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Sri Lanka: Hopes and fears after election
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Colombo, Sri Lanka (CNN) -- Sri Lanka has held its first presidential election since government forces put down a 26-year insurgency by Tamil Tiger rebels.
Haiti Pleads For Better Aid Effort, Survivor Found
New York Times - - 13 minutes ago
By REUTERS PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haiti appealed to foreign governments and charities on Wednesday to do more to help earthquake victims as rescuers pulled a teenage girl out of the rubble 15 days after her Port-au-Prince home collapsed around her.
Gideon Levy / Holocaust remembrance is a boon for Israeli propaganda
Ha'aretz - - 37 minutes ago
Israel's bigwigs attacked at dawn on a wide front. The president in Germany, the prime minister with a giant entourage in Poland, the foreign minister in Hungary, his deputy in Slovakia, the culture minister in France, the information ...
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Politician John Edwards and wife separate
Reuters - - 3 hours ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards and his cancer-stricken wife, Elizabeth, have separated following reports that he fathered a child with a woman who was a former campaign aide.
Video: Friend: Elizabeth Edwards Split From Her Husband
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McCaskill rips Edwards: Ick ick ick Kansas City Star
Senate Democrats press smaller jobs legislation
Washington Post - - 4 hours ago
AP WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's allies in the Senate acknowledge they can't pass an $83 billion jobs package. Instead, they're making plans to advance a small, first piece of his jobs agenda next month: a tax credit for new ...
ACORN Antagonist Disowned By Conservatives
Baltimore Sun - 1 hour ago
By Mark SilvaReporting from Washington Conservative activists backed away today from a young video-producer who was arrested with three others accused of posing as telephone repairmen in the New Orleans office of Louisiana's Sen. Mary Landrieu.
Conservative Activism Links Landrieu Suspects New York Times
The Fed's Anti-Inflation Exit Strategy Will Fail
Wall Street Journal - - 1 hour ago
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has explained his exit strategy to prevent future inflation. The Fed recently began to pay interest to banks on the reserves they hold in their vaults.
Video: Fed: No Change in Rates
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Customers Stand By Product, for Now
Wall Street Journal - - 2 hours ago
EL MONTE, Calif.—A day after Toyota Motor Co. halted sales in North America of some models over safety concerns, some dealers were greeted by an odd reaction in their showrooms: customers who rallied to defend the automaker's integrity.
Geithner Survives to Fight Another Day
Wall Street Journal - - 1 hour ago
In colonial America, suspected witches were dumped in vats of water until they drowned or confessed, in which case they were hanged.
Oracle CEO: About 1000 Layoffs Planned for Sun
ABC News - - 1 hour ago
AP Oracle President Charles Phillips speaks at an Oracle and Sun strategy update event in Redwood City, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) Oracle Corp.
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China Ratchets Up Web Privacy Fight
Wall Street Journal - - 7 hours ago
BEIJING—Chinese state-run media trumpeted comments by Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates that played down China's Internet restrictions, as the government continued to ratchet up its rebuttal of recent US criticisms of its Web policies.
Study Offers an Insight Into Dinosaur Colors
New York Times - - 7 hours ago
What color were dinosaurs? Well, at least one of them had a feathered mohawk tail in a subdued palette of chestnut and white stripes.
Dinosaur had ginger feathers BBC News
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'Ugly Betty' poll: Who should she end up with?
Entertainment Weekly - - 2 hours ago
By now, you've read the sad news that Ugly Betty's current season will be its last. If you want to debate whether ABC should have pulled the plug on the four-year-old show, Michael Ausiello is hosting that debate.
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Jay Leno Brushes off Digs From Conan O'Brien
ABC News - - 1 hour ago
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Jay Leno has brushed off digs from Conan O'Brien during NBC's late-night talk show wars, saying he regarded them as jokes and just part of the comedy business.
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'American Idol' judge Kara DioGuardi: There was no Katy Perry feud
Reality TV World - - 2 hours ago
Kara DioGuardi claims that viewers concerned that she feuded with guest judge Katy Perry during last night's American Idol broadcast have nothing to worry about.
With Arenas case, NBA's Stern could be walking tightrope on 2nd Amendment rights
Boston Herald - - 28 minutes ago
Someone isn't just raining on David Stern's image parade, someone is threatening to shoot it up. Gilbert Arenas' gun-toting behavior, his fingers-cocked mockery of it and the recent charges against him are ...
NBA suspends Washington Wizards star Gilbert Arenas for remainder of season New York Daily News
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Mickelson 'excited' about year, looking for Tiger's return
USA Today - - 1 hour ago
By Chris Carlson, AP By Steve DiMeglio, USA TODAY SAN DIEGO - Golf's spotlight fell on Phil Mickelson on Wednesday as an overflow swarm of media gathered in the media center at the Farmers Insurance Open to greet him for the first time this year.
Mickelson actually missing his rival FOXSports.com
Bauman: Yankees reach budget limit
MLB.com - 1 hour ago
The New York Yankees saying that a player costs too much money is a little like General Motors saying: "We're sorry; we seem to have run out of Chevrolets.
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Increased patient cost-sharing may hurt elderly
Washington Post - - 2 hours ago
AP LOS ANGELES -- Higher Medicare copays, sometimes just a few dollars more, led to fewer doctors visits and to more and longer hospital stays, a large new study reveals.
Boy Dies from H1N1 Swine Flu Virus
MyFox Memphis - 1 hour ago
Another Mid-South child has died after complications with the H1N1 swine flu. This time, it was a 12 year old boy. The death is the second in less than a week at LeBonheur Children's Medical Center.
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Health Buzz: Study Finds Flame-Retardant Chemical May Harm Fertility
U.S. News & World Report - - 5 hours ago
A new study suggests that flame-retardant chemicals called PBDEs, found in some items around the home, might be making it more difficult for women to get pregnant, HealthDay reports.
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Thinking Happy Thoughts at Work
Wall Street Journal - - Jan 26, 2010
Like many workers, Ivelisse Rivera, a physician at Community Health Center, Middletown, Conn., feels stressed-out by mounting workloads.
A Playland for Apps in a Tablet World
New York Times - - Jan 24, 2010
Apple's move to open up the iPhone to outside programmers in 2008 started a software-writing frenzy. Giant companies and bedroom tinkerers alike rushed to get their applications into the App Store and onto the phone's 3.5-inch touch ...
Scientists using selective temperature data, skeptics say
Vancouver Sun - Jan 21, 2010
Two months after “climategate” cast doubt on some of the science behind global warming, new questions are being raised about the reliability of a key temperature database, used by the United Nations and climate change scientists as proof of recent ...
After 10 Years, Federal Money for Technology in Education
New York Times - - Jan 24, 2010
More than a decade ago, Lawrence K. Grossman, former president of both NBC News and PBS, and Newton N. Minow, the former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, were asked by several foundations to explore how nonprofits ...
Ben McGrath: The rise of the Tea Party movement.
New Yorker - - Jan 24, 2010
Liberals saw the activists as caricatures—mere tools of right-wing media figures like Glenn Beck. They were wrong. My first immersion in the social movement that helped take Ted Kennedy's Massachusetts Senate seat away ...