April Dividend Brings CEFL Yield To 21% and other top stories.

• April Dividend Brings CEFL Yield To 21%

  To ship a certain load of goods from New York City to Buffalo, New York a road distance of 373 miles there was a certain free market rate. It cost more than ...

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• Only three of the top 50 free agents remain unsigned

  

  Getty ImagesJust about all the big-ticket shopping is done. With NFL teams turning their full attention to the draft, the first phase of free agency is all but over. Following some notable transactions last week, just three players on the PFT Hot 100 Free Agent List remain unsigned: No. 25 Ryan Fitzpatrick, No. 33 Reggie Nelson and No. 45 Nick Fairley, who’s reportedly getting close to a deal with the Saints. Only a couple major Pro Day workouts remain on the calendar, so teams are turning t..

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• Soul Survivor

  

  Aretha Franklin, New York, October 14, 1968 (contact print). Credit Photograph by Richard Avedon / © the Richard Avedon Foundation Late on a winter night, Aretha Franklin sat in the dressing room of Caesars Windsor Hotel and Casino, in Ontario. She did not wear the expression of someone who has just brought boundless joy to a few thousand souls. “What was with the sound?” she said, in a tone somewhere between perplexity and irritation. Feedback had pierced a verse of “My Funny ..

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• Diabetes and Native People: Rethinking Our Relationship with Sugar

  

  QUICK STORY: It seems like every time I talk to my mom (which is pretty much everyday), she gives me a rundown about which family members are sick and/or injured. Usually it’s something not-too-serious, but she has a unique ability to expect the worst and assume that every cold is going to lead to H1N1. Genetic memory—our folks always had to be on the lookout for diseases. Well this most recent list of our family’s walking wounded, she told me about an uncle who has been sick with diabetes for a..

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• Monday Skate-Around: Bruins' Gustavsson Nominated For ...

  

  By Matt Dolloff, CBS Boston BOSTON (CBS) — The Boston Bruins begin the week with their playoff lives hanging in the balance, but there is some good news for the Black & Gold: the Boston chapter of the Professional Hockey Writers Association has nominated Bruins goaltender Jonas Gustavsson for the NHL’s prestigious Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy. The award, given annually to the player who “best exemplifies the qualities of perseverance, sportsmanship, and dedication to ice hockey,” is voted upo..

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• UB students have made it in the Red Bull 'Can You Make It' Challenge

  

  UB students have made it in the Red Bull ‘Can You Make It’ Challenge Four UB students begin “the adventure of a lifetime” this April Courtesy of Jake Dixon | (From left to right) Jake Dixon, Chris Komin and George Gombert will be leaving for Berlin, Germany on April 12 to travel across the continent to Paris, France, only using cans of Red Bull as currency. “Whether it was swimming with great white sharks or crashing a million dollar wedding in India, t..

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