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  • Radioactive nanoparticles that target cancer cells developed

    Researchers at the University of Missouri have found a way to create radioactive nanoparticles that target lymphoma tumor cells wherever they may be in the body. Cancers of all types become most deadly when they metastasize and spread tumors throughout the body. Once cancer has reached this stage, it becomes very difficult for doctors to locate and treat the numerous tumors that can ...

  • Lowes 1Q profit rises chilly spring hurts sales

    Lowe's first-quarter net income rose almost 3 percent, even as a wet and cool spring dampened sales of gardening products.Spring is the biggest season for home improvement retailers. While the weather was chilly in the quarter, the improving housing market has helped such businesses.Lowe's Cos. earned $540 million, or 49 cents per share, for the period ended May 3. That compares with ...

  • Wainwright Descalso enjoy big nights

    St. Louis Cardinals' Daniel Descalso is congratulated by starting pitcher Adam Wainwright as he returns to the dugout after hitting a grand slam home run against the San Diego Padres in the eighth inning of a baseball game in San Diego, Tuesday, May 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Lenny ...

  • Strauss Putter ruling could create split in golf

    Back at Bellerive, Wargo counts his blessings in golf and in life Centralia Ill. resident Tom Wargo was the original Tin Cup story in golf when he won the Senior PGA in ...

  • Playing at Bellerive means homecoming for Haas

    Jay Haas (right) watches video of his swing with fellow professional golfer Peter Jacobsen (center) and caddie Tom Lamb on Tuesday at Bellerive Country Club. (Photo by Stephanie S. Cordle / ...


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XXX

XXX is the kind of movie where, when a character needs to destroy a communications tower in order to disrupt a surveillance system, he doesn't simply blow it up or something so middle-of-the-road and typical as that. Instead, he parachutes in on a snow board and lands on a mountain top hundreds of feet above it, sets off bombs to create a massive avalanche, and then snowboards down the mou ... ...

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  • Miller laments lengthy innings

    After he all but forced manager Mike Matheny to remove him after throwing 107 pitches through 52/3 innings on Monday, Cardinals rookie Shelby Miller, one of the National League's top pitchers through the first month and a half of the season, lamented his inability to avoid "20-pitch innings."Not to worry, said Cardinals pitching coach Derek Lilliquist on Tuesday. "I ...

  • 55 years later Manchester City returns to St. Louis

    MANCHESTER, England -- Chelsea surged to the top of the weekly Associated Press global soccer poll after winning the Europa League and ...

  • Senior PGA Thursdays tee times

    O'FALLON, Mo.o With senior aces Calvin Munson of Francis Howell and Ryan Franklin of Fort Zumwalt West opposing each other in a Class 5 ...

  • Oil below $96 before crude stocks report Fed

    BANGKOK -; The price of oil fell Wednesday as investors waited for a report on U.S. crude stocks and the Federal Reserve's latest views on the U.S. ...

  • Bank of England remains divided on stimulus

    LONDON -; The Bank of England's policymakers remain divided on whether to provide more stimulus to the flat-lining economy, according to the minutes of their meeting in ...

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