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BOSTON, July 31 (Reuters) ? ImClone Systems said on Tuesday that second-quarter earnings fell as competition eroded sales of its cancer drug Erbitux.

In his first shot at baseball immortality, Tom Glavine pitched six masterly innings Tuesday. But Guillermo Mota gave up the tying run in the eighth to deny Glavine his personal milestone.

At least 14,000 people have evacuated homes, hotels and campgrounds on the Canary Islands as firefighters struggled to extinguish fires in two popular tourist spots. About 8,800 people were displaced on Tenerife, where fires have burned 37,500 acres of forest and destroyed 900 homes. On Grand Canary, 2,000 acres of woodland were charred, 5,200 people evacuated and at least 60 homes engulfed by flames. The police said they had arrested a forest ranger who admitted starting the Grand Canary fire, saying his job contract was about to expire.

My summer fling with deep-frying became an addiction, and I discovered an easy way to make a Southern treat: individual deep-fried fruit pies.

MIDDLETOWN, Conn., July 31 (AP) ? Burglars convicted of breaking into occupied homes will get random visits from parole officers under a new policy Gov. M. Jodi Rell announced on Tuesday in response to last week?s deadly home invasion in Cheshire.

The new note is worth either $13 or $800 in United States money, depending on which of the government?s official exchange rates one uses.

Rupert Murdoch has enough support from the Bancroft family for his News Corporation to buy the publisher of The Wall Street Journal.

A recipe for Cornstarch Ice Cream.

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Plenty of presidents at state universities have come up with plans for growth and improvement. But few have created a strategy as rigorous or transparent as the one at the University of Kentucky.

Unlike Ingmar Bergman, Michelangelo Antonioni is poorly represented on DVD. But two of Mr. Antonioni?s most important films are available in superb restorations.