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    'Black Friday' Shoppers, Retailers Cautious Amid Weak Economy

    Nov 28, 2008 08:20 PM EST

    ... seven or 10 years with big payments due at the end.Circuit City and Linens 'n Things have sought bankruptcy protection. Home Depot, Sears, Ann Taylor and Foot Locker are closing stores."Black Friday" received its name because it historically was the day when a surge of shoppers helped stores ...

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    Scientists Grow Rat Heart from Transplanted Cells

    Jan 14, 2008 03:12 PM EST

    ... to strip away all of the cells from a dead rat heart, leaving only a scaffolding of proteins."It looks like a ghost heart," said Taylor.Then, the researchers reseeded the scaffolding with heart cells from newborn rats. In just eight days, and with an electrical jump-start, the cells ...

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    Essayist Examines Addiction in Media and Everyday Life

    May 07, 2007 10:50 PM EST

    ANNE TAYLOR FLEMING, NewsHour Essayist: They are proliferating up here in the lovely and expensive hills of Malibu, residential rehab centers, I'm talking about. With names like Promises, and Passages, and Renaissance Malibu, they are protected by gates and unlisted addresses.They offer a well-heeled and often famous ...

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    Student Activism

    Apr 21, 2006 04:00 AM EST

    ANNE TAYLOR FLEMING, NewsHour Essayist: I was struck by the pictures of college kids on spring break, not the ones doing the time-honored bacchanalian thing on the beaches of Florida, but rather the kids who had forsaken that rite and gone instead to New Orleans and the Gulf Coast ...

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    Johnson-Sirleaf Describes Attempts to Come to Terms with Liberia's Violent Past

    Mar 23, 2006 05:00 AM EST

    ... on you asking for this extradition, is that right? And are you concerned that it could, if he's put on trial, provoke a pro-Taylor backlash in your country? ELLEN JOHNSON-SIRLEAF: The condition hasn't been that direct. It's been like, "We are going to support you ...

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    Death's Embrace

    Nov 17, 2005 05:00 AM EST

    ANNE TAYLOR FLEMING: In her magical new book, "The Year of Magical Thinking," Joan Didion explores the subject of grief, her own intense grief at losing her husband of 40 years the writer, John Gregory Dunne, and watching their own daughter, Quintana, struggle against illnesses that would lead to her ...

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    A New Leader for Liberia

    Nov 14, 2005 05:00 AM EST

    GWEN IFILL: The African nation of Liberia takes its first shaky step back toward democracy. We start with some background. GWEN IFILL: Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the Harvard-educated former World Bank official slated to be Liberia's next president faces a slew of challenges, not least of which her main ...

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    Chimeras: Animal-human Hybrids

    Aug 16, 2005 04:00 AM EST

    ... WEISSMAN: Absolutely. It's a good thing we're treading on ethical grounds. It means we're getting close to important issues. TOM BEARDEN: But Stuart Newman fears the NAS guidelines might be ignored. STUART NEWMAN: I think they're just recommendations, and they may have some force in influencing ...

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    Air France Crash Update

    Aug 03, 2005 04:00 AM EST

    LINDSAY TAYLOR: Flight 358 bursting into flames moments after the crash. The Air France flight from Paris to Toronto, carrying more than 300 passengers and crew, had skidded off the runway and landed in a wooded ravine, cameras on a nearby highway capturing the unfolding drama. Passengers used emergency chutes ...

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    Women and Work

    Jul 05, 2005 04:00 AM EST

    ANNE TAYLOR FLEMING: I always keep my eye on the statistics. How many women have risen to the top -- how many senators, how many professors, college presidents, corporate executives. It's a habit left over from the early exit rating days of liberation, when we -- then young women -- started banging ...