Hurricane Sandy: Live Storm Reports

affiliate marketing Storm-Surge Damage May Not Be Covered by Some Insurance2:30 p.m., Oct. 30, 2012 — As storm-battered homeowners, business owners, and government officials survey Sandy’s damage, the question for many is what the repair price tag will be. The storm’s assault may cause as much as $ 20 billion in losses, but...

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Hurricane’s death toll rises to 65 in Caribbean

affiliate marketing PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — As Americans braced Sunday for Hurricane Sandy, Haiti was still suffering.Officials raised the storm-related death toll across the Caribbean to 65, with 51 of those coming in Haiti, which was pelted by three days of constant rains that ended only on Friday. affiliate...

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Menos amputaciones de pierna por enfermedad vascular en EEUU: estudio

affiliate marketing NUEVA YORK (Reuters Health) – Un estudio de Estados Unidosrevela que en la última década las amputaciones de pierna por affiliate marketing obstrucción vascular en los adultos mayores disminuyeron, peromiles de personas con los vasos sanguíneos enfermos pierdentodos...

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Stock, bond markets shut on Tuesday, may reopen Wed

affiliate marketing (Reuters) – Stock and bond markets will be closed on Tuesday, as Hurricane Sandy forced Wall Street to shut down trading for at least a second straight day.NYSE Euronext and Nasdq OMX Group said they made their decision in consultation with industry executives and regulators, and intend to reopen Wednesday, conditions...

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Pole gets 30 years for killing 6 on Channel Island

affiliate marketing LONDON (AP) — A Polish builder who killed six people, including his wife and children, on the British Channel Island of Jersey has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.Damian Rzeszowski, 31, carried out the knife attack in August 2011 at his home. He was said to have become depressed after his wife admitted to an...

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SAP eyes “long” period of high sales growth: report

affiliate marketing BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany‘s SAP may be able to sustain high sales from software and related services for a “very long time,” co-chief executive Bill McDermott told a German newspaper.“It’s our ambition to grow with double-digit numbers for a very long time to come,” Euro am Sonntag quoted McDermott as saying in an...

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Reports: UK police arrest Gary Glitter

affiliate marketing LONDON (AP) — The sex abuse scandal surrounding the late BBC children’s television host Jimmy Savile widened on Sunday as police arrested former glam rock star and convicted sex offender Gary Glitter in connection with the case, British media said.Police would not directly identify the suspect arrested Sunday, but...

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New test to improve HIV diagnosis in poor countries

affiliate marketing LONDON (Reuters) – Scientists have come up with a test for the virus that causes AIDS that is ten times more sensitive and a fraction of the cost of existing methods, offering the promise of better diagnosis and treatment in the developing world.The test uses nanotechnology to give a result that can be seen with the...

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In China, a ‘Golden Rice Bowl’ For Civil Service

affiliate marketing Paper-pushing for low pay? That’s not how most Chinese view employment in the country’s civil service, touted as the “golden rice bowl” for the lifetime of cushy benefits it provides. By the evening of Oct. 24, the closing of the application period, some 1.6 million people were expected to have registered to take...

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Ukraine’s opposition doing well in election

affiliate marketing KIEV, Ukraine (AP) —Ukraine’s opposition parties performed strongly in Sunday’s parliamentary vote, according to an exit poll, but President Viktor Yanukovych‘s party could still retain control of the legislature as its members are likely to sweep individual races across the country. affiliate...

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