U.S. nuclear plant declares “alert” after Sandy storm surge: NRC

affiliate marketing NEW YORK (Reuters) – Exelon Corp declared an “alert” at its New Jersey Oyster Creek nuclear power plant due to a record storm surge, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said, warning that a further water rise could force the country’s oldest working plant to use emergency water supplies to cool spent uranium fuel rods.The...

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Superstorm Sandy clobbers New York City

  NEW YORK, N.Y. - Superstorm Sandy slammed into the New Jersey coastline and hurled a record-breaking four-metre surge of seawater at New York City on Monday, roaring ashore and putting the presidential campaign on hold a week before election day At least 13 deaths were blamed on the storm.Sandy knocked out power to at least 5.7 million people, and New York's main utility said large sections...

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Ukraine’s opposition doing well in election

affiliate marketing KIEV, Ukraine (AP) —Ukraine’s opposition parties performed strongly in Sunday’s parliamentary vote, according to an exit poll, but President Viktor Yanukovych‘s party could still retain control of the legislature as its members are likely to sweep individual races across the country. affiliate...

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In San Francisco, tech investor leads a political makeover

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - One morning in April, Ron Conway, the billionaire technology investor, sat in a conference room on the second floor of San Francisco's City Hall with about 50 representatives from the city's business community. On the agenda was a sweeping proposal by Mayor Ed Lee to reform the city's payroll tax, a plan that would favor companies with many employees but little...

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‘Argo’ finally tops box office with $12.4M

affiliate marketing LOS ANGELES (AP) — It took three weeks, but “Argo” finally found its way to the top of the box office.The Warner Bros. thriller from director and star Ben Affleck, inspired by the real-life rescue of six U.S. embassy workers during the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis, made nearly $ 12.4 million this weekend, according...

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UCB’s next generation drugs take over after blockbuster expiry

affiliate marketing BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Belgian pharmaceuticals group UCB said on Monday that sales of its three new main products had for the first time overtaken those of its expiring blockbuster epilepsy treatment Keppra and retained its full-year guidance.UCB, which makes drugs targeted at diseases of the immune and central nervous...

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East Coast superstorm could endanger 50 million people

NEW YORK (AP) — From Washington to Boston, big cities and small towns were buttoned up Monday against the onslaught of a superstorm that threatened 50 million people in the most heavily populated corridor in the nation, with forecasters warning that the New York area could get the worst of it — an 11-foot wall of water."The time for preparing and talking is about over," Federal Emergency Management...

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Indonesia arrests 11 people suspected of planning terror attacks on US, Australian embassies

affiliate marketing JAKARTA, Indonesia – Indonesian police say they have arrested 11 people suspected of planning a range of terrorist attacks on domestic and foreign targets including the U.S. and Australian embassies.National Police spokesman Maj. Gen. Suhardi Aliyus says the suspects were arrested by an anti-terror squad in raids...

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Kim Kardashian makes a splash at NYC bash

affiliate marketing NEW YORK (AP) — Kim Kardashian isn’t worried about the behemoth storm expected to pummel the eastern U.S. with rain and wind this week.Dressed as a blond mermaid for her Halloween party Saturday night in New York, the star joked that her boyfriend, Kanye West — wearing a nautical-looking outfit — could “sail”...

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FDA finds contaminants in drug linked to meningitis

affiliate marketing (Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday it found “greenish black foreign matter” and other contaminants in an injectable steroid produced by the New England Compounding Center, the pharmacy at the heart of a deadly U.S. meningitis outbreak.It also found that vials from the same bin of...

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