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EURO CRISIS: SHOULD I CANCEL MY VACATION? In the last decade of the 20th century, the Turkish lira fell in value 1,000 times against the U.S. dollar, meaning that tourists returning to that country after several years found that any old money they still possessed since their last visit had become almost worthless.<div class="feedflare"&g... 05/17/2012 08:35, CNN	SENATORS TO BLAST FACEBOOK CO-FOUNDER SAVERIN Senators Charles Schumer and Bob Casey are planning a press conference on Thursday to protest Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin's decision to renounce his U.S. citizenship. 05/17/2012 18:30, Yahoo!News
WI-LAN SAYS COURT RULES IN ITS FAVOR IN PATENT CASE (Reuters) - Patent licensing company Wi-Lan Inc said a U.S. judge had ruled in its favor in a patent infringement claim related to handset products and high-speed packet access base stations. Wi-Lan had alleged that Alcatel-Lucent USA, HTC Corp and Sony Corp's Sony Mobile Communications (USA) In... 05/17/2012 18:30, Yahoo!News	MANY PREGNANT WOMEN MAY NOT GET STD TESTS NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Despite recommendations that pregnant women have tests for certain sexually transmitted diseases, many may not be getting them, a new study suggests. Researchers found that of nearly 1.3 million U.S. women who had blood work done during pregnancy, only 59 percent were tes... 05/17/2012 18:22, Yahoo!News
FRACKING BANNED IN VERMONT Vermont's governor has signed a bill making it the first U.S. state to ban fracking, the controversial practice to extract natural gas from the ground.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_topstories?a=YODRUXW0ySo:dDGTQk3zd2Y:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="... 05/17/2012 08:21, CNN	STUDY FINDS ABUSES IN WAREHOUSE INDUSTRY L ogistics, the art of bringing socks and TVs and carrots from where they're made to a store near you, is a trillion-dollar industry in the U.S., and continuing to grow. 05/17/2012 08:07, LaTimes
IMMIGRATION DECISION A PLUS FOR KLEZMER TANGO BAND U.S. immigration officials are clarifying their definition of "culturally unique" in a move that could make it easier for foreign "hybrid" or "fusion" bands to get a visa to play in America. 05/17/2012 07:49, msnbc	STOCKS OPEN SLIGHTLY LOWER IN EARLY TRADING ON WALL STREET U.S. stock indexes opened slightly lower on Wall Street as the federal government reported that new unemployment claims held steady last week. 05/17/2012 07:35, LaTimes
DODGERS OWNERS COULD GAIN MUCH FROM BANKRUPTCY COURT SETTLEMENT Terms of settlement between former owner Frank McCourt and Major League Baseball could allow the team's new owners to retain millions in television revenue.The Dodgers' new owners could reap hundreds of millions of dollars in benefits from the confidential terms of a U.S. Bankruptcy Court settlement... 05/17/2012 07:21, LaTimes	STOCKS STRUGGLE ON EUROPE CONCERNS U.S. stocks slipped into the red at the open Thursday, as investors continued to worry about Greece.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/money_news_international/~4/DbTKJ1_Pg_o" height="1" width="1"/> 05/17/2012 07:14, CNN
WAL-MART'S PROFIT UP 10.1% Wal-Mart Stores Inc. reported a 10.1 percent increase in first-quarter profit that beat Wall Street estimates as its re-emphasis on low prices drove bargain-hungry U.S. shoppers into its stores. The world's largest retailer also offered an upbeat profit outlook for the current quarter. 05/17/2012 06:56, LaTimes	200-YEAR-OLD SHIPWRECK DISCOVERED OFF U.S. COAST A wooden ship believed to be over 200 years old was discovered during a recent exploration of the northern Gulf of Mexico, according to a press release from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world... 05/17/2012 06:35, CNN
WAL-MART PROFIT JUMPS, BOOSTED BY US SALES Wal-Mart posted a better-than-expected quarterly profit on Thursday, including a 2.6 percent rise in sales at its Walmart U.S. division's stores open at least a year. 05/17/2012 06:07, msnbc	SENATORS TO UNVEIL THE 'EX-PATRIOT ACT' TO RESPOND TO FACEBOOK'S SAVERIN'S TAX 'SCHEME' Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has a status update for Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin: Stop attempting to dodge your taxes by renouncing your U.S. citizenship or never come to back to the U.S. again. In September 2011, Saverin relinquished his U.S. citizenship before the company announced... 05/17/2012 14:38, Yahoo!News
PINTEREST RAISES $100 MILLION IN FUNDING: WSJ (Reuters) - Pinterest, the increasingly popular online bulletin board, raised $100 million in a financing round that values the U.S. start-up at $1.5 billion, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter. The funding is led by Japanese e-commerce site Rakuten, with Pinterest&... 05/17/2012 09:48, Yahoo!News	200-YEAR-OLD SHIPWRECK FOUND IN GULF A wooden ship believed to be over 200 years old was discovered during a recent exploration of the northern Gulf of Mexico, according to a press release from the U.S. National Oceanic and Astmospheric Administration (NOAA).<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_tops... 05/16/2012 19:28, CNN
FACTBOX: FACEBOOK'S IPO: WHO GETS RICH? SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The rich are going to get richer when Silicon Valley's biggest IPO starts trading on Friday. Facebook this week raised the number of shares it intends to float by 25 percent to 421 million shares, and lifted the target price range to $34-$38 per share as investors clamo... 05/17/2012 04:40, Yahoo!News	GOALIE BETSEY ARMSTRONG IS HUB OF U.S. OLYMPIC WATER POLO HOPES Betsey Armstrong's strong goaltending, including two stops on penalty shots in a key Pan Am Games match, gives the U.S. Olympic women's water polo team confidence as it prepares for London Games.DALLAS — Betsey Armstrong has an anchor tattooed on her right calf. Why it's there, though, she's n... 05/16/2012 18:00, LaTimes
SPACEX MISSION TO INCLUDE STUDENT EXPERIMENTS, EMBLEMS Students' science experiments are about to make history, launching to space on the first attempt by a U.S. commercial company to send a spacecraft to the International Space Station. 05/16/2012 17:21, msnbc	ANDROID AND IOS DRIVE MOBILE APP EXPLOSION [INFOGRAPHIC] One year ago, less than 40% of mobile subscribers in the United States had a smartphone. That number has increased dramatically, however; according to Nielsen, one in two mobile subscribers now owns a smartphone. Driven mostly by the rise of Android and iOS, which account for more than 80% of the U.... 05/17/2012 02:36, Yahoo!News
LAWMAKERS WANT HIGH-TECH FOREIGNERS TO STAY IN THE U.S. Top American universities attract some of the planet's brightest minds to pursue graduate and doctorate degrees in the U.S. But thousands of those best and brightest head for the exits almost immediately after they complete their academic programs. 05/17/2012 02:36, Yahoo!News	CARRIE UNDERWOOD KEEPS BILLBOARD NO. 1, ADELE GOING STRONG LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Country singer and "American Idol" winner Carrie Underwood continued her reign on the Billboard 200 album chart on Wednesday, while British songstress Adele climbed back to No. 2 after 64 weeks on the chart with "21." Underwood's fourth studio album "B... 05/17/2012 02:16, Yahoo!News
FACTBOX: FACEBOOK'S IPO: WHO GETS RICH? SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The rich are going to get richer when Silicon Valley's biggest IPO starts trading on Friday. Facebook this week raised the number of shares it intends to float by 25 percent to 421 million shares, and lifted the target price range to $34-$38 per share as investors clamo... 05/17/2012 01:38, Yahoo!News	AIDS RELIEF PROGRAM INTENSITY LINKED TO LOWER DEATH RATES The May 16 edition of the Global Health themed issue of JAMA reveals a larger drop in all-cause adult mortality in those African countries with more intense operation of the AIDS relief program PEPFAR. The article's background information states: "The effect of global health initiatives on popul... 05/16/2012 15:14, medicalnewstoday
NAVY SHIPS COLLIDE A DAY BEFORE ARRIVAL IN SAN DIEGO Two U.S. Navy ships collided Wednesday off the coast of San Diego, according to Navy officials. Damage was not immediately known.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?a=LZMgoiAcRWQ:tMMBKBLF2bc:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss... 05/16/2012 14:49, CNN	STUDY LINKS NFL PLAYERS, WOUNDED VETS The same dementia-like disease found in the brain tissue of several National Football League players has shown up in the brains of four U.S. veterans exposed to improvised explosive devices and other head trauma, according to new research.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com... 05/16/2012 14:14, CNN
DOUBLELINE'S GUNDLACH RECOMMENDS SHORTING APPLE NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jeffrey Gundlach, one of the world's most widely watched credit investors, recommended betting against computer company Apple Inc, retailer Nordstrom Inc and the main U.S. stock index, the Standard & Poor's 500. The Nordstrom stock "looks like death," said Gundla... 05/16/2012 23:42, Yahoo!News	SPRINT CEO SEES MORE TELECOM M&A'S POSSIBLE NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel believes U.S. regulators are open to large telecom deals despite their opposition to an AT&T Inc deal last year, but Sprint itself will try to avoid doing a big deal until 2014, according to Chief Executive Dan Hesse. Hesse said Sprint would ideally wait until it i... 05/16/2012 23:42, Yahoo!News
FINAL DAY OF EPL SEASON SEEN BY 1.35 MILLION IN US NEW YORK (AP) - A total of 1,348,000 viewers tuned into the U.S. television coverage of the final day of the Premier League season, an increase of 72 percent over 2011. 05/16/2012 13:28, msnbc	SNIFFER DOG NABS SMUGGLER HIDING HEROIN IN RECTUM AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - A man who tried to smuggle heroin into the United States concealed in his rectum was caught by U.S. officials - with the help of a drug-sniffer dog named Malone - as he walked across the border from Mexico. Paulo Alfredo Macias, 35, was being held in the El Paso County Jail... 05/16/2012 23:26, Yahoo!News
SNIFFER DOG NABS SMUGGLER HIDING HEROIN IN RECTUM AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - A man who tried to smuggle heroin into the United States concealed in his rectum was caught by U.S. officials - with the help of a drug-sniffer dog named Malone - as he walked across the border from Mexico. Paulo Alfredo Macias, 35, was being held in the El Paso County Jail... 05/16/2012 23:26, Yahoo!News	UNCLE SAM, SAY GOODBYE TO EDUARDO SAVERIN AND $67 MILLION IN TAXES How much will Eduardo Saverin save by ditching his U.S. citizenship? 05/16/2012 13:14, LaTimes
HERE'S HOW TO TRAVEL 25,000 MILES WITHOUT A PENNY Michael Wigge left Berlin without a penny and traveled 25,000 miles to Antarctica, hitchhiking, bartering and working his way by ship, plane, car and foot, from Europe to Canada and the U.S. and then through Latin America. 05/16/2012 23:12, Yahoo!News	APPLE WINS APPEAL, NOW CAN SEEK INJUNCTION AGAINST GALAXY TAB IN U.S Things might get rough for Samsung in its U.S. patent fight against Apple. 05/16/2012 22:44, Yahoo!News
FDA ADVISORY PANEL APPROVES HOME HIV TEST KIT Americans are a step closer to being able to quickly determine in the privacy of their own homes whether they're infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. An advisory panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Tuesday voted 17-0 in favor of approving the... 05/16/2012 22:34, Yahoo!News	FED: SEVERAL MEMBERS COULD SUPPORT FURTHER EASING Federal Reserve policymakers are open to further efforts to stimulate the U.S. economy if growth falters or threats escalate. 05/16/2012 12:28, LaTimes
DOES BRAIN INJURY LINK NFL PLAYERS, WOUNDED WARRIORS? The same dementia-like disease found in the brain tissue of several NFL players has shown up in the brains of four U.S. veterans, according to new research.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_latest?a=HNKGXqKrasQ:n0I1GBUce6E:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://f... 05/16/2012 12:14, CNN	U.S. LOWERS CUTOFF FOR LEAD POISONING IN KIDS For the first time in 20 years, U.S. health officials have lowered the threshold for lead poisoning in young children. 05/16/2012 10:49, msnbc
MIT NAMES PROVOST NEW PRESIDENT MIT provost L. Rafael Reif, an internationally recognized electrical engineer who learned to speak English after coming to the U.S. for graduate school from his native Venezuela, was named MIT's 17th president on Wednesday. 05/16/2012 20:48, Yahoo!News	SPACEX MISSION TO SPACE STATION: HOW IT'LL WORK On Saturday, if all goes well, the private spaceflight company SpaceX will launch the first commercial spaceship ever to visit the International Space Station. But the mission will be like no other U.S. flight to the orbiting laboratory. 05/16/2012 09:56, msnbc
INDIA INK: IMAGE OF THE DAY: MAY 16 The Indian rupee hits a record low of 54.46 against the U.S. dollar. 05/16/2012 08:14, NewYork Times	SLOW PLAY SHOWS UP AT WORST TIME FOR US PGA TOUR PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Florida (AP) -In more peaceful times, when Tiger Woods had gone six months without losing and golf seemed to revolve around him, he ended a monthly newsletter with a rare trip to the soap box to complain about the pace of play on the U.S. PGA Tour. 05/16/2012 08:07, msnbc
APPLE PATENT SPATS FINALLY PAY OFF The launch of Sprint's flagship EVO 4G LTE has been delayed indefinitely and supply of AT&T's flagship HTC One X will be constrained as a result of ongoing patent disputes between HTC and Apple. HTC confirmed in a statement emailed to BGR on Tuesday evening that shipments of its new EVO 4G L... 05/16/2012 17:54, Yahoo!News	MORTGAGE DELINQUENCY RATE HITS FOUR-YEAR LOW The delinquency rate on U.S. home mortgages fell in the first quarter to the lowest level since 2008, though the share of homes in the foreclosure process inched higher. 05/16/2012 07:35, msnbc
CANNES FESTIVAL OPENS WITH QUIRKY COMEDY AND A CAMEL CANNES, France (Reuters) - The Cannes film festival kicked off on Wednesday with quirky U.S. comedy "Moonrise Kingdom", Wes Anderson's exploration of childhood and young love centered around two 12-year-olds who fall in love and run away together. The touching tale, set in 1965 on an isl... 05/16/2012 17:32, Yahoo!News	INDIA INK: PIRAMAL HEALTHCARE CONTINUES OVERSEAS EXPANSION WITH DECISION RESOURCES DEAL Indian drug company buys U.S. health care information provider for $635 million. 05/16/2012 07:21, NewYork Times
BMW, MERCEDES LOOK TO GROW BY SHRINKING Sometimes you have to think small to grow bigger. Hoping to lock down its position as the U.S. luxury market leader, BMW is getting ready to introduce some of the smallest products it has ever sold here. 05/16/2012 07:21, msnbc	STOCKS GET BOOST FROM U.S. HOUSING DATA U.S. stocks opened higher Wednesday, as investors welcomed strong U.S. housing data. But worries about political uncertainty in Greece kept the gains in check.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/money_news_international/~4/B8QkuK6X12A" height="1" width="1"/> 05/16/2012 07:07, CNN
CORRECTED: SENATOR SEEKS EXPANDED VISAS FOR FOREIGN HIGH-TECH WORKERS WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A leading Republican in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday unveiled legislation to raise the number of permanent visas for skilled technical workers from foreign countries, but prospects of passage this year could be clouded by election-year politics. Senator John Cornyn, the senior R... 05/16/2012 16:56, Yahoo!News	U.S. HIV AID HAS PREVENTED 741,000 DEATHS: STUDY NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The United States foreign aid program that sends billions of dollars to African countries for HIV treatment and prevention has cut the number of people dying for any reason in those nations, a new study suggests. Researchers had previously shown that the initiative -- the... 05/16/2012 16:46, Yahoo!News