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04 Jun 2010 11:08

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Politics: California governor’s race: Meg Whitman a shoo-in for GOP primary

  • $500,000 amount she spends daily

The result all that money creates

  • 51% the tally the former eBay chairman has going into the GOP primary
  • 25% the tally her challenger, Steve Poizner, has in the poll
  • 24%haven’t made up their minds or plan to go for a minor candidate source

04 Jun 2010 10:57

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Biz: Shrek glasses: The latest thing that could make you sick

These McDonald’s glasses contain cadmium, a toxic metal, so the company’s recalling a couple of them. And by a couple, we mean 12 million. source

04 Jun 2010 10:42

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Biz: Census jobs: They boost your figures, then go away fast

  • 411,000 the number of added May jobs that came from the Census alone (i.e. most of them)
  • 9.7% the current jobless rate; expect that to go back up when the Census goes away source

04 Jun 2010 02:09

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Tech: If we didn’t Kno any better, we’d think this tablet was fake

  • Remember the hype around the Microsoft Courier’s awesome dual-screen format? Well, what if you made it bigger. Not just bigger, comically large? Like you were carrying around the Ten Commandments with you everywhere? Then you’d have the Kno, which has a pretty cool interface despite its insanely huge 14.1-inch dual screens and $1000 price tag. Cut both by about half and you seriously could knock out the college bookstore mafia. (In other news, what the heck is going on in this uber-disturbing press photo?) source

04 Jun 2010 01:18

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U.S.: Did BP get a cap on that pipe that caused the oil spill?

  • yes The robots successfully got the pipe capped off, after many trying days and one stuck diamond saw.
  • but Unfortunately, it may not be enough to stop the spill, even temporarily. It’s too soon to tell. souce