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redOrbit - Wed Dec 9, 9:08 am ET
The United States ranks near the bottom in life expectancy among wealthy nations despite spending more than double per person on healthcare than the industrialized world's average, an economic group said Tuesday.Healthcare reform has dominated U.S.
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Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance - 46 minutes ago
PANAMA CITY, Fla.----The beaches are back. And BookIt.com, a leading online travel provider, is celebrating with savings on vacation packages on Cancun and other resorts along Mexico’s Caribbean coast.
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Deseret News - Wed Dec 9, 2:23 am ET
On MormonTimes.com: My friend Miguel is heading home to Mexico. He sent his wife and children back and planned to stay in...
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Bloomberg - Tue Dec 8, 12:34 pm ET
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Desarrolladora Homex SAB , Mexico’s largest homebuilder, plans to sell $250 million of 10-year bonds overseas to yield about 9.75 percent, said a person familiar with the transaction.
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Dallas Morning News - Tue Dec 8, 4:46 pm ET
PepsiCo, the nation's second largest soft drink maker, will pay Plano-based Dr Pepper Snapple Group Inc. nearly $1 billion for the right to continue making and distributing several Dr Pepper brands in the U.S., Canada and Mexico , the two companies said Tuesday.
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Sci Fi Wire - Tue Dec 8, 2:31 pm ET
In a turn of events that makes the car-eating threat of Professor Frink's Truck-o-saurus on The Simpsons seem small, startled museum staff in Guadalajara report that a robot dinosaur has been stolen from a museum exhibit, according to the BBC .
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CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance - Tue Dec 8, 7:00 am ET
Transat, one of the largest integrated tourism companies in the world and Canada's holiday travel leader, today announced its support for four new sustainable tourism initiatives in as many of its destination countries, namely Mexico, Peru, Morocco and Turkey.
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San Francisco Chronicle - Wed Dec 9, 3:40 am ET
The mountain of oranges, tangerines, lemons and more exotic fruits piled in the customs office at the Hidalgo international bridge in Texas on Thanksgiving Day would have made any grocer proud. But the booty of Operation Gobble Gobble was destined for the... Thanksgiving - Fruit - Texas - Holidays - Tangerine
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Inland Valley Daily Bulletin - Wed Dec 9, 1:25 am ET
SAN DIMAS - While doing ministry work in Canon Buena Vista, Mexico, a few years ago, Yolanda Hernandez looked upon the women in the community and felt dismay.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 8, 11:59 am ET
A howling winter storm barreled through the West, hitting the mountain states with snow and fierce winds as it headed toward the country's midsection on Tuesday.
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San Francisco Chronicle - Wed Dec 9, 3:28 am ET
Editor's note: Catherine Bigelow's Social City column makes its debut today in Datebook and on SFGate.com, but to many readers, it needs no introduction. Bigelow wrote The Chronicle's Swells column from 2004 to 2007. For the past year and a half, she has been...
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TV 7&4 Traverse City - 7 minutes ago
Ford officials are asking for $120 million in tax credits for companies that develop batteries for hybrid and electric vehicles.
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CCNMatthews via Yahoo! Finance - 2 hours 6 minutes ago
TORONTO, ONTARIO-- - Soltoro Ltd. has resumed resource drilling of the Las Bolas structure at the El Rayo Silver Gold Lead Project in Jalisco State, Mexico. Resource drilling is underway along a 1 kilometre long portion of the Las Bolas structure focused on defining a NI 43-101 compliant silver resource.
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WSB-TV 2 Atlanta - 10 minutes ago
A Strong Winter Storm Blasted Much Of The United States On Wednesday, Bringing Blizzard Conditions To Some Areas And Rain And High Winds To Others. Hundreds Of Flights Were Delayed Or Canceled, Leaving Travelers Stranded.
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The Toledo Blade - Wed Dec 9, 7:47 am ET
ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK - Chris Spielman's wife, Stefanie, was never impressed by all the honors her husband received for being a star linebacker at Ohio State and in the NFL. The only one that ever got her excited was when she found out in the spring that her husband had been elected to the College Football Hall of Fame. "There was such a genuine smile on her face and pure joy that she'd ...
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19 Action News Cleveland - 11 minutes ago
(CNN) -- People across much of the United States braced for more havoc Wednesday from a strong winter storm that was bringing blizzard conditions to some areas and rain and high winds to others.
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Denver Post - Wed Dec 9, 3:19 am ET
The Mexican army, deployed across the nation as part of the government's campaign against drug cartels, has murdered prisoners, tortured civilians and captured suspects illegally, Amnesty International said Tuesday.
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Lexington Herald-Leader - Wed Dec 9, 7:09 am ET
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Columbia Journalism Review - 50 minutes ago
First came the medical device makers and now the plastic surgeons. Both groups have a problem. You see, Congress wants to slap a tax on medical devices—things like insulin pumps and heart valves.
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Bloomberg - Tue Dec 8, 2:51 pm ET
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Mexico’s Finance Minister Agustin Carstens said Standard & Poor’s probably will maintain the country’s BBB+ credit rating after the government raised taxes and cut spending as oil revenue recovers.