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17 Feb 2010 10:52

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U.S.: A stuck gas pedal blamed for a crazy car at an auto auction

  • 27 people were injured (in a crowd of 100!) by the 1995 Volvo source
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17 Feb 2010 10:40

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Biz, World: In case you were wondering, a ton of coal costs $2,000 dollars

  • $60
    billion     size of the deal Australia has to supply lots of dirty, environmentally unfriendly coal to China for the next two decades
  • 30
    million     number of tons of coal that deal will buy China; environmentalists are up in arms, saying the deal doesn’t square with Copenhagen source
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17 Feb 2010 10:27

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Tech: Don’t open that doc: PDFs proving to be a major security problem

  • PDF exploits are usually the first ones attempted by attackers. Attackers are choosing PDFs for a reason. It’s not random. They’re establishing a preference for Reader exploits.
  • ScanSafe senior security researcher Mary Landesman • Regarding the preference of hackers to use rogue PDFs for exploits first on malicious Web sites, then other exploits if those don’t work. Landesman claims that 80 percent of all exploits in the fourth quarter of 2009 came from PDFs, which is really scary, especially since the format is so heavily-used. “PDF use is huge,” she said. So are zero-day exploits. source
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17 Feb 2010 10:18

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World: Israel knows a thing or two about espionage scandals

  • 12 major international scandals Israel has been tied to source
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17 Feb 2010 10:02

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Biz: Walgreen’s just bought out NYC’s big drugstore: Duane Reade

  • $1B amount Walgreen’s paid to dig its fingers into the NYC market
  • 257 number of Duane Reade stores in NYC; it’s the city’s largest chain
  • 70 number of Walgreen stores in NYC; they own 7,100 nationwide
  • » Brand identity: If you’ve ever been in a Duane Reade, you’d probably know it’s a bit different from your average Walgreen’s. Which is why Walgreen’s says they’re not changing the name or the style of the chain right away, and will figure out how to merge the chains later. Smart move. If anything, they should bring elements of Duane Reade to Walgreen’s.
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17 Feb 2010 00:06

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Biz: Quick: What grocery store is this produce section in?

Hint: It’s a brand name grocer whose name quickly rolls off the tongue. No, not that one. OK, time’s up! Click the link and find out! source
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16 Feb 2010 23:52

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U.S.: Unlucky Mount St. Helens climber found; no, he didn’t survive.

  • Boom, it busted off and I saw him clawing for the edge with a startled look on his face, and then he disappeared. I was looking right at him, he was only 10 feet away … then he just disappeared.
  • Climber Scott Salkovics • On the death of fellow climber, Joseph Bohlig, who fell 1,500 feet to his death inside Mount St. Helens yesterday. The cornice that held him up fell out from under him, literally making him fall inside the volcano.  Salkovics was just watching Bohlig get his picture taken by a friend. source
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16 Feb 2010 23:37

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U.S.: Amy Bishop could’ve gone to jail for shooting brother, but didn’t

  • three the number of charges Bishop could’ve faced as a result of her brother’s shooting death
  • 1992 the year the statute of limitations prevented Bishop from facing any charges source
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16 Feb 2010 16:22

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Culture: BBC host Ray Gosling turns his life inside out on “Inside Out”

  • Well, that was a bit unexpected. Ray Gosling, the host of BBC show “Inside Out,” claimed that he killed his very sick AIDS-stricken gay partner on last night’s show. And now police are investigating his claims, which he laid out in great detail. Assisted suicide is illegal in the U.K., by the way. source
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16 Feb 2010 12:54

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U.S.: Obama loans lots of money to a couple of nuclear reactors

  • $8.3 billion goes to two reactors in Burke County, Georgia source
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