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Our love affair with blue jeans

Jim Heston, an American guesthouse operator in Cambodia, has lived a life in denim and has the photos to prove it. There were the dungarees he wore as a little boy, the dark bell-bottoms he had on for a hike up Japan's Mount Fuji, and the Levis straight-leg 501 jeans he's stayed with for the past 36 years.

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Bernanke's congressional testimony to be studied for any hints of shift on Fed bond purchases

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Voters oust mayor of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in primary

(Reuters) - The embattled mayor of Pennsylvania's financially crippled capital of Harrisburg was ousted on Tuesday when she lost the Democratic primary to the owner of an independent bookstore.

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U.S. court rejects Arizona law imposing new curbs on abortion

A federal court Tuesday struck down Arizona’s ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy absent a medical emergency.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit said the law violated a woman’s constitutionally protected right to terminate a pregnancy before a fetus is able to survive outside the womb. Read full article >>

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