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Transgender Miss Universe Canada contestant loses
 The first-ever transgender contestant to compete in the Miss Universe Canada pageant strutted the runway Saturday night, making it to the penultimate round before losing her bid to win the title.
Vote in Libya's Benghazi tests support for autonomy
BENGHAZI (Reuters) - People in Libya's second biggest city, Benghazi, voted on Saturday in a local election that will test support for a proposal to set up autonomous rule for eastern Libya. Benghazi was the cradle of last year's revolt which overthrew Muammar Gaddafi but it is also the home of a movement which, frustrated with the new national rulers, wants to turn Libya into a federal state with autonomous provinces. Supporters of autonomy for Cyrenaica, the eastern province that includes Benghazi, were running in the election to choose a new city council. ...
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Jury deliberations in Edwards trial to resume next week
 GREENSBORO, North Carolina (Reuters) - Jurors weighing whether former U.S. Senator John Edwards illegally used campaign funds to conceal an extramarital affair when he ran for president headed home on Friday and will resume deliberations next week. A judge let the jury go for the weekend after 5-1/2 hours of discussions. Earlier Friday, jurors asked to review more than a dozen prosecution exhibits. Among the evidence they requested were notes from Rachel "Bunny" Mellon, a wealthy donor to Edwards' campaign, and testimony from her lawyer, Alex Forger. ...
Health secretary urges contraception compromise
 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration's top health official on Friday took the debate over whether healthcare coverage should include contraceptives to the campus of a Catholic university that has been deeply divided over the administration's policy. U.S. Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, in a speech at Georgetown University a few miles from the White House, praised the new U.S. healthcare law requiring coverage and called for "conversation and compromise. ...
Review so far shows mad cow case was atypical
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Investigators are searching for a dozen herdmates of the elderly California dairy cow that had mad cow disease, the Agriculture Department said on Friday, with all signs indicating it was a rare spontaneous case of the fatal brain-wasting illness. Two laboratories associated with the World Organization for Animal Health confirmed the cow had an atypical version of mad cow disease, USDA said. It was the same diagnosis as USDA tests. USDA said the investigation was moving toward completion. ...
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Canada: A New Frontier For Real Estate Investors
This property market is easy to access and provides profitable opportunities.
Real Estate At A Glance: Single-family home sales
Average sale prices for single-family homes continue above last year's average, now up by 2.3 percent. The number sold is running dead even with the nine-year average. This is the fifth straight month when the number sold has equalled or exceeded that average.
Will Facebook IPO Boost Local Real Estate?
Tax revenue from Facebook's $104 billion IPO may not fill California's $16 billion budget deficit, but it will likely give a boost to Silicon Valley's already inflated real estate prices.
Keystone Real Estate: Give your property an advantage
In a perfect world for sellers, every real estate sales transaction would be a cash deal — whether primary, secondary or an investment property. These would be perfect buyers who could easily pay full price for each property — again, resort real estate or otherwise.
Hispanic real estate association comes to city
With a growing number of Hispanic residents and homeowners in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg region, a national real estate professional association catering to that market is opening a chapter in the city.
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UAW president sets goal to stem money losses by 2014
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United Auto Workers aims to break even by mid-2014, as the American union looks to bolster its political and bargaining clout. For the past five years, the UAW has relied heavily on selling its war chest of stocks, bonds and property to bridge the gap between its annual funding and costs. The union believes this approach is untenable in the long run and its goal is to "have it turned around" in two years by adding members and managing costs, UAW President Bob King said in an interview on Friday. ...
Obama wants new banking rules put in place soon
 President Barack Obama says the big trading loss at JPMorgan Chase shows the need to finally put in place banking rules he signed into law two years ago. He also is calling on Congress to stop trying to weaken the regulations.
Fire risk brings recall of nearly 87,000 Jeeps
Chrysler is recalling nearly 87,000 Jeep Wranglers in the U.S., Canada and elsewhere due to a risk of fires.
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Three-man Soyuz crew departs for space station
 A three-man crew blasted off from a space center in southern Kazakhstan Tuesday morning on board a Russian-made Soyuz craft for a four-and-half-month stay at the International Space Station.
Early Signs of Parkinson's Might Be Seen in Colon
A colonoscopy or similar test could one day diagnose Parkinson's disease years before symptoms occur. That's because signs of Parkinson's that appear in the brain also show up in the colon, a new study says.
Ancient 'Loch Ness Monster' Suffered Arthritis
 Ancient creatures resembling stout-necked Loch Ness Monsters apparently developed arthritis in their monster jaws, revealing that even such lethal killers could suffer from and eventually succumb to diseases of old age, researchers find.
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HEALTH |
Health Highlights: May 15, 2012
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay:
Inhaled Steroids Lead to Big Drop in Asthma Deaths at Texas Hospital: Study
TUESDAY, May 15 (HealthDay News) -- Patient education and medication compliance contributed to a 74 percent drop in the number of patients with life-threatening asthma admitted to the intensive care unit at University Hospital in San Antonio, Texas, researchers report.
Scientists hunt ways to stall Alzheimer's earlier
 Look for a fundamental shift in how scientists hunt ways to ward off the devastation of Alzheimer's disease — by testing possible therapies in people who don't yet show many symptoms, before too much of the brain is destroyed.
Fake pig ears latest China food scandal: report
 Police in China are investigating after the discovery of a batch of "fake" pigs' ears reportedly made from gelatin, according to state media.
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Surprise winner in Nebraska GOP Senate race
 State Sen. Deb Fischer won the Republican nomination in Nebraska's Senate race Tuesday, beating odds-on favorite Jon Bruning in a surprise upset. Fischer narrowly edged out the state Attorney General 41 to 36 percent with 91.5 percent of precincts reporting. State Treasurer Don Stenberg received 19 percent and three additional candidates divided the remainder of [...]
Obama: ‘No moonwalking,’ but lots of advice for Barnard grads
 President Barack Obama on Monday briefly disappointed some 600 graduating students at New York's Barnard College for women by declining a shouted request to moonwalk. But he won the friendly, cheering audience back easily with the message that they can—and must—change the world.
Is Romney’s high school bullying the draft-dodging scandal of 2012?
 A presidential candidate’s high-school years have always been packaged as a sepia-toned time of paper routes, patriotism, and premature whiffs of greatness. The classic model is the brief torch-is-passed film clip unveiled at the 1992 Democratic Convention of a 16-year-old Bill Clinton shaking hands with John Kennedy at the White House during a Boys State trip to Washington.
Obama campaign’s ad paints Romney as a job-killing 'vampire'
 Mitt Romney, a job-killing economic "vampire"? That's the message of a new ad by President Barack Obama's re-election campaign, which aims to turn the presumptive Republican nominee's business record into a liability as voters worry about the struggling economy. A two-minute version of the new video will run in Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Colorado and Virginia. [...]
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