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DJ Chuang |
9:35am PDT |
djchuang in The City |
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Summary: What a time in the city of cities– I love new york! The energy pulsated thru my body soon as I stepped off the train and hit the pavement at Penn Stn after my late nite ride in from Newark airport.
Attended and live-twittered the Q conference fr We |
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Yahoo News |
9:34am PDT |
Haiti cuts cost of rice to stop food riots
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The Haitian government and the
private sector of the impoverished Caribbean country announced
an emergency plan on Saturday to bring down the price of rice
by about 15 percent in a bid to stop food riots. |
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BBC News |
9:29am PDT |
Mother's plea over beauty queen |
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Summary: A concerned mother travels to London to search for her missing daughter, a teenage beauty queen. |
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BBC News |
9:18am PDT |
Obama rues 'bitter' voter remark |
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Summary: US presidential hopeful Barack Obama says his description of "bitter" working-class voters was ill-chosen. |
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ChristianPost |
9:13am PDT |
Myths about 'Expelled' |
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Summary: If you have heard of the new documentary Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, opening April 18, chances are you have heard all kinds of distortions and myths about it. So let me set the record straight about some of the most common ... |
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Yahoo News |
9:13am PDT |
Online reservations only at NYC hot spot
(AP)
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Summary: AP - When one of the hottest chefs in town opened his newest creation, Momofuku Ko, the rich, powerful and influential immediately set about trying to land a reservation the easy way. They appealed to the chef. |
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ChristianPost |
9:06am PDT |
Threats Close Down Ill. Catholic College |
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Summary: Officials of a Catholic liberal arts college shut it down indefinitely Friday and told students to leave campus after threatening messages were found scrawled in the bathroom of a freshman ... |
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Yahoo News |
9:04am PDT |
Obama concedes remarks were ill chosen
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Democrat Barack Obama on Saturday conceded that comments he made about bitter working class voters who "cling to guns or religion" were ill chosen, as he tried to stem a burst of complaints that he is condescending. |
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ChristianPost |
9:01am PDT |
Conservatives Urge Marriott to Scrap Adult Movies |
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Summary: Several conservative groups, including the American Family Association, are asking Marriott International Inc. to stop giving hotel guests the option of ordering pay-per-view movies with strong sexual ... |
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BBC News |
9:01am PDT |
Davies goal gives Bolton lifeline |
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Summary: Kevin Davies' 100th career goal earns Bolton three precious points in a 1-0 win against West Ham. |
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Yahoo News |
9:01am PDT |
Clinton attacks Obama for remarks, he says he erred
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Democrat Hillary Clinton kept the
heat on U.S. presidential rival Barack Obama on Saturday for
his comments about small-town Pennsylvanians, as Obama
backtracked, saying he erred in describing their mood. |
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Yahoo News |
8:50am PDT |
Southern Africa leaders start Zimbabwe summit
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Southern African nations began an
emergency summit on Zimbabwe's election deadlock on Saturday. |
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Yahoo News |
8:46am PDT |
Democrat blames weak economy on Iraq war
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The growing cost to the United States of fighting the war in Iraq "is not only linked to our economic skid, but is a leading cause of it," a Democratic congressman said Saturday. |
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Yahoo News |
8:45am PDT |
Catholics seek bold papal action on sex abuse
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. Catholics angered and demoralized
by the priest sex abuse scandal say one man can help revitalize
the Church with bold action: Pope Benedict. |
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Yahoo News |
8:37am PDT |
Zimbabwe summit opens after Mbeki says there is no crisis
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Regional leaders opened Saturday an emergency summit to discuss Zimbabwe's disputed elections, but hopes of a tough statement dimmed hours earlier when South Africa's president said there was no crisis. |
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BBC News |
8:35am PDT |
Iran pressed to free campaigner |
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Summary: A letter published in Iran calls for the immediate release of women's rights campaigner Khadijeh Moghaddam. |
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BBC News |
8:24am PDT |
Summit bids to end Mugabe impasse |
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Summary: An emergency summit opens in Zambia to tackle Zimbabwe's poll deadlock, but President Mugabe is absent. |
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BBC News |
8:24am PDT |
France raid ship after crew freed |
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Summary: French commandos carry out a raid on Somali pirates soon after they release 30 hostages from a luxury yacht. |
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Yahoo News |
8:22am PDT |
Olympic torch flickers on to 'China-friendly' Africa
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - The Olympic torch was to emerge from a protest-plagued odyssey through Europe and the Americas Saturday for a low-risk albeit drastically curtailed African leg. |
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Cnn.com |
8:19am PDT |
Experts to counsel children of sect |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Yahoo News |
8:17am PDT |
African leaders meet on Zimbabwe
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Southern African leaders held an emergency summit Saturday to find a resolution to Zimbabwe's deepening political crisis, but Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe refused to attend, underlining his growing isolation in the region and the world. |
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BBC News |
8:17am PDT |
Ospreys beat Tigers to win EDF Cup |
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Summary: James Hook inspires the Ospreys to a 23-6 victory in the EDF Energy Cup final against Leicester at Twickenham. |
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BBC News |
7:48am PDT |
Live - The Masters |
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Summary: Tiger Woods starts his third round as he tries to catch leader Trevor Immelman at Augusta. |
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BBC News |
7:42am PDT |
'World peace' hitcher is murdered |
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Summary: A female Italian artist hitch-hiking to the Middle East in a wedding dress to promote world peace is murdered in Turkey. |
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BBC News |
7:41am PDT |
Pound sterling? |
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Summary: Winners and losers as the pound hits euro low |
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BBC News |
7:28am PDT |
Women dominate Spanish cabinet |
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Summary: Spain's prime minister unveils a cabinet with more women than men, including a rising star as defence minister. |
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BBC News |
7:24am PDT |
Pilot 'risked Red Arrows crash' |
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Summary: A flying instructor is fined for guiding a pupil into the path of a display by the Red Arrows. |
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Yahoo News |
7:15am PDT |
War-weary Pa. voters wonder about exit
(AP)
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Summary: AP - For Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, vital to getting the edge in military service-oriented but war-weary Pennsylvania is figuring out how to pull U.S. forces out of Iraq without dragging the flag in the process. |
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Yahoo News |
7:09am PDT |
Bush defends halt in troop withdrawals
(AP)
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Summary: AP - President Bush, defending his decision to halt withdrawals of U.S. troops after July, said Saturday that Iraqis are shouldering more responsibility for securing their future. |
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Yahoo News |
7:01am PDT |
Mbeki says no Zimbabwe crisis ahead of summit
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - South African President Thabo Mbeki said Saturday there was no post-election crisis in Zimbabwe, ahead of an emergency summit of regional leaders on the situation in the country. |
