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10 May 2010 10:08

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Biz: As expected, the market loved Europe’s response to the debt crisis

  • 3% the worldwide stock increase after Europe put its full financial might behind the debt crisis
  • 2% the amount the Euro gained on the dollar; in recent days, it had been floundering source
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09 May 2010 21:28

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Biz: The European Union throws a ton of money at debt crisis

  • €720B
     could get loaned to European countries greatly affected by the debt crisis
  • €440B
     the amount European countries will make available; the EU will loan €60 billion
  • €220B more could come from the Greece-helping International Monetary Fund source
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09 May 2010 11:59

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World: #(&@(&! volcano: Iceland’s ash causing more airline problems

Italy, Spain and Scotland, among others, have had to shut down their airspace as a result of Iceland’s continuing ash problems. source
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16 Oct 2009 21:36

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World: He was an exhumed Spanish poet, and he didn’t even know it

  • Federico Garcia Lorca will be exhumed from a Spanish mass grave. After years of fighting through the legal system, the last hurdle has been cleared and one of Spain’s greatest poets could be given a proper burial. Lorca, who was executed at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, has likely been sitting in the mass grave for over 70 years. source
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02 Sep 2009 09:58

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Sports: The Minnesota Timberwolves on the short end of the Ricky Rubio saga

  • I don’t think the disappointment should overshadow the big picture. Ricky is the youngest player in the draft. He’ll be 20 in two years. I can think of a lot worse things that can happen to us as a franchise. We tried and came very close.
  • David Kahn, Minnesota Timberwolves VP of basketball operations • Discussing the complications created by young Spanish phenom Ricky Rubio choosing to stay in Europe for two more years (the buyout clause in his contract helped his decision). The Timberwolves are like the college boyfriend for a girl who still hasn’t completely gotten over her high school sweetheart. Eventually, she’s going to look forward – well, as soon as she stops looking back. • source
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17 Jul 2009 17:00

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Sports: Ouch! Suspected shooting injures two Tour de France riders

  • 2 riders injured in a suspected air-rifle shooting source
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17 Jul 2009 10:13

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Offbeat, World: This old Spanish woman didn’t plan her family very well

  • 66 age of Maria del Carmen Bousada when she gave birth to twins using in vitro fertilization in 2006 – making her the world’s oldest new mom
  • 69 age of Bousada when she died last week – while her nephew and his wife will take care of the kids, she sure didn’t live long, did she? source
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10 Jul 2009 11:32

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World: Duh: Man killed by bull-goring during the running of the bulls

  • Most obvious headline we’ll write all day. Now, we’re not rocket scientists here, but if a bull is running after tons of people, it’s probably gonna hurt someone, right? Well, that’s Pamplona, Spain for you, where Daniel Jimeno Romero, 27, was killed in a bull attack. He’s the 15th fatal victim of the bull running since records started to be kept in 1924, and – not counting a guy who died after being in a coma for six months – the first to die since 1995. It’s a stupid tradition which should end, both for the safety of the bulls and for that of the humans. source
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28 Jun 2009 11:30

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World: Just this morning, Jose Manuel Zelaya didn’t see a coup coming

  • Everything was in place for the coup and if the U.S. embassy had approved it, it would have happened. But they did not … I’m only still here in office thanks to the United States.
  • (Uh, former) Honduran President Jose Manuel Zelaya • Quoted this morning in Spain’s El Pais as saying he would not in fact, be couped. Way to speak too soon. Zelaya tried to put in a referendum which the country’s Supreme Court decided was unconstitutional. He said he was going to do it anyway. He had completely noble reasons for the non-binding referendum, he said, which would have encouraged a constitutional referendum at the same time as the 2010 elections to allow for future presidents to be re-elected. Instead, he’s been put into exile. • source
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24 Jun 2009 21:05

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Sports: FINALLY. The U.S. has a reason to care about soccer.

That’s right, the U.S. pulled off an improbable win today, kicking long-undefeated Spain’s butt in international action. Wow. source
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