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Anthrax at White House mail site
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| Anthrax has been detected at a remote mail-handling facility that processes mail for the White House, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said Tuesday.
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U.S. strikes hit targets near Kabul
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| U.S. warplanes struck Tuesday behind the front lines of the ruling Taliban as rebel forces waited for an opportunity to advance on an important Afghan city. As bombing resumed Wednesday, both sides claimed civilian casualties were growing.
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Kabul worn down by bombing
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| Two weeks into the U.S. bombing campaign, residents of Afghanistan's capital of Kabul are weary with war, their lives shattered by relentless American air strikes. MSNBC's Preston Mendenhall reports.
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Business
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Security fears drag on productivity
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| Productivity-boosting measures such as just-in-time inventories could become casualties of the terror attacks, as many firms are abandoning efficiencies to stockpile parts and disperse workers to remote sites in the aftermath of Sept. 11.
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Amazon loss shrinks, revenues flat
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| Amazon.com Inc. said on Tuesday its quarterly pro forma loss shrank, meeting expectations, even though revenues were flat as the online retail giant made progress towards its first profit despite the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks.
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Technology
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Apple unveils digital music player
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| Apple Computer Inc. unveiled a portable music player Tuesday that can hold up to 1,000 songs in digital form, the first device launched outside the company's Macintosh computer line in eight years.
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Sports
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Living, Travel & Entertainment
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Dave Hickey, coolest man in America
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| To understand Dave Hickey's freedom, you must first realize this: He can lean against any wall he wants to, be it in an art gallery or a jazz club, a hillbilly honky-tonk or a rock-and-roll joint. By John Schulian.
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Winfrey cancels dinner with 'conflicted' author
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| Jonathan Franzen, who wrote "The Corrections," didn't want the logo of Oprah's Book Club on copies of his best-selling novel. The talk-show host canceled dinner with him and selected viewers of her show.
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Health
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Anthrax at White House mail site
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| Anthrax has been detected at a remote mail-handling facility that processes mail for the White House, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said Tuesday.
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Mopping up a deadly microbe
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| As more people die of anthrax and others fall ill, health officials now face the next challenge: destroying the dangerous microbe wherever it is found.
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Postal deaths catch officials off guard
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| The deaths of two Washington, D.C., postal workers and hospitalization of two others from inhaled anthrax have taught officials a disturbing lesson: An envelope containing anthrax may not need to be opened to infect people with the disease's deadliest for
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Weather
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Vietnam floods kill 326, most kids
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| Storms, high winds and floods have killed 326 people, many of them children, in Vietnam's Mekong Delta and several central provinces since August, officials said on Tuesday.
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North Korea floods hurt harvests
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| This month's floods in North Korea will hurt the promising harvest and exacerbate the country's already grave food shortages, a United Nations agency said.
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