Archive for December, 2007
Monday, December 31st, 2007
latimes.com: NASHUA, N.H. -- Like many New Hampshire voters, Dave Montgomery considers himself a dyed-in-the-wool independent -- which in this state means he can vote in either the Republican or Democratic presidential primary when he goes to the polls Jan. 8.
This year, the semi-retired school bus driver from Milford ...
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Monday, December 31st, 2007
bbc news: After two years in which the violence in Afghanistan has become worse, it is hard to see signs of hope in 2008.
The detailed new international commitments, and promises of more money, put forward at the London Conference in January 2006, made little headway as the war against ...
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
forbes.com: Burlingame, Calif. - Forget the cavernous big box stores that laid waste to the retail landscape a decade ago. Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs' tiny iPod has turned his company into a category killer for the digital era--first wiping out music stores and now, potentially, the corner video ...
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
yahoo news: BOSTON - The loss or theft of personal data such as credit card and Social Security numbers soared to unprecedented levels in 2007, and the trend isn't expected to turn around anytime soon as hackers stay a step ahead of security and laptops disappear with sensitive information.
And ...
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Saturday, December 29th, 2007
rolling stone: David Bendeth, a producer who works with rock bands like Hawthorne Heights and Paramore, knows that the albums he makes are often played through tiny computer speakers by fans who are busy surfing the Internet. So he's not surprised when record labels ask the mastering engineers who ...
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Friday, December 28th, 2007
slate.com: Ever since Starbucks blanketed every functioning community in America with its cafes, the one effect of its expansion that has steamed people the most has been the widely assumed dying-off of mom and pop coffeehouses. Our cities once overflowed with charming independent coffee shops, the popular thinking goes, ...
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Friday, December 28th, 2007
dumb little man: There was a period in my life when I had a lot of problems with sleep. It took me very long to fall asleep, I was easily awaken, and I simply wasn't getting enough of rest at night. I didn't want to take medication and this ...
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Friday, December 28th, 2007
newsweek.com: For weeks Hillary Clinton's aides have looked at the landscape through a simple prism: the more dangerous the world looks, the more voters will be drawn to a "safe" candidate like the former first lady. That seemed like an easy and comforting explanation for Barack Obama's rise in ...
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Friday, December 28th, 2007
latimes.com: ATLANTA -- Here, the competition unfolds whenever a truck pulls into the parking lot, its driver looking for day laborers.
On any given day, about half of the 30 or so men waiting to pounce on those trucks are Latinos, many of them undocumented. But the rest are African American ...
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Thursday, December 27th, 2007
yahoo news: SEATTLE - Warner Music Group, a major holdout on selling music online without copy protection, caved in to the growing trend Thursday and agreed to sell its tunes on Amazon.com Inc.'s digital music store.
Until now, Warner Music had resisted offering songs by its artists in the MP3 format, ...
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Thursday, December 27th, 2007
newsweek.com:
1. Reading in dim light ruins your eyesight. While this is one myth that parents around the world have loved for generations, it has very little scientific backing. Reading in the dark can cause a temporary strain on the eyes, but it rapidly goes away once you return to ...
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Thursday, December 27th, 2007
reuters.com: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Census Bureau expects the nation's population to be 303.15 million on New Year's Day, up 0.9 percent from January 1, 2007, it said on Thursday.
In 2008, the country will add one person every 13 seconds, the bureau said. That will come from one birth ...
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Thursday, December 27th, 2007
reuters.com: ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The body of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was taken to her family village for burial on Friday, a day after she was assassinated by a suicide bomber, plunging the nuclear-armed country into one of the worst crises in its 60-year history.
Her killing after an ...
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Wednesday, December 26th, 2007
yahoo news: TEHRAN (Reuters) - Russia has agreed to sell an S-300 anti-aircraft missile system to Iran, Iran's defense minister was quoted as saying on Wednesday, a report likely to irritate the United States.
S-300 missiles are longer-ranging than the TOR-M1 surface-to-air missiles which Russia, in a deal criticized by the ...
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Wednesday, December 26th, 2007
msnbc: NEW YORK - U.S. home prices fell in October for the 10th consecutive month, posting their largest drop since early 1991, according to a key index released Wednesday.
The record 6.7 percent slide in the Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller home price index also marked the 23rd consecutive month that prices ...
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