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Virginia, Florida have most well-read cities in US: poll
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York and Boston may strike many as more intellectual but Alexandria, a small urban area in Virginia just outside Washington, D.C., is the most well-read city in the United States.
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A "gold rush" for Maine's baby eel fishermen
PORTLAND, Maine (Reuters) - George Forni will spend most of next week holed up in his home in Sullivan, Maine, guarded by a new surveillance system and armed with a stun gun and pepper spray as he buys live baby eels from neighbors for thousands of dollars.
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Father of Washington's Josh Powell guilty of voyeurism
SEATTLE (Reuters) - The father of Josh Powell, who killed himself and his two young sons in a fiery blast at his Washington state home in February, was found guilty of 14 counts of voyeurism on Wednesday, a prosecutor said.
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Teacher fired over pregnancy can sue religious school
(Reuters) - An appeals court on Wednesday revived a Florida teacher's lawsuit against a Christian school that fired her after she admitted to conceiving a child before her marriage.
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Lawyers for ex-Senator John Edwards rest case
GREENSBORO, North Carolina (Reuters) - The defense rested its case on Wednesday in the federal trial of ex-Senator John Edwards on charges he used presidential campaign finances to hide his then-pregnant mistress from voters, setting the stage for jury deliberations as early as this week.
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Judge grants class action status to NY frisk challenge
(Reuters) - A judge on Wednesday granted class-action status to a lawsuit challenging the New York Police Department's controversial crime-fighting tactic known as "stop and frisk."
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Chicago braces for violence at NATO summit
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago police, who have a reputation for dealing toughly with protesters, will be prepared for the worst with new riot gear, including "sound cannon", if demonstrators at the NATO summit get out of line this weekend.
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Immigrant women farm workers suffer sex abuse: report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of female immigrant farm workers in the United States are at risk of sexual violence and harassment, the organization Human Rights Watch said in a report on Wednesday.
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Crews battle to contain raging Arizona wildfires
PHOENIX (Reuters) - Crews battled to contain wind-whipped Arizona wildfires on Wednesday that have raced across 27 square miles of parched ponderosa forest, brush and grassland, consuming several buildings and threatening a small town, authorities said.
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Skechers settles charges over toning shoe ads
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Skechers USA has agreed to pay $40 million to settle charges that it made unfounded claims when it advertised that its "toning shoes" would enable users to get stronger and lose weight.
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U.S. official: finding underwear bombmaker "very important"
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The bombmaker suspected of designing exotic weapons like underwear bombs for al Qaeda's Yemeni affiliate is a key target of U.S. counter-terrorism efforts, a top U.S. official said on Wednesday.
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Two workers hurt in Texas fracking tank site blast
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Two workers were hurt in an explosion at a hydraulic fracturing tank site in south Texas early on Wednesday, a sheriff's dispatcher said.
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MIT's provost named president of university
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (Reuters) - The Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Wednesday named Rafael Reif, an electrical engineer born in Venezuela who has been the university's provost since 2005, as its 17th president.
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Mild winter leads to more car-animal collisions
(Reuters) - The mild winter led to at least one unexpected consequence: many more costly collisions between cars and wildlife on American roads.
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Skechers settles charges over toning shoe ads
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Skechers USA Inc has agreed to pay $40 million to settle charges that it made unfounded claims when it advertised that its "toning shoes" would enable users to get stronger and lose weight.
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Protesters disrupt State Street annual meeting
BOSTON (Reuters) - Protesters calling themselves the "99 percent" disrupted State Street Corp's annual meeting on Wednesday, using a coordinated plan to interrupt Chairman and Chief Executive Jay Hooley five different times.
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U.S. to freeze assets to help Yemeni transition
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday ordered the freezing of U.S. assets of anyone the United States considers to be obstructing the Washington-backed political transition in Yemen.
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U.S. loses bulk of appeal in WTO tuna case
GENEVA (Reuters) - U.S. rules on tuna labeling are inconsistent with World Trade Organization rules, the WTO's Appellate Body said on Wednesday, in a judgment that largely backed Mexico's original complaint against "dolphin friendly" labeling in the United States.
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Activist targeting schools, backed by big bucks
(Reuters) - During her tumultuous three years at the head of the Washington D.C. public schools, Michelle Rhee set off a lot of fireworks.
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Foreclosed Americans find way back to homeownership
NEW YORK (Reuters) - When Jennifer Anderson's family could no longer afford their mortgage and lost their home, she expected many years to pass before they would again become property owners.
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