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15 Apr 2010 10:40

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Biz: Fortune 500: Huge profits go hand-in-hand with record layoffs

  • $391
    billion     size of the collective profits the Fortune 500 had last year
  • 821,000
    positions     number of jobs they had to cut to ensure that huge profit source
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12 Apr 2010 11:13

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U.S.: In Manhattan, a huge blaze leaves a neighborhood reeling

  • seven alarms on the massive Lower East Side fire
  • 250 firefighters were needed to put the blaze out
  • 60 families no longer have a home this morning source
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12 Apr 2010 10:45

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Tech: Don’t let Apple get you down, Adobe. Bask in the CS5 glow.

  • Just in time for that Flash-to-iPhone converter! Adobe finally launched its Creative Suite 5 today, which features (among a myraid list of things which we could spend hours posting) 64-bit support for Photoshop, Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects; Adobe’s BrowserLab Web testing suite; support for many popular CMSes directly within Dreamweaver; and some feature that (heartbreakingly) allows you to save Flash apps as iPhone apps. source
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11 Apr 2010 20:30

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World: The EU throws Greece a few bones so they can pay next month’s rent

  • €45 billion in loans; that’s $61 billion for Amer’kans source
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07 Apr 2010 11:05

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U.S.: Debt-ridden California owes a lot of money in pensions

  • $500
    billion     amount the state owes in
    pensions, according to a Stanford
    University study
  • 2,000%
    increase     the amount California’s
    pension burden increased between 1999 and 2009 source
  • » Why is this bad for California? David Crane of the L.A. Times notes that this pension burden is what’s really holding the state back. Because they have this huge albatross on their back, they’re forced to cut other, arguably more important things, like education.
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07 Apr 2010 10:42

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Biz: GM lost a little pocket change in the second half of 2009

  • $4.3 billion in losses – and that was after bankruptcy source
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06 Apr 2010 10:42

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Biz, U.S.: Awful mining disaster not good for Massey Energy’s stocks

  • 9.8% dip in price just this
    morning alone source
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04 Apr 2010 11:41

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Offbeat: If you like huge pillow fights, you might like this video

  • Feel the fluffy pain. Yesterday was International Pillow Fight Day, and cities all over the world celebrated by throwing down-feather-filled projectiles at one another. We didn’t notice yesterday because we were busy obsessing over the iPad. Cute, violent and funny all the same. source
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04 Apr 2010 11:10

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World: African Renaissance Monument: Have monuments jumped the shark?

  • We love monuments just as much as the next guy. But for some reason, this pet project out of Senegal leaves us with a cold feeling. It screams, “look at us!” And well, it looks less like a statement of boldness and more like an illustration out of a comic book. We admit it: We’re not easily impressed anymore. They should consider putting an iPad in it. source
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03 Mar 2010 10:20

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World: What we know about Greece: Gyros, philosophy, Sparta!, huge debt

  • €4.8
    billion     will be cut from the country’s huge deficit using a mix of taxes and spending cuts (the third this year)
  • €200
    billion     the size of Greece’s deficit, which is 125 percent of their entire annual economic output source
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