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Risk of offshore drilling is clear; payoff isn'tSan Jose Mercury News - - 23 minutes ago FILE - In this file photo taken Aug. 19, 2008, the Chevron Genesis Oil Rig Platform is seen in the Gulf of Mexico near New Orleans, La. Risk Is Clear in Drilling; Payoff Isn't New York Times UN Haiti donor pledges surpass targets at almost $10bnBBC News - 4 hours ago The international community has pledged a total of $9.9bn (£6.5bn) in immediate and long-term aid to earthquake-hit Haiti at a UN donor conference. Video: Haitians skeptical of foreign aid
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Skepticism on Pledges for Haiti New York Times Census 2010: Are you counted?USA Today - - 1 hour ago By Mark Lennihan, AP By Haya El Nasser, USA TODAY Wednesday is Census Day in the USA - the day that counts for counting where every American lives. What's the score on census response? Kansas City Star Texas lagging behind 45 other states in census response Fort Worth Star Telegram |
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Chechen rebel leader asserts role in Moscow subway bombings
Washington Post - - 7 hours ago
Suicide blasts killed at least a dozen in southern Russia Wednesday, as a Chechen rebel leader claimed responsibility for the deadly subway blasts in Moscow.
Video: Bombs in Dagestan, Chechens Claim Moscow Blasts
The Associated Press
EU Finds Serbia Censure Lacking
New York Times - - 9 hours ago
PRAGUE - The European Union, which has been coaxing Serbia into a historical reckoning about its bloody role in the Balkan wars of the 1990s, gave a cautious welcome Wednesday to a declaration by the Serbian Parliament that condemned ...
War crimes: Is Serbia's Srebrenica apology genuine? Christian Science Monitor
Empowered Sadrists Organize New Ballot in Iraq
New York Times - - 4 hours ago
BAGHDAD - Followers of Moktada al-Sadr, the militant cleric whose militia was a major force in the Shiite insurgency against American forces, announced Wednesday that they were arranging a special vote to pick Iraq's next prime minister.
UN backs Iraq election results Aljazeera.net
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RI flooding: 'It makes you want to cry'
USA Today - - 1 hour ago
By Victoria Arocho for USA TODAY By Oren Dorell, USA TODAY WARWICK, RI - Richard DiPietro, 56, looked wistfully across rapids rushing over Warwick Avenue and into his City Brake garage Wednesday.
Video: Water Begins to Recede in Hard-hit Rhode Island
The Associated Press
Federal court finds warrantless wiretapping of lawyers illegal
Los Angeles Times - - 1 hour ago
In a repudiation of the Bush administration's anti-terrorism surveillance program, a federal judge ruled Wednesday that the government violated federal law when it failed to seek warrants to spy on two lawyers working for an ...
Islamic charity was illegally wiretapped, judge rules Seattle Times
'Hard decision,' but Hutchison staying in Senate
Houston Chronicle - - 1 hour ago
AUSTIN - US Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's “hard decision” Wednesday to serve her full term of office rather than resign was a relief to her national party but left ambitious Texas Republican politicians stifled from running for higher ...
Video: KBH's Resigning Reversals
Texas Tribune
Kay Bailey Hutchison reverses herself, says she won't quit Senate Los Angeles Times
Russian Manufacturing PMI Shows 'Sluggish' Growth in March
BusinessWeek - - 47 minutes ago
April 1 (Bloomberg) -- Russian manufacturing growth was “sluggish” in March as a stronger ruble discouraged new export business and companies continued cutting jobs, VTB Capital said.
China's manufacturing activity picks up MarketWatch
China Manufacturing Grew in March Wall Street Journal
BOJ tankan improves, but capital spending still weak
Reuters - - 1 hour ago
TOKYO, April 1 (Reuters) - Japanese business morale improved to the highest in more than a year but companies remain cautious about spending, a Bank of Japan survey showed, suggesting that government will not let up in its calls for ...
Japan business confidence rises, central bank says The Associated Press
Asian stocks in solid Q2 start, technology leads
Reuters - - 15 minutes ago
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Asian stocks made a solid start to the second quarter on Thursday inching closer to two-month highs as China's manufacturing sector picked up and foreign buying boosted tech shares in Taiwan and South Korea.
Business Sentiment Improves in Asia at Different Speeds New York Times
Review: Looking at the iPad From 2 Angles
New York Times - - 1 hour ago
In 10 years of reviewing tech products for The New York Times, I've never seen a product as polarizing as Apple's iPad, which arrives in stores on Saturday.
YouTube Simplifies UI
eWeek - - 1 hour ago
Changes to YouTube's user interface are intended to make the site easier to use and to encourage visitors to watch more videos.
YouTube gets refreshed TG Daily
Science in the public view: A good gamble
CNET - - 10 hours ago
Researchers at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva, did something gutsy but smart Tuesday: they revved the Large Hadron Collider up to a new energy level in full public view.
Video: Geneva Atom Smasher Sets Collision Record
The Associated Press
'Clash of the Titans' remake dies by the sword
Boston Herald - - 1 hour ago
Holy River Styx, here's a bright idea. Let's take a fairly horrible, outside of its subject matter and dazzling Ray Harryhausen stop-motion effects, 1981 sword-and-sandal movie and remake it using computer-generated imagery ...
Video: Worthington's Clash on 'Titans'
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Jesse James in sex rehab
MiamiHerald.com - 28 minutes ago
Sandra Bullock's straying husband -- with at least four mistresses under his belt -- is seeking professional help to deal with ``personal issues'' à la Tiger Woods.
Video: Jesse James checks into rehab
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'Idol' elimination leaves a singer brokenhearted
msnbc.com - - 2 hours ago
So far, not so much. Didi Benami became the third in a row voted off, finishing in 10th place. Unlike Lacey Brown and Paige Miles, who went before her, she'll get to sing in the “Idol” summer tour, and if she can channel the vocals she ...
Siobhan Magnus sheds tears - but stays alive Boston Herald
Factoids about Final Four foes
USA Today - - 15 minutes ago
AP photo By Bob Kimball, USA TODAY There's so much we know about Butler, Duke, Michigan State and West Virginia. But we don't know everything and wanted to learn more.
At this Final Four, star-gazing will strain eyes Kansas City Star
Crumbling Knicks Lose in Portland
New York Times - - 44 minutes ago
PORTLAND, Ore. - The indignities came in waves Wednesday night, in alley-oops and ankle sprains and a scoreboard that seemed to light up only on one side.
Blazers beat Knicks 118-90 to clinch playoff berth The Associated Press
New York Knicks drop third straight with 118-90 loss to Portland New York Daily News
NHL: Chicago Blackhaws shutout Minnesota Wild to end 3-game skid
San Jose Mercury News - 59 minutes ago
AP Playing in back-to-back contests for just the second time this season and coming off a loss Tuesday night at St. Louis, Antti Niemi made 21 saves for his seventh shutout of the season and third in seven games to help Chicago beat the host Minnesota ...
Five Takeaways vs. Chicago NHL.com
Wild flatter than the ice sheet Minneapolis Star Tribune
FOCUS ON HEALTH CARE: Rep. Kind addresses concerns of small businesses
Juneau County Star-Times - - 15 minutes ago
Whether seen as a glowing success or a terrible failure years from now, the passing of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will be forever attached to ...
What you need to know about the health care bill Oklahoma Daily
Seniors wary of health overhaul impact on Medicare The Associated Press
Pfizer Paid Doctors, Hospitals $35 Million
Wall Street Journal - - 1 hour ago
Pfizer Inc. said Wednesday it paid about 4500 doctors and hospitals $35 million during the second half of last year to study how the company's medicines work and to promote the treatments, in its first public ...
Pfizer gave docs $35 million in last half of 2009 The Associated Press
For prostate cancer, help is on the market
Los Angeles Times - - 3 hours ago
Dutasteride, sold under the brand name Avodart, caused small tumors to stop growing or shrink, researchers report. By Thomas H. Maugh II Men at an above-normal risk of prostate cancer may be able to reduce their risk of developing the disease by taking ...
The Rage Is Not About Health Care
New York Times - - Mar 27, 2010
THERE were times when last Sunday's great GOP health care implosion threatened to bring the thrill back to reality television.
In Defense of Sarah Palin
Wall Street Journal - - Mar 28, 2010
She understands that the US has been a force for good in the world—which is more than can be said of our president. By NORMAN PODHORETZ Nothing annoys certain of my fellow conservative intellectuals more than when I remind them, as on occasion I ...
Autopsy: SeaWorld trainer died from drowning, traumatic injuries
CNN - 8 hours ago
By the CNN Wire Staff Orlando, Florida (CNN) -- An autopsy report released Wednesday confirmed that a SeaWorld trainer killed after a 12000-pound killer whale pulled her underwater died of drowning and traumatic injuries to her body, including her ...
A Testy Test Drive in Chevy's New Volt
TIME (blog) - - Mar 30, 2010
“How did you like it?” Bob Lutz asks me. It, in this case, is Chevrolet's Volt, the electric –drive vehicle that the company is introducing this year.
Imagining an Israeli Strike on Iran
New York Times - - Mar 27, 2010
In 1981, Israel destroyed Iraq's nuclear reactor at Osirak, declaring it could not live with the chance the country would get a nuclear weapons capability.