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Health Disaster In A Can
Your daily caffeine blast from "energy" drinks might be killing you. A new study says the high-powered drinks have so much of a jolt that the government should put warning labels on them. "The caffeine content of energy drinks varies over a...
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Wife-killer Conviction Biased: Son
The son of a Westchester lawyer who is a neighbor of Bill and Hillary Clinton - and was convicted of murdering his wife - yesterday accused the jury and district attorney of unfairly targeting his father, claiming racism was partly to blame...
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Binding Arbitration
New York's dominatrixes have been getting spanked by the economy recently - and now, they're lashing back. Already reeling from a series of local prostitution raids, dommes have also had to grapple with disobedient clients who can't afford to pay...
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Weird But True
Forget a message in a bottle - a hot-dog cart might be the weirdest item found onshore this year. The Vancouver Aquarium says it was among the odd bits of flotsam and jetsam discovered during the annual Canadian Shoreline Cleanup. Also found were...
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Pope's Tv Bible-a-thon
ROME - Pope Benedict yesterday kicked off a seven-day, nonstop Bible-reading marathon on Italian television, reading from the start of the Book of Genesis from his apartments in the Vatican. In the next seven days and six nights, more than 1,200...
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Quake Jolts Central Asia
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan - Central Asia yesterday survived a 6.3-magnitude earthquake with no immediate reports of damage or casualties, officials said. The quake jolted an area between Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, a densely populated corner...
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Olmert Takes Weapons Plea To Russia
JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, traveling to Russia this week on one of his last diplomatic missions, said yesterday he would urge Moscow not to sell sophisticated weapons to his nation's enemies. Iran is interested in buying...
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Turks Bomb Iraq Kurds' Rebel Bases
ANKARA, Turkey - Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish rebel bases in northern Iraq two days after rebels killed 15 soldiers in an attack staged partly from Iraqi soil, the Turkish military said yesterday. Iraq's Avasin Basyan region was bombed...
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News readers help teen stay at prep school
Daily News readers opened their hearts and their wallets for Derrick (Deejay) Brown, who needs help paying tuition for a prep school he hopes will lead to a career in the NBA.
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Brazil priest's kin hoping to fly body home
Grieving relatives of a Brazilian priest found strangled in Brooklyn are trying to raise $10,000 to bring his body back to his homeland. The body of Jose de Souza, 31, was found washed up on Brighton Beach last Monday morning.
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