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Hong Kong couple sues over sons' Harvard rejection

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BOSTON (AP) - A couple from Hong Kong has sued a U.S.-based college admissions consultant for failing to get their two sons into an Ivy League university as he had allegedly promised. Gerald and Lily Chow say in their suit filed in U.S. District Court in Boston that they gave Mark Zimny more than $

US report highlights unease about Chinese firms

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By JOE McDONALDAP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) - Eager to expand in the United States, China's biggest technology companies face an America anxious about threats to jobs and national security. The latest blow: A U.S. report that says telecom equipment makers Huawei Technologies Inc. and ZTE

EU fin mins blocked on thorny banking union

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By DON MELVIN and SARAH DiLORENZOAssociated Press LUXEMBOURG (AP) - Europe made little progress Tuesday in its efforts to secure the region's stricken financial system and ensure that failing banks never risk an entire country's economy again when finance ministers from the 27-country

2 skydivers, 52 years apart, same lofty goal

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By MARCIA DUNNAP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The advice from master to student over the past three years has been simple: Be prepared. Know what to do and how to do it. "Fearless Felix" Baumgartner has heeded Joe Kittinger's advice and now is about to test it. On Tuesday

Skydiver cancels 2nd try at supersonic jump in NM

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By JERI CLAUSINGAssociated Press ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) - Blame it on the wind. Again. For the second straight day, extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner aborted his planned death-defying 23-mile free fall because of the weather, postponing his quest to become the world's first supersonic skydiver

Long-missing Colo. Marine buried with full honors

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By DAN ELLIOTTAssociated Press DENVER (AP) - A Colorado family's years of waiting ended Tuesday when they finally buried a fallen Marine who had been missing since a helicopter crash during the rescue of an American ship crew seized by Cambodia's Khmer Rouge in 1975. Pfc. James Jacques

Key dates in the Penn State child sex abuse case

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By The Associated Press A chronological look at the case against former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, based on grand jury reports, court appearances and testimony. Some key dates in Penn State football and since the scandal broke are included. - 1969 - Jerry Sandusky

Mich. man at risk for meningitis after losing wife

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By ED WHITEAssociated Press DETROIT (AP) - Days after taking his wife off life support, George Cary got a phone call that confirmed his suspicions: Her meningitis-related death was linked to tainted steroid injections at a Michigan clinic that had regularly treated her back pain. The doctor on

Presidential campaigns target new citizen voters

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By GARANCE BURKEAssociated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - From Florida to Virginia, Massachusetts to California, candidates and political parties seeking to squeeze every vote from a divided electorate are targeting America's newest citizens. It's a relatively small bloc but one that can be

Presidential campaigns target new citizen voters

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on October 9th