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Health experts say extraordinary measures against swine flu — most notably quarantines imposed by China, where entire planeloads of passengers were isolated if one traveler had symptoms — have failed to contain the disease.
An 80-year-old Ohio man is recovering from a week in which he was beaten during a home invasion and then shot while trying to learn about guns.
Brandon Drzewicki will travel from suburban Chicago to Michigan State, his alma mater, for most football Saturdays this fall — but only because he got a sweet deal offered exclusively to recent alumni.
Army trucks rumbled through a destroyed market a few miles down the road, passing a charred gas station where a Taliban suicide bomber killed four soldiers a few weeks ago when the Pakistani government hit back at an incursion by Islamic extremists.
The worsening recession, coupled with a seasonal surge of house fires, has depleted the resources of many American Red Cross chapters as they struggle to meet rising demands at a time of dwindling donations.
Rod Blagojevich entered the Illinois governor's office with the state budget falling apart and public confidence shaken by a spectacular scandal. Six years later, Blagojevich is gone but if anything his tenure dug the hole deeper.
A 19-year-old suspect in northeast Nevada may not be a very good prowler but there's no denying he's one tough cookie. Elko County sheriff's deputies said the man had to be zapped with a Taser twice and bitten by a police dog three times before he stopped struggling with officers during a recent arrest.
The inauguration of Barack Obama is a reminder of how the story that dominated airwaves during 2008 is over, leaving television news organizations to contemplate life without it in the midst of a brutal economy.
America's demand for crude oil fell to its lowest level since 2003 last year, as record high prices to start the year and an ailing economy at the end of 2008 combined to sharply curtail consumption, new statistics show.
Mory's, a legendary Yale eating and drinking club that traces its roots to the Civil War, has a powerful membership that includes two presidents named Bush. Foreign leaders and movie stars such as Al Pacino, Paul Newman, Dan Aykroyd, Tom Hanks and Jodie Foster have patronized the club.
When OPEC announced late last month it was cutting crude oil output by 1.5 million barrels per day, the market barely hiccuped.
Two-thirds of Congress' most vulnerable members — Republicans and Democrats alike — chose to protect their seats on Election Day rather than follow their party leaders and vote for an unpopular economic bailout plan.
Justin Leonard is among 11 players who have made the cut in all four majors this year, but he holds one dubious distinction among such a select group.
Australia's swimmers aren't overly preoccupied with their traditional American rivals. It's the rest of the world that's got their attention.
Ramping up his tough anti-inflation talk, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is raising expectations on Wall Street and elsewhere that the central bank could boost interest rates sooner than anticipated if high oil and food costs threaten to spur a broader bout of spiraling prices.
The Palestinian prime minister ventured on foot into this famously unruly militant stronghold to demonstrate that his law-and-order campaign is working and to persuade skeptical residents that better security will bring jobs and even help end Israeli occupation.
A week from Saturday, 453 new graduates will cross the commencement stage on the lawn of Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn. Among them: Nokuthula Sikhethiwe Kitikiti, Udochukwu Chinyere Obodo, and Baitnairamdal Otgonshar.
Capt. Clint Roberts makes his living cutting accident victims out of hideously mangled vehicles, but even he could hardly believe it when two people in a 2007 midsize car survived a head-on crash with a full-sized pickup last year.
Even Keith Olbermann had sticker shock when he saw the Ruthian prices for Yankee Stadium's final year.
Republican presidential candidate John McCain skipped a difficult Senate vote Wednesday on whether to make 20 million seniors and 250,000 disabled veterans eligible for rebate checks as part of a proposed economic stimulus package.
If Barack Obama is going to reach the White House, he'll have to convince voters that he's tough enough to handle both the political combat of a general election and the stresses of the presidency.
Samak Sundaravej — the man likely to become Thailand's next prime minister — is known for his sharp tongue and short temper.
A NASCAR race car, sponsored by the U.S. Border Patrol. Billboards hundreds of miles from the Rio Grande, promoting a career as a border agent. TV commercials for the federal agency, aired during Dallas Cowboys games.
Tough times in the porn industry On a recent Saturday night, Savannah Stern earned $300 to hang out for seven hours at a party in Santa Monica wearing nothing but a feather boa.
Super-strong spider silk LONDON - SPIDER silk is already tougher and lighter than steel, and now scientists have made it three times stronger by adding small amounts of metal.
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Thousands celebrate opening of Las Vegas' newest resort, the MM Resort bartender Edgar Manago had a big smile Sunday night as he poured free drinks for some of the 4,000 guests attending the $1 billion hotel-casino's grand opening party.
Although the article was presented as a debate as to whether public school students in Albuquerque who forgot their lunch money should be singled out for an "alternative" cheese sandwich lunch, one didn't need to look any further than the headline to see that class warfare is ali …
Otherwise meaning living within our means. Full disclosure, I have been doing this for a few years. A whole lot of people are going to have to learn how to do this. Here are a few suggestions:
Tough economy means more dumped dogsExcerpt: Suzanna and her puppy Nikki had more than 100 cactus needles covering their bodies when they were rescued. The two long-haired dachshunds were abandoned in the county for hours before a couple driving by saw them from the road.
t r u t h o u t | Bush's Costly War on TerrorWashington - The news that President Bush's war on terror will soon have cost the U.S. taxpayer $1 trillion - and counting - is unlikely to spread much Christmas cheer in these tough economic times.
Why Hillary Clinton Shouldn't Be Secretary of State by Peter BeinartAll of which raises a question: Why on earth would she want to be secretary of state? First of all, the job is an awful launching pad for the White House.
As economy sags, so do faces ... and breastsThe economy isn't the only thing that's sagging — so are faces, breasts and bellies as would-be cosmetic surgery patients increasingly opt against costly nips and tucks because of tough financial times. What are you cutting back on these days? msnbc.com would like to know.
From Sam Spade to Harry Callahan: Toughest Movie Characters of All TimesFrom Walter Cameron and A.C. Abadie playing the sheriffs in Porters' The Great Train Robbery (1903) to Douglas Quaid in Verhoeven's Total Recall: the history of moving pictures is full of tough fellows and quite many tough dames.
W.Va. man sleeps through gunshot to headMichael Lusher apparently is a sound sleeper.
E-mail or the Net: What Could YOU drop?If you had a choice between the two, which would you choose: e-mail or internet? You can have one...but not the other! Choose wisely.
K-Fed making movie about his being a tough rapper who's risen from the streetsPoor Britney. As if she didn't have enough troubles already.
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