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Winter Olympics 2010

Skeleton Racer Hopes For Redemption In Vancouver()  

USA skeleton competitor Zach Lund poses for a portrait during the USOC Media Summit in Chicago.

U.S. skeleton racer Zach Lund is in Vancouver, British Columbia, for Friday's start of the Winter Olympics. Four years ago he was barred from the Olympic games in Italy, after testing positive for a banned, allegedly steroid-masking hair restoration drug. The drug was taken off the banned list in 2008.

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Business

For Telecommuters, It's Not About Going To Work()  

Laura Schoppe founded a company whose entire staff is required to work from home.

Some companies have no traditional office at all — and they like it that way. At one multimillion-dollar company, all 40 employees telecommute. The firm weeds out job applicants who look down on working from home.

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Business

Safety Risks At Regional Airlines Detailed By PBS()  

Workers clear debris from the crash site of Continental Connection Flight 3407 in Clarence, N.Y., Fe

The crash of Continental Flight 3407 last February — in which 50 deaths were attributed to pilot error — sparked an inquiry that found safety problems. Among them: long hours and low pay at regional carriers, where some pilots become captains with less than a year of experience.

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Around the Nation

Criminal Probe Is Launched In Conn. Plant Blast()  

February 8, 2010 Authorities looking for the cause of an explosion that killed five people at a Middletown power plant under construction launched a criminal investigation, saying they could not rule out criminal negligence as the cause. The powerful explosion blew apart large swaths of the nearly completed 620-megawatt Kleen Energy plant Sunday.

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Politics

Expectations Low For Obama's Health Care Summit()  

February 8, 2010 Critics call the president's plan to hold a summit between Democrats and Republicans on Feb. 25 a purely political gambit designed to give the appearance of momentum for the health bill. Even supporters of the summit see room for common ground with Republicans on only a few narrow issues.

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Law

Boeing Engineer Gets 15 Years In Economic Espionage()  

February 8, 2010 A Chinese-born engineer convicted in the United States' first economic espionage trial was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison for stealing sensitive information on the U.S. space program with the intent of passing it to China.

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