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USA team at World Cup 2010

A sixth World Cup appearance in succession for USA, but their team is very unsettled as 2010 approaches. Target man: Landon Donovan's goals will be needed by USA once again at a World Cup Photo: EPA USA's World Cup record: 1930...

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Kinky Friedman interview for Heroes of a Texas Childhood

Folk musician and author Kinky Friedman tells Rachel Ray about his political ambitions for Texas, and what it means to be a hero. And they certainly aren’t making many political candidates like this straight talking Texas folk...

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Outside Edge: A woman's fight to air her dirty laundry

Carin Froehlich of Perkasie (home town of Miss Pennsylvania 1971, apparently) has been warned not to dry her laundry on a clothesline outside, following two complaints from neighbours, writes Matthew Engel

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Students taught how to grow marijuana in Detroit's new cannabis college

Horticulturalists, doctors and lawyers among instructors after Michigan legalises drug as a medicine It goes without saying that there's no smoking in class. But there is a good deal of sniffing of leaves, discussion of the...

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Jeanne-Claude, Christo's wife and collaborator, obituary

She was one half of the of the environmental artist known to the world as Christo The flame-haired artist Jeanne-Claude – or Mrs Christo, as she sometimes called herself – worked with her husband to mummify the Pont Neuf, to...

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Album: Chip Taylor, Yonkers NY (Train Wreck)

Best known for writing a bouquet of diversely distinctive 1960s hits – "I Can't Let Go", "Angel of the Morning" and "Wild Thing" – Chip Taylor has led the kind of life that usually only happens in Hollywood films, including a...

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Hovis to use only British wheat in loaves

• Breadmaker to stop Canadian imports in the new year • Move welcomed by National Farmers' Union Britain's farmers were given a boost today when bread maker Hovis announced that it plans to use only British wheat across its...

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UPDATE 1-Homex shareholders approve $100 mln share offering

MEXICO CITY, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Leading Mexican home builder Homex said on Friday that its shareholders had approved a plan to raise about $100 million in a global stock offering and that it could use the funds to expand.

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Jeanne-Claude, 1935-2009

She was one half of the environmental artist known to the world as Christo The flame-haired artist Jeanne-Claude – or Mrs Christo, as she sometimes called herself – worked with her husband to mummify the Pont Neuf, to envelop a...

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Ask Gill: cruising with a disability; theft at Johannesburg; seeing the Northern Lights

Our resident expert solves your travel conundrums. This week: cruising with a disability; theft at Johannesburg; seeing the Northern Lights; and visiting the Canary Islands without flying. 'There's a great deal of debate over...

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