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Stock Slump Continues on Wall Street
Nasdaq fell 29 points to 3,433, or 0.8 percent. Stocks were down 2.7 percent in Germany and 2.6 percent in France. Japan 's Nikkei plunged 7 percent but is still up 39 percent this year. Investors were spooked by minutes from the latest Fed
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Dandelion Roots and More: Finding Food at Our Feet
ethnobotanist, instructor at the New York Botanical Garden and author of the new "Backyard Foraging" (Storey Publishing). " Japanese knotweed has taken over the universe after being planted for windbreaks in the '70s and '80s. But the stems, when eaten
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Global Stocks Plunge After Japan Selloff
Memo... Wall Street may be in for a wild ride today after a sharp retreat for stocks in Japan . US stock futures dropped after the Nikkei index in Tokyo plunged 7.3 percent overnight, its worst one-day loss in more than two years. Global
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US Equities Sell-off Goes on; Futures Slump
has pumped up markets for months, at home and abroad. Declining U.S. markets rolled over to Japan on Thursday, with the yield on 10-year Japanese government bonds spiking and the benchmark Nikkei 225 stock index tumbling more than 7 percent
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Japanese Climber, 80, Becomes Oldest Atop Everest
An 80-year-old Japanese man became the oldest person mountaineering official and Miura's Tokyo -based support team. Miura her hands in footage shown by Japanese public broadcaster NHK contributed to this report from Tokyo .
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10 Things to Know for Today
6. WHY FUKUSHIMA IS LOOKING FOR HELP The AP reports the Japan plant that melted down in 2011 can barely keep enough workers 20 states. 8. OLDEST TO TOP EVEREST An 80-year-old Japanese mountaineer reached the summit today, but his record may
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Stricken Japan Nuke Plant Struggles to Keep Staff
plant in northeastern Japan in stable condition decommission it. Tokyo Electric Power Co contracting prevalent in Japan 's nuclear industry built abroad, then Japanese engineers and workers abroad. If plants in Japan are restarted, engineers
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Taiwan's Wu Confirms He'll Run for IOC Presidency
policy-making executive board last year and was a member of the IOC coordination commissions for the 1998 Winter Games in Nagano, Japan , and 2008 Beijing Olympics. He currently sits on the coordination panel for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Wu notified
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Oil Falls Below $94 as China Manufacturing Weakens
think the economic slowdown in Europe, the U.S. and Japan is finally hurting China," said Francis Lun, chief economist manufacturing sector." Stock markets in Asia fell sharply and Japan 's Nikkei 225 plunged more than 7 percent as a spike higher
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Japan Bond Yields Jump Following Fed Comments
Yields on 10-year Japanese government bonds briefly investors at a time when Japan 's already overburdened rises in interest rates. Japanese shares fell sharply. The comes despite the Bank of Japan 's aggressive efforts to
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Japanese Octogenarian Becomes Oldest Man to Reach Summit of Mount EverestAn 80-year-old Japanese climber, Yuichiro Miura, reached the top of Mount Everest Thursday the 1,100-foot summit in a little over 5 hours. At Miura's Tokyo office, his family, including his wife and two daughters, huddled
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Today in History
In 1993, a jury in Baton Rouge, La., acquitted Rodney Peairs of manslaughter in the shooting death of Yoshi Hattori, a Japanese exchange student he'd mistaken for an intruder. (Peairs was later found liable in a civil suit brought by Hattori's parents
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Nepalese Official Says 80-Year-Old Japanese Climber Becomes Oldest Man to Summit Everest
Nepalese official says 80-year-old Japanese climber becomes oldest man to summit Everest.
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WW II Photo-Documentarian Wayne Miller Dies at 94
brief illness. Miller served with an elite Navy unit in the Pacific and took some of the first pictures of Hiroshima, Japan , after it was devastated by the first atomic bomb. He returned home to his native Chicago and spent two years on the city's
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Instant Index: Octogenarians Race to Summit Everest
but they have no plans to slow down. They are dueling adventurers on their race to the top of Mount Everest. Miura, of Japan , is expected to reach the peak tomorrow, at 80 years old, grabbing the record for oldest ever to summit. Not only that
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Octogenarians Face Off to Earn Title of Oldest Man to Reach Everest Summitare facing off once again to earn the title of the oldest man to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Yuichiro Miura, of Japan , is ascending the mountain in hopes of taking home the Guinness World Record that slipped away from him in May 2008, when
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Hsieh, Niculescu Lose in 2nd Round at Strasbourg
second round of the Strasbourg International. The fourth-seeded Hsieh lost 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (3) to Misaki Doi of Japan , and fifth-seeded Niculescu fell 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 to Anna Tatishvili of Georgia. Seventh-seeded Chanelle Scheepers
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The New Consoles From Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony
systems. More details are expected at the E3 video game conference in Los Angeles next month. — Wii U (Nintendo) The Japanese gaming company launched the Wii U, the follow-up to its popular Wii, in November, making it the only new console out for
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The New Consoles From Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony
systems. More details are expected at the E3 video game conference in Los Angeles next month. — Wii U (Nintendo) The Japanese gaming company launched the Wii U, the follow-up to its popular Wii, in November, making it the only new console out for
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Weak Yen a Help for Japan , but Headache Elsewhere
affordable overseas. Japan 's trading partners from a more vibrant Japanese economy, the world's imported goods in Japan , like Angry Bird affecting us because Japanese customers need to currencies, any benefit Japan has enjoyed could hasn't intervened, Tokyo can't expect its
