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• Fewer New Yorkers approve of governor's performance: poll

  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Just over half of New Yorkers approved of Gov. David Paterson's performance in November, a decline from the previous month, that reflects the sliding economy and a "bitter budget battle," a poll said Wednesday.
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  • 11-20-2008 07:14 AM
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• U.S. woman posed as teen online, teased girl: attorney

  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A Missouri woman established a fake identity online to torment a vulnerable teenage girl who later committed suicide, federal prosecutors said on Wednesday in a trial that is being closely watched by the burgeoning social networking industry.
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• U.S. teen lives 118 days without heart

  MIAMI (Reuters) - An American teen-ager survived for nearly four months without a heart, kept alive by a custom-built artificial blood-pumping device, until she was able to have a heart transplant, doctors in Miami said on Wednesday.
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• Michigan jobless rate hits 16-year high at 9.3 percent

  CHICAGO (Reuters) - Michigan's unemployment rate in October rose to 9.3 percent -- a 16-year high -- as the home of the beleaguered U.S. auto industry continued to shed manufacturing jobs, the state reported on Wednesday.
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  • 11-19-2008 07:34 PM
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• U.S. museum returns 14 stolen artifacts to Italy

  ROME (Reuters) - The U.S. Cleveland Museum of Art agreed on Wednesday to return looted art to Italy, including an ancient vase and a 14th-century cross, as museums worldwide face pressure to ensure their collections were acquired legally.
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• U.S. Army vows to do better with next helicopter

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Army Secretary Pete Geren said the service had learned important lessons from a canceled $6.2 billion armed reconnaissance helicopter led by Textron Inc Bell Helicopter unit.
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• Burger King begins limiting sodium in "Kids Meals"

  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Burger King Corp, the world's second-largest hamburger chain, on Wednesday said it will limit sodium in its "Kids Meals" and that it was the first fast-food restaurant chain to take that step.
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• Russia repatriates diplomat jailed in United States

  MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian diplomat jailed in the United States in a case linked to the Iraqi oil-for-food program has been transferred home to serve out his sentence, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.
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