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• Hundreds wait at stores for BlackBerry Storm
NEW YORK - Hundreds of people lined up at Verizon Wireless stores on Friday to buy the BlackBerry Storm, the first touch-screen phone from Research In Motion that aims to compete with Apple's iPhone. More than 200 people had waited at a Verizon store ...
• Atlanta fans getting over Vick's departure
And there were racial tensions (in the way the Vick situation was discussed); a lot of people played their hands. Even when it comes to co-workers. The true colors of a lot of people were shown. I look at people differently now based on the situation
• Americans still giving, despite economic crisis
SEATTLE - As more Americans turn to charity amid worsening economic gloom, operators of food banks and other aid groups are relying on the surprisingly resilient generosity of their neighbors and finding that even when times are tough, people still ...
• WHO: 294 cholera deaths in Zimbabwe
HARARE, Zimbabwe - The World Health Organization said Friday that 294 people have died from a cholera outbreak exacerbated by the country's collapsing health care system. WHO spokeswoman Fadela Chaib said that a total 6,072 cases had been reported ...
• Teen commits suicide in front of Webcam
People were watching through a body building Web site and Crane says some were encouraging, others tried to talk him out of it, and a few were debating whether the dose he took was lethal. Crane says someone notified the moderator, who traced the ...