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Drivers cut back -- a first in 26 years
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The average American motorist is driving substantially fewer miles for the
first time in 26 years because of high gas prices and demographic shifts,
according to a USA TODAY analysis of federal highway data.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-05-17-gas-prices_N.htm
Campaign funds going to legal fees
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Two dozen current and former members of Congress caught up in criminal
investigations or ethics inquiries spent more than $5 million in campaign
funds on legal fees during the last 27 months covered by campaign-finance
records.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-05-17-legal-fees_N.htm
U.S. bank considering request to help transfer N. Korean funds
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A U.S. bank said Friday it was considering a request to help solve an
international funds transfer involving North Korea that has held up movement
by the communist country to implement a landmark nuclear disarmament accord.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-05-17-north-korea-funds_N.htm
MONEY | http://www.usatoday.com/money/front.htm
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Strategies: Don't let tug of war of business sap your energy
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Strategy versus execution. Sales versus operations. Increasing income versus
reducing costs. Every entrepreneur faces a constant tug of war.
http://www.usatoday.com/money/smallbusiness/columnist/abrams/2007-05-18-tug-of-
war_N.htm
Test Drive: Honda's FCX fuel-cell car ready for its close-up
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It will be interesting to see how the automaker deals with the noise issue.
Honda knows people want to hear something when they step on the throttle.
Otherwise there's little to reinforce the feeling of acceleration. A noiseless
car can seem sluggish even if it's not. But what kind of sound, and how do you
get it from an electric powerplant?
http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/reviews/healey/2007-05-18-test-drive-
fcx_N.htm
Wolfowitz quits World Bank
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World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz resigned Thursday, capping a long-running
dispute over his handling of a pay raise and promotion for a bank employee
with whom he was romantically involved.
http://www.usatoday.com/money/world/2007-05-17-wolfowitz-resigns-_N.htm
SPORTS | http://www.usatoday.com/sports/front.htm
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Is there finally reason for hope in Cleveland?
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Last season was more of the same for the Cleveland Browns as they finished
with a 4-12 record, last in the AFC North. Behind struggling second-year
quarterback Charlie Frye and hobbled running back Reuben Droughns, the Browns
fielded the NFL's 31st-ranked offense. But Browns fans are hoping all of that
changed in a span of a few hours on the last Saturday in April as the team
corralled two premier first-round picks whom the club hopes will propel the
squad to the top of the AFC.
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/nfl/browns/2007-05-16-offseason-
report_N.htm
Aaron, Braves want to attract black players
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Hank Aaron will be getting a bigger role with the Atlanta Braves following the
team's sale from Time Warner Inc. to Liberty Media Corp. "Hank Aaron is going
be a critical part of all this. It was very important to me, and I know it's
very important to Terry and to Bill," commissioner Bud Selig said at a news
conference with McGuirk and Braves chairman emeritus Bill Bartholomay.
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/nl/braves/2007-05-17-braves-aaron_N.htm
Champ Taylor takes no guff as Spinks awaits
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Just in case anyone needed a reminder that he's the middleweight champion of
the world, Jermain Taylor made an emphatic statement Thursday that he's
nobody's chump. Taylor, the pride of Little Rock, will risk his WBC and WBO
titles against Cory Spinks, the IBF junior middleweight champion from St.
Louis, Saturday night at FedEx Forum (HBO, 10:15 ET).
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/boxing/2007-05-18-taylor-spinks_N.htm
LIFE | http://www.usatoday.com/life/front.htm
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Bo Diddley's condition improves
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Four days after suffering a stroke, Bo Diddley walked around the intensive-
care unit at Creighton University Medical Center, and doctors were encouraged
that the singer-songwriter-guitarist would be able to perform again, his
manager said.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2007-05-17-bo-diddley_N.htm
Fan charged with stalking Sandra Bullock
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A fan of Sandra Bullock was charged Thursday with stalking the actress and
trying to run down her husband, TV motorcycle maker Jesse James, outside their
Orange County home.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2007-05-17-bullock-stalker_N.htm
'Shrek': The more the merrier
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The fairy-tale family is growing in Shrek the Third. But are eight new major
characters just enough, or is this blockbuster franchise getting more squeezed
than a size-5 glass slipper on an ugly stepsister's foot? Shrek the Third will
need all the muscle it can get to live up to its own gargantuan legacy.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2007-05-17-shrek_N.htm
TRAVEL | http://www.usatoday.com/travel/front.htm
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Airlines have a long, hot summer ahead
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When the summer travel stampede starts here after Memorial Day, US Airways'
Ross Bonanno says, his airline will be ready.
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2007-05-18-summer-travel-usat_N.htm
Airfares could fall a bit once summer gets underway
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Summer travelers can expect higher airfares than last year, but they probably
won't pay as much as they feared.
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2007-05-17-fares-usat_N.htm
TECH | http://www.usatoday.com/tech/front.htm
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Fair Isaac study says Internet click fraud persists
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Deceptive clicks on Internet advertising links distributed by Google (GOOG),
Yahoo (YHOO). and other online marketing vehicles are probably occurring far
more frequently than the network operators acknowledge, according to a study
by fraud detection specialist Fair Isaac.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2007-05-17-click-fraud_N.htm
Merging black holes are cosmic train wreck
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Scientists have pinpointed the precise locations of a pair of supermassive
black holes at the centers of two colliding galaxies 300 million light-years
away. The two black holes at the center of the galaxy merger known as NGC 6240
are each surrounded by a rotating disk of stars and cloudy stellar nurseries.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2007-05-17-merging-black-holes_N.htm
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