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Lisa Marie Presley Twins Names Finley And Harper
The PopCrunch Show (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | Celebrity
Finley and Harper. Modern-day baby names or characters from a 1950s mystery novel? Lisa Marie Presley has named her newborn twin daughters Finley and Harper, a rep for the singer revealed Monday. (Harper and Finley for girls? Really') The only daughter of Elvis Presley and her third husband, rocker Michael Lockwood, welcomed the girls by C-section at [...] -
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Fla. congressman seeks probe after affair reports
Arizona Republic (subscribe) | 24 minutes ago | Politics
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Democratic U.S. Rep. Tim Mahoney on Monday called for an ethics investigation of himself amid reports that he had an affair and then paid the woman to keep her quiet.... -
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McCain outraged over George Wallace jibe
CNN (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | Politics
Sen. John McCain said Monday that Rep. John Lewis' controversial remarks were "so disturbing" that they "stopped me in my tracks." -
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Ramirez among 4 players fined for NLCS fracas
The Washington Times (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | Sports
Manny Ramirez and Dodgers teammate Hiroki Kuroda were among four players fined Monday by Major League Baseball for the Game 3 fracas between Los Angeles and the Philadelphia Phillies during the NL championship series. -
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Bettman on NHL: 'We're still in growth mode'
Miami Herald (subscribe) | 53 minutes ago | Sports
The NHL is "still in growth mode" despite the economic downturn, commissioner Gary Bettman said Monday, noting that ticket sales have increased this season.
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Former Wolverine Johnson out 2-3 months for Kings
Detroit Free Press (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | Sports
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Kings defenseman Jack Johnson will miss up to three months because of a shoulder injury from Sunday's 1-0 loss to San Jose. -
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Gay couples rush to wed ahead of Calif. election
Miami Herald (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | US
Gay couples from around California and the nation are feverishly tying the knot ahead of Election Day to avoid missing out if voters approve a ballot initiative aimed at banning same-sex marriage. - 2 Vote!
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Wash. Assisted Suicide Measure Debated
Red Orbit (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | Entertainment
Opponents of a Washington State assisted-suicide ballot initiative say hastening the deaths of terminally ill patients is "playing God." The initiative, which if approved would allow physicians to prescribe lethal doses of medication if requested by terminally ill patients, is against God's will, faith-based groups say, while proponents contend it would allow "death with dignity," The Seattle Post-Intelligencer... -
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Machines Edge Closer To Imitating Human Communication
THE PRICE OF RICE (subscribe) | 2 hours ago | World
ScienceDaily - October 13, 2008 At a major artificial intelligence competition at the University of Reading on 12 October, machines have come close to imitating human communication. As part of the 18th Loebner Prize, all of the artificial conversational entities (ACEs) competing to pass the Turing Test have managed to fool at least one of their human interrogators that they were in fact communicating... - see all breaking news
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Paul Krugman wins the Nobel Prize
Marginal Revolution (subscribe) | yesterday | Other
I'll be updating this post throughout the morning, so please come back if you are reading through RSS feed. He is cited for trade theory and, appropriately, location theory and economic geography. He could have been cited for his work... -
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What is New Trade Theory?
Marginal Revolution (subscribe) | yesterday | Other
Congratulations to Paul Krugman on his Nobel. Here is a primer on one of Krugman's key contributions, New Trade Theory. Tyler has more links below. Ricardo showed that every country (and every person) has a comparative advantage, a good or... -
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Informational Cascades and the Financial Crisis
Economist's View (subscribe) | yesterday | Other
Was the financial crisis the result of an informational cascade?: Wall Street's Lemmings, by Cass R. Sunstein, TNR: ...It is impossible to understand the ... current financial crisis ... without exploring the dynamics of informational cascades. ... To get a... -
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Politico removes its claim that McCain’s tax cuts are ‘aimed directly at the middle...
Think Progress (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics
Earlier today, ThinkProgress criticized Politico.com for publishing a story that claimed John McCain’s proposed tax cuts for capital gains and dividends would be “aimed directly at the middle class.” Here was their original story’ lead: Tonight, Politico published a new story on McCain’s tax cuts that removed the false claim. Instead, the article states that the [...] -
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Senator Obama's Economic Rescue Plan for the Middle Class
Obama HQ (subscribe) | 4 hours ago | Politics
Senator Obama delivered a major economic policy address to lay out his economic rescue plan for the middle class in Toledo, Ohio this afternoon. He unveiled his Economic Rescue Plan for The Middle Class . This is a comprehensive four-part plan to deal with the immediate crisis that builds on proposals he has previously announced and includes several major new ideas. We can’t wait to help workers and... - see blog ranking see all discussions
