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- Chicago scraps boy's design, fearing gang signs
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A 15-year-old Chicago boy's winning design to appear on the city's next vehicle sticker was scrapped on Wednesday after crime experts declared it may contain gang signs and symbols. City Clerk Susan Mendoza accepted the advice of gang crime experts who said Herbie Pulgar's drawing of four hands could be interpreted as flashing a gang sign. Other evocative symbols like a heart ...
s 08 Feb 2012 - Sony's woes continue with S&P downgrade
Credit rating agency Standard and Poor's on Wednesday lowered its rating of Japanese electronics and entertainment giant Sony, less than a week after the company said it was expecting a terrible year.
s 08 Feb 2012 - U.S. eyes cuts to Iraq embassy after troops exit
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. government is looking to cut the size of its embassy in Iraq, by far its largest and most expensive mission, months after the last American troops withdrew, U.S. officials said Tuesday. A State Department spokeswoman told reporters in Washington the objective was to reduce the cost of the overall mission, which includes roughly 2,000 diplomats as well as 14,000 ...
s 08 Feb 2012 - McDonald's key revenue figure up 6.7 pct. in Jan.
McDonald's Corp. said Wednesday that a key revenue figure climbed 6.7 percent in January as U.S. customers spent more on breakfast items, beverages and its new Chicken McBites.
s 08 Feb 2012 - U.S. mulls humanitarian aid, new coalition for Syria
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States hopes to meet soon with international partners to consider how to halt Syria's violence and provide humanitarian aid to civilians under attack from their own government, U.S. officials said on Wednesday. "In the coming days we will continue our very active discussions ... to crystallize the international community's next steps in that effort to halt the ...
s 08 Feb 2012 - Romney's Tuesday losses show conservative doubts
Mitt Romney still can't seem to win over the bulk of the conservatives who make up the bedrock of the Republican Party.
s 08 Feb 2012 - Santorum's 3-State Win Puts Pressure on Gingrich
Gingrich's strategy of pitching himself as 'conservative' alternative to Romney in jeopardy after sweep by Santorum OPINION: Santorum's Sweep Says Race Is Wide Open ... Again
s 08 Feb 2012 - Murdoch's company settles phone hacking lawsuits
Rupert Murdoch's News International has succeeded in settling nearly all the cases in the first wave of lawsuits against it for phone hacking, with a new round of apologies and payouts announced in a London court Wednesday.
s 08 Feb 2012 - President's convoy stoned on campaign trail
Demonstrators hurled stones at the convoy carrying Senegal's aging president to the regional capital of Thies, where he held a campaign rally Wednesday, according to witnesses and a private radio station.
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