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Cadman Plaza Park, formerly nicknamed "the dust bowl," is now green, after a $3 million renovation.

DR Tomonori Nochi and his colleagues at the University of Tokyo s Institute of Medical Science has made an astounding breakthrough in tackling the scourge of cholera that afflicts a vast majority of Africa, Latin America and parts of Asia.

Legislature revives car locator services bill SALEM (AP) A bill requiring car locator services to give police information on vehicle location if police suspect a life-threatening emergency or a crime was resurrected by legislators Saturday. Democrats pushed for the constitutional amendment only after their efforts to pass a law outright were stymied by Republicans, who have argued that funding for the expanded health coverage should come from existing revenue. Any effort to raise taxes...

All but the wealthiest readers will have noticed by now that food costs have risen this year. In May grocery prices were 4.4% higher than they were the previous May. If 4.4% doesn't sound like...

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Nancy Tooke, the third manager of Eaton Vance's Tax Managed Small Cap Growth Fund since 2003, is turning the fund around after a six-year...

What with the limited space in the room, a number of Congress leaders who came to Delhi for the nomination exercise, had to stand in the corridor along with mediapersons. Baalu, the Nationalist Congress Party by Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, the Rashtriya Janata Dal by Union Rural Development Minister Raghuvansh Prasad and the former Bihar Chief Minister Rabri Devi, and the Lok Jan Shakti Party by Union Chemicals and Fertilizers Minister Ram Vilas Paswan. Patil, who greeted all...