Jan
25
2009
An 11-year-old Franco-Mexican bullfighter killed six young bulls on Saturday in a controversial performance that child protection and anti-bullfighting campaigners had hoped to stop.


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Jan
25
2009
The Sundance Film Festival’s 2009 audience and jury awards, presented Saturday in Park City, Utah…


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Jan
25
2009
President Barack Obama won approval from 68 percent of Americans in his first three days on the job, emerging at the high end of ratings for the last eight first- term predecessors, according to a Gallup poll.


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Jan
25
2009
Dinosaurs were able to survive colder temperatures than was previously thought, according to new research that casts doubt on theories that they were killed off by plummeting temperatures caused by climate change.


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Jan
25
2009
Labels are fragile: text and pictures have always been closely connected. From the dawn of written language to the era of microcomputers, much of human creation has explored the relationship between the literal and the figurative, the form and the function. Within this is the future site of retro, ASCII art.


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Jan
25
2009
Lance Armstrong departed Australia confident that the two key areas of his comeback are on track. The seven-time Tour de France winner finished 29th overall in the Tour Down Under, 49 seconds behind winner Allan Davis of Australia, but was satisfied with his ability to keep up with top riders after 3 1/2 years out of professional cycling.


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Jan
25
2009
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Jan
25
2009
The recent death of a Canadian senior amateur player and the hospitalization of an AHL fighter, who had a seizure after a bout Friday night, have raised concerns that fighting has become too dangerous.”I always believed it is an incidental part of the game. But it is a part of the game,” said NHL commissioner Gary Bettman.


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Jan
25
2009
Investors this week will face the largest batch of company report cards yet, in what is quickly shaping up to be the worst quarter for corporate profits in a decade.


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Jan
25
2009
Memory has long been described as a function of brain cells getting together and forming connections. A new study finds single cells can remember things.


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