When the new Busch Stadium opened in 2006, the occasional mudhole along adjacent property symbolized the failure of a planned companion project aimed at revitalizing downtown St. Louis. The St. Louis Cardinals had proposed the $ 650 million mixed-use project, known as Ballpark Village, for the 10 acres north of the new stadium. But those [...]
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May 21 (Infostrada Sports) – Results from the Strasbourg International Women‘s Singles Round 1 matches on Tuesday Flavia Pennetta (Italy) beat Elina Svitolina (Ukraine) 6-4 6-2 3-Alize Cornet (France) beat Mathilde Johansson (France) 6-3 6-2 5-Monica Niculescu (Romania) beat Marina Erakovic (New Zealand) 6-7(7) 6-3 7-6(5) Misaki Doi (Japan) beat Karolina Pliskova (Czech Republic) 7-5 [...]
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LONDON (Reuters) – British farmers will be the first in Europe to get a vaccine against Schmallenberg virus, a new livestock disease that hit the continent in 2011. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said on Tuesday that MSD Animal Health, a unit of Merck & Co, had been issued a licence for [...]
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SAN MATEO, Calif. — Mr. Spock may think space is the final frontier, but Earth’s deep oceans are just as mysterious and unknown. Now, one scientist says thousands of people could explore the oceans using cheap, remotely controlled robots. “The deep has even more cool stuff than space,” said Eric Stackpole, a researcher at NASA [...]
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BOSTON (Reuters) – When the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, starts rolling out in October, it will overhaul how Americans get healthcare coverage. Yet many workers will feel little immediate impact. That’s because almost half the 160 million Americans who received health coverage through their jobs in 2012 were enrolled in what’s [...]
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By Ransdell Pierson (Reuters) – A new type of asthma drug meant to attack the underlying causes of the respiratory disease slashed episodes by 87 percent in a mid-stage trial, making it a potential game changer for patients with moderate to severe disease, researchers said on Tuesday. “Overall, these are the most exciting data we’ve [...]
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By Patrick Temple-West WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Apple Inc came under fire on Tuesday at a Senate hearing over an investigation that alleged the U.S. high technology icon has kept billions of dollars in profits in Irish subsidiaries and paid little or no taxes to any government. “Apple effectively shifts billions of dollars in profits offshore, [...]
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Dear Dr. Don,I recently purchased a new home with a 30-year mortgage fixed at 3.375 percent. I hate the idea of paying for a home for 30 years, not to mention the added interest over time. So, I have begun making monthly payments of an extra $ 262 toward the principal. This will reduce my [...]
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Left to right: Heather Ainsworth for The New York Times; Eric Michael Johnson for The New York Times; Nathaniel Brooks for The New York Times Back to New York for Julio Gomez, 22, center, means an address not in his boyhood Bronx, but in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. For Harris Meyers, 21, left, it’s the old parental [...]
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LONDON, May 20 (Reuters) – Former New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori could play his first test for 10 months after spinner Bruce Martin was ruled out of the rest of the tour of England with a calf injury. “Bruce Martin out of England tour, Dan Vettori to join squad early, BJ Watling making good progress,” [...]
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