Can US salvage a bronze?
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The game was concocted by a physical education instructor in Massachusetts and dominated by the United States at the Olympics for most of the 20th century.
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A maverick prospector plans to scoop gold and silver from the bottom of the sea. Is it an environmental improvement or the beginning of a disaster? Plus: Nautilus Minerals' video calling card and a podcast with writer Joshua Davis from Wired magazine.
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Turnaround from record loss is not right around the corner.
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What recourse is there when you get stuck with a lemon?
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Bronze is better than nothing. That's one Olympic lesson the U.S. men's basketball team was able to understand. The Americans took the third-place game seriously Saturday night, earning some revenge and salvaging some self-respect in a 104-96 victory over Lithuania. Although they didn't get what they wanted in Athens, they didn't embarrass themselves in their finale, either.
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In many Olympics competitions winners and losers are determined by less than a fraction of a point and even the slightest error in scoring can set back an athlete from the gold to the bronze.
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By Mary Lane Gallagher, The Bellingham Herald, Wash.  Feb.
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By Scott Waldman, Erie Times-News, Pa.  Sep. 22--You can still buy a piece of Erie on the Internet.   But it might not be there for long.
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By Melissa McGrath, The Idaho Statesman, Boise  Sep. 22--The shelves and bins scattered throughout Second Chance Building Materials Center's store in Boise overflow with wood scraps, light-switch plates and other building materials -- including kitchen sinks.
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I have a faint memory from elementary school of stuffing coins into slots in a piece of cardboard decorated with the likeness of a Revolutionary War soldier. I was saving to buy a $25 U.S. bond, but since I don't remember actually owning a bond, I'm guessing my nickels, dimes and quarters didn't ...
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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Law officers and museum officials are looking for a bronze bust of former Kansas City Royals third baseman George Brett that is missing from the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame.
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Those of you with the Rockies in four are out of the pool. It was a nice thought, I suppose. With 21 of 22 and seven straight in the postseason, why not run the table? But there had to be some sort of shelf life on karma, right? Four or five days, max, I'd say.
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HONG KONG - Safe boxes from a local branch of a Singapore-based bank were taken away and crushed as scrap metal, leaving customers shocked and angry at the loss of their most valued possessions, newspapers reported Wednesday.    Embarrassed executives at DBS Bank (Hong Kong) say they will take "ultimate responsibility" after 83 boxes filled with valuables were removed by a renovation contractor, then dumped and compressed in a local junkyard, according to several reports...
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No current figures exist for how much e-junk is recycled, but industry experts believe it's a sliver of the total. People don't know where to take their used electronics, and toxic components are a mounting problem.
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By Mike Peters, Greeley Tribune, Colo.  Sep. 25--Question-- As a new resident to Greeley I would like to know a place to recycle my Tribune. I have done this at 20th Street and 35th Avenue by the King Soopers but the collection bin has been gone for a week or more.
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A gambling tycoon preempts controversy by purchasing a bronze looted by westerners in the 19th century
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By Jordan Robertson< Associated Press