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Reuters – Snowstorms have repeatedly battered parts of the United States this winter, making it more difficult to discern returning weakness in the economy from
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Blaming the weather for high unemployment
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King Tut’s grandfather’s statue head surfaces in Luxor (Reuters)
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Reuters – A colossal 3000-year-old red granite head of Amenhotep III, the grandfather of Tutankhamun, has been discovered in Luxor, Egypt’s Culture Minister Farouk Hosni said Sunday.
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AFP – Fashion is hard work, top Italian designers Dolce & Gabbana reminded punters on Sunday, illustrating their show at Milan Fashion Week with video of frenetic scenes behind their creations.
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In Milan, Dolce & Gabbana stress craftsmanship
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"Prodigal Sons" unlike any other family documentary (Reuters)
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Reuters – Homegrown documentaries dealing with gender issues and family dysfunction by now are a dime a dozen, but Kimberly Reed’s “Prodigal Sons” is unique.
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"Prodigal Sons" unlike any other family documentary
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Roger Ebert gets ‘voice’ grandkids can recognize (AP)
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AP – Film critic Roger Ebert says computer programmers have captured his voice from movie commentary tracks so he can type what he wants to say and listeners hear a voice that sounds like him.
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Roger Ebert gets ‘voice’ grandkids can recognize
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AP – A campaign to make Topeka a test site for a new, ultrafast Internet service is gathering speed.
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Topeka aims to become Google Internet test site
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Hello, stranger: the ups and downs of Chatroulette (AP)
Posted by admin at 8:57 pm on February 28 2010
AP – A new Web sensation called Chatroulette feels like a throwback to the early 1990s, when online chat rooms brimmed with lonely strangers looking for meaningful connections, meaningless sex, or something in between.
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Hello, stranger: the ups and downs of Chatroulette
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Hamas man was drugged before murder: Dubai police (Reuters)
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Reuters – The killers of a Hamas commander drugged him before suffocating him, Dubai police said Sunday.
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Hamas man was drugged before murder: Dubai police
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Atom smasher restarts to prepare for new science (AP)
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AP – Operators of the world’s largest atom smasher restarted their massive machine Sunday in a run up to experiments probing secrets of the universe, a spokeswoman said.
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Atom smasher restarts to prepare for new science
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Iran: US behind IAEA charge that Iran making bomb (AP)
Posted by admin at 8:57 pm on February 28 2010
AP – Iran’s supreme leader charged Sunday that U.S. and its allies are behind the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency’s claim that Iran may be making nuclear bombs, despite its repeated denials.
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Scientists defend warning after tsunami nonevent (AP)
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AP – The warning was ominous, its predictions dire: Oceanographers issued a bulletin telling Hawaii and other Pacific islands that a killer wave was heading their way with terrifying force and that “urgent action should be taken to protect lives and property.”
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Pa. man dies during storm when 911 calls unheeded (AP)
Posted by admin at 8:57 pm on February 28 2010
AP – With her boyfriend in severe abdominal pain, Sharon Edge called 911 for an ambulance in the early morning hours of Feb. 6. Heavy snow was falling — so heavy it would all but bring the city to a standstill — and Curtis Mitchell needed to go to a hospital.
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Desperate for work, Miss. town awaits Toyota plant (AP)
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AP – Terry McShan isn’t thinking about car sales analyses or excess capacity when he drives by the idle Toyota plant in northeast Mississippi. He’s thinking about his little girl.
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Desperate for work, Miss. town awaits Toyota plant
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Whale trainer’s death jars safe world of adventure (AP)
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AP – It is billed as a leisurely boat tour. The shark surfaces, its fin slicing through the water.
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Whale trainer’s death jars safe world of adventure
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AP – Investors are seeking direction. Friday’s report on employment could give them exactly what they want.
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Jobs report critical after mixed economic data
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AP – ADDED SIGNIFICANCE: Investors will look to the monthly jobs report for clearer signs on the direction of the economy after a string of mixed economic data and ongoing concerns about Europe.
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Summary Box: Investors await employment report
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Reuters – Payrolls could give the U.S. stock market some direction this week as investors comb through the key report on one of the economy’s weakest areas.
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Payrolls, quake, ISM may steer stocks
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AP – Southeast Asian nations on Sunday said they are still aiming to set up a European Union-style economic community by 2015 despite concerns that the global slump has led to a rise in trade protectionism.
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Despite protectionism, ASEAN eyes single market
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Sen. Kyl: Extended unemployment benefits to pass (AP)
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AP – The Senate’s second-ranking Republican leader says he expects GOP lawmakers will vote to extend unemployment benefits this week — derailing a fellow Republican’s objections.
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Sen. Kyl: Extended unemployment benefits to pass
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AP – The Sunday afternoon show was about to begin. Sicilian, Sartorial, Sensual appeared on the screen at the end of the runway, which, until then, had projected scenes from the Dolce & Gabbana workshop of white-coated cutters and seamstresses working closely with designers Domenico and Stefano to put together their latest winter collection.
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Dolce & Gabbana get emotional
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