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Best Buy Co. Inc. +$1.54 $41.78

Retailers posted big gains in Monday's stock market advance, as investors bet that consumers will spend more as the economy recovers and the holidays approach. (Ticker: BBY)

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Employees of closed International Paper lumber mill in Va eligible for federal aid - November 9, 2009
Employees of closed International Paper lumber mill in Va eligible for federal aid - About 120 workers who lost their jobs when a lumber mill in Franklin closed are eligible for federal assistance. More

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Lights out at U energy conference. Irony police notified.

Just as Lawrence Kazmerski, a top official at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, was about to give the keynote address at the University of Minnesota's annual E3 conference at the RiverCentre in St. Paul, the lights went out, bathing the audience in darkness and a deep sense of irony.

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