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Bush's decision to refuse to offer any support for a strike on Iran appeared to be based on two factors, the sources said.
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Thomas case reveals obscene penalties for P2P downloaders
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Econ-nuts might take over Republic of Ecuador
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CAMERAS at a Kansas gym have recorded a mysterious white orb floating around fitness equipment, unnerving the gym's owner.
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Why you should not use IDEs for software development
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Librarians find the weirdest things in returned books, Chandler librarians say they routinely find oddities between the pages of returned books: from cash and lottery tickets to love letters. And patrons rarely come back to claim the stuff.
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Automobiles unplugged
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WASHINGTON — Congressional negotiators' carefully-crafted agreement on a $700 billion rescue plan threatened to unravel Thursday as lawmakers at an often tense White House meeting clashed over details.
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WaMu Seized, Sold Off in Biggest Bank Failure in U.S. History, As the debate over a $700 billion bank bailout rages on in Washington, one of the nation's largest banks — Washington Mutual Inc. — has collapsed under the weight of its enormous bad bets on the mortgage market.
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WATERBURY, Vt. -- Mooove over, Holsteins. PETA wants world-famous Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream to tap nursing moms, rather than cows, for the milk used in its ice cream.
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What began as high-stakes negotiations over the proposed $700 billion bailout of the nation's financial system dissolved into bickering, begging and a roiling battle between parties Thursday night.
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The OhMiBod vibrator is a whole new way to enjoy your iPod® or any other music player. Everyone loves music. Everyone loves sex. OhMiBod combines music and pleasure to create the ultimate acsexsory™ to your iPod.
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John Edwards Bane is back and they are reviving a rumor that popped up a little while ago. Let's see where this goes, shall we?
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Is this guy for real?
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The cost of everything seems to be going up lately, making tough times even tougher. Now a supermarket on the Upper East Side is passing an energy surcharge onto customers. And as CBS station WCBS-TV in New York City quickly found out, many shoppers are outraged.
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Egypt's antiquities council says that archaeologists have unearthed a 3,000-year-old red granite head believed to portray the 19th Dynasty Pharaoh Ramses II.
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Photo in order by dimi15 and spike55151 Government could learn a few things from nonprofits. Nonprofits are USA organizations created for a charitable
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Washington Mutual Inc was closed by the U.S. government in by far the largest failure of a U.S. bank, and its banking assets were sold to JPMorgan Chase & Co for $1.9 billion.
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Google Inc. says it will pay as much as $10 million for a fresh idea to help the world, the company said.
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JPMorgan Chase acquired the banking assets of Washington Mutual late Thursday after the troubled thrift was seized by federal regulators, marking the biggest bank failure in the nation's history and the latest stunning development in the ongoing credit crisis.
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Leading Republicans say that, short of total gridlock on the economic bailout, a McCain no-show on Friday would be "a huge political mistake."
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Have Your Wedding Cake ... and Drop it Too [Vids]
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Evangelist Tony Alamo was arrested Thursday in Flagstaff, Arizona, on charges related to a child porn investigation, an FBI spokesman said.
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1. Returns to Vietnam and jails himself. 2. Offers the post of "vice vice president" to Warren Buffett. 3. Challenges Obama to suspend campaign so they both can go and personally drill for oil offshore. 4. Learns to use computer. 5. Does bombing run over T
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Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin defended her remark that the proximity of Russia to her home state of Alaska gives her foreign policy experience, explaining in a CBS interview airing Thursday that "we have trade missions back and forth."
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Americans should not stop paying their mortgages even if their mortgage companies are threatened because "your home and your mortgage are not affected by the fact that your mortgage company may go out of business," CNN senior business correspondent Ali Velshi says.
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Bailout Fate Unclear After Bush Meets With Candidates, Congressional Leaders, The fate of the Bush administration's $700 billon bailout package was thrown into doubt Thursday evening, after congressional leaders left a landmark White House summit on the economy hurling accusations at each other and declaring there was no deal.
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When I see something on the horizon that I consider serious, all I can do is dive in and do as much homework as my brain can possibly handle.
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- J.P. Morgan & Chase Co. will acquire most of Washington Mutual Inc.'s operations, according to a report published late Thursday. The online edition of The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed sources, reported that the exact structure of the transaction remains unclear. Washington Mutual , once the largest U.S. thrift, has been scrambling to find a solution to its surplus of bad mortgage loans, and put itself up for sale at auction last week, the report said.
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Bailout Fate Unclear After Bush Meets With Candidates, Congressional Leaders, The fate of the Bush administration's $700 billon bailout package was thrown into doubt Thursday evening, after congressional leaders left a landmark White House summit on the economy hurling accusations at each other and declaring there was no deal.
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Man claims penis amputated without consent
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During "Suspension" McCain Grandstands, Advisers Attack
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Why cant America call its torture *torture*? - Boing Boing
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Ron Paul's answer to the President (about the bailouts)
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McGangsta: Ed McMahon to rap in viral videos
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Ticking Time-Bomb WMD
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Actuarial Firm Projects McCain, Obama Healthy for Eight Years as President, A firm that specializes in calculating risk says that John McCain and Barack Obama have enough healthy years ahead of them to serve two terms as U.S. president.
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A deal that would cost each American taxpayer $5,300 to rescue the banking
system and save the world economy from catastrophe was agreed in outline
tonight.
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