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Saints super after defeating ColtsSI.com - - 27 minutes ago MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. -- The paper bags can be put away forever. The franchise that once was so awful its fans were embarrassed to show their faces is now a world champion. Saints roll, beat Colts 31-17 Indianapolis Star Obama calls for healthcare summitLos Angeles Times - - 56 minutes ago Leaders of both parties would be invited to try to resolve differences. Republicans say they will participate but want the overhaul effort to start fresh. Obama invites GOP to summit on health care Washington Post Five killed in Connecticut power plant blastLos Angeles Times - - 1 hour ago The explosion, which blew out windows of nearby homes, happened as workers cleared natural gas pipelines. At least a dozen others are injured, and rescuers search the rubble for more victims. Gas blast at Conn. power plant kills at least 5 Lake Wylie Pilot |
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Exit polls show Yanukovich leads Ukraine presidential election
CNN International - - 19 minutes ago
(CNN) -- Exit polls showed former Ukraine Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich as the victor over current populist Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in the runoff of the nation's presidential elections.
Exit polls show tight race in Ukraine Los Angeles Times
Iranian President Orders Enrichment
Wall Street Journal - - 21 minutes ago
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ordered his country's nuclear agency to begin enriching uranium for use in a medical-research reactor, ratcheting up Tehran's defiance over Western demands that it ...
Iran's president orders production of higher-enriched uranium Washington Post
Karzai wants Afghanistan security handover to begin this year
CNN - 7 hours ago
(CNN) -- Afghanistan is prepared to begin taking over security from international forces in some parts of the war-torn nation by the end of the year, President Hamid Karzai said Sunday.
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Tea Party Plots Its Next Move
Wall Street Journal - - 2 hours ago
NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Tea Party activists gathered in Tennessee this weekend grappled with a central question looming over the burgeoning political movement: Where does it go from here?
Sarah Palin won't rule out 2012 run Los Angeles Times
Obama Challenges Terrorism Critics
New York Times - - 29 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - The White House pushed back Sunday against Republican criticism of its approach to terrorism, calling it “not anchored in reality” as a national security debate that was largely muted in recent years roared back to center ...
Obama official accuses GOP of using terrorism as 'political football' Los Angeles Times
Illinois Democrat Quits Race
New York Times - 27 minutes ago
By AP CHICAGO (AP) - The Democratic nominee for Illinois lieutenant governor has dropped out of the race amid a political uproar about his past less than a week after he won the nomination.
Pawnbroker says he's dropping out of race Chicago Tribune
Madigan 'strongly urged' Cohen to drop out Chicago Sun-Times
Merrill's Ex-Chief Is Back, Atop CIT
Wall Street Journal - - 1 hour ago
Former Merrill Lynch & Co. chief John Thain is joining embattled lender CIT Group Inc., bringing together two prominent casualties of the credit crisis.
Thain back from the wilderness to head CIT Financial Times
SAP Chief Apotheker Resigns; Co-CEOs Appointed
Wall Street Journal - - 21 minutes ago
SAP AG Chief Executive Leo Apotheker abruptly resigned Sunday as the German software company said it would return to a dual-CEO structure.
SAP chief in abrupt exit as group reinstates joint CEO structure Financial Times
G-7 Seeks to Calm Market Fears
Wall Street Journal - - 37 minutes ago
Group of Seven financial leaders sought to downplay the threat Greece's debt woes pose to the financial system amid growing concern of contagion across the 16-member euro zone.
Ministers aim to ease fears over debt contagion Financial Times
Google aims for cute with Super Bowl ad
CNET - - 1 hour ago
It was Google's first-ever Super Bowl ad--and one of their few TV spots at all, to boot. On Sunday, during the third quarter of Super Bowl XLIV, the Mountain View tech giant aired an ad called "Parisian Love," featuring a ...
Google's Super Bowl Ad: A Romance in Search Wired News
Space shuttle readied for launch
CBC.ca - 50 minutes ago
Space shuttle Endeavour is seen Sunday on pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla. (Marta Lavandier/Associated Press)NASA loaded fuel into space shuttle Endeavour's external tank for the second evening in a row Sunday in anticipation ...
Book Review: Red Wired: China's Internet Revolution
Asia Sentinel - - 57 minutes ago
By Sherman So and J. Christopher Westland. Marshall Cavendish Business. 245 pp with footnotes. Paperback, available from Amazon, US$21.
OUR OPINION: Google seeks help San Angelo Standard Times
Rising skill of Chinese cyberattacks alarms West Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Carrie Underwood's National Anthem Kicks Off Super Bowl XLIV
MTV.com - - 3 hours ago
Carrie Underwood excels no matter what the context. Fresh off her headline-grabbing contribution to the Michael Jackson tribute at this year's Grammy Awards (where she adroitly weaved her way through Jackson's "Earth Song"), ...
Carrie Underwood's Super Bowl 'National Anthem': Another touchdown for the ... Entertainment Weekly
Ads take on light-hearted tone at Super Bowl 44
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Super Bowl ads took on a light-hearted tone this year, shedding last year's somber feeling in the midst of the economic meltdown.
Super Bowl ads: Betty White, Bud Light, big laughs score with viewers The Canadian Press
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'Dear John' is sweet, but no 'Notebook'
New York Daily News - - Feb 5, 2010
The basic necessities of a romantic tearjerker are right there in the description: love, and loss (and then, in the best case scenario, love again).
SUNNY DISPOSITION Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried get intimate in Dear John Entertainment Weekly
Victory at Riviera Moves Stricker to No. 2 in World
New York Times - - 35 minutes ago
LOS ANGELES - On his best days, Steve Stricker seems as consistent as a metronome. Everything he does, on the golf course and off, has the reliability of an engineering blueprint.
Jerry West appreciates golfers' talent, fans Los Angeles Times
NBA: Magic surges past host Celtics
San Jose Mercury News - 2 hours ago
AP Vince Carter led a 19-0 run in the third quarter and finished with 20 points as the Orlando Magic beat host Boston 96-89 on Sunday, moving ahead of the Celtics and into second place in the Eastern Conference.
Magic Defy Celtics at Garden The Epoch Times
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Wallin Approves Of Move To San Jose
NHL.com - 1 hour ago
By San Jose Sharks Staff Just like when Sharks Executive Vice President and General Manager Doug Wilson went after Dan Boyle, Niclas Wallin also had a no-trade clause in his contract.
San Jose trades for defenseman Wallin Santa Rosa Press Democrat
Americans advised to get H1N1 vaccine
CNN - - Feb 5, 2010
Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- Federal health officials urged Friday that more Americans get vaccinated against the H1N1 flu virus, sometimes referred to as swine flu, which continues to kill.
Now there's plenty of H1N1 flu vaccine Los Angeles Times
Artificial pancreas for type 1 diabetes patients
Xinhua - - 2 hours ago
BEIJING, Feb. 8 (Xinhuanet) -- Researchers at the University of Cambridge have developed an artificial pancreas device that can improve overnight blood sugar control, which brings new hope for type 1 diabetes patients, media reported Monday.
Diabetes treatment trialled Asian Leader
Computer program paves way for artificial pancreas Los Angeles Times (blog)
National Black AIDS/HIV Awareness Day
MyFox Houston - - 1 hour ago
The numbers are alarming. Of everyone in the country living with HIV, 56% are African American. Here in Harris County 43% of the people with HIV are black.
Free HIV testing today The Detroit News
Sudden Temporary Slowdowns
PC World - - Feb 1, 2010
Shermlindcastle asked the Answer Line forum why his PC occasionally slows down to a crawl. There's nothing pretty about software overburdening your CPU and slowing everything down.
The New Math on Campus
New York Times - - Feb 5, 2010
Daniel Cope at “country night” at the Deep End, a bar in Chapel Hill, NC, with, from left, Katie Gane, Bekah Justus, Tucker Petty, Annie Cherry, Taylor Walters and Kelly Lynch.
Douglas Todd: A moral question of how to die
Vancouver Sun - - Jan 31, 2010
Kay Carter, 89, Lee Carter, 63, in Dignitas clinic in Zurich, Switzerland. They are about to sign forms at the table. Kay died on Jan. 15, 2010.
Trail Blazers center Greg Oden talks about nude photos: A transcript of his ...
OregonLive.com (blog) - - Jan 26, 2010
TUALATIN - Trail Blazers center Greg Oden held a Tuesday evening news conference at the team's practice facility to discuss the nude photos of him that surfaced early Tuesday morning.
Akinniyi gets fresh start at NC State
News & Observer - - Jan 29, 2010
Before many college students rolled out of bed last Friday, David Akinniyi was at NC State's Murphy Center football complex for his daily workout.