George Clooney is distant cousin of Abraham Lincoln

affiliate marketing LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Aunt Rosemary was not George Clooney‘s only famous relative. You can add a certain Civil War American president to the Oscar-winning actor’s family tree.Politics has apparently run in the activist actor’s blood for centuries, as website Ancestry.com on Thursday revealed that the “Ocean’s 11″...

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Syrian air force on offensive after failed truce

affiliate marketing AMMAN (Reuters) – Syrian warplanes bombed rebel targets with renewed intensity on Tuesday after the end of a widely ignored four-day truce between President Bashar al-Assad‘s forces and insurgents.State television said “terrorists” had assassinated an air force general, Abdullah Mahmoud al-Khalidi, in a Damascus suburb,...

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Hurricane Sandy wallops Internet commerce just as hard

affiliate marketing SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – From Fab.com to Amazon.com Inc and eBay Inc, e-commerce companies scrambled on Tuesday to get goods to buyers on time after Hurricane Sandy tore a swathe of destruction across the U.S. northeast.The storm — which severed power to warehouses and offices, ripped up rails and roads and shuttered...

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How women can identify heart disease

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Living standards ‘may stagnate’

affiliate marketing 30 October 2012 Last updated at 20:01 ETMillions of poor and middle-income households may be bypassed by any economic recovery, a think tank says. affiliate marketing The Resolution Foundation argues that their living standards could stagnate for the next 10 years,...

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Cuba’s 2nd city without power, water after Sandy

affiliate marketing HAVANA (AP) — Residents of Cuba‘s second-largest city of Santiago remained without power or running water Monday, four days after Hurricane Sandy made landfall as the island’s deadliest storm in seven years, ripping rooftops from homes and toppling power lines.Across the Caribbean, the storm’s death toll rose to 69,...

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Facebook, Twitter abuzz with hurricane chatter

affiliate marketing Whether you call it Frankenstorm, Stormpocalypse or simply Hurricane Sandy, the giant weather system barreling into the East Coast is a favorite topic of conversation on social media from Facebook to Twitter. As people post updates to friends and family, relay emergency information and lighten the mood with humor,...

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Mammograms: For 1 life saved, 3 women overtreated

affiliate marketing LONDON (AP) — Breast cancer screening for women over 50 saves lives, an independent panel in Britain has concluded, confirming findings in U.S. and other studies.But that screening comes with a cost: The review found that for every life saved, roughly three other women were overdiagnosed, meaning they were unnecessarily...

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UBS to slash 10,000 jobs in fixed income exit

affiliate marketing ZURICH (Reuters) – UBS unveiled plans to wind down its fixed income business and fire 10,000 bankers in one of the biggest bonfires of finance jobs since the implosion of Lehman Brothers in 2008.The move will focus the Zurich-based lender and wealth manager around its private bank and a smaller investment bank, ditching...

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Chloe Sevigny Ready to ‘Kill’ it for A&E

affiliate marketing LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – Chloe Sevigny has just landed a killer new gig.Sevigny – who’s currently starring as Shelley the nymphomaniac on Fox’s spooky drama “American Horror Story: Asylum” – has taken the lead in A&E’s upcoming drama “Those Who Kill,” the cable network told TheWrap on Monday. affiliate...

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