Sec’y Clinton tries dialing diplomacy for Mideast
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AP – Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is working the phones to prod Israel and the Palestinians into direct peace talks.

Asian stock markets rise on Wall Street rally
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AP – Asian markets rose Thursday as investors took heart from U.S. bank State Street’s robust profit forecast and scooped up stocks battered down by days of selling.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s top court ruled Tuesday that the state can use eminent domain to force homeowners and businesses to sell their properties for a massive development in Brooklyn that includes a new arena for the New Jersey Nets. In a 6-1 ruling Tuesday, the Court of Appeals said the Empire State Development Corp.’s finding that the area was blighted was enough to justify taking the land.

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Court: NY can seize property for new NJ Nets arena (AP)

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s top court ruled Tuesday that the state can use eminent domain to force homeowners and businesses to sell their properties for a massive development in Brooklyn that includes a new arena for the New Jersey Nets.

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HEGANG, China (AP) — Grieving miners’ families demanded answers Monday from mining officials about the underground gas explosion that left at least 104 men dead in northeastern China.

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HEGANG, China (AP) — Grieving miners’ families demanded answers Monday from mining officials about the underground gas explosion that left at least 104 men dead in northeastern China. AP – Rescuers sits on the railway trolley preparing to enter the site of Saturday’s gas explosion for search and … The massive blast Saturday in Hegang city in frigid Heilongjiang province erupted at night when some 500 miners were working below ground. Most escaped, but 104 were confirmed dead and an additional four were missing and feared dead, the official Xinhua news agency reported Monday.

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Miners’ families want answers in China mine blast (AP)

WASHINGTON (AP) — As if small businesses needed another reason not to hire, consider their latest financial burden: The cost of rising unemployment itself. AP – In this photo made Thursday, Nov

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Rising unemployment taxes could hinder hiring (AP)

BEIJING (AP) — A gas explosion tore through a state-run coal mine in northern China on Saturday, killing 42 people and leaving 66 others trapped underground as rescuers worked hastily to save them.

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China says 42 dead, 66 trapped in mine explosion (AP)

DALLAS (AP) — The Texas Supreme Court on Friday said it will again hear arguments in the nearly 15-year legal battle over accusations that Exxon Mobil Corp. loaded abandoned wells with junk, sludge and even explosives to keep other companies from drilling there. A small drilling company that tried to enter the wells near Corpus Christi, and the land owners, accused the world’s largest publicly traded oil company of intentionally wrecking the wells

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Texas high court agrees to rehear Exxon case (AP)

AUSTIN, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) announced today that 403 of the nearly 900 proposals submitted are still in contention for CPRIT’s inaugural cancer research funding awards. The applications for the Individual Investigator Research Award and the High Impact/High Risk Research Award will now undergo a second, more intense peer review evaluation by seven committees over the next six weeks beginning the end of this month. CPRIT expects to announce its first funding awards in January 2010, just three months after the submission deadline.

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The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas Moves One Step Closer To Funding First Round of Research Awards (Business Wire)