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Headlines on AOL's website on Monday, Feb. 7, 2011, announce that the online company is buying online news hub Huffington Post. The $315 million deal represents a bold bet on the future of online news. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
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Charlie Davies will try to resurrect his career with D.C. United after suffering life-threatening injuries in a car accident two years ago. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)
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FILE - The sign outside the NASDAQ Market site is seen in this Aug. 19, 2004 file photo taken in New York. The Wall Street Journal reported on its website late Friday Feb. 4, 2011 that federal investigators are trying to identify the hackers that penetrated the market's computer network multiple times during the past year. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)
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FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2011, file photo, Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick scrambles during the second half of an NFL wild card playoff football game against the Green Bay Packers in Philadelphia. After missing two seasons serving a federal sentence for dogfighting, then spending most of the previous year as a seldom-used backup in Philadelphia, Vick was back at his best in 2010 and was selected as The Associated Press 2010 NFL Comeback Player of the Year on Saturday, Feb. 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Miles Kennedy, File)
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FILE - In this Sept. 19, 2010, file photo, Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick looks on during the fourth quarter of an NFL football game against the Detroit Lions in Detroit. After missing two seasons serving a federal sentence for dogfighting, then spending most of the previous year as a seldom-used backup in Philadelphia, Vick was back at his best in 2010 and was selected as The Associated Press 2010 NFL Comeback Player of the Year on Saturday, Feb. 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)
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FILE - In this Nov. 22, 2010 file photo, Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick reacts to this team's victory as he leaves the field after an NFL football game against the New York Giants in Philadelphia. After missing two seasons serving a federal sentence for dogfighting, then spending most of the previous year as a seldom-used backup in Philadelphia, Vick was back at his best in 2010 and was selected as The Associated Press 2010 NFL Comeback Player of the Year on Saturday, Feb. 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)
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** FILE ** The sign outside the NASDAQ Market site is seen in this Aug. 19, 2004, file photo taken in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)
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** FILE ** An Egyptian family walks past the closed stock exchange building in downtown Cairo on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011. The protests that have engulfed Cairo since Jan. 25 have shuttered businesses, forced factories to stop operating, closed banks and the stock exchange, and limited suppliers' ability to restock store shelves. (AP Photo/Victoria Hazou, File)
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** FILE ** Shoppers make their way in the snow in Union Square in New York on Sunday, Dec. 26, 2010. Major retailers are reporting surprisingly solid January revenue gains despite snowstorms that many feared would chill spending. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
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The homes, which have modernized floor plans, range in size from 518 to 1,316 square feet. Monthly condo fees start at $200.
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Smoke rises from cars on fire during clashes between pro-government and anti-government demonstrators in Cairo's Tahrir Square early Thursday. (Associated Press)
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Sen. Bernard Sanders of Vermont says the Pentagon has continued to pay contractors found to be defrauding the U.S. government. (Associated Press)
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Rupert Murdoch, right, Chairman and CEO of News Corp., and Eddy Cue, vice president of Apple, attend the launch of the Daily, Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011 in New York. The Daily is the world's first iPad-only newspaper. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
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Customers leave a coffee shop with a large snowman on display in Clarence, N.Y., Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011. (AP Photo/David Duprey)
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Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen (right) and Irish President Mary McAleese (second from left) arrive at Aras an Uachtarain, the official residence of the Irish president, in Dublin on Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011, to sign a request for a Proclamation of Dissolution of the Irish parliament. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
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BP PLC Chief Executive Bob Dudley, at a press conference at the BP headquarters in London, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011. BP announced Tuesday it is resuming dividend payouts for the first time since the Gulf of Mexico well disaster, despite suffering its first full-year loss since 1992, and plans to sell off almost half of its U.S. refinery business. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
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Sen. Mark Warner (left), Virginia Democrat, and Sen. Saxby Chambliss, Georgia Republican, are working on a bill that incorporates controversial recommendations from the president's fiscal commission. Mr. Warner said Monday that Congress must cut federal spending, "including entitlement programs," enact comprehensive tax reform and "grow the economy by adopting an innovation and growth agenda." He added, "It will require all three of those elements because no single one of them alone will get the job done." (Associated Press)
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Exxon said Monday, Jan. 31, 2011, net income grew 53 percent in the fourth quarter as oil prices rose and the company increased production.( AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
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FILE - This file photograph taken July 14, 2010, shows Gannett headquarters in McLean, Va. Gannett Co., the country's biggest newspaper publisher, said Monday, Jan. 31, 2011, fourth-quarter earnings jumped 30 percent as political advertising lifted revenue at its television stations and costs fell. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, file)
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In this undated film publicity image released by The Weinstein Company, director Tom Hooper is shown on the set of, "The King's Speech." (AP Photo/The Weinstein Company, Laurie Sparham) NO SALES