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Today is Tuesday, Dec. 31, the 365th and last day of 2002....

Today is Dec. 31. HEADER:With the expiration of the Panama Canal Treaty of 1979, the Republic of Panama assumed full control of the Panama Canal on this...

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SAN DIEGO, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- There was a time when children used to sit and read, and dream of fairies and princes and princesses. I don't think they do that anymore. Most children spend...

Today is Dec. 31. HEADER:One of the great Swing trumpeters, Jonah Jones, was born this day in 1909 in Louisville, Ky. He began his career in Mississippi...

SKOPJE, Macedonia, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- All but forgotten, the South Balkan region lacks visibility and urgency. And so pipeline planners need to keep their chins up and persevere....

PARTY LIKE IT'S 2003...

U.S., Mexico close to poultry tariff deal...

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- A group of widely used cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins were found not to interfere with a woman's reproductive hormone levels or her fertility, a...

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- New research shows a common group of cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins does not interfere with a woman's reproductive hormone levels or her...

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- "XXX" is a trashy but entertaining-enough cross between a James Bond movie and one of those '80s action films where muscle-bound, thick-tongued heroes grunt...

Today is Monday, Jan. 6, the sixth day of 2003 with 359 to follow....

NEW YORK, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- "Imaginary Friends," screenwriter Nora Ephron's first play, is about America's last sensational literary feud between Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy,...

Today is Jan. 6. HEADER:It was on this date in 1994 that U.S. figure skater Nancy Kerrigan was clubbed on the right knee as she finished up practice for the...