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the two-story brick house for about a week.
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• 7. WHICH AUTOMAKER IS BACK ON TOP
• Toyota outsells GM for the first nine months of 2013 to keep the lead it regained last year.
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• 8. NIELSEN TO BEGIN MEASURING MOBILE VIEWING
• Starting next fall, the global info and measurement company will count programs watched on phones and tablets within its traditional TV ratings.
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• 9. ANOTHER WACKY WORLD SERIES FINISH
• One night after a rare obstruction call, Game 4 ends with a pickoff play as the Red Sox beat the Cardinals 4-2 and even things up.
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• 10. THE OTHER FOOTBALL COMES TO WEMBLEY
• The 49ers trounce the Jaguars 42-10 at London's iconic soccer venue.
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AP News in Brief
A year after Sandy, many beaten homeowners clamor for buyouts, but only a lucky few get them
• NEW YORK (AP) -- The forces of nature had been threatening the Staten Island's Oakwood Beach neighborhood for years, flooding the streets every time it rained, sending crabs skittering into bungalows and swamping basements so regularly that it was just accepted as part of life.
• But after Superstorm Sandy swept in with 20-foot waves that crashed over roofs and killed three people, those who have lived here for generations decided it was time to go. Soon, the state will buy some 400 homes, bulldoze them and never again allow anything to be built here.
• Oakwood Beach will finally surrender to the sea.
• "The heartache of losing my home, the heartache of losing my memories, the blood and sweat and tears that I put into this home, is going to be healed by seeing trees and nature come back to that spot right there," said Joe Monte, a construction worker who had built his dream house overlooking the ocean. "And that's going to make me feel better."
• The neighborhood is the first -- and so far only -- New York City community to (Continued on page 22)
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