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| Sat, 19 Nov 2005 18:00:00 EST Slowdown towns |
| From 2003 to 2004, the median price of a home in Las Vegas rose a whopping 49 percent, to $266,400. But from the third quarter of 2004 through the same period this year, the growth rate in the median home price has flattened to a more reasonable 10.5 percent. That makes Vegas the nation's top "slowdown town"–a place where home prices are still rising but at much lower rates than in recent years. |
| Fri, 18 Nov 2005 12:00:00 EST Let the shopping begin |
| How good—or disappointing—will this year's holiday shopping season be? We'll get a better sense next week, on the day after Thanksgiving. That Friday, which is often referred to as Black Friday, is not only one of the busiest shopping days of the year, it's typically a harbinger for the rest of the Christmas retail season. |
| Fri, 18 Nov 2005 12:00:00 EST Testicular cancer risk rises with infertility |
| Testicular cancer is the most common form of cancer among young men, and it often produces no symptoms. Researchers have now identified a big one: Men who are infertile and have abnormal sperm counts are more than 20 times as likely to have testicular cancer as other men. A team of researchers from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center reviewed the records of more than 3,800 men with infertility or abnormal counts and found that 10 had testicular tumors. |
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| Fri, 18 Nov 2005 23:34:06 EST Defense official: Rumsfeld given Iraq withdrawal plan |
| A withdrawal plan for U.S. troops in Iraq has been submitted to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld by the top U.S. commander in Iraq, according to a senior defense official. The plan, submitted by Gen. George Casey, has numerous options, and recommends that brigades begin leaving Iraq by early 2006, the source said. Details of the plan come as lawmakers' rhetoric on the Iraq war heated up in Washington, and at the end of another day of violence in Iraq -- where two bombings killed at least 90 people. |
| Fri, 18 Nov 2005 21:22:31 EST Actor Blake liable in wife's death |
| Actor Robert Blake, who was acquitted of his wife's murder in March, was found liable Friday in the wrongful death civil trial brought by the estate of his slain wife, Bonny Lee Bakley. Bakley's four children sued the 72-year-old actor in 2002, claiming he should be held responsible for their mother's death and forced to pay damages. A separate jury acquitted the former "Baretta" actor of murder in the criminal trial. |
| Fri, 18 Nov 2005 20:57:24 EST Whistleblower's Iraq fraud claims to be investigated |
| A whistleblower's claims that reconstruction in Iraq has been rife with waste, fraud and abuse -- particularly in regard to a division of Halliburton -- will be turned over to the Justice Department, a U.S. senator said Friday. |
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