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| Thu, 8 Dec 2005 16:00:00 EST Higher blood pressure means lower brain health |
| Brain catastrophes such as strokes or dementia are well-known consequences of high blood pressure in older people. Now research points to more insidious, stealthier problems: a hard time coming up with the right word and difficulties with short-term memory. Sure, these frustrations often are part of normal aging. But it turns out they're a lot worse in people whose blood pressure is out of control. |
| Thu, 8 Dec 2005 16:00:00 EST Detroit's really rocky road |
| It's getting hard to keep up with developments in Detroit, many of them unsettling. Ford recently announced plans to lay off as many as 30,000 factory workers over the next five years, matching the grim number General Motors put out just a couple weeks earlier. That's on top of a 10 percent cut in its salaried workforce Ford had already announced. In another surprising twist, GM has agreed to give Jerry York, who represents billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian, a board seat. Five months ago GM seemed completely blindsided when Kerkorian declared that he was buying up GM shares, a likely prelude to aggressive shareholder activism aimed at shaking up the auto giant, as Kerkorian did with Chrysler in the 1980s. GM quickly hired some of Wall Street's sharpest money men to figure out how to handle Kerkorian. The conclusion, evidently, was to give him a seat at the table. |
| Thu, 8 Dec 2005 14:00:00 EST Conservative Party leader David Cameron |
| David Cameron, 39 years old and after just four years in Parliament, has been elected leader of Britain's Conservative Party. Cameron took the lead after his speech, delivered without notes, at the Conservative Party conference in October, and he finished first of the five competitors among Conservative MPs. He faced the second-place finisher, David Davis, shadow home secretary, in a mail ballot, and won 68 to 32 percent. |
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| Fri, 09 Dec 2005 10:46:49 GMT Jet Slides Off Chicago Runway; Boy Dies (AP) |
 AP - A jetliner trying to land in heavy snow slid off a runway, crashed through a fence and slid into a busy street, hitting one vehicle and pinning another beneath it. A 6-year-old boy was killed.
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| Fri, 09 Dec 2005 10:07:55 GMT Troop Levels in Iraq May Drop, Rumsfeld Says (AP) |
 AP - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Thursday he expects some 20,000 U.S. troops to return home from Iraq after next week's elections, and he suggested that some of the remaining 137,000 forces could pull out next year.
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| Fri, 09 Dec 2005 10:12:35 GMT Suicide Bomber Kills 32 on Bus in Baghdad (AP) |
 AP - A suicide bomber detonated explosives Thursday inside a packed bus bound for a southern Shiite city, killing 32 people and wounding 44, police said. The blast pushed the three-day death toll from suicide attacks in the capital to at least 75.
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| Fri, 09 Dec 2005 04:42:56 EST Plane slides off runway, kills child |
| A Southwest Airlines jet skidded off a runway in a heavy snowstorm at Chicago's Midway Airport Thursday night, sliding into an intersection and killing a young boy in a car. Another car was also hit by the Boeing 737 and eight other vehicle passengers were in serious condition, said Cortez Trotter, the Chicago Fire Department commissioner. |
| Thu, 08 Dec 2005 22:16:44 EST White House backs air marshals |
| Investigators are trying to piece together the final moments before two air marshals shot dead Rigoberto Alpizar, after he allegedly said he was carrying a bomb on a plane. As Alpizar's family called him "loving, gentle and caring," the White House offered their support to the marshals. "From what we know, [they] acted in a way that is consistent with the training that they have received," White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan said. |
| Thu, 08 Dec 2005 22:14:48 EST Teacher's plea deal for sex with boy rejected |
| A judge in Marion County, Florida, on Thursday rejected a proposed plea deal for Debra Lafave, who pleaded guilty in another county to having sex with a 14-year-old student while she was a teacher. |
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