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23 Sep 2009 20:12

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U.S., World: Muammar Gaddafi’s 15 minutes went on … and on … and on

  • 40 years since Gaddafi took power; the Libyan leader had never visited the U.S. before this week; nice entance, brah source

21 Sep 2009 21:53

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Tech: The scale of World of Warcraft is beyond massive

  • 5.5 million lines of code for the game, which is 1.3 petabytes in size (a petrabyte is a BILLION megabytes) source

16 Sep 2009 20:26

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Tech: Twitter is worth a bit more than 140 characters would suggest

  • $50 million the amount Twitter raised in its latest round of venture-capital funding source

08 Sep 2009 11:26

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Offbeat: It’s not a badger, it’s a rat: Giant new species discovered

This ugly little beast, the Bosavi woolly rat, will be the first victim of the Catstravaganza tomorrow. source

08 Sep 2009 02:42

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Music: Pitchfork spews forth a torrent of Beatles reissue love

  • 5,390 words on the Beatles’ reissues were published today – and they’re not even done yet! source

02 Sep 2009 20:58

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Biz, U.S.: We wish we had a 1% of this Pfizer fine in our bank account

  • $2.3 billion for wining and dining (and influencing) doctors source

17 Aug 2009 10:52

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Biz: One of Citi’s big shots, Andrew Hall, got a big bonus anyway

  • $100 million the amount Citi paid Hall last year in bonuses, despite his company’s dire straits source
 

14 Aug 2009 12:16

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Biz, Tech: Like a bean bag chair, Apple’s sitting on a big pile of cash

  • $31.1 billion reserves; Steve Jobs is holding out on us source

14 Aug 2009 11:07

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Biz, U.S.: Need twenty bucks? Ask these super-rich guys for a loan

  • $702.4 million the amount Blackstone Group LP’s Stephen Schwarzman, made last year, largely from the vesting of equity grants source

13 Jul 2009 22:24

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Biz, U.S.: Like scary numbers? ‘Course you do. Here’s a really scary one

  • $94 billion U.S. budget deficit in June; that’s a lot of change source