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Barack Obama’s wave of superdelegate endorsements puts him within reach of the Democratic presidential nomination by the end of the primary season on June 3 _ even if he loses half of the remaining six contests.The Illinois senator has picked up 26...
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Barack Obama reports spending $55 million in July, his highest figure in a single month.
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Digital cameras have liberated awe-struck travelers and proud parents from worrying about the price of film processing. But showing off those megapixels of memories is...
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Barry Diller’s IAC/InterActiveCorp is completing its split into five publicly traded companies Thursday _ a move intended to give each business more focus and...
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Cindy McCain and Michelle Obama star in a new television ad that highlights successes in helping the world’s poor and encourages people to do more this election...
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Republican presidential candidate John McCain chided his Democratic rival on Wednesday for getting “a little testy” as Barack Obama sharpened his tone amid...
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After a barrage of consumer complaints, the government is banning phone calls of prerecorded sales messages unless consumers agree to receive the calls.
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There are loyal customers, and then there’s Joseph Macko.
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There are loyal customers, and then there’s Joseph Macko.
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A federal judge on Wednesday permanently barred Arizona from using a state law to prosecute an online merchant who sells shirts that list names of thousands of troops...
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A supervisor arrested after an immigration raid at a large meatpacking plant pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiring to hire illegal immigrants and aiding and abetting...
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Salesforce.com Inc. kept its financial guidance within the range of analyst estimates Wednesday, disappointing investors who expected a more bullish forecast from one...
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Angie Harmon and husband Jason Sehorn are expecting their third child, Harmon’s publicist confirmed Wednesday.
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Semtech Corp.’s second-quarter profit increased 29 percent to top analyst estimates on rising sales of the company’s chips, which help manage power and...
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A federal judge is allowing a Pennsylvania woman to sue Universal Music Corp. for forcing YouTube to take down a video clip of her baby dancing to Prince’s...
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Barack Obama stepped up his hard-edged ad campaign Wednesday, launching two tough commercials against Republican presidential rival John McCain.
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Matt Damon’s wife Luciana gave birth to a baby girl Wednesday, his spokeswoman said. The baby’s name is Gia Zavala Damon, spokeswoman Jennifer Allen told...
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An Oakland, Calif., environmental group has announced that Chrysler LLC and three auto-parts makers have agreed to end their use of lead wheel weights in the state.
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A hacker broke into a Homeland Security Department telephone system over the weekend and racked up about $12,000 in calls to the Middle East and Asia.
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Matt Damon’s wife Luciana gave birth to a baby girl Wednesday, his spokeswoman said.
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If the new man looking for love on ABC’s “The Bachelor” looks familiar, that’s because he was rejected last season on “The...
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# study is largest of its kind — says girls measure up in every grade
# Women earn 48 percent of math degrees, but lag in physics and engineering
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Sixteen years after Barbie dolls declared, “Math class is tough!” girls are proving that, at math, they are just as tough as boys. In the largest study of...
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Sixteen years after Barbie dolls declared, “Math class is tough!” girls are proving that when it comes to math they are just as tough as boys.In the largest...
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Sixteen years after Barbie dolls declared, “Math class is tough!” girls are proving that, at math, they are just as tough as boys.In the largest study of...
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For kids to do better in math, their teachers might have to go back to school.Elementary-school teachers are poorly prepared by education schools to teach math, finds a...
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Boys outperform girls on a math test given to children worldwide, but the gender gap is less pronounced in countries where women and men have similar rights and...
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A mathematical puzzle that baffled the top minds in the esoteric field of symbolic dynamics for nearly four decades has been cracked _ by a 63-year-old immigrant who...
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Schools could improve students’ sluggish math scores by hammering home the basics, such as addition and multiplication, and then increasing the focus on fractions...
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What the National Mathematics Advisory Panel says students should know and when:___Fluency With Whole Numbers:_By the end of third grade, students should be proficient...
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Schools could improve students’ sluggish math scores by hammering home the basics, such as addition and multiplication, and then increasing the focus on fractions...
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Numbers start dancing in front of me and make faces at me as I hear the word Math pop. I might not be suffering form dyscalculia but I sure am afraid of those heavy...
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U.S. students are lagging behind their peers in other countries in science and math, test results out Tuesday show.The test, the Program for International Student...
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Early momentum has been the surefire way to win modern presidential primaries: Emerge as the front-runner in Iowa, New Hampshire or South Carolina, then steamroll...
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Elementary and middle schoolers posted solid gains in math and more modest improvements in reading in national test results released Tuesday.The test scores landed in...
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Brigitta Stone, right, and her daughter Gillian work on math at their home in Ridgefield, Conn., Thursday, July 10, 2008. “It’s frustrating,” says Brigitta Stone. “You want to help them. And sometimes I can’t help her at all.” Still, Stone...
