Beattie and Dewey win Scots caps CNN.com
Johnnie Beattie and Rob Dewey will make their Scotland debuts in the rugby union test against Romania in Edinburgh on Saturday.
Marks and Spencer net profits jump to eight-year peak AFP via Yahoo! News
Marks and Spencer, the British clothing-to-food retailer has rang up the highest first-half net profit for eight years owing to a healthy increase in sales.
$2 bill increasing in use and shedding its 'play-money' image USA Today
America's little-used $2 bill, which occasionally turns up in birthday cards and souvenir drawers, is on a roll. From mom-and-pop stores to strip clubs, the bill is shedding its play-money image and turning up in more wallets.
Beattie and Dewey get Scots bow BBC News
Johnnie Beattie and Rob Dewey will make their international debuts in Scotland's autumn Test against Romania.
A leaf falls in Oak Park and lands in Kendall County Chicago Tribune
In the spring, the leaves budding on Bob Stefanski's maple trees promised new life. In the summer, they cooled and shaded his Oak Park back yard. In the fall, they shimmered as they swirled toward the ground.
Brother and sister 'asphyxiated' BBC News
Police continue to hold the father of two children found dead at their home and confirm they were asphyxiated.
We vote, and how! Chicago Tribune
Forget Internet voting, security expert says Douglas Jones (right), an expert on election technology and security, began researching electronic voting in 1994. He has served as chairman of the Iowa Board of Examiners for Voting Machines and Electronic Voting Systems and was an observer in Kazakhstan's 2005 presidential election. Tribune staff reporter Charles Storch talked with the University
Transportation planners cheer bus rapid transit / Method is efficient, costs less than rail and is catching on San Francisco Chronicle
Even among public transportation enthusiasts, the bus suffers a lowly reputation as a smoke-belching workhorse that creeps and lurches through traffic, stopping at every street corner. "It's perceived as slow and inefficient," said Jayme Kunz,
Marks and Spencer net profits soar to eight-year peak AFP via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance
Marks and Spencer, the British clothing-to-food retailer, rang up the highest first-half net profit for eight years, buoyed by a highly successful advertising campaign.
Symmetry And Stability Of Earth's Geomagnetic Field Science Daily
The average rate of Earth's geomagnetic reversals has varied enormously, from five reversals per million years during the last 10 to 20 million years to as low as 0.05 reversals every million years between 125 and 84 million years ago. Why such a large variation over this time?

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