over 65 doubling to 80... |
| Penn State Heading Into Year 2 Under O'Brien | | | Bill O'Brien thinks he can do a better job of managing the clock. He wants to improve his communication with his coaches in the press box. Then there are the adjustments for recruiting, practice and team meetings. |
| 'The man who made a nation cry' | | | Rio de Janeiro's Maracana Stadium was packed to the rafters 200,000 expectant spectators prepared to celebrate Brazil's first World Cup triumph and its arrival as a football superpower. But what happened next has left a burning scar in the nation's psyche. |
| Grief in the aftermath of train crash in Spain | | | July 25 - Families and friends of victims of a train crash that killed at least 80 in Spain face grief and despair as they gather at a temporary morgue and hospital. Deborah Lutterbeck reports. |
| Tevez's community service? | | | Carlos Tevez may have escaped the clutches of the Premier League by joining Italian giant Juventus -- but the long arm of the law could yet bring the striker back to English shores. |
| GSK replaces China chief amid corruption scandal | | | LONDON (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline has appointed one of its top European executives as the new head of operations in China, amid a corruption scandal there that has rocked Britain's biggest drug maker. |
| Edwards Lifesciences quarterly earnings rise | | | July 25 (Reuters) - Edwards Lifesciences Corp on Thursday reported higher second-quarter earnings on solid sales of its replacement heart valves implanted in a less-invasive procedure than open-heart surgery. |
| Facebook wows Wall Street with mobile ads growth | | | (Reuters) - Facebook Inc's stellar results allayed fears that the company may face difficulty in making money from mobile ads and prompted several Wall Street brokerages to raise their target price on the stock. |
| Study raises new concern about earthquakes and fracking fluids | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Powerful earthquakes thousands of miles (km) away can trigger swarms of minor quakes near wastewater-injection wells like those used in oil and gas recovery, scientists reported on Thursday, sometimes followed months later by quakes big enough to destroy buildings. |
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