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Texas Instruments Profit Beats Estimates

LOS ANGELES – Texas Instruments Inc. (TXN), the world’s largest maker of chips for cell phones, on Monday reported a 12 percent rise in quarterly profits, as manufacturing and operating expenses fell and new orders increased modestly from the end of last year. TI shares rose almost 6 percent in …

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GOP Struggles With Internal Dissent

WASHINGTON – Despite their largest congressional majorities in decades, Republicans are struggling with internal dissent as they try to ride out a House ethics controversy and win a Senate (search) showdown over confirmation of President Bush’s court nominees. The worries are short-term and longer range, political as well as philosophical …

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Explorers Reach North Pole in Record Time

TORONTO – Five explorers using huskies and wooden sleds reached the North Pole on Tuesday, setting a world record by coming in several hours earlier than a 37-day trek by American explorer Robert E. Peary (search) for the same journey in 1909, the expedition team said. British explorer Tom Avery …

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