Archive for January, 2008
Thursday, January 31st, 2008
cnn money: WASHINGTON (AP) -- Even before Congress passes an economic stimulus package, identity thieves are using promises of tax rebates to trick people into revealing financial and personal data, the Internal Revenue Service warned Wednesday.
Under one scheme, the IRS said, people are receiving phone calls telling them they can ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
cnn.com: WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A senior al Qaeda terrorist who allegedly plotted and carried out attacks against U.S. and coalition forces was killed in Pakistan, a knowledgeable Western official and a military source told CNN Thursday.
He was identified as Abu Laith al-Libi, 41, who was on the military's ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
bbc news: An Air Canada flight made an emergency landing in the Irish Republic after a pilot apparently suffered a breakdown.
A passenger said the pilot was carried from the plane shouting and swearing, saying he wanted to talk "to God".
The flight from Toronto to Heathrow landed at Shannon airport ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
zen habits: I’m not one to get bored, ever … but a number of readers have written in with the question: What do I do if I’m bored out of my skull at work?
It gave me pause, to think about why I can’t recall ever getting that bored at ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
the independent: A young man, a student of journalism, is sentenced to death by an Islamic court for downloading a report from the internet. The sentence is then upheld by the country's rulers. This is Afghanistan – not in Taliban times but six years after "liberation" and under the ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
cnn.com: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (CNN) -- Large swathes of Asia, the Middle East and north Africa had their high-technology services crippled Thursday following a widespread Internet failure which brought many businesses to a standstill and left others struggling to cope.
One major telecommunications provider blamed the outage, which started ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
cnn.com: BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) -- A former priest began a seven-year jail term Wednesday for murdering a young nun during an exorcism ritual when she was bound, chained to a cross and denied food and water for days.
Irina Cornici, 23, died from dehydration, exhaustion and suffocation during an ordeal ...
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
nyTimes.com: The United States economy expanded by a disappointingly weak annual rate of 0.6 percent during the last three months of 2007, the government reported Wednesday, offering the latest indication that the United States is already suffering a substantial slowdown, and perhaps a recession.
The growth from October to December came ...
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
msnbc: CINCINNATI - A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected an alleged Nazi death camp guard's challenge to a final deportation order by the nation's chief immigration judge.
A panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled there was no basis to John Demjanjuk's challenge of a December 2005 ...
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
careFair.com: Is this really something that you should be concerned about? Apparently so. Cell phones have been proven to emit a form of radiation that has led to health problems such as infertility and brain injury. While the proof is scant, studies are leaning toward the damage risks being ...
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
yahoo news: CHICAGO (AFP) - In a search for what could be the ultimate cure for drug addiction, scientists have developed a vaccine which prevents the body from getting high.
The hope is that it can stop people from falling back into a spiral of addiction if they have a ...
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
United States Senator John McCain has won the State of Florida's Republican Party primary election, edging out former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney by five percent. One time GOP front-runner Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who placed a lagging third in Florida, the state he based his campaign on, ...
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
newsWeek.com: There isn't much positive news in the housing sector. Largely as a result of the subprime mortgage mess, the number of homes that slipped into foreclosure proceedings in 2007 jumped 70 percent from the previous year, according to RealtyTrac. The National Association of Home Builders this week announced that ...
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
newsWeek.com: The Federal Reserve on Wednesday cut a key interest rate for the second time in just over a week, reducing the federal funds rate by a half point. It signaled that further rate cuts were possible.
The Fed action pushed the funds rate to 3 percent. It followed a three-fourths ...
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
timesArgus.com: IRASBURG — Mel Downs doesn't object to academic discussions over the relative merits of varying religious philosophies.
But when his daughter came home from her public school with a handout titled "Why Jesus Is Better Than Santa Claus," the Irasburg father took offense.
"It isn't about my religion or me ...
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