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30 Jan 2009 08:40

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Biz, Tech: Amazon’s sales are so good, it don’t matter if the Kindle’s ugly

  • $6.7 billion in sales in the fourth quarter for the online retailer source
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30 Jan 2009 08:33

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Music: A band to watch out for: The Whitest Boy Alive

The band features Erlend Oye of Kings of Convenience. It’s dancey/jammy, but goes down smooth. source
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30 Jan 2009 08:23

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U.S.: Did the FDA have advance notice of the peanut butter outbreak?

  • There was an early warning sign. Back in September, a shipment of peanuts from the same Georgia processing plant was returned to the U.S. from Canada after it was found to be contaminated with salmonella. The Food and Drug Administration logged this but never tested or followed up on it, according to the Associated Press. *forehead slap* source
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30 Jan 2009 08:08

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Offbeat, U.S.: The mom of the octuplets? She already has six. 6 + 8 = Whoa.

  • What do you suggest she should have done? She refused to have them killed. That is a very painful thing.
  • The new grandmother of the children • on the doctor-suggested possibility of the mother losing some of the embryos. The grandmother says that the octet’s older siblings are excited about their new family members. • source
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