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Pressure on Dam Relieved; 2,300 Evacuated

CORONA, Calif. – Authorities released a fierce, brown river of water from a Southern California dam and evacuated 2,300 people from its path Friday after a temporary earthen barrier at the site began seeping water. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (search) unleashed more than 10,000 cubic feet of water …

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Oracle Forecasts Higher Profit Growth

NEW YORK – Oracle Corp. (ORCL), the world’s second-largest business software maker, on Wednesday forecast 2005 and 2006 earnings above Wall Street estimates, helped by its $10.3 billion acquisition of PeopleSoft (search). The outlook, which Oracle released hours before it kicks off its analyst day in New York, drove the …

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Test May Help Detect Alzheimer's Earlier

A highly sensitive new test could lead to a different way to diagnose people with Alzheimer’s disease (search), possibly helping find the illness in its early stages when there might be time for treatment. While as many as 4 million Americans are thought to suffer from the memory-destroying illness, the …

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