Archive for November, 2007
Friday, November 30th, 2007
CARACAS, Venezuela (CNN) -- President Hugo Chavez on Friday wrapped up his campaign to push through broad constitutional changes with a broadside attack against adversaries at home and abroad -- including a threat to cut off oil exports to the United States.
Chavez told a crowd gathered in the center of ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
yahoo news: CLEARWATER, Fla. - Evel Knievel, the red-white-and-blue-spangled motorcycle daredevil whose jumps over crazy obstacles including Greyhound buses, live sharks and Idaho's Snake River Canyon made him an international icon in the 1970s, died Friday. He was 69.
Knievel's death was confirmed by his granddaughter, Krysten Knievel. He had been ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
latimes.com: The mortgage meltdown is taking a rising toll on the broader economy, increasing pressure on the Federal Reserve to slash interest rates for a third time next month in hopes of averting a recession.
Homeowners will see their property values sink by $1.2 trillion next year, and 524,000 fewer ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
yahoo news: WASHINGTON (AFP) - Prowling the Internet, spilling venom on blogs and dominating the airwaves on conservative talk radio, "Hillary haters" are back and out in force as 2008 presidential nominating contests loom.
Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton is sparking the same waves of vitriol in the conservative echo chamber that ...
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
news.com.au: SERBIAN President Boris Tadic warned of ethnic unrest if Kosovo unilaterally declares independence, as a NATO commander said extra forces were being deployed to the Serbian province.
"Unilateral moves will prompt a response. This will not lead us to peace," said Mr Tadic, the day after last gasp talks between ...
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
latimes.com: BERKELEY -- Even this college town, traditionally the defender of the downtrodden, protector of the left and arbiter of political correctness, has had enough -- enough of the homeless.
After months of hand-wringing, the Berkeley City Council this week passed a law to hire monitors to patrol city streets and ...
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
cnn.com: KHARTOUM, Sudan (CNN) -- A Sudanese court found a British teacher guilty of inciting religious hatred and sentenced her to 15 days imprisonment Thursday for allowing a teddy bear to be named "Mohammed," British authorities and her lawyer reported.
Gillian Gibbons also faces deportation from Sudan after her prison term, ...
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
daily kos: The Republican YouTube debate hasn't even begun, and it's already obsolete. Why? Because all of the questions that we'll hear tonight were submitted by YouTube users before the Politico broke today's blockbuster news that Rudy Giuliani expensed his adulterous trysts in the Hamptons to NYC taxpayers, ...
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
grokdotcom: You may have noticed double underlined links on sites that create a pop up advertisement when moused over. These are "in-text" advertisements, and they're increasingly appearing on content sites to generate additional revenue.
For content providers, the question remains whether additional short-term bursts of ad revenue will be justified against ...
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
chicago tribune: People congregate near the doorway, too timid to intrude, or stare from an adjacent balcony, careful to keep their distance. Some pretend to gaze out the nearby window. Others take a quick look and leave -- only to return again and again.
"I feel like I shouldn't be watching," ...
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
reuters.com: LONDON (Reuters) - A "cyber cold war" waged over the world's computers threatens to become one of the biggest threats to security in the next decade, according to a report published on Thursday.
About 120 countries are developing ways to use the Internet as a weapon to target financial markets, ...
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
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Reuters:
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Adding to evidence that a little wine can do a heart good, a new study suggests that women who drink moderate amounts may have less inflammation in their blood vessels.
Spanish researchers found that after four weeks of drinking two glasses of wine per day, women ...
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Trash-talkin', finger pointing, personal digs - - now that's what I'm talking about!
cnn.com: ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (CNN) -- The acrimony from the Republican campaign trail carried over quickly into the CNN/YouTube GOP presidential debate Wednesday.
With five weeks to go until the first contest of the 2008 nominating season, the Republican ...
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
asia times: It was announced prior to the opening of trading on Tuesday that the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, the world's largest SWF, was paying US$7.5 billion to buy a 4.9% stake in Citigroup, the largest financial institution in the United States.
Citigroup's rescue did not come cheap. The deal ...
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