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Big changes in financial landscape

Bank of America, the nation's largest bank, swung a deal late yesterday to buy the venerable investment bank Merrill Lynch , the nation's largest retail brokerage, according to sources familiar with the matter. (By David Cho and Binyamin Appelbaum, Washington Post)

Massive effort rescues nearly 2,000 in Texas

State officials mounted the largest rescue operation in Texas history yesterday, taking nearly 2,000 people by boat and helicopter out of flood-ravaged towns on the Texas coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike. At the same time, millions of others coped without electricity and faced shortages of food, water, and gasoline. (By James C. McKinley Jr., New York Times News Service)
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Candidates look anew to N.H. and Iowa

Iowa and New Hampshire set the course for the Democratic and Republican presidential primaries. Barack Obama got his start in one; John McCain got his in the other. (By Scott Helman, Globe Staff)
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Accessible science

In a third-floor loft where programmers build Internet start-ups, an effort called DIYbio - short for do-it-yourself biology - is aiming to move science into the hands of hobbyists. It is starting by holding sessions where amateurs extract DNA, and attempt genetic fingerprinting using common household items and the kitchen sink. (By Carolyn Y. Johnson, Globe Staff)

Crackdown squeezes Iranians in Dubai

After visits from President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and Treasury undersecretary Stuart Levey, United Arab Emirates officials have dramatically reduced the number of business licenses to Iranian citizens, according to US officials and a Globe analysis of business statistics. (By Farah Stockman, Globe Staff)

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