WASHINGTON, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Washington Post included the following items on its front page on Aug 4. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

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Democratic Sen. Barack Obama holds a two-to-one edge over Republican Sen. John McCain among low-wage workers, but many remain unconvinced either presidential candidate would be effective in fixing the ailing economy, according to a new national poll.

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 89, the Russian writer and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature whose pitiless and searching chronicles of Soviet tyranny made him a symbol of freedom and the durability of the human spirit, died Sunday in Moscow.

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Health and life insurance companies have access to a powerful new tool for evaluating whether to cover individual consumers: a health "credit report" drawn from databases containing prescription drug records on more than 200 million Americans.

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