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Top chefs petition for gender-neutral Easy-Bake Oven
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Chefs including Manuel Trevino of TV's "Top Chef" and Michael Lomonaco of Porterhouse New York are featured in a YouTube video posted Tuesday applauding McKenna Pope's online petition to make the toy gender-neutral.
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Food poisoning to get easier to diagnose
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It's about to get faster and easier to diagnose food poisoning, but that progress for individual patients comes with a downside: It could hurt the nation's ability to spot and solve dangerous outbreaks.
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Asian schoolchildren besting European, American kids: Study
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Asian schoolchildren dominate in reading, math and science, coming in ahead of their peers in Europe and the U.S., according to an international study released Tuesday.
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Beyonce, Pepsi strike collaboration deal
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Beyonce is back in business with Pepsi.
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Colorado legalizes marijuana
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Colorado gave a lonely reception to marijuana when it became the second state to legalize the drug. Just as state officials planned.
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FedEx ships nearly 19 million packages on busiest day
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Monday will be FedEx's busiest 24-hour period of the year. Last year FedEx shipped only 17 million on its busiest day.
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Kevin Clash faces fourth sex abuse allegation
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The alleged victim is now the fourth to accuse Kevin Clash, who resigned from "Sesame Street" last month after 28 years. The three legal actions filed so far have been civil cases.
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Bike deaths jumped 8.7 percent last year
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Bicyclist deaths jumped 8.7 percent and deaths of occupants of large trucks increased 20 percent, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said in an analysis of 2011 traffic deaths.
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Hate crimes down in 2011, FBI says
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Nearly 60 percent of the people who allegedly committed hate crimes were white. Some 20 percent were black.
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Hanukkah festivities begin with candle lighting
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The National Menorah has been lit in Washington to celebrate Hanukkah, the eight-day festival of lights.
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Homeless veteran numbers dropped this year, report shows
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A vigorous effort to house the homeless has been countered somewhat by a sluggish economy.
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African-American women have highest obesity rate: CDC says
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African-American women have the highest obesity rate of any group of Americans. Four out of five black women have a body mass index above 25 percent, the threshold for being overweight or obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Job numbers up: U.S. economy adds 146,000 jobs in November
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The U.S. economy added 146,000 jobs in November and the unemployment rate fell to 7.7 percent, the lowest since December 2008. The government said Superstorm Sandy had only a minimal effect on the figures.
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John McAfee arrested by Guatemalan police
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Software company founder John McAfee was hospitalized briefly Thursday after being denied political asylum in Guatemala. His lawyers are trying to keep him from being flown back to Belize for questioning about the killing of a fellow American expatriate.
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Poll: Americans welcome raising taxes for rich
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Americans prefer letting tax cuts expire for the country's top earners, as President Barack Obama insists, while support has declined for cutting government services to curb budget deficits, an Associated Press-GfK poll shows. Fewer than half the Republicans polled favor continuing the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy.
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Jobless numbers down by 25,000 last week
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The number of people seeking U.S. unemployment aid fell sharply last week as a temporary spike caused by Superstorm Sandy has faded. Weekly applications have fallen back to a level consistent with modest hiring.
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Colorado shooting: School releases information about James Holmes
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More than 2,000 records were released after news organizations, including The Associated Press, requested them to learn about James Holmes' year at the school. But a significant number appeared to be entirely redacted by the school.
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Citigroup to cut 4-percent of workforce
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The bulk of the cuts, about 6,200, will come from Citi's consumer banking unit, which handles everyday functions like branches and checking accounts.
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