Nation & World

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June 23, 2010

Vermont nuclear plant: Cleanup will go on for 3 months

But Vermont Yankee says there's no evidence material from a leak has affected drinking water.
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June 23, 2010

Character actor O’Brien, 91, aka Shell Answer Man, dies

Vince O’Brien of Haworth, N.J., a character actor whose long career included memorable turns as a debauched businessman in the Broadway musical comedy “Promises, Promises” and an earnest hotel doctor in Woody Allen’s film classic “Annie Hall,” died Saturday. He was 91. The cause was heart failure, said his son Liam. O’Brien was adept at […]
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June 23, 2010

Heat wave intensifies Iraq’s power crisis

As the prime minister struggles to keep his job, patience over the lack of electricity is running thin.
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June 23, 2010

Notorious Vietnam-era radical dead at 58

Dwight Armstrong was a fugitive for seven years after a university bombing that killed a student.
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June 23, 2010

Work to begin on memorial to N.H.’s ‘Old Man’

Ground-level sculptures will create an image of the now-gone icon when viewed at certain angles.

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June 23, 2010

Politics of Afghan war may bloody McChrystal

The commander will come face-to-face today with a very angry President Obama.
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June 23, 2010

Repeat OUI offender has 7th conviction set aside

A court rules evidence collected by an off-duty officer as unlawful.
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June 23, 2010

Peruvian coca crop grows, rivals Colombia’s in size

LIMA, Peru – Peru’s coca crop grew for a fourth straight year, edging the country closer to its South American neighbor Colombia in overall cultivation of the raw material of cocaine, the United Nations said Tuesday. Owing to a 16 percent drop in acreage in Colombia, overall coca cultivation fell 5.3 percent in the world’s […]
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June 23, 2010

Vast oil deposits lure deep-water drillers

Global deep-water oil production is expected to increase by two-thirds within five years.
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June 23, 2010

Wake-up call on cell phone radiation makes waves

The industry says San Francisco is trying to protect consumers from unproven dangers.