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Boeing Dreamliner makes first commercial flight

The Boeing Co 787 Dreamliner took its first paying passengers aloft on Wednesday, showing off a carbon-composite design its maker says is lighter, more economical to fly and more comfortable than its metal rivals currently plying the airways.
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College Costs Outpace Inflation: College Board

The cost of college in the United States rose sharply for the 2011-2012 school year, continuing a multiyear pattern in which public school increases outpaced private school hikes and both eclipsed the average rate of inflation by significant amounts, the College Board reported on Wednesday.
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Police Arrest 85 Occupy Oakland Protesters

Police arrested at least 85 people and cleared a camp used by anti-Wall Street protesters near the Oakland, California, city hall early on Tuesday, a city spokeswoman said.
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Obama: shouldn't relish Gaddafi death footage

President Barack Obama took issue on Tuesday with the broadcasting of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's bloody demise, saying even those who had done terrible things deserved decorum in death.
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Asian Shares Dip on Concern Before EU Summit

Asian shares declined on Wednesday ahead of a key meeting of European policymakers later in the session, with concerns heightening that the outcome to contain Europe's sovereign debt crisis could fall short of expectations.
Nest Labs' Learning Thermostat uses a simple design to save consumers hundreds of dollars on their heating bill. The thermostat learns its user, but can be adjusted remotely.

Nest Learning Thermostat: Creator of iPod Unveils New Gadget

The Nest Learning Thermostat is a touch-controlled thermostat designed to personalize home energy needs and help save as much as $173 per year on your energy bill, according to Nest Labs who has made it. Tony Fadell, who led the team that designed the iPod at Apple, and contributed to the start of the iPhone project, is the designer behind this thermostat.
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Asian Markets Down on Europe Worries

Asian shares declined Wednesday ahead of a key meeting of European policymakers later in the session, as investors feared the effort to contain Europe's sovereign debt crisis could fall short.
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Brazil rejects Europe debt purchase plan

Brazil on Tuesday rejected the idea of buying European bonds to help ease the euro zone's debt crisis, casting doubt on a plan for major emerging market economies to offer fresh funds for the continent's rescue.
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Nomura Reported Debating Major Cost-Cutting

Nomura Holdings , Japan's largest investment bank, is planning major cost cuts that will like have the biggest impact on its loss-making European operations, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
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Yemen calls truce as sporadic blasts heard

Yemen's government signed a cease-fire with a dissident general Tuesday to try to end weeks of worsening bloodshed but sporadic explosions and gunfire were still heard in the north of the capital.
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Nomura debating major cost-cutting drive: report

Nomura Holdings <8604.T>, Japan's largest investment bank, is planning major cost cuts that will like have the biggest impact on its loss-making European operations, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
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Lindsay Lohan plans to pose in Playboy

Troubled actress Lindsay Lohan may have found a way to pay some of her mounting legal bills with a planned agreement to pose nude for Playboy magazine, a source who knew of Lohan's plans said on Tuesday.

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