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The Rebirth Of General Growth Properties

General Growth Properties (NYSE: GGP), the second-largest public U.S. mall landlord, is living up to its name once again. After exiting bankruptcy in 2010, the Chicago-based company's shares hit a new all-time high of $18.49 on Friday.
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Katie Holmes And Tom Cruise Divorce Settled: Was The Marriage A Sham?

It is difficult to reconcile the accusations that TomKat was merely a contractual agreement with the way the split has played out so far -- with Cruise convincingly playing the role of the jilted husband and Holmes the long-suffering wife who can't get away from him fast enough. On the other hand, the hasty settlement is more suggestive of a premeditated ending than a knock-down, drag-out fight would have been.
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Optic Nerve Tumors Traced Back To Stem Cells In Young Brains

Neurofibromatosis type 1 can cause tumors called optic glioma, but until now, scientists didn't know exactly where these tumors came from. Now researchers working with mice have tracked the tumors back to a specific region in the embryonic brain.
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R.A. Dickey Won't Start 2012 All-Star Game: Was He Snubbed?

It will be Matt Cain of the San Francisco Giants, not New York Mets pitcher R.A. Dickey, who will be starting for the National League at Tuesday's All-Star game -- in what many perceive to be a snub of Dickey, a dominant knuckleballer who was arguably the best pitcher in the first half of the season.
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Boeing Announces Big 737 Sale In Europe

Boeing Company (NYSE: BA) has extended its lead in 2012 orders over European rival Airbus SAS with a multibillion-dollar commitment from a leasing company that the Chicago-based company revealed this week in Airbus' backyard.
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ESPN Body Issue 2012: Tyson Chandler Nude Cover And Full List of Names Released

Sports' elite stripped down for the 2012 ESPN Body Issue featuring 27 athletes posing naked in pictures for the fourth annual edition. Some of the athletes posing in nude photos for the magazine include Rob Gronkowski of the New England Patriots, Jose Bautista of the Toronto Blue Jays, Abby Wambach of the Women's National Soccer Team and Tyson Chandler of the New York Knicks, who is featured on the cover.
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Video Shows Taliban Brutally Slaying Woman Amid Cheers From Villagers

A video of the brutal public slaying of an Afghan woman by a militant, believed to be a member of the Taliban, was caught on camera last month near Kabul, laying bare the perilously unstable law and order situation in Afghanistan, ahead of the planned withdrawal of NATO troops in 2014.
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Watch A 13-Minute Preview Of 'The Dark Knight Rises' [VIDEO]

The Dark Knight Rises is hands-down the most widely hyped movie of the summer. Yet, for all the fanfare surrounding the film, there's a lot of mystery, too. It appears director Christopher Nolan has heard his fans' pleas for More, and released a 13-minute sneak preview of the coming blockbuster.
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On Jobs, The US Congress, And You

Cutting federal spending in 2012 could tip the U.S. economy back into a recession, just as it almost did in 1937. On the contrary, if the federal government spent more on infrastructure and public works projects now and in the immediate quarters ahead, it would create millions of jobs.

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