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 Seattle Times 
Economy, low prices cool off Alberta's oil-sands boom
FORT McMURRAY, Alberta - Bitumen has been mined in Alberta since 1967, though for a long time it wasn't considered profitable. It wasn't even considered oil. "We were kind of a curiosity," said Don... (photo: WN / Silvino Lopez)
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 Canada Dot Com 
It's not all about the six-packThirteen more reasons to get to the gym
There's more to exercise than trying to achieve that ever-elusive six-pack. In fact, some of exercise's biggest benefits can't be shown off on the cover of a magazine. So for all of you frustrated... (photo: AP / )
Alonzo Mourning and Kevin Durant  Canada Dot Com 
Durant, Thunder finally get win, beat Memphis
Memphis, TN (Sports Network) - Kevin Durant netted 30 points, and Jeff Green contributed 22, as the Oklahoma City Thunder mercifully halted a 14-game slide with a 111-103 victory over the Memphis... (photo: WN / Aruna Gilbert)
Basketball   Media   Photos   Sport   Star
climate change - environment - global warming - am1  Canada Dot Com 
Support for climate change efforts falling: survey

PARIS -- There is both growing public reluctance to make personal sacrifices and a distinct lack of enthusiasm for the major international efforts now underway to battle climate change, according to... (photo: WN / aruna1)
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 global warming - climate change - am1 Canada Dot Com
Global warming solution begins at home: Weaver

Climatologist Andrew Weaver is not a tree hugger. Even though the affable scientist and recent Nobel laureate enjoys the leafy things, they aren't going to solve the... (photo: WN / aruna1)
Climate   Environment   Nature   Photos   Pollution
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, left, accompanied by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2008, before the House Financial Services Commit The Examiner
The Fed boosted emergency loans to banks and firms

Comments WASHINGTON (Map, News) - The Federal Reserve boosted its lending to commercial banks and investment firms over the past week, indicating that a severe credit... (photo: AP / Charles Dharapak)
Economy   Financial   Market   Money   Photos
Remains of the Interstate 35W Mississippi River bridge seen from the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Canada Dot Com
Croom resigns at Mississippi State

Starkville, MS (Sports Network) - Mississippi State head football coach Sylvester Croom announced his resignation Saturday, just one day after the Bulldogs ended the 2008... (photo: GFDL / Jonathunder)
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 Galina Ponamareva, 62, is checked by a nurse at a St. Petersburg hospital for influenza Tuesday Feb. 4, 1997. A flu epidemic in St. Petersburg, Russia´s second largest city, has sickened 140,000 people including 80,000 children. Two people have die Canada Dot Com
Is it a cold or flu?
For years, common wisdom for a cold was to take a pill. But scan pharmacy shelves these days -- not to mention bookstores -- and the message is changing. While... (photo: AP Photo/Anatoly Maltsev)
Disease   Flu   Health   Medications   Photo
Tropical birds, ZOO Brno Canada Dot Com
Prof. to host talk on birds

The Canada South Land Trust will host a talk Thursday about tropical birds. The speaker, Dr. Dan Mennill, is an associate professor at the University of Windsor's... (photo: Creative Commons / Packa)
Birds   Canada   Nature   Photos   Sciences
 Canadian dollar-currency-money-economy (sl1) Canada Dot Com
Canadians shopped 'til economy dropped

OTTAWA - Canadian consumers went on an unexpected shopping spree in September, just prior to the economy sliding into what a major international think-tank is projecting... (photo: publicdomainphoto)
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