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NCAA tournament expansion: Is more better?

By admin | Published: March 10, 2010

"If you made me czar of college basketball for a day, I would put a stipulation in there that you have to be .500 in your league," VCU coach Shaka Smart …

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A Better Vintage of Tap Water

By admin | Published: March 10, 2010

Wall Street Journal

High-end models may remove more, including heavy metals, chlorine and … while Design Within Reach markets a slender $85 glass vessel with stones from the …

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Gold, Little Changed, May Gain for First Day in Three on Dollar

By admin | Published: March 10, 2010

By Glenys Sim March 10 (Bloomberg) — Gold, trading little changed in Asia, may gain for the first time in three days as a resumption in the dollar's …

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PRECIOUS-Gold steadies as euro bounces; weak oil may weigh

By admin | Published: March 10, 2010

By Lewa Pardomuan SINGAPORE, March 10 (Reuters) - Gold steadied on Wednesday after the euro bounced slightly higher against the US dollar though weaker oil …

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A's Beat - Harden glowing over Canada gold

By admin | Published: March 10, 2010

After pitching 22/3 innings against the A's on Monday, Rich Harden said, "It was a good one, an exciting game. It was definitely nice. …

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University of Texas Acquires David Foster Wallace Archive - Travel …

By admin | Published: March 10, 2010

The collection includes DFW's childhood and college writings, drafts of.

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A Travel Blog for the Hipster Set? - In Transit Blog - NYTimes.com

By admin | Published: March 10, 2010

Nowhere is a new Web zine of offbeat travel articles written by novelists and poets who view travel through their idiosyncratic artistic lens.

In Transit - http://intransit.blogs.nytimes.com/

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Ion engines for interplanetary travel? - Physics Today News Picks

By admin | Published: March 10, 2010

Ion engines for interplanetary travel? By Physics Today on March 9, 2010 12:02 PM | 1 Comment | No TrackBacks ยท SPACE.com: Former NASA astronaut Franklin Chang-Diaz has been developing a new rocket engine that draws upon electric power …

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Airlines launch 2-day summer airfare sale

By admin | Published: March 10, 2010

Tickets have to be purchased by midnight Thursday for travel through Nov. 16. There are blackout dates around Memorial Day and other holidays. …

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Roger Dow: Travel Promotion Act: A Win for US Economy and Taxpayers

By admin | Published: March 10, 2010

With unemployment remaining high and concerns growing about a jobless recovery, Congress recently passed legislation that promises to jumpstart travel, a critical sector of our economy.

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