The surge coincided with Japan-based MT Gox, Bitcoin's biggest exchange, announcing a tie-up with US firm CoinLab to bring its operations to the States.

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Murkowski (R-AK) and Max S. Baucus (D-MT).

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On Monday he described Mittal Steel's (nyse: MT - news - people ) bid as "bad" for both shareholders and employees, and added that Arcelor "does not need" Mittal.

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It was one of Australia most heavily glaciated areas, and includes Mt Ossa (1, 617m) - Tasmania's highest peak - and Lake St Clair, Australia's deepest natural freshwater lake (167m).

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He bought them anyway, just in time to catch a Chinese-driven boom and a slew of acquisitions by foreign steelmakers like India's Mittal Steel (nyse: MT - news - people ).

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Two other studies covering more than a decade of exposure data appeared in the September 2009 issue of Epidemiology, co-authored by David Savitz of New York's Mt.

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Numerous helicopter companies (most based in Lihu'e) offer up-in-the-air jaunts over waterfall-striped Mt Wai'ale'ale, the island's central shield volcano and one of the wettest spots on Earth, and the sheer-hewn sea cliffs of the Na Pali coast, accessible otherwise only by ocean kayak.

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He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II upon his return to England, but continued exploring -- reaching the South Pole by tractor in 1958, joining the first group to climb Antarctica's Mt.

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