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02 Nov 2009 10:32

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Tech: Chinese iPhones more expensive, don’t have wi-fi. That sucks.

  • $730 the pre-discount price for an iPhone in China source
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02 Nov 2009 10:22

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World: Another suicide bomber hits Pakistan, this time outside of a bank

  • 35+ people died in the attack, which happened as large groups of people went to get their paychecks today source
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02 Nov 2009 10:16

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World: British texting-while-driving laws some of the world’s toughest

  • She came across as a lovely young girl, and I’m sure it wasn’t a nice feeling for the judge to send someone like this to prison — but someone is dead because of a text message.
  • Oxford, England police officer Bill Sykes • Describing Phillipa Curtis, who was sentenced to 21 months in prison for a car crash that led to the death of up-and-coming fashion designer Victoria McBryde. What caused the crash? Curtis was texting on her phone. While McBryde’s parents feel the sentence was too lenient, many others feel it wasn’t. The U.K. has some of the strictest texting-while-driving laws in the world. While Curtis was not sending a text message at the time of the crash, she was sending a number of them around the time the crash happened – enough to convict her on. Scary. And sad. • source
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02 Nov 2009 10:00

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Offbeat: Denver’s Gorilla Run pounded its chest until it got a world record

  • 1,061 runners in gorilla costumes in Denver source
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02 Nov 2009 09:43

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World: Afghanistan settles on Hamid Karzai as its de facto president

We would call Hamid Karzai “The Comeback Kid,” but that might be offensive to both kids and comebacks. Let’s just call him “The.” source
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02 Nov 2009 09:27

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Biz: A year and some clunker sales make Ford huge profits

  • $997 million the size of Ford’s profits in the third quarter, largely helped by Cash for Clunker sales source
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