AP - Taco Bell officials on Tuesday rejected claims made in a lawsuit that the meat in their tacos, burritos and other products is not all beef. Taco Bell President Greg Creed said in a statement that the lawyers who filed the lawsuit got their facts wrong and that Taco Bell plans to take legal action against those making the allegations. He did not explain specifically what type of legal action Taco Bell might take.
[Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:02:51 GMT]
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AP - "Jersey Shore" is headed to the Motherland. The popular MTV reality TV series starring a group of hard-partying Italian-Americans will film its fourth season in Italy, the network said Tuesday.

[Tue, 25 Jan 2011 21:27:51 GMT]
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AP - Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura sued the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration on Monday, alleging full-body scans and pat-downs at airport checkpoints violate his right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures.

[Tue, 25 Jan 2011 01:26:15 GMT]
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AP - Egyptian police fired tear gas and rubber bullets and beat protesters to clear thousands of people from a central Cairo square Wednesday after the biggest demonstrations in years against President Hosni Mubarak's authoritarian rule.

[Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:02:35 GMT]
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AP - The slaying of two police officers as they helped serve a warrant stunned a state already mourning police deaths in Miami and capped a bloody 24 hours nationwide that saw 11 officers shot in five states.

[Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:14:21 GMT]
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HealthDay - TUESDAY, Jan. 25 (HealthDay News) -- There's a worrisome uptick in the incidence of certain head and neck cancers among middle-aged and even younger Americans, and some experts link the trend to a rise in the popularity of oral sex over the past few decades.
[Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:03:00 GMT]
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AP - An Arizona restaurant has decided to scrap plans to offer African lion meat in its tacos.
[Tue, 25 Jan 2011 04:15:06 GMT]
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AP - A mock city roughly the size of downtown San Diego has risen in a remote Southern California desert to train military forces to fight in urban environments.
[Tue, 25 Jan 2011 20:21:43 GMT]
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AP - Very few students have the advanced skills that could lead to careers in science and technology, according to results of a national exam released Tuesday that education leaders called alarming.
[Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:51:06 GMT]
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AP - A White House official says President Barack Obama will call for a five-year freeze in non-security, discretionary spending during his State of the Union address.
[Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:50:15 GMT]
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AP - Illinois' highest court agreed Tuesday to decide whether Rahm Emanuel can run for Chicago mayor, and justices ordered election officials not to print any ballots without his name until they rule on the case.

[Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:03:38 GMT]
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Time Out Chicago - David Tamarkin and Julia Kramer, Time Out Chicago Neither sleet nor snow nor 4pm sunsets have curbed the food-truck movement, which recently added four new recruits to its fleet. Sweet Miss Giving's, the bakery that has an outpost at the ?
[Tue, 25 Jan 2011 10:29:28 GMT]
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AP - The British monarchy saga "The King's Speech" reigned at the Academy Awards with 12 nominations, including acting honors for Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter and Geoffrey Rush, positioning itself to challenge "The Social Network" for best picture.

[Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:02:46 GMT]
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AP - Frederic Chopin's habit of drifting off and hallucinating at the piano may have been caused by epilepsy, according to a new study of the 19th-century romantic composer.

[Tue, 25 Jan 2011 13:26:16 GMT]
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AP - Thousands of curious onlookers are flocking to central Indonesia to look at a "crop circle" in a rice field following rumors it was formed by a UFO.

[Tue, 25 Jan 2011 12:57:17 GMT]
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Y! Green - I dance the Macarena whenever I come across an article that argues against extreme healthy living. I laughed while reading research about dark chocolate firing up the happy brain. And I high-fived the doctors who warn folks against too much sunscreen--because it blocks the vitamin D that all of us need. I hate that stuff and was looking long and hard for an excuse not to look like a clown this summer. Thank you! I've even performed the opposite of an intervention with one of my friends last week who was trying to give up alcohol and nicotine at the same time.
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AP - A former B-2 stealth bomber engineer was sentenced to 32 years in prison Monday for selling military secrets to China in the latest of several high-profile cases of Chinese espionage in the U.S.

[Tue, 25 Jan 2011 04:30:55 GMT]
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AP - The unemployment rate rose in 20 states last month as employers in most states shed jobs.

[Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:40:30 GMT]
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AP - Colleagues of a Virginia historian accused of altering a presidential pardon signed by Abraham Lincoln to make it appear he had made a major discovery say he betrayed the trust that had been placed in him.

[Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:47:12 GMT]
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AP - You won't get to build hotels or collect rent in a new Polish board game reminiscent of Monopoly. In fact, you may be lucky even to get a pair of shoes.

[Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:08:52 GMT]
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