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U.S. stocks at lowest level since 1997
Credit Writedowns (subscribe) | 2 hours ago | Finance
Things were actually looking fairly good during midday given how horrible the credit markets (high yield, asset-backed and corporate) have become. Sure, the bank stocks sold off, but the stock market in the U.S. was holding its own after selloffs abroad. But then, all of a sudden, the bottom dropped out with the S&P 500 breaking well through 2002 lows to end at 752, its lowest level since 1997. U.S....
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Pirates Transform Villages Into Boomtowns
The Huffington Post (subscribe) | 58 minutes ago | World
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somalia's increasingly brazen pirates are building sprawling stone houses, cruising in luxury cars, marrying beautiful women _ even hiring caterers to prepare Western-style food for their hostages. And in an impoverished country where every public institution has crumbled, they have become heroes in the steamy coastal dens they operate from because they are the only real business... -
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MN-Sen: Getting closer still
Daily Kos (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | US
They're counting away. The latest : By the end of the day Wednesday, the mandatory statewide recount -- triggered when the Election Day results gave Coleman a lead of less than 0.5 percent -- slashed Franken's deficit from 215 votes to 174, with about 18 percent of the ballots having been reviewed. The figures represent a compilation of recount data reported to the secretary of state and gathered... -
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Learning social behaviour online?
Fosfor Gadgets (subscribe) | 25 minutes ago | Technology
Mizuko Ito, researcher at the University of California and author of a study focusing on young people and their social behaviour in an online environment has found at that it can be an effective way of picking up and learning social behaviour: “But we found that spending time online is essential for young people to [...] -
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Selig: Weather can't shorten postseason games
Arizona Republic (subscribe) | 43 minutes ago | Sports
NEW YORK (AP) -- There has never been a rain-shortened game in the postseason, and now there never will be. Baseball commissioner Bud Selig announced the sport will enact a rules change stating that postseason games cannot be shortened because of bad weather.... -
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Will Lieberman Ever Pay A Price?
MyDD (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | US
Whether it be his third-party re-election in 2006 or the recent vote to keep him on as chair of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Joe Lieberman keeps managing to escape any accountability for trashing Democrats, pursuing policies that have made the US less safe and just being an all-around bad Senator. So the question is, will he ever be held accountable? The ultimate goal...
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5 Gitmo detainees blame arrest on 'political game'
Boston Globe (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | Politics
A group of Algerians who were ordered released from Guantanamo Bay on Thursday have long denied being terrorists, saying they were swept up in Bosnia and handed over to the U.S. as political pawns. -
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Pakistani Prime Minister Says US Strikes Will Stop Once Obama Takes Office
The Huffington Post (subscribe) | yesterday | World
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan summoned the U.S. ambassador Thursday to protest a suspected American missile strike deep inside its territory as militants threatened revenge attacks unless the cross-border raids stop. The angry response came as NATO forces in Afghanistan said Pakistan's military had responded to a request to attack insurgents on its side of the border, the latest example of what the... -
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Winona Ryder Hospitalized
WhyFame (subscribe) | 14 minutes ago | Entertainment
Winona Ryder was briefly hospitalized after falling ill on a flight to London's Heathrow Airport Wednesday, her publicist said. Mara Buxbaum said the 37-year-old was taken to a west LonDon Hospital Wednesday "as a precaution" and had since been released. "She's fine now," Buxbaum said. She declined to go into details of Ryder's illness. British... [ More on WhyFame.com ] -
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Proposition 8 Challenges To Be Heard In California Supreme Court As Early As March
WhyFame (subscribe) | 14 minutes ago | US
Court to decide on constitutionality of gay-marriage ban.By Gil Kaufman Proposition 8 protesters gather in San Francisco on November 15, 2008 Photo: Justin Sullivan/ Getty Images A week after thousands took to the streets across the country to protest the passage of California's controversial Proposition 8, which bans gay marriage, the... [ More on WhyFame.com ] -
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Ben Affleck makes his fourth visit to African Congo
WhyFame (subscribe) | 14 minutes ago | Entertainment
Ben Affleck in eastern Congo, 11/19/08 Ben Affleck has already chronicled the dire conditions in the war-torn African Congo region with a documentary and an appearance on Nightline. He’s made three treks to the Republic of Congo, hoping to raise awareness of the ongoing atrocities brought on by civil war, including violence against... [ More on WhyFame.com ] -
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Astronauts perform spacewalk No. 2
Miami Herald (subscribe) | 2 hours ago | Sciences
Spacewalking astronauts performed more repair work on a jammed joint at the international space station on Thursday, keeping a tight grip on all their tools so nothing would get away this time. - see all breaking news
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Spice up your inbox with colors and themes
Official Gmail Blog (subscribe) | 11/19/2008 | Technology
Posted by Annie Chen, Gmail engineer Gmail fans have been building unofficial extensions to spice up their inboxes for a while, but up til now themes haven't been an integral part of Gmail. We wanted to go beyond simple color customization, so out of the 30 odd themes we're launching today, there's a shiny theme with chrome styling, another one that turns your inbox into a retro notepad, nature themes... -
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Nokia N96 Bruce Lee Edition: the only thing tougher than Chuck Norris
Engadget (subscribe) | yesterday | Technology
OMG OMG OMG... sorry, but our inner japanese school-girl was just unleashed with the arrival of the Nokia N96 Bruce Lee Edition. If Nokia had any sense, they'd expand the action-doll bundle to the world beyond Hong Kong. Even for 8,788 Chinese Yuan (about $1,286) we're seriously tempted. Watch Bruce clean up at ping pong in the Nokia video posted after the break -- no, really. [Via Unwired View ,... - 4 Vote!
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Announcing the Search-based Keyword Tool
Inside AdWords (subscribe) | 11/19/2008 | Technology
Keyword targeting can sometimes feel like a guessing game. Potential customers are performing hundreds of millions of searches on Google, most of which you don't even know about. With so many searches, you have to guess which ones might be relevant for each of your landing pages , and hope you find the right audience for your AdWords campaigns. That's where the Search-based Keyword Tool (beta) comes... - 1 Vote!
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The ObaHillary morph: Recycling you can believe in
Michelle Malkin (subscribe) | 11/19/2008 | Election 2008
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The miracle of Haleigh Poutre
Michelle Malkin (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics
Almost three years ago, I started blogging about beautiful Haleigh Poutre. [...] Read the rest » -
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Pritzker Nomination in Doubt
Political Wire (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics
Despite last night's report that Penny Pritzker was President-elect Obama's choice to become Commerce secretary, the Washington Post reports she "has run into business obstacles that will likely prevent her" from taking the post. Said one Obama adviser: "The issue is whether she ultimately wants to do this, and it may be -- and probably will be -- possible that for business reasons, she probably can't... -
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Ocarina Surges To Top Paid iPhone App Position
TechCrunch (subscribe) | 11/19/2008 | Technology
Ocarina , the second iPhone application from Silicon Valley based Smule , has surged to the top spot on the iPhone App store just a little over a week after launching (you can download it here for $.99). Why? Just like Smule's first application, a social virtual lighter ( yeah, I know ), People are fascinated by interacting with others. With the lighter it was competing geographically for the brightest... -
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The Restless Mr. Kerry (cont'd)
The Plank (subscribe) | yesterday | Other
The Boston Globe is reporting that John Kerry will be named chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which is what people in his circle told me last summer was his ultimate goal. I suppose this doesn't rule out his going to State or (less likely) Interior , but it's definitely looking more and more as if Kerry will be staying in the Senate. -- Jason Zengerle -
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Verizon BlackBerry Storm review
The Boy Genius Report (subscribe) | yesterday | Technology
The BlackBerry Storm. It feels like ages ago since we first broke news of this bad boy, but the release is finally right around the corner. Literally, it’s tomorrow! Need we say more? Heck yeah! We’ve got a pretty substantial review on the device and we’ve even taken the time to compare the Vodafone units [...] -
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Biden's Guv Plans Midnight Swearing-in
Political Radar (subscribe) | 11/19/2008 | Politics
ABC News' Teddy Davis and Arnab Datta Report: ABC News has learned that Delaware's newly elected Democratic governor is planning to take the oath of office at 12:01 a.m. ET on Jan. 20, 2009, making it possible for him to... - see blog ranking see all discussions
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