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06 Jul 2009 10:25

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World: Sepratist-led protests in Xinjiang, China lead to lots of deaths

  • 140+ have been killed in deadly ethnic riots source
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06 Jul 2009 10:10

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Biz, U.S.: General Motors plows through bankruptcy like an off-road SUV

  • 40 days from bankruptcy to government ownership – a blazing fast speed for this sorta thing source
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06 Jul 2009 09:59

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Tech: Let there be new, more energy-efficient, light bulbs

The innards of the light bulb on the left? Kinda junky. The innards of the one on the right? Energy efficient. Ooh, incandescent. source
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06 Jul 2009 09:48

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Offbeat: We’re having a hard time coming up with a joke about this coffee

  • 900 boxes of Viagra-laced coffee seized in Malaysia source
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06 Jul 2009 09:41

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U.S.: The FBI goes out on a limb to defend Sarah Palin

  • Normally, we don’t confirm or deny those kind of allegations out there. But, by not doing so, it just casts her in a very bad light. There is just no truth to those rumors out there in the blogosphere.
  • FBI Special Agent Eric Gonzalez • Regarding rumors that Sarah Palin was under investigation for corruption during her tenure as governor of Alaska. It’s interesting that they went out of their way to actually say something about it. So, in other words, she really did leave office because she wants to become president. • source
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06 Jul 2009 09:34

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U.S.: R.I.P. Robert McNamara: He was the Vietnam War’s architect

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  • McNamara, the secretary of defense in an era defined by one of the nation’s deadliest wars, is dead at 93. Beyond his most noted accomplishment (which stretched during the presidencies of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson), he also spent tenures leading the World Bank (before Vietnam) and Ford Motor Co. (after Vietnam). But really, his pushing of the often-unpopular Vietnam War is what he’ll be remembered for.source
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