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Famed computer will analyze patient records, extensive database to suggest treatments

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) -- Enough with the fun and games. Watson is going to work. IBM's supercomputer system, best known for trouncing the world's best "Jeopardy!" players on TV, is being tapped by one of the nation's largest health insurers to help diagnose medical problems and authorize treatments.


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Here are some questions and answers about the gathering and use of intelligence:

WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. intelligence in the struggle against terrorism comes in many forms, maddeningly general, improbably precise, a game of sorts with vast consequences for winner and loser.

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Congressional audit shows gaps in immigration technology and airport luggage detection

Nearly 10 years after the September 2001 terror attacks, the U.S. government has significantly improved homeland security but still lacks a system to know who is leaving the country and exactly what is inside luggage checked at airports, according to a congressional audit.


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Women have brought stars and stripes to same corner every Tuesday since 9/11

FREEPORT, Maine (AP) -- Three days after 9/11, Elaine Greene held an American flag above her on a busy street corner in this small Maine town. Since then, she and two other women have waved the flag on the same corner for an hour every Tuesday in honor of America's service personnel and to show that the American spirit is alive and kicking.


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President takes message to districts with ties to Eric Cantor, John Boehner

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- His sleeves rolled up and his finger stabbing the air, President Barack Obama pitched his newly unveiled jobs plan with campaign-style fervor Friday, urging Americans to pressure their lawmakers to pass his $447 billion initiative. "We're tougher than these times," he declared. "We are bigger than the smallness of our politics."


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Workers have been battling for the right to work at new terminal in Longview

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) -- Union activists aren't backing off demands to work at a new Washington state grain terminal after hundreds of Longshore workers stormed the facility, overwhelmed guards and dumped grain.


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Financial company lost more than two-thirds of its staff when towers fell

NEW YORK (AP) -- It's a name inextricably linked with Sept. 11, with huge, catastrophic loss - Cantor Fitzgerald. Of the companies and organizations that lost people that day, none was harder hit than the financial services firm that occupied the 101st to 105th floors of the north tower at the World Trade Center. Out of 960 employees in New York, 658 were killed - no employee in Cantor's offices at the time survived. Whole divisions were decimated.


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Strategy aims to boost economy by giving workers more to spend

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Typical workers would get an extra $1,500 in their paychecks next year under a plan by President Barack Obama to expand a payroll tax cut that is scheduled expire at the end of the year. Higher paid workers would get more, and businesses would get tax breaks, too.

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Community members to tell their own anecdotes of bullying, harassment, and just being singled out

Working to document the day-to-day harassment and violence experienced by Americans of South Asian, Muslim and Sikh heritage, the Sikh Coalition of America last Friday launched a website of personal stories in video format designed to dispel myths about their communities.

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Many individuals say support from family and friends has outweighed suspicions from skeptics

DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) -- For Caleb Carter, the road to becoming a Muslim took years. Sept. 11, 2001, was a turning point - specifically his high school teacher's hostile reaction to Islam that day.

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