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Shares surge for drug-testing firm Quintiles as IPOs stay strong
Shares of drug-testing firm Quintiles Transnational Holdings Inc. soared nearly 10% in Thursday trading, marking another strong debut for initial public offerings in a buoyant stock market. Quintiles was up $3.80, or 9.5%, to $43.80 in midday trading...
Tags: Chemical Industry, NYSE Euronext, Inc., Initial Public Offerings, Stock Market, Financing and Stock Offerings
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Yoga might help boost mental health
As you stretch into warrior pose and inhale and exhale, you're not just stretching those hamstrings and lungs; you're also doing good for your brain with a practice that can stave off or relieve problems such as stress, depression and anxiety. Yoga...
Tags: Harvard Medical School, Health, Anxiety, Schizophrenia, Depression
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Talent pool runs deep for sophomore guards in the Southland
Get ready for an invasion of private jets arriving from Lexington, Ky.; Durham, N.C.; Gainesville, Fla.; and elsewhere carrying college basketball coaches hoping to woo a growing group of talented guards from the high school class of 2015. The days...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Students, Holidays, Jrue Holiday, Campbell (Osceola, Florida)
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'Iron Man 3' among films giving North Carolina a boost
'Iron Man 3' gave North Carolina's film industry a big lift in 2012. The upcoming release from Walt Disney Co.'s Marvel Studios filmed throughout North Carolina, helping to  produce a record level of production activity in the state this year. The...
Tags: Credit and Debt, The Hunger Games (movie), Tax Credits, Drama (genre), Iron Man (movie)
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Pictures in the News | January 9, 2013
FrameworkWednesday's Pictures in the News begins in Washington DC, where a protestor in an orange prison jump suit and black hood on his head protests against holding detainees at the military prison in Guantanamo Bay during a demonstration in front of the US... -
The Week in Pictures | Jan. 7-13, 2013
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Karl Fleming dies at 84; Newsweek reporter chronicled civil rights struggle
Karl Fleming, a former Newsweek reporter who helped draw national attention to the civil rights movement in the 1960s — and risked his life covering it with perceptive stories about its major figures and the inequalities that fueled it —...
Tags: Vernon Jordan, News Media, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), University of Alabama, Justice and Rights
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JPMorgan shareholders: 'Too much power in one person's hands'
TAMPA, Fla. — Investors at the JPMorgan shareholder conference are concerned with the bank's recently disclosed $2-billion loss and 12% plunge in their stake in the bank. "When you are 94 years old, you don’t want to see any of your...
Tags: Tampa, Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Federal Reserve
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The Healthy Skeptic: Is caffeine an effective weight-loss aid?
If losing weight was one of your New Year's resolutions, you might already be growing weary of counting calories and working out. Wouldn't it be great if you could slim down without so much effort?
Anyone looking for a shortcut to weight loss might be...Tags: Human Body, Television, Placebo, Dietary Supplements, Hormones and Metabolism
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LeRoy Walker dies at 93; first black to lead U.S. Olympic body
LeRoy Walker, the first African American to lead the U.S. Olympic Committee and the first black man to coach an American Olympic team, died Monday in Durham, N.C. He was 93.
Walker's death was confirmed by Scarborough & Hargett Funeral home, but no cause...Tags: Colleges and Universities, New York University, College Sports, North Carolina Central University, Benedict College
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ReverbNation throws its doors open to clubs, venues
Pop & HissReverbNation debuts a do-it-yourself service for clubs to promote concerts on Facebook.... -
ACLU to North Carolina officials: Don't make beggars get permits
Nation NowPanhandling restrictions: Some local officials in North Carolina want panhandlers to obtain a permit before panhandling. The ACLU is not pleased by such proposals....
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