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Rebate Checks in the Mail by Spring
2008-02-13 22:22:00 yahoo news: WASHINGTON - The checks aren’t in the mail, but they will be soon. President Bush signed legislation Wednesday to rush rebates ranging from $300 to $1,200 to millions of people, the centerpiece of government efforts to brace the wobbly economy. First, though, you must file your 2007 tax return. More than 130 million ... More About: Mail , Spring , Rebate
Yahoo Reportedly in Talks with News Corp
2008-02-13 22:02:00 yahoo news: Yahoo ! Inc., fighting off a takeover bid from Microsoft Corp., is in talks with News Corp., according to a report on The Wall Street Journal’s web site. The talks, according to the Journal are an attempt to fend off Microsoft’s offer, which was initially valued at $44.6 billion. | read more | similar articles:Microsoft bid Backs ... More About: Business , News Corp , Yahoo!
German Court Upholds Surveillance of Scientology
2008-02-13 21:48:00 A German court has upheld a ruling from a lower court, sanctioning the monitoring of the Church of Scientology by Germany’s intelligence services. The North Rhine-Westphalia Higher Administrative Court in Münster ruled that there is enough information present to continue to allow Germany’s intelligence agencies to monitor Scientology activities, asserting that the organization and its members ... More About: Surveillance
Net Neutrality Bill: No Web Traffic Discrimination
2008-02-13 21:41:00 newsWeek.com: A Democratic lawmaker on Wednesday proposed legislation to stop network providers from playing traffic cop on the Internet. Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s subcommittee on telecommunications and the Internet, introduced the bill to promote the principle, known as “Net neutrality,” of treating all Internet traffic equally. Markey, who introduced ... More About: Traffic , Net Neutrality , Discrimination , Bill
Senior Hezbollah Militant Killed
2008-02-13 17:12:00 yahoo news: BEIRUT, Lebanon - Imad Mughniyeh, the suspected mastermind of dramatic attacks on the U.S. Embassy and U.S. Marine barracks that killed hundreds of Americans in Lebanon in the 1980s, has died in a car bombing in Syria. The Islamic militant group Hezbollah and its Iranian backers on Wednesday blamed Israel for the killing ... More About: Senior , Killed
Obama and McCain sweep Potomac States? Primaries
2008-02-13 17:03:00 Barack Obama , the junior senator from Illinois and 2008 US presidential candidate has swept all three of today’s Democratic contests in the “Potomac primaries” consisting of the nation’s capital, Washington, D.C. and the bordering states of Virginia and Maryland. Obama lead in the Virginia polls 67 percent, while in the District of Columbia, he lead 76 ... More About: States , Primaries , Sweep
Surprising Reasons You?re Not Having Sex
2008-02-13 16:58:00 cnn.com: Not getting any? You’re not alone: Women today have less time for sex than their 1950s counterparts. And it’s estimated that 40 million Americans have what experts call a sexless marriage (having sex less than 10 times a year). A regular sex life is good for your health. It can satisfy all sorts of emotional- ... More About: Reasons
3 Arrested in Murder Plot of Muhammed Drawing Cartoonist
2008-02-13 16:53:00 In the early hours of Tuesday, Denmark’s Politiets Efterretningstjeneste (PET) (Danish Security Intelligence Service), arrested three people for their connection to an alleged plot to murder one of the cartoonists from the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy. On September 30, 2005, Jyllands-Posten a Danish newspaper, published twelve cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad. The paper solicited the cartoons ... More About: Murder , Arrested , Drawing , Muhammed , Plot
A Lost Laptop, a 54 Million Dollar Lawsuit
2008-02-12 18:04:00 redTape.msnbc.com: How much compensation does a consumer deserve for the loss of a laptop computer loaded with personal information? Raelyn Campbell figures it?s $54 million — if you throw in a little extra for lost time and frustration. Six months after bringing a damaged laptop computer into a Best Buy electronics store for repairs, and three ... More About: Lost , Laptop , Lawsuit , Tech , Dollar
GM Posts Record Loss for 2007, Offers buyouts to 74,000
2008-02-12 17:39:00 laTimes.com: DETROIT — General Motors Corp. reported a $38.7 billion loss for 2007 today, the largest annual loss ever for an automotive company, and said it is making a new round of buyout offers to U.S. hourly workers in hopes of replacing some of them with lower-paid help. The earnings report and buyout offer came ... More About: Offers , Loss , Posts , Record
Major Lenders Expand Mortgage Help Plans
2008-02-12 17:33:00 msnbc: WASHINGTON - The Bush administration, trying to deal with a worsening housing slump, is announcing a new initiative that is aimed at helping homeowners about to lose their homes. For qualified homeowners, it will put the foreclosure process on hold for 30 days. The new program is called ?Project Lifeline.? It will be available ... More About: Mortgage , Plans , Major , Lenders
Online Gaming: China Targets Internet in Crime Sweep
2008-02-12 17:26:00 yahoo news: BEIJING - Seeking to ferret out online games considered overly violent or unhealthy, China has targeted illegal Web sites, computer markets and Internet cafes as part of a campaign to rein in juvenile crime. The crackdown, christened “Operation For Tomorrow,” is also aimed at Web sites offering unregistered playing platforms or services for ... More About: Gaming , Crime , Tech
163 Million Dollars Worth of Art Stolen from Zurich
2008-02-11 18:18:00 yahoo news: ZURICH, Switzerland - Three armed men in ski masks stole four paintings by Cezanne, Degas, van Gogh and Monet worth $163.2 million from a Zurich museum in one of Europe’s largest ever art heists, police said Monday. The robbers, who were still at large, stole the paintings Sunday from the E.G. Buehrle Collection, ... More About: Stolen , Worth , Million , Dollars
Yahoo Formally Rejects Microsoft Offer
2008-02-11 18:01:00 newsWeek.com: Yahoo Inc. spurned Microsoft Corp.’s $44.6 billion takeover bid as inadequate Monday, betting that it can elicit a higher offer from the world’s largest software maker or find another way to deliver a comparable payoff to its shareholders. The rebuff by the slumping Internet pioneer had been widely anticipated after word of Yahoo’s intention ... More About: Business , Yahoo! , Offer
Under Construction: The World?s First ?Green City?
2008-02-11 17:51:00 The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has started construction of its so called ‘green city’ which will be named Masdar City . It is a city which is designed to have no carbon emissions, cars, or waste. It will cost $22 billion (£11 billion) and take eight years to make. It will be able to hold a ... More About: World , Green , Construction , The World
It?s The Oil, Stupid
2008-02-11 06:17:00 populistAmerica.com: The U.S. is stuck in the Middle East, just where it wants to be, without an exit strategy because it never intended to leave, not as long as the area contains 60% of world oil reserves and 40% of world natural gas reserves. Do the math. Iraq has 115 billion barrels of known oil ... More About: Politics , Stupid
World Champion Boxer warns of Barack Obama Assassination
2008-02-11 06:00:00 the independent: World champion boxer Bernard Hopkins, who will fight the undefeated Briton Joe Calzaghe in April, believes black Democratic contender Barak Obama would be assassinated “within months” if he became US president in November. Hopkins, the world light-heavyweight boxing champion, told The Independent on Sunday: “I don’t think America is ready for an African-American ... More About: Barack Obama , Barack , Assassination
Clinton Campaign Manager Out
2008-02-11 05:50:00 politico.com: Clinton ’s campaign manager, Patti Solis Doyle, left the position today, to be replaced by Clinton’s former top White House aide, Maggie Williams. The change formalizes a shift in the campaign’s power structure that began to set in after Clinton’s win in New Hampshire… | read more | Clinton Shuffles Campaign Team reuters.com:WASHINGTON (Reuters) - ... More About: Manager
Chavez Threatens to Halt Oil Sales to US
2008-02-11 05:37:00 huffingtonPost.com: CARACAS, Venezuela ? President Hugo Chavez on Sunday threatened to cut off oil sales to the United States in an “economic war” if Exxon Mobil Corp. wins court judgments to seize billions of dollars in Venezuelan assets. Exxon Mobil has gone after the assets of state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA in U.S., British ... More About: Sales
Obama wins Maine
2008-02-11 05:16:00 yahoo news: AUGUSTA, Maine - Barack Obama defeated Hillary Rodham Clinton in Maine presidential caucuses Sunday, grabbing a majority of delegates as the state’s Democrats overlooked the snowy weather and turned out in heavy numbers for municipal gatherings. Democrats in 420 Maine towns and cities were deciding how the state’s 24 delegates will be allotted ... More About: Wins
Amsterdam?s War on Sex: Turning Out The Red Light?
2008-02-10 16:55:00 newsWeek.com: Amsterdam without the Red Light District? Wouldn’t that be like Paris without the Eiffel Tower? Amsterdam’s mayor, Job Cohen, and his aldermen have demonstrated little nostalgia for the district, which has been the world’s most famous home of sexual permissiveness since the 15th century. They first unveiled the plan to close it in ...
Alleged Kidney Harverster Arrested in Nepal
2008-02-09 17:37:00 Accused kidney racketeer Amit Kumar has been arrested in Nepal at a jungle resort near Chitwan. Police are still seeking suspected co-conspirators, including Kumar’s brother Jeevan Rawat. Nepalese police are holding Kumar under currency laws, charging that he was in possesion of large amounts of United States dollars and Euros. Nepal has strict laws about ... More About: Arrested , Kidney
Citizenship on Hold for Many Immigrants
2008-02-09 17:28:00 yahoo news: WASHINGTON - President Bush is asking Congress to spend money to help businesses root out illegal workers but he did not request additional funds to help legal immigrants become American citizens more quickly. In his budget proposal issued this week, Bush asked for $100 million to expand E-Verify, the system employers use to ... More About: Hold , Immigrants
Teamsters Boss Calls For Firing Of Secretary Of Transportation!
2008-02-09 15:13:00 Teamsters are launching a nationwide campaign to fire U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters for what they say is her “unlawful decision” to keep the American border open to Mexican trucks. As reported, the Bush administration has decided to ignore a provision passed by Congress and signed into law by President Bush as part of the ... More About: Politics , General , Calls , Boss
US-Russia Nuclear Deal Upstages Iran
2008-02-08 19:14:00 asia times online: There was a time when Iran might have believed that a multipolar world order would be just and fair from the point of view of the “suppressed nations”. If that notion wasn’t shattered long ago, it was surely was last Friday when the director of Rosatom, Russia ’s federal agency for nuclear power, ... More About: Nuclear , Deal , Ages
17 Fitness Truths To Get You In Great Shape
2008-02-08 18:49:00 zenHabits.net: While getting in shape has been a start-and-stop-and-start-again affair for me over the last couple years, over the long run, I?ve become fitter than ever. I?ve dropped more than 30 pounds altogether (or about 2 stone 6, for the British-inclined among you), I run regularly, I?ve become more consistent with strength training, and I?ve dropped ... More About: Fitness , Great , Shape
Analyzing the Internet Collapse
2008-02-08 18:33:00 technologyReview.com: Almost simultaneously, two separate undersea fiber-optic cables connecting Europe with Egypt, and eventually with the Middle East and India, were cut… Whatever the cause, the effects were immediate. According to its telecommunications ministry, Egypt initially lost 70 percent of its connection to the outside Internet and 30 percent of service to its call-center industry, ... More About: Collapse , The Internet
Newsertainment=Proof U.S. Citizens Want To Be Stupid!
2008-02-08 14:28:00 There is a pretty big election coming up in this country, right? It?s kind of big news that Republican hopeful candidate Mitt Romney is stepping aside to clear the way for former POW John McCain to represent the Republican Party in the 2008 election; an election widely regarded as one of the most important in ... More About: Entertainment , General , Stupid , Proof , Blenders
Obama Suggests Clinton Show Tax Returns
2008-02-08 05:47:00 breitBart.com: NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Democrat Barack Obama suggested Thursday that Hillary Rodham Clinton follow his lead and release her and her husband’s income tax returns so the public can see where the $5 million she loaned her presidential campaign came from. A day earlier, Clinton acknowledged that she had made the loan late last month. ... More About: Politics , Show , Linton
Georgia: Dozens Wounded in Refinery Explosion
More articles from this author:2008-02-08 05:10:00 msnbc: PORT WENTWORTH, Georgia - An explosion and fire at a sprawling sugar refinery rattled this Savannah suburb Thursday night, severely injuring dozens of people and sending authorities into a nearby river to search for possible victims, officials said. No deaths were immediately reported and there was no word on what caused the blast at ... More About: Explosion 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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