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PITTSBURGH — Ryan Howard, the second-year, left-handed-hitting powerhouse from the Philadelphia Phillies, had to come from behind in each of the three rounds to top David Wright of the New York Mets on Monday night at PNC Park to win the CENTURY 21 Home Run Derby.

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The storm was nothing special. Its waves rocked the Norwegian Dawn just enough so that bartenders on the cruise ship turned to the usual palliative — free drinks.

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HANOI, Vietnam Jul 10, 2006 (AP)— More than 20 desperate students in Vietnam paid up to 50 million dong ($3,125) to don elaborately wired wigs and shirts that allowed them to cheat on their college entrance exams, police said Monday.

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Although an early beta version of Firefox 2.0 showed up on several Web sites Monday morning, Mozilla says it is postponing its official release, originally scheduled for Tuesday, until later in the week.

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ATLANTIC CITY — Ed Grimes came blinking out of the Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort’s poker room shortly before noon Sunday.

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Video of Zidane headbutting Italy’s Marco Materazzi on Sunday’s World Cup Final.

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All the benefits of flash memory and none of the drawbacks… except cost

Freescale Semiconductor Inc. announced the availability of its new memory chips which could possibly make some pretty large waves in the semiconductor industry. The company’s magnetoresistive random-access memory (MRAM) is capable of retaining data without power like flash memory chips, but also has the ability to read and write data at much greater speeds. Also, unlike flash memory chips, MRAM doesn’t degrade over time. Flash memory cells have been shown to lose integrity after 100,000 to 1 million cycles.

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HOUSTON, July 10 — Astronauts left the International Space Station this morning to complete repairs on a equipment transporter and to install a new pump module for the International Space Station.

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An explosion and fire, shortly before 9 a.m. today, collapsed a building in a residential area of the Upper East Side of Manhattan, on 62nd Street between Madison and Park Avenues.

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There’s a game on?
A Brazil fan in the stands at Berlin’s Olympiastadion keeps the fans wondering whether they should be watching the game at all.
(JASPER JUINEN Staff/Associated Press)

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BERLIN – France captain Zinedine Zidane, sent off for headbutting Marco Materazzi late in Sunday’s World Cup final loss to Italy, won the Golden Ball award for the tournament’s best player.

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LEMONT, Ill., July 9 — Standing in the baking sun on the 18th green at Cog Hill, Trevor Immelman sent his fate rolling toward the hole Sunday. Winless on the PGA Tour, he was trying to get his 31-foot putt close enough to the cup to tap in a routine par for a one-shot lead to hold off Tiger Woods and leave little chance anyone could catch him.

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Actress Brigitte Nielsen wed her Italian bartender fiance Mattia Dessi for the second time on Saturday. The couple was originally married in a Caribbean beach ceremony in March 2005, but the union was invalid because the Red Sonja beauty was still married to husband number four Raoul Meyer. The 48-year-old Dane exchanged vows with Dessi, who is 15 years her junior, on the Mediterranean island of Malta, with Ivana Trump as her witness. Her children also attended the ceremony. Nielsen was married to Sylvester Stallone for two years between 1985 and 1987.

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