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Exxon Mobil posts historic profit, again
Exxon Mobil Corp. said Thursday it earned $10.36-billion (U.S.) in the second quarter, the second largest quarterly profit ever recorded by a publicly traded U.S. company.
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Mako

Actor Mako dead at 72
Mako, the Japan-born actor who used his Oscar nomination for the 1966 film The Sand Pebbles to push for better roles for Asian American actors, has died. He was 72.
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Harold Reynolds

There's no problem at ESPN, sweetie, just ignore it
After baseball analyst Harold Reynolds was summarily canned by sports network ESPN this week, he explained that it was all just a misunderstanding. "I gave a woman a hug,'' he told the New York Post, "and I felt like it was misinterpreted.''
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Monopoly ditches cash for Visa
Parker Brothers said a new edition of the board game released this week in the United Kingdom and Australia switches to a Visa debit card and electronic transaction calculator from its traditional paper money.
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George Michael

George Michael Claims He's Still Getting Married
George Michael is denying that his wedding to longtime boyfriend Kenny Goss has been called off, despite the fact that photos of the former Wham! singer's alleged adulterous tryst were recently published in the British tabloid News Of The World.
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A clock you won't reset for a long, long time
Government scientists have created a new atomic clock - one so precise that if it had started ticking before the time of dinosaurs, it would still be accurate today.
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Black Bear - see original image

Woman On Mountain Bike Crashes Into Black Bear
Triathlete Sabrina Oei was speeding downhill at nearly 40 mph, cycling through the Colorado foothills, when a black bear brought her to a sudden, painful, stop.
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Man drove tank to buy ice cream
A Czech man drove a armoured personnel carrier through a historic town centre to buy his kids an ice cream.
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Heat Wave - original image

California Heat Wave Deaths Near 100
Aid workers went door-to-door, checking in on elderly people in hopes of keeping the death toll from California's 12-day heat wave from rising.
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New York hosts the world's longest foot race
THE longest foot race in the world is 3,100 miles, long enough to stretch across the continental United States. Those who run it choose a different route, however. They circle one city block in the New York borough of Queens - for two months straight.
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