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• AP: U.S. Okayed Korean War Massacres (Editor & Publisher)...
  SEOUL The American colonel, troubled by what he was hearing, tried to stall at first. But the declassified record shows he finally told his South Korean counterpart it "would be permitted" to machine-gun 3,500 political prisoners, to keep them from joining approaching enemy forces.
  
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• All-American art (The Columbus Dispatch)...
  "Made in America" is a label consumers often look for on the apparel and household products they buy, but when people are shopping for art, it is not usually the first thing on their minds. One Columbus company is trying to change that.
  
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• AP: U.S. Allowed Korean Massacre In 1950 (CBS News)...
  Declassified records of the Korean War show that U.S. military officials gave approval to their South Korean counterparts to machine-gun thousands of political prisoners, to keep them from joining approaching enemy forces.
  
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• America I AM Mobile Experience Begins Nationwide Tour (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)...
  Thousands of people united at the ESSENCE Music Festival in New Orleans today to celebrate the launch of "America I AM Across America," a mobile experience leading to the "America I AM: The African American Imprint" museum exhibition.
  
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• America I AM Mobile Experience Begins Nationwide Tour (Fox News)...
  Tavis Smiley, Wal-Mart, and Special Guests Kicked off 'America I AM Across America' at ESSENCE Music Festival in New Orleans
  
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• Gasoline sets new records at pump (The Plain Dealer)...
  As the holiday weekend was getting under way, average gasoline prices at the pump set new records locally and nationally Thursday, said the American Automobile Association and Oil Price Information Service.
  
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• New Scrutiny Of Public Pension Funds (Forbes)...
  These entities now control $3 trillion--more than enough to attract attention.
  
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• 30 billion fewer miles driven, and counting (Seattle Times)...
  According to AAA, the average two-car family now would spend about $6,200 a year to gas up its vehicles.
  
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• Would You Buy From A Bankrupt GM? (The Car Connection)...
  General Motors stock barely crawled back into double-digit range, closing at $10.12, on Thursday, a day after a key analyst's warning that "bankruptcy is not impossible," triggered a wholesale sell-off, and plunged the aautomaker's share to their lowest levels since 1954. The warning, from Merrill Lynch, came from one of the last of the ..
  
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• July 4th: The Holiday of American Business (The New York Sun)...
  What is the most important American holiday for business? Some would argue it is the annual Christmas crescendo or the Mother's Day construction, but the purest form of holiday for American business is the Fourth of July. The holiday marks the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, a document that trumpets neither nationalism nor conflict. Rather, it is a tribute to the individual and ...
  
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