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Borders Closer to Liquidation; Deadline Passes Without Bidder

America's second-largest bookstore chain moved closer to liquidation as the company has not found a bidder that wants to keep its stores open. There's still hope, as some talks continue, but there's little time left remaining before Borders enters liquidation.
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Borders Liquidation is Long Overdue

Borders is nearing liquidation after its takeover bid has been rejected, but that's no surprise to those in traditional publishing circles. For them, Borders has been long gone.
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Scorcher! Several States See Record Heat in June

The U.S. registered its 19th driest and 26th warmest June on record, according to scientists at the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration's National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C.
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Westboro Baptist Church to Picket Betty Ford Funeral

The fundamentalist, anti-gay Westoboro Baptist Church has announced its intention to picket funeral services in California and Michigan for former first lady Betty Ford, who died Friday at 93, The Grand Rapids Press reports.
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First Lady Betty Ford Dead at 93

Betty Ford, the widow of late President Gerald Ford and a trailblazing co-founder of an addiction center in California that bears her name, has died at the age of 93, according to the director of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum.
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High obesity rates continue to earn America an 'F'

An annual report F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America's Future 2011, from the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found that Mississippi has the highest rate of obesity in the country, soaring up to 34.4 percent, while other states, such as, Colorado - who scored the lowest in obese residents in the report with a rate of 19.8 percent - remain steady.
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Michigan Gunman Kills 7 in Shooting Rampage

A man believed to have killed seven people in Grand Rapids, Michigan initiated a manhunt today. Officers are believed to have caught the suspect but residents have been advised to stay in their homes.

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