Archive for October, 2007
October 31st, 2007 at 01:18pm
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AP - Parts of Florida and the rest of the Southeast can expect bands of rain Wednesday from Tropical Storm Noel’s turn from Cuba toward the Bahamas.
Winning One Battle, Fighting the Next (The Weekly Standard)
The Weekly Standard - America has won an important battle in the war on terror.
WELL, HE WAS IN CRITICAL CONDITION (James Kilpatrick)
James Kilpatrick - Twelve years ago, down in Asheville, N.C., an unidentified copy editor drafted a headline for a local story. The clipping still slumbers happily in my files. It was not the editor’s finest hour — or the reporter’s, either. Our readers learned: “Crane operator electrocuted, in critical condition.”
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October 31st, 2007 at 01:18pm
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AP - NASA administrator Michael Griffin is hinting to lawmakers that he will reverse course and publicly disclose the results of an unprecedented federal aviation survey that found aircraft near collisions, runway interference and other safety problems occur far more often than previously recognized.
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October 31st, 2007 at 01:18pm
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InfoWorld - Having established itself as the leading enterprise Linux vendor, Red Hat is in a pivotal phase of reinventing itself as a broader open-source software provider and a long-term technology leader a la Microsoft and Oracle. It’s a tall order, and among other things it will take a business plan that lets the company move smoothly through this make-or-break stage.
`Camelot’ star Robert Goulet dies at 73 (AP)
AP - Robert Goulet was in good spirits as he waited for a lung transplant, even telling doctors before they inserted a breathing tube, “Just watch my vocal cords,” his wife said.
Hunter Tylo’s 19-year-old son drowns (AP)
AP - Michael Tylo Jr., son of soap opera star Hunter Tylo, has died in a swimming pool accident. He was 19.
Cerberus capital reviewing ACS purchase (AP)
AP - A $6.2 billion buyout offer for Affiliated Computer Services Inc. has been withdrawn by private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management, according to a published report.
Google in talks with Verizon Wireless: sources (Reuters)
Reuters - Google Inc is in active talks with number-two U.S. mobile carrier Verizon Wireless about putting Google applications on phones it offers, people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday.
Security geeks say Leopard needs fixing (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - The security features introduced in Apple’s Leopard operating system need work. That’s according to security experts who have been putting the new version of Mac OS X through its paces since the upgrade was introduced last Friday.
Obituaries in the news (AP)
AP - Sam Dana
New “Simpsons” video game spoofs industry (Reuters)
Reuters - In the latest antics of “The Simpsons,” Bart chases a giant ape through a video game factory, Lisa destroys a logging camp and Marge storms city hall with an angry mob.
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October 31st, 2007 at 01:18pm
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AP - Britney Spears can have sleepovers with her two boys if she has regular drug and alcohol tests, childproofs her home and buckles the kids in car seats, a court commissioner ruled Tuesday.
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Iraqis say ready to take control of oil terminals (Reuters)
Reuters - Iraqi soldiers aboard the patrol boat scan the waters around them before they give permission to U.S. sailors to approach the Gulf oil terminal.
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Accused Madrid bomb mastermind acquitted (AP)
AP - One of the accused masterminds of the 2004 Madrid terror bombings was acquitted of all charges Wednesday by a Spanish court in the culmination to a politically divisive trial over Europe’s worst Islamic militant terror attack.
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October 31st, 2007 at 01:18pm
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Reuters - The Democratic presidential contenders went on the attack against front-runner Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, questioning whether she could win the White House and accusing her of saber-rattling against Iran and shifting her views for political gain.
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AP - The Iraqi foreign minister said Wednesday that this weekend’s regional conference in Istanbul must focus only on Iraq’s security and stability, not the border crisis over Turkey’s threatened incursion against Kurdish rebels.
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AP - A Teaneck hospital lab technician has been jailed after being accused of sexually abusing the corpse of a 92-year-old woman, authorities say. Read more…..
AP - One of the accused masterminds of the 2004 Madrid terror bombings was acquitted of all charges Wednesday by a Spanish court in the culmination to a politically divisive trial over Europe’s worst Islamic militant terror attack.
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AP - Officials blamed a wildfire that consumed more than 38,000 acres and destroyed 21 homes last week on a boy playing with matches, and said they would ask a prosecutor to consider the case.
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AFP - Coalition countries involved in the US-led “war on terror” urged Japan to continue its naval support mission which is set to be halted this week due to opposition objections.
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AP - Afghan, U.S. and Canadian troops have surrounded a pocket of some 250 Taliban fighters who have commandeered people’s homes in villages just outside Afghanistan’s major southern city, officials said Wednesday.
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AFP - A bitter Jake White announced Wednesday that he is to quit as coach of South Africa’s World Cup winning rugby team, accusing Springbok bosses of bouncing him out of the job.
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AP - Young cadets carry briefcases as they rush to computer labs, Hebrew classes and conflict resolution drills. They are the vanguard of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ campaign to prevent the West Bank from falling to Hamas.
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AFP - A pack of hunting dogs shot an Iowa man as he went to retrieve a fallen pheasant, authorities said.
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October 31st, 2007 at 01:18pm
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AP - Federal authorities investigating Sen. Ted Stevens are trolling the Alaska fishing industry for evidence of whether the powerful Republican pushed seafood legislation that benefited his lobbyist son.
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Bloomberg - Oct. 30 (Bloomberg) — A $27 million U.S.-led effort to prevent catastrophic flooding by reinforcing Iraq’s largest dam has been mismanaged, according to a new Pentagon audit. Read more…..
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October 31st, 2007 at 01:18pm
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AP - Google Inc. is setting up a distribution network for social networking applications, adding a new twist in the Internet search leader’s brewing rivalry with rapidly maturing startup Facebook Inc.
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