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Current News for July 01, 2008

The Pentagon says that the Taliban Are Back, And Not In Iraq

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:49:56 PDT
I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that this wasn't breaking news on Friday, something that some precocious young Pentagon trend-spotter just happened to notice, and said, "By golly, I wonder if Secretary Gates knows about this." Actually, since the news came in the form of a report that was sneaked out on Friday, this startling ....

What Does 50 Sphinns Get You?

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:17:50 PDT
Sphinn is a social site for search and interactive marketers. It's designed to allow you to share and discover news stories, read and take part in discussions, discover events of interest and network with others.

UBS tumbles on news it eyeing Paine Webber sale (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:42:13 PDT
Investors took fright on Monday that UBS faced further losses after news that it was considering the sale of the heart of its U.S. wealth management business, broker Paine Webber.

A proposed bill to amend Canada’s Copyright Act

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:37:20 PDT
A week ago the minority federal government of Canada, and Industry Minister Jim Prentice, tabled an amendment to the Copyright Act. Entitled Bill C-61, its purpose is to bring Canadian copyright law into compliance with the current WIPO treaty (this despite their being no international legal obligation to implement WIPO - it hasn’t been ratified by Canada). Prentice states in a Toronto Star letter to the editor that C-61 will allow… “…the recording of webcasts I think he means podcasts and

Web Hosting? What Web Hosting?

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:25:49 PDT
The folks over at Royal Pingdom have discovered an interesting trend: Google Trends shows that the number of searches for both “web hosting” and “hosting” has decreased quite rapidly in the past few years.

Tpull's Weekly Marvel Comics Review – Part Two

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:58:36 PDT
No time for kibitzing, so let’s jump right into it: 1985 #2 by Mark Millar and Tommy Lee Edwards At first I wasn’t going to read 1985, because the synopsis sounded like a twelve-year-old’s fantasy. I’ve already read a ton of stories over in DC involving Earth-Prime, where heroes appear on a world that has no other heroes. The Flash has made trips to our universe, we’ve seen Ultraa, Superboy-Prime, watched our planet get blown up during the Cuban Missile Crisis during a JLA/JSA/All-Star S

Megastar Chiranjeevi said about Chiru Party News

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:10:39 PDT
Megastar Chiranjeevi - Political Party News, Chiru Party Name, Chiru Party Flag, Chiru Party Agenda, Chiru Party Logo.

Are Food Dyes Fueling Kids' Hyperactivity?

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:09:22 PDT
ABC News: "Aunt Jemima Blueberry Waffles are blue, but not from blueberries. Kraft Mac and Cheese is yellow, but not from the cheese. Fruity Pebbles, Fruit Roll-Ups, Pop Tarts? They all contain chemical food dyes. And now some people believe that dyes used to make food look fresh could be so bad for children’s health that they should be banned."

Future food trends (The New Straits Times)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:57:14 PDT
WHAT’S the future eating patterns going to be like? Mindshare Malaysia’s Ng Tze Lian cited a research from Euromonitor which said globally, eight key consumer trends are expected to shape the food industry:

MICROCAPITAL STORY: Cameroon’s Minister of Finance Proposes Plans to Strengthen Cameroon’s Microfinance Sector

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:13:31 PDT
Following a meeting with fellow cabinet members, Cameroon’s Minister of Finance Lazare Menye announced that Cameroon’s microfinance sector must be strengthened, citing key challenges to the sector’s growth and offering potential solutions to these challenges. Menye noted that the microfinance sector must be preserved because microcredit is an effective instrument that suits the socio-cultural context of Cameroon, and fosters the integration of people marginalized by traditional banks into the f

Fund Trends Defy Historical Norms - Wall Street Journal


Fund Trends Defy Historical Norms
Wall Street Journal - 12 hours ago
In the first half of this year every kind of diversified US equity fund took a drubbing. Small cap value, large cap growth, you name it: According to Lipper ...


Trials winner Hansen is front-page news, in Japan - San Francisco Chronicle


Trials winner Hansen is front-page news, in Japan
San Francisco Chronicle, USA - 1 hour ago
In Japan, Hansen's swim was front-page news. More specifically, Hansen's swimsuit was front-page news. In Japan, there is a national fixation on Brendan ...



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