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17 Sep 2009 20:49

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Tech: Duh: Price Snow Leopard at $29, and people buy it in droves

  • $100 the decrease in price from Leopard (Mac OSX 10.5) to Snow Leopard (Mac OSX 10.6) source
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17 Sep 2009 20:41

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U.S., World: The U.S. isn’t being selfish with their swine flu vaccine supply

  • 10% of our vaccine supply goes to developing countries source
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17 Sep 2009 20:32

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Culture: Who’s better at Jeopardy, Wolf Blitzer or Andy Richter? (Andy, duh)

  • This says more about the state of journalism than anything else could. A comedian just beat the crap out of a guy who regularly tackles heady issues on CNN. Great. Way to make our profession look good, Wolf. And way to rock it, Andy.source
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17 Sep 2009 20:22

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Biz, Tech: The Pre is all Palm has: Despite strong Pre sales, Palm is tanking

  • +134% increase in smartphone sales this quarter for Palm; which sounds pretty good, until you consider … source
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17 Sep 2009 20:15

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Tech: Fun fact: The tyrannosaurus rex used to be human-sized

So, does this mean that over time, humans will eventually grow up to be the size of houses? If so, that’d be awesome. source
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17 Sep 2009 11:15

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U.S.: Daily poll: Naming suspects’ names in high-profile cases

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17 Sep 2009 11:04

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U.S.: The Senate Dems’ biggest health-care challenge: Getting 60 votes

  • 59 Democrats (and one Republican) are needed to push it through source
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17 Sep 2009 10:58

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Biz, U.S.: The economy’s slowly improving on the housing, jobs fronts

  • 1.5% increase in new housing starts in August, the highest level in nine months source
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17 Sep 2009 10:50

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Sports, U.S.: The WWE’s Linda McMahon for Senate: She won’t turn heel

  • Christopher Dodd better watch out. He’s probably never faced an opponent in a Connecticut Senate race who could take a move like this, then lived to tell about it. It somehow makes any other political attack seems innocuous in comparison.source
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17 Sep 2009 10:37

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Politics: Andrew Sullivan sez the Baucus bill could be a “game-changer”

  • If healthcare reform actually lowers the deficit over the long run according to the CBO, then resistance on that score should crumble. That’s why this bill may have more legs than it first appeared. It will appeal to fiscal worry-warts like yours truly. It will be manna for Independents.
  • Atlantic columnist Andrew Sullivan • Discussing the implications of the Baucus health care bill, which he says might pull off the magic trick of giving the working poor reasonable health care AND not raising the deficit. Sullivan, who has a pretty strange mix of political ideologies, suggests that if conservatives don’t support a bill like this, “then the joke in the end is on them.” • source
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