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Austrian Felix Baumgartner became the first skydiver to go faster than the speed of sound.
BBC: Your highlights of 2012 in drawings
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With little more than 100 days to go before the first Welsh general election, all parties are gearing up for action.
BBC: Morgan makes it to Number 10
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Ott took a drop pass from Jason Pominville and fired a slap shot by Vokoun with less than 2 minutes to go in the first to put Buffalo back in front.
WSJ: Penguins' 15-game winning streak snapped by Sabres
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If tests go as planned, it will be the first plane ever to fly faster than the speed of sound on a fuel mix that is half biomass.
WHITEHOUSE: Energy Security and Independence
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For example, in the US (which began passing laws tolerating dual citizenship in the 1950s), the numbers show that Latin American immigrants who become dual citizens have greater employment gains and lower welfare use than those who become US citizens but let go of their first citizenship, indicating economic assimilation.
BBC: The equation of dual citizenship
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United, one of the most successful teams in professional soccer, would be one of the first sports teams to go public in the U.S. in more than a decade.
WSJ: Manchester United Shoots for U.S. IPO
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Several news outlets in Florida and Washington are reporting that Scott has changed his tune and will go along with an expansion to cover more than one million people for the first three years, allowing a new governor to decide what to do after that.
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The Ravens will look for a more stable firm than PSINet, which was one of the first telecommunications upstarts to go belly up.
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Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai strongly suggested that his company would be more than happy to announce its next console after Microsoft had a chance to go first.
FORBES: Sony May be Teasing the Playstation 4
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There is nothing more satisfying than seeing kids from low-income communities be the first in their families to go to college.
FORBES: NCB Capital Impact: Investing Billions into Underserved Communities Nationwide
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Shares in the provider of transportation, e-commerce and business services have less than one week to go before the Memphis, Tennessee-based company is scheduled to report first-quarter earnings.
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