Proposed Boston public food market still on slow cook

Plans for Boston Public Market, a proposed year-round indoor/outdoor food market along the Rose Kennedy Greenway, are progressing slower than anticipated, with no opening date in sight. The Boston Public Market Association is focused on hiring a new...

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Experts offer good read on Amazon’s latest buy

Experts are hailing Amazon's decision to acquire social reading website Goodreads as a brilliant move that will steer traffic — and sales — to Amazon, which started as an online bookstore and grew to become the world's largest online retailer. The deal,...

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Battery maker gets cute with name Lithium ion battery maker A123 Systems is changing its corporate name to B456 Systems Inc. to satisfy one of the embattled company's obligations under an asset purchase agreement with Wanxiang America Corp. Chinese...

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NKorean propaganda mill serves up soft side of Kim

SEOUL, South Korea — The outside world focuses on the messages of doom and gloom from North Korea: bombastic threats of nuclear war, fantasy videos of U.S. cities in flames, digitally altered photos of leader Kim Jong Un guiding military drills. But...

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Robotics competition wrapping up in Hartford

HARTFORD, Conn. — More than 1,800 high school students from across New England will be making robots throw Frisbees and climb pyramids on the final day of a regional robotics contest in Hartford. The annual FIRST Robotics Competition Connecticut Regional...

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UMass-Lowell launches Portuguese studies center

LOWELL, Mass. — Officials at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell say their newest academic and cultural center will explore and celebrate the history and contributions of Portuguese people in the United States and abroad. The school says the Saab-Pedroso...

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Egypt, Iran resume direct flights after decades

CAIRO — A commercial airliner left Egypt for Iran on Saturday in what was the first direct passenger flight between the two countries in more than three decades, Egyptian airport officials said. Cairo-Tehran relations have warmed since the June election...

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Bank of Cyprus big savers to lose up to 60 percent

NICOSIA, Cyprus — Big depositors at Cyprus' largest bank may be forced to accept losses of up to 60 percent, far more than initially estimated under the European rescue package to save the country from bankruptcy, officials said Saturday. Deposits of...

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APNewsBreak: Gas trade group seeks fracking probe

ALBANY, N.Y. — A formal complaint filed with New York's lobbying board asks it to investigate whether Artists Against Fracking, a group formed by Yoko Ono and son Sean Lennon, is violating the state's lobbying law. The complaint obtained by The Associated...

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Patients of Tulsa doctor line up to get tested

TULSA, Okla. — About 150 to 200 patients of a Tulsa oral surgeon accused of unsanitary practices queued outside a health clinic Saturday, hoping to discover whether they were exposed to hepatitis or the virus that causes AIDS. Letters began going out...

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