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Study: People worldwide living longer, but sicker
LONDON (AP) — Nearly everywhere around the world, people are living longer and fewer children are dying. But increasingly, people are grappling with the diseases and disabilities of modern life, according to the most expansive global look so far...Tags: Tuberculosis, High Blood Pressure, Health and Safety at School, Physical Conditions, Lung Cancer
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GM gets new credit lines totaling $11B
DETROIT (AP) — General Motors says it has received $11 billion in credit lines from 35 financial institutions in 14 countries, boosting its available cash and credit to more than $42 billion. The company wouldn't say specifically what it plans to...
Tags: General Motors Corp., Credit Ratings, Manufacturing and Engineering, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Moody's Corporation
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Battle re-enactments draw families of veterans
South Bend Tribune Staff WriterST. JOSEPH -- Chase Bartlebaugh is not an advocate for war or peace, but Saturday he joined about 300 to 400 participants at Tiscornia Beach for the re-enactment of the World War II European and Pacific beach landings. "I've been a fan of history...Tags: U.S. Marine Corps, World War II (1939-1945), U.S. Army
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Notre Dame researchers help find 'God Particle'
WSBT TV Reporter(WATCH! Video shows WSBT-TV Reporter Kelli Stopczynski's pingpong balls/sugar/tray demonstration.) Scientists say they've made a huge discovery that could explain how and why the universe was formed, and researchers at Notre Dame played a role. The big...Tags: Science, Higgs Boson Search, Science and Technology, Swiss Confederation, Applied Physics
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Home sales bump, earnings send stock market higher
NEW YORK (AP) — On a day that brought both good and bad news about the economy, investors chose to see the glass as half-full. U.S. stocks edged higher Thursday, pushed up by a batch of bright earnings reports and encouraging news about home sales....
Tags: Italy, Services and Shopping, Dow Chemical Co., Money and Monetary Policy, Quarterly or Semiannual Financial Statements
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After seven decades, Pearl Harbor fresh in vets' minds
The crude oil was already 30 inches deep on Battleship Row by the time 18-year-old Harold Helser arrived on the shore, looking for a way to help. Overhead, Japanese planes continued to drop bombs and strafe with their machine guns, as the Dec. 7, 1941,...Tags: Human Interest, Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941), World War II (1939-1945), Germany, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Vacant land in Detroit turned into beer garden
DETROIT (AP) — A group of local artists, designers, writers and others has transformed a piece of vacant land in Detroit into a European-style beer garden. The Tashmoo Biergarten will pop up once a week and feature a rotating selection of beer by...Tags: Native Americans, Detroit, Minority Groups
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Continued slow growth ahead for South Bend, panel says
South Bend Tribune Staff WriterSOUTH BEND - A Business Outlook Panel of economic experts at Indiana University South Bend on Friday predicted sluggish growth in 2012, with a bright-side note that threats of a double-dip recession have receded. “For the last couple of years, it...Tags: Teachers, Global Expansion, Teaching and Learning, Finance, Indiana University
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It Is Serious Now
Now a brief check of news from overseas. In France this has been the driest March through May in 50 years. And the warmest in 110 years. Several European Nations are rapidly preparing emergency plans to conserve water, give farmers millions of dollars...Tags: Disasters, Agriculture, Weather, Netherlands, Disasters and Accidents
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Obama: Automakers inspire in face of 'headwinds'
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) -- Distancing himself from new economic sputters, President Barack Obama on Saturday declared that recent "headwinds" were the result of high gasoline prices, Japan's disastrous earthquake and jitters over a European fiscal crisis. He...Tags: Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Labor Legislation, Manufacturing and Engineering, Career and Workplace, Petroleum Industry
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Oregon woman develops foreign accent after surgery
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — She has a British-sounding accent, but she's never been to Europe. Karen Butler woke up from dental surgery one day talking funny. A year and a half later her "foreign" accent remains, and her story has traveled around the world....Tags: Oregon, Surgery, Dentistry and Dental Health, Health
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Official: Michigan resident sickened in European E. coli outbreak
DETROIT (AP) — A heath official says a Michigan resident who recently was in northern Germany is among four people in the U.S. apparently sickened by the food poisoning outbreak in Europe. Kelly Niebel, a spokeswoman for the Michigan Department...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Detroit, E. coli Infection, Michigan
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