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When Smithfield Foods Inc. was trying to fend off a union organizing drive at its largest meat- processing plant, it hired public relations executive Rick Berman. They discussed “preparing the nuclear strike,” according to e-mail records.
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A pastel version of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” recently sold to an anonymous bidder for $120 million.
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The property in Silver Spring, Maryland, has changed little since Rachel Carson lived there 50 years ago when she wrote “Silent Spring,” a powerful indictment of chemical pesticides that pretty much started environmentalism as we know it.
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Over a pint of Brooklyn Brewery ale at the Half King in Manhattan’s Chelsea district, Pen Farthing recounts his tour of duty in Afghanistan. He was in the U.S. to drum up support not for soldiers, but for dogs.
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About 50 guests gathered in the Amagansett home of litigator John Bradham for a cocktail party Saturday night to support the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine Inc.
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Nassau is among the nation’s wealthiest counties -- and the richest in New York -- as measured by per capita income.
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The money-losing U.S. Postal Service guessed that TV cartoon character Homer Simpson and his family were twice as popular as Elvis Presley when it came to sales of commemorative stamps.
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“Smash” star Megan Hilty wore an animal print Roberto Cavalli dress Saturday night for the 25th Annual Bark Ball at the Washington Hilton.
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A bug-eyed, tan-and-white Chihuahua named Axel Rose was rescued from a Missouri puppy mill recently thanks to a law passed last November.
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Mobile County spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to comply with a law designed to drive illegal immigrants from Alabama. Kim Hastie, the first-term Republican license commissioner, had an up-close look at the crackdown’s political cost.
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