Posts Tagged ‘decades’

Decades later, a Cold War secret is revealed (AP)

AP – For more than a decade they toiled in the strange, boxy-looking building on the hill above the municipal airport, the building with no windows (except in the cafeteria), the building filled with secrets.

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Chicago votes for first new mayor in 2 decades (AP)

Chicago mayoral candidate Gery Chico left, greets customers at Yolk restaurant in Chicago Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)AP – The biggest question in Chicago’s mayoral election Tuesday was whether former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel’s momentum and money would carry him to an outright win or whether one of his rivals would garner enough votes to force a two-way runoff in April.


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Swedes shocked by 1st terror attack in 3 decades (AP)

Sama Sarsour from Swedish Muslims for Peace and Justice (SMFR) participates in a peace demonstration at Sergels square in central Stockholm Sunday Dec. 12, 2010 .   Swedish police said Sunday that two explosions in central Stockholm were an act of terrorism, in what appeared to be the first attack in the Nordic country by a suicide bomber. The suspect, who was not named, killed himself and injured two people on a busy shopping street Saturday.   (AP photo/Scanpix Sweden/Marc Femenia)  SWEDEN OUTAP – No one died except for the suspected bomber, but two explosions in Sweden’s capital tore at the fabric of this tolerant and open nation — a society that hadn’t seen a terrorist attack in more than three decades.


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New test may predict date of menopause decades in advance

A simple test that could predict menopause well in advance could one day show women just how loudly their biological clock is ticking, and help them answer tough questions like how long they can wait before having children.

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Daly: Starr fleeced widow out of millions over 2 decades

The question that Kenneth Starr’s victims should now be asking is why he was not arrested two years ago, when a wealthy Manhattan widow charged that he had fleeced her out of millions over the course of two decades.

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Democrats gird for next step in health care fight

AFP – WASHINGTON (AFP) – Democrats braced for the next battle in pushing the most sweeping US health care overhaul in a half-century through Congress, after handing President Barack Obama victory in a narrow House vote.

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Obama wins big as House approves health care bill

AFP – WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US House of Representatives has approved the broadest overhaul of US health care in four decades, handing President Barack Obama a hard-fought victory for his top domestic priority.

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Obama wins big as House approves health care bill

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