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Custom-designed pieces now give nation's 2 million amputees a chance to accessorize

(CNN) -- Most people have two legs. Aimee Mullins has 28. Mullins' 14 pairs of prosthetic legs are more than medical devices. They are wearable sculpture, secret weapons and a passport to embrace and show off the thing that makes her superficially different -- the fact that she has no flesh-and-blood legs below the knee


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The mortgage company received $7.6 billion for all of 2011

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Government-controlled mortgage giant Freddie Mac is requesting $19 million in additional federal aid after posting a loss for the first quarter of this year.


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Paul Miller will continue writing about tech on The Verge, but he's hoping experiment will distance him from Web distractions

(CNN) -- Maybe it seems like the fastest way for a gadget-and-technology blogger to commit career suicide, but Paul Miller gave up the Internet at midnight Tuesday.


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Soda company makes deal with pop singer's estate to use his image in marketing

NEW YORK (AP) -- PepsiCo Inc. is going on a reunion tour with The King of Pop.


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Black Girls Run! was started to encourage women of color to get fit; it now has presence across country

(CNN) -- African-American women are joining forces to battle the alarming rates of heart disease, high blood pressure and obesity that are affecting millions of Americans.


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Foreclosures push many into the rental category; median home process continue to fall

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Homeownership in the U.S. fell to its lowest rate in 15 years during the first quarter as more delinquent borrowers lost their homes to foreclosure, forcing many to rent.


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Governors face resistance from unions and workers who feel like financial promises aren't being kept

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Neil Carpenter took a pay cut when he accepted a job as a Louisiana state accountant more than 12 years ago, but he figured he would make up for the loss with a retirement check that would guarantee long-term financial security for him and his family.


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Big-name backers take advantage of law quirk to help Scott Walker raise $13 million to battle recall

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's fan list reads like a who's who of some of the richest people in America - financial gurus, a Las Vegas casino president, even an NBA team owner.


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Building will eventually be tallest in country—if you count the 400-foot needle on top

NEW YORK (AP) -- One World Trade Center, the monolith being built to replace the twin towers destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks, will lay claim to the title of New York City's tallest skyscraper on Monday. Workers will erect steel columns that will make its unfinished skeleton a little over 1,250 feet high, just enough to peek over the roof of the observation deck on the Empire State Building.


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Apparent collision with much larger ship also killed three others aboard sailboat

(CNN) -- The U.S. Coast Guard called off a search Sunday afternoon for a sailor who went missing after an apparent collision during a boat race Saturday from Newport, California, to Ensenada, Mexico.


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