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		<title>Insurers embrace &#8220;virtual&#8221; doctor visits as possible solution to physician shortages</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Washington, DC, United States (KaiserHealth) &#8211; Tired of feeling &#8220;like the walking dead&#8221; but worried about the cost of a doctor&#8217;s visit, Amber Young sat on her bed near tears one recent Friday night in Woodbury, Minn. That&#8217;s when she logged onto an Internet site, run by NowClinic online care, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Transfer Partners to buy Sunoco in $5.3 billlion deal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Diane Alter &#8211; AHN News Reporter Houston, TX, United States (AHN) &#8211; Dallas based Energy Transfer Partners LP, announced Monday it was buying Sunoco Inc for $5.3 billion. Under the terms of the deal, Sunocoshareholders will receive about $50.13 a share: $25 in cash and 0.5246 common units of Energy Transfer. Energy Transfer is paying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microloan demand grows in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, despite the risks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gaza, Palestinian Territory (IRIN) &#8211; The demand for microloans has risen steeply in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in recent years, according to data from the Palestinian Network for Small and Microfinance (Sharakeh), which represents 11 microfinance non-profit institutions whose total loan portfolio was US$75 million by the end of 2011. Between 2007 and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Employers tie financial rewards, penalties to health tests, lifestyle choices</title>
		<description><![CDATA[United States (KaiserHealth) &#8211; Once a year, employees of the Swiss Village Retirement Community in Berne, Ind., have a checkup that will help determine how much they pay for health coverage. Those who don&#8217;t smoke, aren&#8217;t obese and whose blood pressure and cholesterol fall below specific levels get to shave as much as $2,000 off [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MasterCard warns of possible security breach</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Diane Alter &#8211; AHN News Reporter Purchase, NY, United States (AHN) &#8211; Credit card giant MasterCard said Friday it is investigating a possible breach of cardholder data involving a U.S. based payment processor. In a statement, MasterCard said, &#8220;As a result we have altered payment card issuers regarding certain MasterCard accounts that are potentially at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bernanke rejects return to gold standard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Diane Alter &#8211; AHN News Reporter Washington, D.C, United States (AHN) &#8211; Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke rejected a return to the gold standard saying that such a move would not solve the current economic problems. Bernanke made the comment Tuesday in the first of a series of four public lectures at George Washington University. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European Central Bank leaves key interest rate unchanged</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Linda Young &#8211; AHN News Writer London, United Kingdom (AHN) &#8211; European Central Bank (ECB) officials left the benchmark interest rate of 1 percent unchanged. The bank has not changed the rate since November. The ECB has provided European banks with hundreds of billions of dollars worth of loan-interest loans in an effort to keep [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. stocks open higher Wednesday on European optimism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Diane Alter &#8211; AHN News Reporter New York, NY, United States (AHN) &#8211; U.S. stocks rose on the open Wednesday after the European Central Bank said it will lend &#38;euro;529.5 billion ($721.4 billion) to European banks in an effort to avert a credit crunch. Just before 10 a.m. on Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tucivita.com/u-s-stocks-open-higher-wednesday-on-european-optimism/</link>
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		<title>Clock ticking for Egypt&#8217;s finances</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Media Line Staff Cairo, Egypt (The Media Line) &#8211; Egypt faces a risk-laden game of Beat the Clock as it tries to get its political house in order before its foreign currency reserves sink much more. Reserves fell to $16.4 billion in January from about $36 million a year earlier, a drop that economists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vrbata, Smith shine as Coyotes top Stars for third straight win</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John Tranchina &#8211; AHN Sports Correspondent Dallas, TX, United States (AHN Sports) &#8211; Radim Vrbata&#8217;s 25th goal of the season snapped a 1-1 tie late in the second period, and the Phoenix Coyotes added third period tallies by Raffi Torres and Derek Morris in the third to secure a crucial 4-1 victory over the Dallas [...]]]></description>
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