2005 AMERICAN NOBEL PRIZE LAUREATES
Nobel Prize Laureate, Dr. John Hall of the University of Colorado attends a news conference hosted by the Swedish Embassy in Washington, DC on November 7, 2005. Hall is being honored for his work with laser based precision spectroscopy. (UPI Photo/Kevin Dietsch)
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Markets turn higher Tuesday ... Existing home sales slid in December ... Union appeal of Fiat firings rejected ... Dish to close 300 Blockbuster stores ... News from United Press International.
Dish Network Corp. said it would close 300 out of 800 U.S. Blockbuster stores at the loss of about 3,000 jobs.
Three people have died in a small plane crash near Mangum, Okla., officials said.
A Southern California school board member, previously charged with attempted murder, has been arrested on prostitution charges.
A group of young boys threw fireworks at a flock of 4,000 swans in Sweden, creating chaos and possibly harming some of the birds, onlookers said.
A service has been held dedicating a floor stone to Britain's former Poet Laureate Ted Hughes at Westminster Abbey in London, the BBC said.
Protesters invaded the Libyan Embassy in Stockholm early Friday, Swedish police said.
England's former poet laureate Ted Hughes, who died of cancer in 1998, is to be memorialized in Westminster Abbey's Poets' Corner, abbey officials said.
An emergency meeting among ministers of oil exporting countries in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, had little impact, analysts said.
Graham Nash and other musicians planned to take their anti-nuclear campaign to Washington on Tuesday.
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