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Reuters - Grandparents play a critical role in their grandchildren’s lives, helping boost their development even through simple activities such as reading to them or going shopping together, an Australian study said.
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AP - The federal government is chipping in nearly $30 million for 15 passenger rail projects across the country as Americans continue to drive less and take the train more, U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters said Tuesday.
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AP - A judge in Alaska is set to hear arguments this week on whether he should halt an abuse-of-power investigation of Gov. Sarah Palin by the Alaska Legislature.

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Reuters - The credit crisis and tight student budgets hold no fears for a British teenager who won 7 million pounds ($12.68 million) on the Lottery.

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LiveScience.com - The short answer: a lot. The long answer: depends on how you look at it.
Whatever your viewpoint, here’s how $700 billion - the figure inked in the initial dead-in-the-water government bailout bill for Wall Street - compares to other vast sums.
NASA in fiscal year 2009 will launch several missions into space and […]

LiveScience.com - As we all know, arthritis, the leading cause of disability among people over 55, causes pain. But new research suggests that pain also causes arthritis.
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Reuters - The chairman of the House Financial Services Committee has told lawmakers that a federal bank regulator will seek authority to increase the deposit insurance limit to a level above its current $100,000, said a source familiar with the chairman’s thinking.

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Reuters - Technology company RealNetworks and major film studios on Tuesday squared off in a legal battle over a new product allowing consumers to make computer copies of DVDs that the studios claim is illegal.

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SPACE.com - In light of the most recent glitch on the Hubble Space
Telescope, a serious equipment failure that means the observatory is unable to
send data back to Earth, some are beginning to wonder, is Hubble still worth
saving?
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Reuters - China’s contaminated milk products scandal, which have landed thousands of children in hospital in China this month with kidney illnesses, has reignited calls from medical experts for a return to breastfeeding.

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