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Business

Boeing Hopes Long-Delayed Plane Takes Off In S.C.()  

November 20, 2009 Boeing has moved to South Carolina from its ancestral home in the Pacific Northwest to build the 787 Dreamliner. The company will spend less on labor and receive more than $175 million in state incentives. But it will have to train a new workforce, which Boeing's Seattle unions predict may be the undoing of the Southern operation.

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Friday Night Lives

In Massillon, High School Football Is 'Who We Are'()  

Massillon's s mascot, Obie the Tiger, looms over a pep rally last month.

November 20, 2009 The Ohio school has a 20,000-seat stadium, a $3 million indoor practice facility and a live tiger for a mascot. Massillon teams have won 22 state championships and they're in the running for another one. It's football "sunup to sundown," the head coach says.

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Chicago School Board Chief's Death Raises Questions()  

November 20, 2009 Michael Scott was found shot in the head Monday, his body partially submerged in the Chicago River. The medical examiner ruled the death a suicide, but so far police have not reached that conclusion, and there's widespread disbelief among the mayor and others that Scott would have killed himself.

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Business

Price Fight: Coke Isn't It At Costco()  

Coca-Cola on display at Costco in Mountain View, Calif.

November 20, 2009 If you're a member of Costco, the nation's largest wholesale club, you may be surprised to learn that Coca-Cola's products are no longer on the shelves. The two companies are locked in a rare public dispute over the price consumers pay for beverages.

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Education

Students Rail Against University Of California Fees()  

November 20, 2009 UC regents, meeting at UCLA, approved fees that will bring the average annual cost to about $10,300 — a threefold increase in a decade. In protest, University of California Berkeley students barricaded themselves in part of a campus building on Friday.

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Hard Lessons From Two Mass Killings In Texas()  

A policeman stands in front of the Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, where a gunman killed 23 people.

November 20, 2009 The Senate is conducting hearings into the recent shootings at Fort Hood — a tragedy that took place just miles from the site of a deadly 1991 attack. That episode, in which a gunman killed 23 people at Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas, reshaped how police, medical and psychological personnel respond to such tragedies.

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