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Cnn.com |
9:22am PDT |
CNN.com road trip tests biodiesel |
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Summary: A summer with budget-busting gasoline prices seems like the worst time to launch a cross-country road trip from California to Georgia, but this one is different: We're road-testing alternative fuel that might help reduce pollution and break the nation's r |
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BBC News |
9:16am PDT |
Faculty in league table expulsion |
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Summary: A university department caught pressurising students in an official survey is to be excluded from this year's league table. |
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BBC News |
9:16am PDT |
University expelled from rankings |
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Summary: A university department caught pressurising students in an official survey is to be excluded from the league table. |
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ChristianPost |
9:07am PDT |
Christian Bodies Press Zimbabwe Parties to Fix Problems |
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Summary: Some of the world's largest Christian organizations united together Thursday to urge Zimbabwe's two rival political parties to immediately fix the country's human rights and humanitarian problems as they begin power-sharing talks. |
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ChristianToday |
9:06am PDT |
Local election loss bitter blow to Brown |
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Summary: Labour lost one of its safest parliamentary seats on Friday deepening doubts within the party about Prime Minister Gordon Browns ability to win the next election |
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ChristianToday |
9:06am PDT |
Economy slows but rate cuts unlikely soon |
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Summary: The economy grew at its weakest pace in three years in the second quarter of this year official data showed on Friday but few analysts are betting interest rates will fall any time soon |
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DJ Chuang |
9:06am PDT |
Dave Gibbons? blog |
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Summary: Dave Gibbons is now blogging at www.davegibbons.tv
And Dave has a new book, Monkey and the Fish, to be released in January/February 2009. Pre-order it from amazon.com.
About the book, from the back cover:
Our world is marked by unprecedented degrees of |
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ChristianToday |
9:05am PDT |
Obama drops visit to wounded US troops in Germany |
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Summary: US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama dropped a plan to visit wounded US troops in Germany on Friday after the Pentagon said such venues should not be used for political campaigns |
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ChristianToday |
9:05am PDT |
Envoy turned away from Russian nuclear facility |
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Summary: The British ambassador to Moscow and two of his diplomats were refused entry to a UKfunded nuclear fuel storage facility in Russia when they turned up on a scheduled visit an embassy spokesman said on Friday |
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ChristianToday |
9:04am PDT |
Serb prosecutor sees Karadzic extradited next week |
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Summary: War crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic will be extradited to the United Nations tribunal in The Hague at the earliest on Monday Serbias chief war crimes prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic said on Friday |
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Yahoo News |
9:04am PDT |
World trade talks revived by "encouraging signs"
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Troubled global trade talks showed signs
of progress on Friday after crunch negotiations among seven key
countries, ministers and officials said. |
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Yahoo News |
9:03am PDT |
Prof whose 'last lecture' became a sensation dies
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose "last lecture" about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation and a best-selling book, died Friday. He was 47. |
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ChristianToday |
9:03am PDT |
EDF Energy leads energy price hikes |
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Summary: EDF Energy on Friday increased household power and gas prices for the second time this year while its competitors said they had no immediate plans to hike rates in response to soaring wholesale costs |
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BBC News |
9:03am PDT |
Feeling the pinch? |
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Summary: Is the credit crunch affecting you? |
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ChristianToday |
9:03am PDT |
Rhodes burns as Greek handling of fires slammed |
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Summary: Greek firefighters and soldiers backed by aircraft from other European countries fought a fourdayold forest fire on the holiday island of Rhodes on Friday but bad weather was hampering their efforts |
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ChristianToday |
9:02am PDT |
HBOS cuts mortgage rates |
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Summary: HBOS Britains biggest mortgage lender said it is cutting rates on some of its home loans the third time it has reduced borrowing costs this month |
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ChristianToday |
9:02am PDT |
Cornish pasty makers get brand name boost |
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Summary: Cornish pasty makers in Cornwall moved a step closer to securing branding and marketing rights for the traditional snack after the government backed their European bid for regional protection |
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ChristianToday |
9:01am PDT |
Jagger hits pension age |
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Summary: From Saturday Mick Jagger will be entitled to a basic state pension of just under 91 pounds a week |
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ChristianToday |
9:01am PDT |
UN hits out at UK antiterror laws |
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Summary: The United Nations human rights committee said on Thursday Britain should ease back on tough antiterror measures and take firm action to combat negative public attitudes towards Muslims |
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Yahoo News |
9:00am PDT |
Obama meets pro-US Sarkozy in Paris
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Barack Obama met in Paris Friday with the pro-US President Nicolas Sarkozy on a world tour aimed at burnishing the White House hopeful's foreign policy credentials ahead of November elections. |
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ChristianToday |
9:00am PDT |
Plane makes emergency landing at Manila |
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Summary: A Qantas Airways plane made an emergency landing in Manila on Friday after part of its undercarriage blew off triggering a loss in cabin pressure during a flight from Hong Kong to Melbourne |
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Cnn.com |
9:00am PDT |
Firm checks workers' fat, cuts health costs |
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Summary: Lincoln Industries looks like a typical blue-collar plant -- workers cutting, bending, plating and polishing steel for products such as motorcycle tailpipes and truck exhausts amid the din of machinery.
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BBC News |
8:58am PDT |
Hope of deal in world trade talks |
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Summary: Global trade talks that earlier looked near collapse have made progress and a deal might now be possible. |
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ChristianToday |
8:56am PDT |
Maliki invites Pope to visit Iraq |
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Summary: Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri alMaliki invited Pope Benedict on Friday to visit Iraq saying it would help the process of reconciliation |
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Cnn.com |
8:50am PDT |
McCain source: VP timing not settled |
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Summary: Sen. John McCain has not settled on a running mate and the timing of any announcement has not been determined, a senior McCain source told CNN.
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Cnn.com |
8:49am PDT |
U.S. expands Zimbabwe sanctions |
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Summary: President Bush signed an executive order Friday expanding U.S. sanctions against Zimbabwe, the White House said.
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Cnn.com |
8:48am PDT |
Gas prices fight ties Congress in knots |
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Summary: Congress is locked in a partisan dispute over energy legislation that has produced plenty of combustible debate but is unlikely to produce a bill to help lower gas prices anytime soon.
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Yahoo News |
8:43am PDT |
Housing rescue on track to pass Senate by Saturday
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Senate cleared the last hurdle Friday to passing a housing rescue aimed at sparing hundreds of thousands of homeowners from foreclosure and bolstering troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. |
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BBC News |
8:41am PDT |
All that sparkles |
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Summary: Fake gems don't just lack carats but backstories too |
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Yahoo News |
8:31am PDT |
Power outages widespread in Texas after Dolly
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Business at reopened restaurants was humming, grocery store parking lots were packed and residents of south Texas were venturing out on the newly dry roads again as the remnants of Hurricane Dolly moved well away from the Rio Grande Valley. |
