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Music: How Axl Rose Spent All That Time 20 November 2008, 4:21 pm
“Chinese Democracy” is the Titanic ship of rock albums: It’s outsize, lavish, obsessive, technologically advanced and, all too clearly, the end of an era.br/br/span class="advertisement" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=9af66338c0024209ba5b50cdd0c2fd7au=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/arts/music/23pare.html"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=9af66338c0024209ba5b50cdd0c2fd7au=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/arts/music/23pare.html" border="0"//a/span...
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Music Patron Is Convicted of Fraud 20 November 2008, 3:18 pm
A federal jury in Manhattan on Wednesday convicted Alberto W. Vilar on 12 counts of fraud.br/br/span class="advertisement" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=9af66338c0024209ba5b50cdd0c2fd7au=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/arts/music/20vila.html"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=9af66338c0024209ba5b50cdd0c2fd7au=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/arts/music/20vila.html" border="0"//a/span...
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Book Prizes Awarded With Nod to History 20 November 2008, 3:04 pm
Annette Gordon-Reed won the National Book Award for nonfiction for “The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family,” while Peter Matthiessen won the fiction award for “Shadow Country.”br/br/span class="advertisement" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=9af66338c0024209ba5b50cdd0c2fd7au=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/books/20awards.html"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=9af66338c0024209ba5b50cdd0c2fd7au=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/books/20awards.html" border="0...
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Clive Barnes, Critic, Dies at 81 20 November 2008, 11:45 am
As a critic in Britain and later for The New York Times, Mr. Barnes helped bring dance to a broad audience with an exuberant style.br/br/span class="advertisement" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=9af66338c0024209ba5b50cdd0c2fd7au=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/arts/dance/20barnes.html"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=9af66338c0024209ba5b50cdd0c2fd7au=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/arts/dance/20barnes.html" border="0"//a/span...
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Newly Released 20 November 2008, 11:10 am
New books by Wally Lamb, Kate Jacobs, Dean Koontz, Mark Barrowcliffe and Julia Leigh.br/br/span class="advertisement" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=9af66338c0024209ba5b50cdd0c2fd7au=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/books/20new.html"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=9af66338c0024209ba5b50cdd0c2fd7au=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/books/20new.html" border="0"//a/span...
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Music Review: Making Girls Dance: All in a Night’s Work 20 November 2008, 3:23 am
Girl Talk set off instant pandemonium as its set began at Terminal 5.br/br/span class="advertisement" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=9af66338c0024209ba5b50cdd0c2fd7au=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/arts/music/20girl.html"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=9af66338c0024209ba5b50cdd0c2fd7au=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/arts/music/20girl.html" border="0"//a/span...
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Jan Krugier, Dealer in Modern Art, Dies at 80 20 November 2008, 3:17 am
Mr. Krugier survived two years in Nazi concentration camps and went on to become a highly regarded dealer of work by artists like Picasso, Morandi, Balthus and Giacometti.br/br/span class="advertisement" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=9af66338c0024209ba5b50cdd0c2fd7au=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/arts/design/20krugier.html"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=9af66338c0024209ba5b50cdd0c2fd7au=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/arts/design/20krugier.html" border="0"//a/spa...
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Jody Reynolds, 75, Rockabilly Singer, Is Dead 20 November 2008, 3:14 am
Mr. Reynolds had a single hit, “Endless Sleep,” which ushered in a wave of tragic teenage pop songs in the 1950s.br/br/span class="advertisement" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=9af66338c0024209ba5b50cdd0c2fd7au=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/arts/music/20reynolds.html"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=9af66338c0024209ba5b50cdd0c2fd7au=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/arts/music/20reynolds.html" border="0"//a/span...
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Arts, Briefly: Winokur Returns to ‘Hairspray’ 20 November 2008, 1:22 am
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Arts, Briefly: New Space for the Arts 20 November 2008, 1:21 am
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Brown: Auto CEOs need reality check 21 November 2008, 9:43 pm
Much has been made of the car company CEOs showing up for Congressional hearings in private jets to ask for a taxpayer-funded bailout.div class="feedflare"
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Officials: Teen's suicide seen on Internet 21 November 2008, 9:06 pm
With his webcam trained on him, a Florida teenager died in his bed of a drug overdose while others watched over the Internet, officials said Friday.div class="feedflare"
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Transition sources point to Geithner, Richardson 21 November 2008, 8:39 pm
President-elect Barack Obama's potential Cabinet began to take shape today, as two sources close to the transition team said that New York Federal Reserve President Timothy Geithner is "on track" to be offered the Treasury secretary post. Sources also said that Gov. Bill Richardson is a serious contender for commerce secretary.div class="feedflare"
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Verizon fires workers over Obama records 21 November 2008, 8:29 pm
Verizon Wireless has fired employees connected to a breach of records from a cell phone used by President-elect Barack Obama earlier this year, a Verizon source told CNN on Friday.div class="feedflare"
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U.N.: Gunmen kill woman while trying to rape girl 21 November 2008, 4:26 pm
Armed men entered a Congolese camp for displaced people Friday to kidnap and rape a girl, but when the girl screamed, the gunmen fired shots, killing a 20-year-old woman, a U.N. spokesman said.div class="feedflare"
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Study: Lung cancer pill can be as good as chemo 21 November 2008, 4:03 pm
A cancer treatment that comes in a pill is as effective as the standard chemotherapy for lung patients who had previously been treated for their cancer, according to a study released Thursday.div class="feedflare"
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Beavers back in Britain after 400 years 21 November 2008, 3:52 pm
For the first time in 400 years, the beaver has returned to Great Britain.div class="feedflare"
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South Africa teen sentenced for 'racist' murders 21 November 2008, 2:10 pm
A white teen convicted of murdering four blacks, including two children, in a racist killing spree in South Africa's North West province was sentenced Friday to four life terms in prison.div class="feedflare"
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'The less you have, the more you like it' 21 November 2008, 2:10 pm
Kate Meinhardt felt like a clown jammed into a Volkswagen bug when she lived in a 21-square-foot room aboard a circus train.div class="feedflare"
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Crunch stops work on Europe's tallest tower 21 November 2008, 1:03 pm
Construction work has stopped on Europe's tallest building after developers said their lofty ambitions had been hit by the global financial crisis, a Russian news agency reported Friday.div class="feedflare"
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Tiny Wiimote "projector" is not nearly as impressive as it sounds on paper 21 November 2008, 10:10 pm
This image is not necessarily one we are thrilled about having projected upon our walls, but we are pretty fond of anything in miniature. This 2.25-inch Wiimote is actually a semi-ingenious mini-projector which projects an image (yes, only one) from Super Mario Kart when its button is pressed. When you order you'll get a random choice of one of the six possible images, each less exciting and more pointless than the next. They're available from ThinkGeek now for $6, which is maybe worth the roug...
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T-Mobile G1s now shipping with 3.5mm headphone adapters included 21 November 2008, 8:46 pm
It's not going to somehow magically conjure a jack where there's currently nothing more than a sad-looking ExtUSB port, but new G1 buyers can take some solace in the knowledge that they'll be able to plug in, turn it up, and tune out right out of the box. We've received official word from HTC that 3.5mm headphone adapters for the ExtUSB port are now being bundled with the phone, meaning you won't be stuck with that janky (no, seriously, it's insanely terrible) headset with the special connector ...
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How would you change Apple's unibody MacBook / MacBook Pro? 21 November 2008, 7:02 pm
Now that you've had well over a month to toy with Apple's latest MacBook and MacBook Pro, we're just dying to know what your impressions are. Has the glass trackpad turned you off (or just turned you off to every other trackpad on the planet)? Is the inability to order the MBP with a matte display still grating your nerves? Are you happy with the performance? Is your "S" key randomly popping off at the most inopportune times? You just spent a load of cash on what essentially amounts to a first-...
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NXE creating HDMI headaches for UK Xbox 360 owners? 21 November 2008, 6:33 pm
The path to Netflix-enhanced glory hasn't been entirely trouble free for everyone, this time it's posters on AVForum noticing a distinct lack of audio on Xbox 360s connected to their HDTV by HDMI. So far suggested solutions for the afflicted include plugging in the hard drive while the system is on, or waiting several minutes before switching the monitor to HDMI, and repeating them every time the system is started. It's not the first time we've heard of UK-centric HDMI weirdness, any of you hea...
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sWaP watch phone likely won't change your opinion of watch phones 21 November 2008, 5:56 pm
While watch phones have gotten a tad more "wearable" in recent years, they still haven't exactly caught on like some folks may have thought they would in their younger, jetpack-filled visions of the future, and we're going to go out on a limb and speculate that this new so-called sWaP watch won't change that situation. As far as watch phones go, however, this one looks to be fairly capable, with it packing a SIM card slot to let you easily hop onto your cell network of choice, a 1.3 megapixel c...
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RAZR stops a bullet, its owner reports "feeling lucky, punk." 21 November 2008, 5:17 pm
New Orleans resident Ronald Richard was mowing the lawn when he felt a hard object hit him in the chest -- precisely where he'd been keeping his pink Swarovski-encrusted (just kidding) RAZR. It was only after Richard took off his sweater that he discovered the .45-caliber slug and realized that the phone had literally taken a bullet for him. According to paramedics, the angle of the bullet and the modest stopping power of the cellphone were all that stood between the man and serious injury or e...
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Marantz's IS301 wireless iPod dock elegantly cuts the cord 21 November 2008, 4:46 pm
Wireless iPod docks were all the rage back in 2006 (seriously, we remember nerds camping out for them), but the trend sort of petered out as 2007 emerged and focus turned to more important matters. Now, Marantz is looking to bring it all back in style with the IS301, a Lucullan wireless iPod dock that transmits both audio and video sans cabling and includes a port-filled receiver for tight-knit home theater integration. Practically every dock-connecting iPod (no iPhones allowed, at least not of...
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Switched On: Writers on the Storm 21 November 2008, 4:19 pm
Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.
What happens when the efficient menu-driven user experience of the BlackBerry meets the discoverable new user experience of finger-driven touch? The answer for the BlackBerry Storm has been that the BlackBerry experience wins, and who loses depends on what you were expecting from RIM's first departure from a physical keyboard. While adorned with a few on-screen buttons and simple gesture support, the Storm is muc...
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DARPA enlists IBM to build computer brain as smart as a cat 21 November 2008, 3:44 pm
Researchers have long been trying to model actual brains in order to build a better computer "brain," and it looks like IBM is now getting a helping hand from none other than DARPA in its attempt to create one that it hopes will one day have the intelligence level of a cat. To that that somewhat unnerving end, DARPA is pouring $4.9 million into a project that'll include five universities and scientists of all stripes, who will work together to create an artificial brain that behaves like a real...
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BlackBerry Storm sells out hard and fast 21 November 2008, 3:03 pm
We don't have official confirmation of this yet, but we're hearing from all over that Verizon's launch of the BlackBerry Storm has so far been a raging success -- from what we can tell, it's sold out nearly everywhere, and the online store is buckling under the load of thousands of eager buyers. Sounds like RIM's on track for a hit -- any of you have any luck scoring a Storm today? How'd it go? Digging the SurePress screen? Hit us up in comments![Thanks to everyone who sent this in]Filed under:...
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The Insane Hardware Driving the World's Biggest LED Billboard [Walgreens] 21 November 2008, 9:30 pm
pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/walgreenssign.jpg" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2" width="800" height="300" style="display:block;float:none;" /In a dusty supply closet at 1 Times Square, a computer terminal hooked up to hordes of ethernet servers, RAID arrays and monitors humbly runs the largest LED sign in the world. The sign, a 3-sided, 17,000-square-foot Goliath, debuted last night at the opening of a Walgreens in New York City. Today, I got to see what make...
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At Gizmodo Gallery: Weird Japanese USB Gadgets! [Gizmodo Gallery] 21 November 2008, 9:20 pm
pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/gizmodo-gallery-weird-usb.jpg" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2" width="494" height="328" style="display:block;" /The a href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/Gizmodo%20Gallery"Gizmodo Gallery/a lineup isn't just mega gadgets like the a href="http://gizmodo.com/5093557/at-gizmodo-gallery-the-red-one-camera"Red One Camera/a and prototypes like the a href="http://gizmodo.com/5091517/at-gizmodo-gallery-ancient-apple-phone-prototypes"Ancient App...
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BlackBerry Storm Lines Not iPhone Lines, But Still Feisty [BlackBerry] 21 November 2008, 9:15 pm
pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/BlackBerry_Storm_VZW_Line.jpg" width="450" height="290" style="display:block;" /In spite of its a href="http://gizmodo.com/5094371/10-takes-on-the-blackberry-storm"mixed reviews concerning software bugs and the controversial click-screen/a, the BlackBerry Storm drew a heckuva lot of Crack(Berry)heads to Verizon Wireless stores today demanding to get a piece of that action, including some who got uppity when things didn't work out li...
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Lightning Review: Sony Vaio LV All-In-One PC [Sony Vaio] 21 November 2008, 8:30 pm
pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/vaio_lv_top.jpg" width="800" height="531" style="display:block;float:none;" /strongThe Gadget:/strong Sony's a href="http://gizmodo.com/5045087/sony-vaio-lv-all+in+one-entertainment-pc-one-ups-the-vaio-lt-with-hdmi+in-and-integrated-hd-tuner"Vaio LV All-in-One PC/a is the followup to the beautiful (and powerful) Vaio LT that came out earlier this year. This time around, they gave the LV an improved mounting base, slimmer bezel, inte...
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Music Flow Music-As-Water Concept Stretches My Brain [Design] 21 November 2008, 7:30 pm
pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/Music_Flow.jpg" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2" width="468" height="374" style="display:block;" /Do you think of your MP3 player as the well from whence music springs forth like so much cool, pure H2O? Neither do I, but that didn't stop some brainy (that is, totally insaney) designers from coming up with a painfully elaborate music-player concept based on just such an analogy./p pOver at Yanko Design you can see the Music Flow co...
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Supercomputers Corroborate Einstein's e=mc2 After 103 Years [Humor] 21 November 2008, 6:56 pm
pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/emc2pwned.jpg" width="756" height="300" style="display:block;float:none;" /Believe it or not, but it has taken 103 years and the combined power of various of the world's top supercomputers to prove Eintein's biggest equation right, resolving e=mc2 at the scale of sub-atomic particles. The feat has been achieved by a team of French, German, and Hungarian physicists led by Laurent Lellouch at the Center for Theoretical Physics in Fran...
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The Week in iPhone Apps: Back to the Grind [IPhone Apps] 21 November 2008, 6:20 pm
pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/appreview_nov21.jpg" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2" width="603" height="179" style="display:block;" /Back to the usual review this week, after our a href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/app-directory/"20 Essential Apps list last Friday/a. Thankfully, it's been a pretty good week in the store, with lots of actually useful apps—including a full-fledged four-track recorder and a couple of utilities that actually add some usable core feat...
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PoleRider is Part Rickshaw, Part Strip Club [It's Better Than A Cab] 21 November 2008, 6:00 pm
pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/poleriders.jpg" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2" width="494" height="331" style="display:block;" /Why go out to the strip club when the strip club can come to you? That's right, for $300 an hour ($200 each additional), you can rent out a rickshaw in NYC from the entrepreneurs at PoleRider. It is your all-inclusive mobile exotic dancing solution complete with a pole and tacky lights. Ahh...pole dancing. It's everywhere you want to ...
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$1 Billion Electric Car Charging Grid Planned For San Francisco [Electric Cars] 21 November 2008, 5:40 pm
pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/better_place_charger.jpg" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2" width="550" height="413" style="display:block;" /In keeping with its progressive reputation, San Francisco is looking to pave the way for widespread electric vehicle adoption in the US. A Palo-Alto start-up called "Better Place" has received the green light from all three of the Bay Area's big city mayors to begin carrying out an ambitious plan to build a network of 250,00...
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Gadgets Deals of the Day [Dealzmodo] 21 November 2008, 5:20 pm
pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/todaysdeals.jpg" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2" width="600" height="240" style="display:block;" /Can you feel it? It's the last Friday before Black Friday. You've got exactly one week to plan out a href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/black-friday"where you're gonna hit/amdash;what are you're hoping to grab this year, anyway? Today, we've got a few pretty excellent deals: This Double Guitar bundle from Red Octane comes with Guitar Hero ...
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Verizon employees fired after peeping Obama cell records 21 November 2008, 5:50 pm
pSeveral Verizon Wireless employees have been suspended after the company learned that some had accessed Barack Obama's cell phone records without authorization. Whether they'll face criminal charges is not clear./ppa href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081121-verizon-employees-suspended-after-peeping-obama-cell-records.html"Read More.../a/p
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Google may offer Chrome detailing on new PCs 21 November 2008, 3:14 pm
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Inaction on disconnect pleas at root of Aussie ISP lawsuit 21 November 2008, 1:21 pm
pMajor movie studios aren't happy that Australian ISP iiNet won't disconnect users after receiving evidence that they have been sharing movies over BitTorrent. iiNet doesn't want to play traffic cop, but Australian law does demand it have (and act on) a disconnection policy for copyright infringers./ppa href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081121-inaction-on-disconnect-pleas-at-root-of-aussie-isp-lawsuit.html"Read More.../a/p
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Coupons, Inc. drops DMCA lawsuit against coupon hacker 21 November 2008, 12:45 pm
pA copyright lawsuit against a man who posted instructions on how to print unlimited coupons online has finally been dropped after he argued that he didn't circumvent anyone's copyright protection in order to produce his "hack."/ppa href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081121-coupons-inc-drops-dmca-lawsuit-against-coupon-hacker.html"Read More.../a/p
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Lots to like about new iPhone 2.2 software update 21 November 2008, 12:09 pm
pApple released iPhone OS 2.2 last night, the latest update for the iPhone and iPod touch. A number of new features and fixes have arrived across the board, making this a must-have update./ppa href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081121-lots-to-like-about-new-iphone-2-2-software-update.html"Read More.../a/p
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Beer, nachos, and broken street dates: 7-Eleven game sales 21 November 2008, 11:32 am
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Virtual appliances made easy with rBuilder 21 November 2008, 10:53 am
pSoftware appliance tools maker rPath has added CentOS and Ubuntu support to rBuilder, its web-based software appliance constructor./ppa href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081121-virtual-appliances-made-easy-with-rbuilder.html"Read More.../a/p
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Microsoft to aid in war on terror, builds software for DHS 21 November 2008, 10:19 am
pMicrosoft has joined forces with GIS vendor ESRI to build a suite of collaboration tools for intelligence gathering and processing. This software will be used by the Department of Homeland Security's fusion centers./ppa href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081121-microsoft-to-aid-in-war-on-terror-builds-software-for-dhs.html"Read More.../a/p
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Sony gets $18.5M wrist slap for PSP patent infringement 21 November 2008, 7:15 am
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An outlet at every parking meter? Bay Area welcomes plug-ins 21 November 2008, 6:10 am
pGov. Schwarzenegger and several Bay Area mayors have joined forces with start up Better Place to transform California into an electric vehicle wonderland. /ppa href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081121-an-outlet-at-every-parking-meter-bay-area-welcomes-plug-ins.html"Read More.../a/p
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Let caregivers feel what they feel 20 November 2008, 3:27 pm
Caregivers don't always need our pep talks. Accept their feelings and let them heal.
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Tobacco use and mental health 19 November 2008, 3:10 pm
Be aware of depression, mood disorders when you quit smoking.
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Energizing the human spirit 19 November 2008, 9:20 am
Joy and peace come from relationships, not gadgets and gear.
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Ruptured spleen 19 November 2008, 1:00 am
Ruptured spleen mdash; Comprehensive overview covers causes, symptoms, treatment of this source of life-threatening bleeding.
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Video: Apple berry cobbler 19 November 2008, 1:00 am
Apple berry cobbler mdash; See how to prepare this healthy recipe.
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Pomegranate juice: A cure for prostate cancer? 19 November 2008, 1:00 am
Early research suggests that pomegranate juice may slow the growth of prostate cancer.
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Video: Hearty turkey chili 19 November 2008, 1:00 am
Hearty turkey chili mdash; See how to prepare this healthy recipe.
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Conjoined twins 19 November 2008, 1:00 am
Conjoined twins mdash; Comprehensive overview covers diagnosis and treatment for these rare identical twins.
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Recipe: Apple berry cobbler 19 November 2008, 1:00 am
Apple berry cobbler mdash; one of many healthy recipes from Mayo Clinic.
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Asthma-friendly products: Do they help reduce symptoms? 19 November 2008, 1:00 am
Evaluate whether asthma-friendly products will help keep your triggers at bay.
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Daschle Is Obama's Pick to Lead HHS 21 November 2008, 11:47 am
By selecting former Senator Tom Daschle (D-SD) to head the Department of Health and Human Services, President-Elect Barack Obama has found a point person for sweeping health-care reform who also shares his bipartisan — read realistic — approach to politics....
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Uncertainty Is Powerful Stress Producer 21 November 2008, 12:18 am
In a newly published study, uncertainty was found to be far more stressful for highly neurotic people than dealing with a clearly negative outcome....
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Fall Babies at Higher Risk for Asthma 21 November 2008, 12:18 am
A new study shows that babies born four months before the peak of winter virus season are more likely to develop childhood asthma than babies born at any other time of year....
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Water Aerobics Reduces Pain in Childbirth 20 November 2008, 7:01 pm
Water aerobics may help reduce the pain of childbirth. A new study shows that women who take classes during pregnancy are significantly less likely to ask for pain medication during delivery....
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Hib Vaccine Shortage Extended 20 November 2008, 6:04 pm
The current U.S. shortage of childhood Hib vaccine, cut off in December 2007, will continue at least until mid-2009, the CDC warns....
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Happy People Get the Big Picture 20 November 2008, 5:21 pm
If you're in a bad mood, all you see is the task at hand. But in a good mood, you can see how the task fits into the grand scheme of things in your life....
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Got a Complex Task? Study, Sleep on It 20 November 2008, 12:07 pm
After learning complex skills, people perform those skills better after a night's sleep, a study using video games shows....
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ADHD Drugs Don't Cause Genetic Damage 19 November 2008, 6:35 pm
Ritalin, Adderall, and Concerta do not appear to cause genetic damage in children who take them for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a new government-funded study concludes....
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Genetic Screening May ID Diabetes Risk 19 November 2008, 5:08 pm
Genetic screening can help identify people at risk for type 2 diabetes, but it adds little to traditional methods for determining risk, two new studies show....
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Exercise: The Brain’s Fountain of Youth 19 November 2008, 1:38 pm
Daily physical exercise begun no later than middle age fights age-related brain decline, mouse studies suggest....
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Radio Host Has Drug Company Ties 21 November 2008, 9:55 pm
Dr. Frederick K. Goodwin, a psychiatrist, earned income from drug makers that he didn’t report on his show.br/br/span class="advertisement" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=07ef2180cee44d9abb689f9f7fe272d1u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/22/health/22radio.html"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=07ef2180cee44d9abb689f9f7fe272d1u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/22/health/22radio.html" border="0"//a/span...
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Bad News Can Be Better Than Nothing 21 November 2008, 6:12 pm
People who are highly neurotic also are intolerant of uncertainty, a new study suggests.br/br/span class="advertisement" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=07ef2180cee44d9abb689f9f7fe272d1u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/22/health/22anxiety.html"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=07ef2180cee44d9abb689f9f7fe272d1u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/22/health/22anxiety.html" border="0"//a/span...
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Conflicts of Interest May Ensnare Journalists, Too 21 November 2008, 6:11 pm
Researchers have documented what they say are “astonishing” financial ties between journalists and drug companies in a paper in the British medical journal.br/br/span class="advertisement" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=07ef2180cee44d9abb689f9f7fe272d1u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/22/health/22journalists.html"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=07ef2180cee44d9abb689f9f7fe272d1u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/22/health/22journalists.html" border="0"//a/span...
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Ouch, My Knee! Is There a Bike Fitter in the House? 21 November 2008, 5:27 pm
Bike fittings for recreational cyclists has mushroomed into a mainstream offering found at scores of bikes shops and training centers around the country.br/br/span class="advertisement" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=07ef2180cee44d9abb689f9f7fe272d1u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/health/nutrition/20fitness.html"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=07ef2180cee44d9abb689f9f7fe272d1u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/health/nutrition/20fitness.html" border="0"//a/span...
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Recipes for Health: Sweet Potato Soufflé 21 November 2008, 2:17 pm
A soufflé that is not too sweet to serve as a starter at your Thanksgiving table, but that also makes an impressive dessert.br/br/span class="advertisement" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=07ef2180cee44d9abb689f9f7fe272d1u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/health/nutrition/21recipehealth.html"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=07ef2180cee44d9abb689f9f7fe272d1u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/health/nutrition/21recipehealth.html" border="0"//a/span...
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Morning Rounds: Obese Airline Passengers, Food Allergies and Fixing Health Care 21 November 2008, 1:37 pm
Breaking health news from around the Web.br/br/span class="advertisement" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=07ef2180cee44d9abb689f9f7fe272d1u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/22/health/22headlines.html"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=07ef2180cee44d9abb689f9f7fe272d1u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/22/health/22headlines.html" border="0"//a/span...
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Doctor and Patient: Too Much Information 21 November 2008, 1:37 pm
If a doctor over-shares, what happens to the doctor-patient bond?br/br/span class="advertisement" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=07ef2180cee44d9abb689f9f7fe272d1u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/health/chen11-20.html"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=07ef2180cee44d9abb689f9f7fe272d1u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/health/chen11-20.html" border="0"//a/span...
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Weight Loss Surgery Helps Obese Women Have Healthier Babies 21 November 2008, 11:52 am
A new report suggests that women who become pregnant after weight-loss surgery have easier pregnancies than do obese women who become pregnant.br/br/span class="advertisement" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=07ef2180cee44d9abb689f9f7fe272d1u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/health/research/20bariatric.html"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=07ef2180cee44d9abb689f9f7fe272d1u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/health/research/20bariatric.html" border="0"//a/span...
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Insurer Offers Option for Surgery in India 21 November 2008, 8:20 am
The health insurer Wellpoint is testing a new program that gives covered patients the option of going to India for elective surgery.br/br/span class="advertisement" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=07ef2180cee44d9abb689f9f7fe272d1u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/health/21abroad.html"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=07ef2180cee44d9abb689f9f7fe272d1u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/health/21abroad.html" border="0"//a/span...
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Better Tracking of a Childhood Infection Needed, Officials Say 21 November 2008, 2:42 am
Federal officials urged doctors and state health agencies to be more vigilant for suspected cases of Haemophilus influenzae type B in children under 5.br/br/span class="advertisement" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=07ef2180cee44d9abb689f9f7fe272d1u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/health/21flu.html"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=07ef2180cee44d9abb689f9f7fe272d1u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/health/21flu.html" border="0"//a/span...
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News Analysis: Obama Tilts to Center, Inviting a Clash of Ideas 21 November 2008, 9:47 pm
President-elect Barack Obama’s reported selection for two major cabinet positions suggest that he is surrounding himself with pragmatists rather than ideologues.br/br/span class="advertisement"/span...
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New York Weighs Options to Fill the Seat of Senator Clinton 21 November 2008, 9:44 pm
Gov. David A. Paterson of New York hasn’t begun a formal search to replace Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, aides say. But he won’t pick himself.br/br/span class="advertisement"/span...
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Geithner Said to Be Choice; Wall St. Cheers 21 November 2008, 9:43 pm
The announcement that Timothy F. Geithner would be named Treasury secretary helped drive stocks sharply higher on Friday afternoon.br/br/span class="advertisement"/span...
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Obama Lobbies For 2016 Games 21 November 2008, 9:40 pm
President-elect Barack Obama spoke via video on Friday to European Olympic committees at a meeting in Istanbul in an effort to sell Chicago’s bid for the 2016 Summer Games.br/br/span class="advertisement"/span...
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Clinton Decides to Accept Post at State Dept., Confidants Say 21 November 2008, 9:38 pm
Hillary Rodham Clinton will give up her Senate seat and accept the nomination for secretary of state after talks with President-elect Barack Obama about her role, two confidants said.br/br/span class="advertisement"/span...
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Obamas Pick Sidwell School, Ending a Washington Guessing Game 21 November 2008, 9:34 pm
Malia and Sasha Obama will attend Sidwell Friends School, the pricey and prestigious academy that has educated generations of Washington’s elite.br/br/span class="advertisement"/span...
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Mukasey Leaves the Hospital 21 November 2008, 9:11 pm
Doctors do not believe that a stroke caused the late Thursday evening collapse of Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey.br/br/span class="advertisement"/span...
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Campaign Stops: The ‘O’ in Obama 21 November 2008, 2:43 pm
The graphic designer Sol Sender talks about the logo he created for Barack Obama's presidential campaign.br/br/span class="advertisement"/span...
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Congressional Memo: Lame-Duck Session Winds Down With Little to Show 21 November 2008, 1:37 pm
Congress may yet be back next month, but for now the meager results show how postelection sessions often do not work.br/br/span class="advertisement"/span...
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Change in Congress More Than a Slogan 21 November 2008, 6:20 am
Age and seniority gave way in Congress, a place where power has traditionally come from longevity.br/br/span class="advertisement"/span...
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Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [56] -- Turkeys Everywhere! 21 November 2008, 8:31 pm
While today is not officially Turkey Day, I will warn you in advance that it's going to be a theme running through today's column, like......
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Huff TV: Arianna On The Value of "First Granny" Moving Into the White House 21 November 2008, 7:39 pm
Inspired by the news that "First Granny" Marian Robinson is moving to Washington, Arianna reflected on the importance of having grandmothers be a part of......
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Cathleen Falsani: Trade Cards, Not People 21 November 2008, 6:37 pm
Call + Response... weaves raw footage shot undercover in brothels and sweatshops in the developing world with talking heads such as Cornel West....
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Shahed Amanullah: The Surprise Effect of Anti-Muslim Rhetoric in the Election 21 November 2008, 6:33 pm
Will the next crop of presidential candidates learn from the lessons of 2008 and stick to more meaningful issues than who can be harder on Muslims?...
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Russ Wellen: Hey, At Least Hillary's Better Than Condi 21 November 2008, 6:29 pm
Still, however strange it is to choose a secretary of state whose area of expertise is domestic, would her hand pressing Obama's at the foreign policy helm be disastrous?...
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Peter Kornbluth: My Account of the Santa Barbara Tea Fire 21 November 2008, 6:13 pm
Having since found out about friends who lost their homes, and seen the destruction in their neighborhoods, it feels somewhat inappropriate to communicate our good fortune....
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Emily Douglas: Will Secretary Clinton Be an Advocate for Women Worldwide? 21 November 2008, 6:12 pm
How can the Secretary of State put pressure on governments - including our own - to recognize that women's health is a prerequisite for economic development?...
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Nina Boyajian: A Women's Rights Advocate in the Midst of Bloodshed -- Her Path to Asylum 21 November 2008, 5:45 pm
In the DRC, women are still considered second-class citizens, and are themselves punished (by their families and communities) for the rape and other sexual abuse to which they are subjected....
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Earl Pomerantz: "Uncle Grumpy -- On Race" 21 November 2008, 5:44 pm
At some point, maybe science had something to do with it, maybe folks just came to their senses, there was a liberating change. The "handedness" issue became irrelevant....
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James Zogby: Arabs Should Act Now -- Not Wait for Obama 21 November 2008, 5:42 pm
We must acknowledge that when Obama takes the oath of office on January 20th, he is likely to find a rather unappetizing situation laid out before him in the Middle East....
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The $70-Per-Hour Lie 21 November 2008, 9:45 pm
pHave you heard the one about the union autoworker making more than $70 per hour, forcing American auto companies into bankruptcy?/p pThere are two very small problems with that. First, there's something wrong with workers making a good living? As wrong for a blue-collar worker to make $70 as for a CEO to make $11,000?/p pSecond, a href="http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=1026e955-541c-4aa6-bcf2-56dfc3323682"it's not true/a. Average wages for Big Three workers are around $28 per hour./p...
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Transition News 21 November 2008, 9:15 pm
pLeaks and rumors abound on possible nominations and speculation is reaching a fever pitch. Several media outlets are reporting a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/21/transition.wrap/index.html"Timothy Geithner to be named Treasury Secretary./a/p blockquote pGeithner played a large role in the government's efforts to wrangle the credit crisis, which has damaged markets and economies worldwide. While a number of those efforts have been controversial, Geithner remains a well-regarded figu...
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Obama and the Surveillance Society 21 November 2008, 8:30 pm
pOver at the Electronic Frontier Foundation's blog, Deeplinks, Kevin Bankston writes about what Obama could do to stop telco amnesty, framing his post in response to a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/washington/18nsa.html?_r=1amp;hp=amp;pagewanted=print"this NYT story/a by Eric Lichtblau and James Risen, the reporting duo who broke the illegal spying story back in December 2005. They write:/p blockquote pWASHINGTON mdash; President-elect Barack Obama will face a series of early decision...
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Cheers and Jeers: Rum and Coke FRIDAY! 21 November 2008, 8:15 pm
pFrom the GREAT STATE OF MAINE.../p pstrongThis Late Night Snark Has Not Been Vetted:/strong/p blockquote p"A new study says that unhappy people watch more TV. I just want to say, emHelllllooo, Republicans!/em" br /strong---Jay Leno/strong br /- br /"It was so cold today, I was shaking like Sarah Palin taking a geography test." br /strong---David Letterman/strong br /- br /"Yesterday in Georgia, John McCain was campaigning for a Republican congressman who is facing a runoff election. You can t...
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Peter Orszag For OMB (And The Health Care Implications) 21 November 2008, 7:55 pm
pa href="http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/ezraklein_archive?month=11amp;year=2008amp;base_name=peter_orszag_to_be_head_of_off"Ezra/a has a clearly-written piece outlining the idea that the presumed new OMB head, Peter Orszag will be nearly as important on the health care reform beat as Tom Daschle's appointment to HHS./p blockquote pIf you're interested in health care reform, the a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/us/politics/18web-orszag.html"appointment/a of Peter Orszag to be direct...
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Obama, Congressional leaders grapple with auto industry meltdown 21 November 2008, 7:25 pm
pOver on the Hill, the Big Three are getting sternly worded advice about how to approach Congress with a proposal that has a chance of passage, according to the a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/economy-watch/2008/11/hill_to_detroit_well_tell_you.html"Washington Post/a:/p blockquote pEarlier today, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said that she and Senate Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will send a letter to the heads of GM, Ford and Chrysler, telling them what they need to show Congress...
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Late Afternoon/Early Evening Open Thread 21 November 2008, 6:45 pm
ullistrongDHinMI/strong has two essays in mind for Sunday. In one, he will dispel myths about why the American (and global) auto industry is a mess, and why it's in our best interests to save it. In a second essay, he will examine whether the Republicans lost big because they're not a party of ideas./lip listrongDarkSyde/strong will show the Obama climate change and energy transition team has their work cut out for them in more ways than one, in "Anatomy of a Zombie Lie."/lip liNow the "big jobs...
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Obama Won 197 Of 196 Battleground EVs 21 November 2008, 6:00 pm
pHere's a look at the battleground states, per the emWashington Post/em's Dan Balz and Alec Macgillis on a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2008/06/08/GR2008060800566.html"June 8, 2008/a:/p pimg src="http://images2.dailykos.com/images/user/191280/wapobattlegrounds.png" //p pAnd here's the electoral vote breakdown of the above map:/p ul listrongGOP Leaning:/strong 174/li listrongDem Leaning:/strong 168/li listrongBattlegrounds:/strong 196 /li p/ul/p pNow, let's look ...
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GA-Sen: RNC drops $2 million, Obama cuts radio ad 21 November 2008, 5:20 pm
pWith the polling showing the numbers in the Georgia Senate race a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/11/20/135344/70/914/664198"essentially unchanged/a from what we've seen over the last few months, turnout is absolutely essential for the December 2 runoff election./p pThis might be the most important election we'll see until November 2010. It almost certainly will represent the greatest opportunity for progressives during that time, to replace one of the very worst Senators in the g...
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MN-Sen: Franken within 140 votes 21 November 2008, 4:45 pm
pWith 48% of the recount in Minnesota's Senate race complete, Democrat Al Franken has narrowed Republican Norm Coleman's lead from 215 votes to 140./p pThe Minnesota Star-Tribune has an excellent page a href="http://ww2.startribune.com/news/metro/elections/returns/2008/recount/msenco.html"keeping track of the recount results/a as they come in./p pIt certainly appears that a good number of the ballots remaining to be counted again are in Franken strongholds; Hennepin County is less than half in...
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Sen. Grassley: Looking Forward to Reviewing Geithner 21 November 2008, 6:56 pm
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Will Geithner at Treasury Keep Fighting For the Fed? 21 November 2008, 6:18 pm
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New York Fed Staffers Applaud the Boss 21 November 2008, 5:22 pm
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Who is Timothy Geithner? 21 November 2008, 4:28 pm
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Geithner at Treasury? A Look Back in His Own Words 21 November 2008, 3:48 pm
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Holidays Won’t Bring Much Cheer for Retailers 21 November 2008, 12:57 pm
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Baseball Owners Get Some Advice From Volcker 21 November 2008, 11:56 am
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New Blood at Central Bankers’ Central Bank 21 November 2008, 11:25 am
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Washington Impasse Makes Goldman Forecast Gloomier 21 November 2008, 10:07 am
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Secondary Sources: Lame Duck Economy, Free Borrowing, Banks 21 November 2008, 9:46 am
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Write-Offs: 11.21.08 21 November 2008, 5:20 pm
$$$ Reuters: "Obama Likely to Consider Summers to Succeed Bernanke As Fed Chair in 2010." And according to The Caucus: "Mr. Summers is likely to be named as an economics adviser as well, two sources familiar with the Obama transition said, with the expectation that eventually he will be named to the Federal Reserve Board, perhaps as successor to Chairman Ben Bernanke."
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We Found An Abnormal Growth 21 November 2008, 4:33 pm
Sometimes (just sometimes) we cannot help but watch Andrew Ross Sorkin videos. This particular round, while watching the ARSE's Charlie Rose interview with automotive industry shill David Cole, something occurred to us: the United States has become the world's leading authority on creating inoperable, metastasized industrial tumors. Not only this, but the creation of, maintenance of and discussion surrounding these tumors has become so integrated in the economic fabric and incentives system of...
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The New Treasury Secretary 21 November 2008, 2:57 pm
NBC News reports Obama will nominate: Tim Geithner....
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Layoffs Watch 08: UBS West 21 November 2008, 2:55 pm
Yes, Los Angeles bank branches are more or less lost tribes in the Amazon, so totally unexposed to real civilization and insulated from the trubs of the modern world in which we live that one must be careful when flying low over them, as they are prone to throwing spears at passing planes. Nonetheless, they are still people, and we should feel their collective pain. Apparently all but one second year analysts in UBS's LA office have been shown the door.
In more uplifting news, Citi Field is s...
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Obama: No Friend To Automotive? 21 November 2008, 1:08 pm
Well, that was quick.
If Bloomberg is to be believed, Obama and crowd are already setting up pre-packaged bankruptcies for the Notorious B.I.G. 3 who will, true to their namesake, continue nonetheless to spit out albums automobiles long after their violent death. Really, when automotive can't count on Obama to keep it out of bankruptcy, it really is time to throw in the towel. The move also puts Obama at odds with the fiscal and financial genius of Nancy Pelosi, who ruled bankruptcy out entir...
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La La La I Cant Hear You La La La 21 November 2008, 1:01 pm
Merrill Lynch, Barcap, Deutsche Bank and Citi are said to have stopped airing CNBC on their trading floors, supposedly because of "irresponsible reporting." Sounds a bit insane, and I'm really not sure why these institutions would rob their employees of the Gasparino Variety Hour but whatevs. Programming will be replaced by reruns of The Three Stooges, Little Rascals, Parker Lewis Can't Lose and Two Coreys....
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Charlie Gasparinos Plan To Save Citi 21 November 2008, 11:37 am
Master o' the markets Charlie Gasparino just had a little debate with CNBC's Steve Liesman re: Citi. According to Chaz, Citi will not fail, and there are a couple of ways we can get this bitch back up:
1. Vikram Pandit steps down, "stock goes to $7."
2. "If your friend Bob Rubin would stop talking to Obama and get working with Pandit, stock goes to $7."
Now, as you know, we could never hope to compete with the capacious intellect and market moving insight that Chaz brings to the table. But...
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Lurking Silently, Ready To Pounce 21 November 2008, 10:52 am
Whatever it is that is lurking around in the shadows can just knock it off already, ok? We get it. You're out there. Announcement timed (poorly) to avoid market reaction/panic/action/inaction/fear/hope/disrupting the weekend. How about we just cut all the foreplay and spill it. What do you say?
Jump, jump, for my love....
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We Dont Buy It, But Ours Is Not To Reason Why 21 November 2008, 10:23 am
Apparently, if you were at Citi yesterday, you had a hard time trading in NYSE:GS- glean from this what you will for it is but one of the totally unfounded rumors swirling around us today, all of which have the basic form of Goldman taking over a large chunk of Citi's deposits. And yes, we do think it is gauche asking how much that's going to cost. ...
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Absurdly Unfounded Rumor Of The Morning 21 November 2008, 10:00 am
Supposedly Morgan Stanley is planning to close equity prop trading "globally" (whatever that means). Sounds a bit extreme, but who the hell knows? Apparently the firm is experimenting with its flair for the dramatics these days. ...
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Signs of the Slowdown? 21 November 2008, 3:00 pm
Australian reader Jeremy Hagan points to a sign of the economic slowdown down under: Television stations have started carrying ads touting the benefits of television advertising.
It's kind of like miles of highways where all the billboards are just ads for renting billboard space.
Photo: zyzzyva
What signs of the slowdown have you seen lately?
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The Forever Portfolio 21 November 2008, 2:30 pm
The Forever Portfolio, spotted this week in the Nashville airport.
Our friend James Altucher has a new book out, The Forever Portfolio, which is an investment book - the subtitle is "How to Pick Stocks That You Can Hold for the Long Run" - but it is also full of James Altucher stories about poker-playing and [...]
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Price Fishback: What Do the New Deal and World War II Tell Us About the Prospects for a Stimulus Package? 21 November 2008, 1:13 pm
Economic historian Price Fishback, who recently guest blogged about the original Home Owners' Loan Corporation, is back for an encore. This time, he tackles the issue of whether the New Deal and World War II are good examples of Keynesian stimuli.
I always thought they were; but using data, Fishback makes a simple and compelling case [...]
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Are You Better for the Environment if You're Tall or Short? 21 November 2008, 10:58 am
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is increasing the space between rows of seats on its planes. I'm not surprised - the Dutch are the tallest people on earth these days, as I discovered when I had to crane my neck around the Brobdingnagians in front of me in an Amsterdam movie theater.
Like many Europeans, [...]
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Spreading the Pirate Booty Around 21 November 2008, 10:56 am
Somali pirate town Boosaaso. (Photo: Jehad Nga/The New York Times)
Who's making money from the piracy that's flourishing off the coast of Somalia?
The pirates themselves seem to be raking it in. As the Guardian reports, pirates have made about $30 million from ransom payments this year, according to U.N. estimates; and they are demanding $25 [...]
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How Aggressively Will the New Administration Address Global Warming? 21 November 2008, 10:47 am
Very, it would seem.
This isn't exactly a surprise. Obama campaigned hard on the subject. But a couple of personnel moves in recent days suggest that, despite the cratering economy, the administration is also eager to tackle the energy/global warming issues.
The first move is the ouster of John Dingell as chairman of the House Committee on [...]
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Ron Paul Answers Your Questions, Part Two 21 November 2008, 12:22 am
Ron Paul
When we solicited your questions for Congressman Ron Paul shortly after the election, so many questions came in that we split Paul's answers into two batches, the first of which was published last week.
Here is the second. Like the first batch, they are well-considered and interesting throughout; they will surely make many [...]
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Jenkem: Bringing the Levitt Family Together 20 November 2008, 5:21 pm
I often get emails from blog readers asking me to shed light on some issue that, in the mind of the email writer, is a pressing social or economic issue. Sometimes it is a big issue like immigration or the financial crisis. More often it is something less mainstream, like election fraud or an unusual [...]
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Spamonomics 20 November 2008, 4:48 pm
Since last Wednesday, the torrent of junk e-mail coursing through the internet has been slowed dramatically, with 40 percent or more of it cut off at the source.
The source of all that spam? San Jose, California. That's where a group of servers responsible for much of the world's spam had been operating until they were [...]
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Our Daily Bleg: Which Quotes Were Viral in 2008? 20 November 2008, 1:31 pm
Our resident quote bleggar Fred Shapiro, editor of the Yale Book of Quotations, is back with another request. If you have a bleg of your own - it needn't have anything to do with quotations - send it along here.
Let me continue to solicit suggestions for The Yale Book of Quotations list of the top [...]
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Video - "Spinneroids:" When Asteroid Dance 21 November 2008, 4:19 pm
The two parts of asteroid 1999 KW4 whirl around each other while hurtling through space.The larger piece, Alpha, would break apart if it spun any faster.img src="http://feeds.livescience.com/~r/Livesciencecom/~4/461202000" height="1" width="1"/...
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Bank Run: How Ginko Financial Went Down 21 November 2008, 2:47 pm
Virtual economies in games can provide lessons on the patterns of free markets and unfettered capitalism.img src="http://feeds.livescience.com/~r/Livesciencecom/~4/461109793" height="1" width="1"/...
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Spider Success! Weightless Webs Spun in Space 21 November 2008, 1:32 pm
A pair of orb-weaver spiders on the International Space Station succeeded in spinning webs in space after failing a day earlier.img src="http://feeds.livescience.com/~r/Livesciencecom/~4/461041494" height="1" width="1"/...
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Painful Labor: A Modern Thing 21 November 2008, 11:47 am
A new fossil pelvis upends evolutionary thinking about painful labor during birth.img src="http://feeds.livescience.com/~r/Livesciencecom/~4/460942712" height="1" width="1"/...
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Estimating the True Costs of Invasive Species in Great Lakes 21 November 2008, 10:28 am
What is the total cost of the introduction of non-native species into the Great Lakes?img src="http://feeds.livescience.com/~r/Livesciencecom/~4/460865874" height="1" width="1"/...
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New View Inside Bacteria Could Improve Health 21 November 2008, 9:10 am
The bacterial cell wall, a target of potent antibiotics, can now be imaged in three dimensions to show how it gives bacteria structural support and protection.img src="http://feeds.livescience.com/~r/Livesciencecom/~4/460807540" height="1" width="1"/...
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Scientists Team Up with Hollywood 20 November 2008, 3:41 pm
The worlds of science and Hollywood collide.img src="http://feeds.livescience.com/~r/Livesciencecom/~4/459990619" height="1" width="1"/...
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Buried Glaciers Found on Mars 20 November 2008, 2:20 pm
Orbiter radar reveals glaciers concealed under mid-latitude debris flows on Mars.img src="http://feeds.livescience.com/~r/Livesciencecom/~4/459915906" height="1" width="1"/...
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Graffiti Triggers Crime and Littering 20 November 2008, 2:00 pm
One form of rule-breaking can lead to more.img src="http://feeds.livescience.com/~r/Livesciencecom/~4/459890936" height="1" width="1"/...
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Scientists Say Copernicus' Remains Found 20 November 2008, 10:58 am
Researchers think they have identified the remains of Nicolaus Copernicus.img src="http://feeds.livescience.com/~r/Livesciencecom/~4/459708672" height="1" width="1"/...
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Meteor blazes across the sky in police video (VIDEO) 21 November 2008, 9:30 pm
A spectacular and almost blindingly bright meteor sparked a flurry of emergency calls to the police after it lit up the skies over western Canada.img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/digg/container/science/popular/~4/LQPwG7qjHb0" height="1" width="1"/...
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20 Best Brains in Science Under 40 21 November 2008, 9:00 pm
Young innovators are changing everything from theoretical mathematics to cancer therapy.img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/digg/container/science/popular/~4/ccF7KGRNU8c" height="1" width="1"/...
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Should we clone a Neanderchimp? 21 November 2008, 6:40 pm
With a rough draft of the Neanderthal genome due around Christmas season, some reports speculate on the prospect for a Neanderthal-human hybrid or the more ethically palatable chimpanzee-human mashup.img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/digg/container/science/popular/~4/lfF98nyRbkM" height="1" width="1"/...
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Alien Pink Light in Sky over London {PICS] 21 November 2008, 6:10 pm
Bemused bystanders in Mayfair craned their necks to witness the strange alien-like cloud that appeared for just under an hour at around 8:30pm.img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/digg/container/science/popular/~4/gNZ4cK2uG2o" height="1" width="1"/...
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Beauty Is Truth In Mathematical Intuition 21 November 2008, 5:30 pm
Rolf Reber, together with mathematician Morten Brun and psychologist Karoline Mitterndorfer, all from the University of Bergen, Norway, have reported first empirical evidence for the use of beauty as truth and they have provided an explanation for this phenomenon, based on the processing fluency theory of beauty.img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/digg/container/science/popular/~4/m512Mx7TpUs" height="1" width="1"/...
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Google CEO Touts Green Energy Shock Doctrine 21 November 2008, 4:20 pm
At a talk in Washington D.C. on Tuesday, the head-honcho of the Search Engine That Walks Like a Verb did see a green lining in the current financial crisis: an opportunity to "stimulate the economy" by launching an ambitious infrastructure program that aims to fundamentally alter the American energy system.img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/digg/container/science/popular/~4/8i2-FVsSwcQ" height="1" width="1"/...
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CA Recycles 80% of Glass; Rest of U.S. 30% 21 November 2008, 3:40 pm
It's the bottle deposits, stupid!img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/digg/container/science/popular/~4/dsYdaeAZ2W0" height="1" width="1"/...
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Solar Wind Rips Up Martian Atmosphere 21 November 2008, 2:50 pm
Researchers have found new evidence that the atmosphere of Mars is being stripped away by solar wind. It's not a gently continuous erosion, but rather a ripping process in which chunks of Martian air detach themselves from the planet and tumble into deep space. This surprising mechanism could help solve a longstanding mystery about the Red Planet.img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/digg/container/science/popular/~4/sqq4fuK3wYQ" height="1" width="1"/...
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Big Green Brother: Wal-Mart Mandates Employees to Go Green 21 November 2008, 2:01 pm
When Wal-Mart tells its workers to live and breathe sustainability, is it (a) creepy, (b) innovative, (c) greenwashing, (d) all of the above?img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/digg/container/science/popular/~4/lsB16kbFaQA" height="1" width="1"/...
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Invasive Plants in Galápagos May Really Be Native 21 November 2008, 1:50 pm
Some plants that were thought to be invasive species in the Galapagos Islands predate humans by thousands of years.img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/digg/container/science/popular/~4/1aSxvR8UvWY" height="1" width="1"/...
