Nearly 1 in 20 US adults over 50 have fake knees - Yahoo! News 
Nearly 1 in 20 Americans older than 50 have artificial knees, or more than 4 million people, according to the first national estimate showing how common these replacement joints have become in an aging population.
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Florida offers look at problems with education law - Yahoo! News
Yet when it comes to the federal No Child Left Behind law, the school hasn't lived up to expectations. Last year, 79 percent of students had to be at grade level in reading and 80 percent in math. Overall, the students exceeded those goals. But two g...
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Armstrong says he's happy investigation over - Yahoo! News
As far as Lance Armstrong is concerned, it's all over.
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Why Bank of America is the new Citigroup - Yahoo! News
On a normal day, 4 billion shares of stock change hands on the New York Stock Exchange. One in 10 belongs to a single company. It's not McDonald's or IBM, both of which have been on a tear.
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Giffords aide to run for seat in special election - Yahoo! News
A top aide to former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords who was shot in the leg and face in the Tucson rampage that also left the congresswoman severely wounded announced Thursday that he will seek to replace her in a special election.
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Pope won't take part in common prayers - Yahoo! News
Pope Benedict XVI has invited Jews, Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims to a pilgrimage at the Umbrian hilltop town of Assisi, but the leaders won't take part in common prayers as they did when summoned for a daylong prayer for peace by Pope John Paul II 25 ye...
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Oakland tense after police
The scene was calm but tense early Wednesday as a crowd of hundreds of protesters dwindled to just a few dozen at the site of several clashes between authorities and supporters of the Occupy Wall Street movement a night earlier.
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AP IMPACT: NYPD shadows Muslims who change names - Yahoo! News
Muslims who change their names to sound more traditionally American, as immigrants have done for generations, or who adopt Arabic names as a sign of their faith are often investigated and catalogued in secret New York Police Department intelligence f...
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Coroner: Amy Winehouse died from too much alcohol - Yahoo! News
Amy Winehouse died as the unintended consequence of drinking too much alcohol, a British coroner ruled Wednesday.
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Timeline of events of nationwide mortgage deal - Yahoo! News
On Thursday, 49 states reached a $25 billion deal with the nation's biggest mortgage lenders over foreclosure abuses that occurred after the housing bubble burst.
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