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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands – Royal Dutch Shell PLC has booked a record net profit of $11.6 billion in the second quarter, up 33 percent from the same period a year ago, thanks to high oil prices and the weak dollar. The year ago figure was $8.67 billion. The company says its …

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'Last Lecture' Professor Randy Pausch Dies at 47

Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon computer-science professor with terminal cancer whose “Last Lecture” became a YouTube sensation in late 2007, died early Friday morning. Pausch died at his home in Chesapeake, Va., where he had moved from Pittsburgh last fall to be closer to relatives, said Carnegie Mellon spokeswoman Anne …

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Boston Crime Boss James 'Whitey' Bulger Wanted for Murder

This is a weekly series that profiles America’s most wanted criminals. In 1995, South Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger, the alleged leader of the city’s notorious Winter Hill Gang — and an FBI informant — was tipped off that the feds were about to indict him on racketeering charges. “He …

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