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Blues Confirm Sale to Dave Checketts

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AP - Dave Checketts is buying the St. Louis Blues, ending a 10-month search for a buyer that led the NHL club to sell off many of its top players.

Andrew Kantor: CyberSpeak - Net writing new chapter for science journals

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USATODAY.com - While the Internet is certainly affecting how the mainstream media works, there's another area that the anyone's-a-publisher paradigm is affecting: the world of scientific journals. The place I used to work, the American Chemical Society, just laid off a bunch of people who put its journals together, outsourcing the operation to the company that prints them.

Chinese gangmaster guilty of shellfish picker deaths in Britain

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AFP - A Chinese gangmaster was found guilty of the manslaughter of 21 Chinese shellfish pickers who drowned off an English coastline two years ago.

Christian group backs off case against blog parody

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USATODAY.com - A Christian group that promotes heterosexuality Thursday dropped its beef against a blogger who poked fun at it. Exodus International claimed the image of one of its billboards by Justin Watt infringed its copyright. But Exodus dropped the matter after Watt stopped using its "watermark" logo.

India Offers 'Treaty of Peace' to Pakistan

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AP - India's prime minister invited Pakistan on Friday to join his country in a "treaty of peace, security and friendship" to end nearly six decades of tension between the nuclear-armed nations.

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