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- Burris: #39;I am the legally-appointed senator#39; - CNN table border=0 width= valign=top cellpadding=2 cellspacing=7trtd width=80 align=center valign=topfont style=font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serifa href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/11i-0fd=Rurl=http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2008/12/30/fast-facts-roland-w-burris-biography/cid=1286983637ei=e6BiSdb8IoKQNaSA8cgDusg=AFQjCNHxouT31jfQRPHcvaH5fFLMgNaOgAimg src=http://nt0.ggpht.com/news?imgefp=bEc2x3z0yYsJimgurl=www.foxnews.com/politics/img/123008_burris2.jpg width=80 height=60 alt= border=1brfont size=-2FOXNews/font/a/font/tdtd valign=top class=jfont style=font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serifbrdiv style=padding-top:0.8em;img alt= height=1 width=1/divdiv class=lha href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/11-0fd=Rurl=http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/05/burris.transcript/cid=1286983637ei=e6BiSdb8IoKQNaSA8cgDusg=AFQjCNGdbrSvItz5Tc24VcZRJCzLctlGHgbBurris: #39;I am the legally-appointed senator#39;/b/abrfont size=-1bfont color=#6f6f6fCNNnbsp;-/font nobr55 minutes ago/nobr/b/fontbrfont size=-1(CNN) -- CNN#39;s Wolf Blitzer spoke Monday with Roland Burris, picked by Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to fill President-elect Barack Obama#39;s US Senate seat./fontbrfont size=-1a href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/11-1fd=Rurl=http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Da7mSpdDbtfwcid=1286983637ei=e6BiSdb8IoKQNaSA8cgDusg=AFQjCNHsesTaMzlAdeOIj6fgg525w90CrAVideo: Burris Says Senate Appointment Is Legal/a font size=-1 color=#6f6f6fnobrAssociatedPress/nobr/fontobject width=448 height=356param name=movie value=http://www.youtube.com/v/a7mSpdDbtfw/paramparam name=wmode value=transparent/paramembed src=http://www.youtube.com/v/a7mSpdDbtfwtype=application/x-shockwave-flashwmode=transparentwidth=448height=356/embed/objectbr/fontfont size=-1a href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/11-2fd=Rurl=http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE5045LF20090105cid=1286983637ei=e6BiSdb8IoKQNaSA8cgDusg=AFQjCNEUAo7nkXJWJb4TlK-Omr-MHCP67QSenate to open with two headaches wanting in/a font size=-1 color=#6f6f6fnobrReuters/nobr/font/fontbrfont size=-1 class=pa href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/11-3fd=Rurl=http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jJ2WKGXzDaHTq_VnwhtyFHe8ZLYgD95H8MTG0cid=1286983637ei=e6BiSdb8IoKQNaSA8cgDusg=AFQjCNHGXY9qRBOpX3R_QA-dDZNWCp-eMgnobrThe Associated Press/nobr/anbsp;- a href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/11-4fd=Rurl=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/06/us/06burris.html%3Fhpcid=1286983637ei=e6BiSdb8IoKQNaSA8cgDusg=AFQjCNE4_UzghOOK8xa4kT1y3cSoH_TgVAnobrNew York Times/nobr/anbsp;- a href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/11-5fd=Rurl=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/01/05/2009-01-05_secretary_of_senate_rejects_roland_burri.htmlcid=1286983637ei=e6BiSdb8IoKQNaSA8cgDusg=AFQjCNHa5d_VA6xAyjtrinc4q85w8UHTeAnobrNew York Daily News/nobr/anbsp;- a href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/11-6fd=Rurl=http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/01/05/burris-insists-junior-senator-illinois/cid=1286983637ei=e6BiSdb8IoKQNaSA8cgDusg=AFQjCNHK8vv-qbg8KwpE9ciigF2LlmG1wQnobrFOXNews/nobr/a/fontbr/font class=p size=-1a class=p href=http://news.google.com/nwshp?tab=wnncl=1286983637hl=ennobrball 2,472 news articles/b/nobr/a/font/div/font/td/tr/table
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- Concerns of civilian deaths rise in Sri Lanka - The Associated Press table border=0 width= valign=top cellpadding=2 cellspacing=7trtd width=80 align=center valign=topfont style=font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serifa href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/13i-0fd=Rurl=http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/02/srilankacid=1286131298ei=e6BiSdb8IoKQNaSA8cgDusg=AFQjCNFfZKAU5-qykdiuxtFaA5EPSwKxoAimg src=http://nt3.ggpht.com/news?imgefp=uz7E7HDghrsJimgurl=static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2009/01/02/srilank460.jpg width=80 height=48 alt= border=1brfont size=-2guardian.co.uk/font/a/font/tdtd valign=top class=jfont style=font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serifbrdiv style=padding-top:0.8em;img alt= height=1 width=1/divdiv class=lha href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/13-0fd=Rurl=http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gVoaDFmbCYS-Usz9ACDRIengj21QD95H39281cid=1286131298ei=e6BiSdb8IoKQNaSA8cgDusg=AFQjCNGhwq_j2bGs5x6EhAdAv9nWiOQG9gbConcerns of civilian deaths rise in Sri Lanka/b/abrfont size=-1bfont color=#6f6f6fThe Associated Pressnbsp;-/font nobr7 hours ago/nobr/b/fontbrfont size=-1COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Sri Lankan forces overran another village Monday and moved closer to seizing a strategic base from the Tamil Tigers, but concerns are mounting for the hundreds of thousands of civilians living in the rebels#39; shrinking b.../b/fontbrfont size=-1a href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/13-1fd=Rurl=http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/01/05/Sri_Lanka_celebrates_win_over_rebels/UPI-57151231167152/cid=1286131298ei=e6BiSdb8IoKQNaSA8cgDusg=AFQjCNEhesGzFXDz_XZyynLObyg2gzDjogSri Lanka celebrates win over rebels/a font size=-1 color=#6f6f6fnobrUnited Press International/nobr/font/fontbrfont size=-1a href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/13-2fd=Rurl=http://www.hindu.com/2009/01/06/stories/2009010654621000.htmcid=1286131298ei=e6BiSdb8IoKQNaSA8cgDusg=AFQjCNH47rbweEtGQV0X__tiB26uzjFB7QIndia for political solution in Sri Lanka/a font size=-1 color=#6f6f6fnobrHindu/nobr/font/fontbrfont size=-1 class=pa href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/13-3fd=Rurl=http://www.ptinews.com/pti%255Cptisite.nsf/0/5C8BB6DA5972FFC7652575350062CD63%3FOpenDocumentcid=1286131298ei=e6BiSdb8IoKQNaSA8cgDusg=AFQjCNGnS5auq5S_UvTkX2tk9V3jDQ-R_AnobrPress Trust of India/nobr/anbsp;- a href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/13-4fd=Rurl=http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-01/05/content_10608598.htmcid=1286131298ei=e6BiSdb8IoKQNaSA8cgDusg=AFQjCNHrhLb4MVKoEsbxL9jAOn3kdc4CLwnobrXinhua/nobr/anbsp;- a href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/13-5fd=Rurl=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7790366.stmcid=1286131298ei=e6BiSdb8IoKQNaSA8cgDusg=AFQjCNHoRGTgpqJiXdZq3JosJWBzaJhNvQnobrBBC News/nobr/anbsp;- a href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/13-6fd=Rurl=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article5449198.ececid=1286131298ei=e6BiSdb8IoKQNaSA8cgDusg=AFQjCNHFGLE0AJb220qikYRd9pX_OAUdFwnobrTimes Online/nobr/a/fontbr/font class=p size=-1a class=p href=http://news.google.com/nwshp?tab=wnncl=1286131298hl=ennobrball 3,335 news articles/b/nobr/a/font/div/font/td/tr/table
- Romijn and O#39;Connell Welcome Twin Girls - San Francisco Chronicle table border=0 width= valign=top cellpadding=2 cellspacing=7trtd width=80 align=center valign=topfont style=font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serifa href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/14i-0fd=Rurl=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail%3Fblogid%3D7%26entry_id%3D34193cid=1287235875ei=e6BiSdb8IoKQNaSA8cgDusg=AFQjCNGSZDfoitWH4-FDAlRHkeAK6ZEH0Qimg src=http://nt3.ggpht.com/news?imgefp=PyL8nAHpn70Jimgurl=imgs.sfgate.com/blogs/images/sfgate/dailydish/2009/01/05/People_Romijn_O_Connell_NYE300x223.JPG width=80 height=59 alt= border=1brfont size=-2San Francisco Chronicle/font/a/font/tdtd valign=top class=jfont style=font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serifbrdiv style=padding-top:0.8em;img alt= height=1 width=1/divdiv class=lha href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/14-0fd=Rurl=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail%3Fblogid%3D7%26entry_id%3D34193cid=1287235875ei=e6BiSdb8IoKQNaSA8cgDusg=AFQjCNGSZDfoitWH4-FDAlRHkeAK6ZEH0QbRomijn and O#39;Connell Welcome Twin Girls/b/abrfont size=-1bfont color=#6f6f6fSan Francisco Chroniclenbsp;-/font nobr1 hour ago/nobr/b/fontbrfont size=-1AP Photo/Adam Rountree, file Rebecca Romijn and Jerry O#39;Connell are celebrating after the quot;Ugly Bettyquot; actress gave birth to twin girls./fontbrfont size=-1a href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/14-1fd=Rurl=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,476024,00.htmlcid=1287235875ei=e6BiSdb8IoKQNaSA8cgDusg=AFQjCNHa7r7-6VDAgskrni07JIDWgH8ZjgRebecca Romijn Gives Birth to Twin Girls/a font size=-1 color=#6f6f6fnobrFOXNews/nobr/font/fontbrfont size=-1a href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/14-2fd=Rurl=http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j-QFodS6xmE_UYikV4qa5zLAeDwwD95H5SG80cid=1287235875ei=e6BiSdb8IoKQNaSA8cgDusg=AFQjCNG7Y-RRZZzwvsQK86Wfw87J5s01EQRebecca Romijn and Jerry O#39;Connell have twin girls/a font size=-1 color=#6f6f6fnobrThe Associated Press/nobr/font/fontbrfont size=-1 class=pa href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/14-3fd=Rurl=http://www.thecelebritycafe.com/features/23141.htmlcid=1287235875ei=e6BiSdb8IoKQNaSA8cgDusg=AFQjCNG7H4mHqRzM3suhm4IFbs0aIXyuewnobrTheCelebrityCafe.com/nobr/anbsp;- a href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/14-4fd=Rurl=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28505955/cid=1287235875ei=e6BiSdb8IoKQNaSA8cgDusg=AFQjCNFsR-H7_cC5KMMWOiXHDiIMYuTF5AnobrMSNBC/nobr/anbsp;- a href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/14-5fd=Rurl=http://www.monstersandcritics.com/people/news/article_1451703.php/Actress_Rebecca_Romijn_gives_birth_to_twin_daughters_cid=1287235875ei=e6BiSdb8IoKQNaSA8cgDusg=AFQjCNGsmLrt4Kz_LJYWTQot0YvanwMK7AnobrMonsters and Critics.com/nobr/anbsp;- a href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/14-6fd=Rurl=http://www.nj.com/entertainment/celebrities/index.ssf/2009/01/twin_girls_for_rebecca_romijn.htmlcid=1287235875ei=e6BiSdb8IoKQNaSA8cgDusg=AFQjCNHBUfvvqc1DLIMIxAK0N2aFziSQIAnobrThe Star-Ledger - NJ.com/nobr/a/fontbr/font class=p size=-1a class=p href=http://news.google.com/nwshp?tab=wnncl=1287235875hl=ennobrball 254 news articles/b/nobr/a/font/div/font/td/tr/table
- Obama plunges into econ talks, predicts approval
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AP - President-elect Barack Obama plunged into rare pre-inaugural crisis talks with congressional leaders Monday, declaring the national economy was bad and getting worse and embracing tax cuts now expected to reach $300 billion. He predicted lawmakers would approve a mammoth revitalization package within two weeks of his taking office.
- Obama's intel picks short on direct experience
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AP - President-elect Barack Obama's decision to fill the nation's top intelligence jobs with two men short on direct experience in intelligence gathering surprised the spy community and signaled the Democrat's intention for a clean break from Bush administration policies.
- Gaza civilian toll rises; diplomats seek truce
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AP - GAZA CITY, Gaza Israel ignored mounting international calls for a cease-fire Monday and said it won't stop its crippling 10-day assault until peace and tranquility are achieved in southern Israeli towns in the line of Palestinian rocket fire.
- Burris says he's senator but Dems won't seat him
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AP - Senate Democrats struggled to avert a showdown steeped in race and corruption Monday as a defiant Roland Burris declared, I'm a United States senator and flew to the capital to claim President-elect Barack Obama's old seat in Congress.
- Franken on top in Minn. recount; Coleman to sue
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AP - A Minnesota board on Monday certified results showing Democrat Al Franken winning the state's U.S. Senate recount over Republican Norm Coleman, whose lawyer promised a legal challenge that probably will keep the race in limbo for months.
- Congressmen sound off against SEC in Madoff affair
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AP - Republican and Democratic House members said Monday that the alleged $50 billion fraud involving Wall Street figure Bernard Madoff reflects deep, systemic problems at the Securities and Exchange Commission.
- Milky Way the galaxy not snack-sized anymore
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AP - Take that, Andromeda! For decades, astronomers thought when it came to the major galaxies in Earth's cosmic neighborhood, our Milky Way was a weak sister to the larger Andromeda. Not anymore. The Milky Way is considerably larger, bulkier and spinning faster than astronomers once thought, Andromeda's equal.
- Death certificate: Travolta son killed by seizure
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AP - Jett Travolta's body shows no sign of head trauma and his death certificate says he was killed by a seizure, an undertaker said Monday, as the 16-year-old's celebrity parents prepared for a Florida funeral.
- Police: Mexican woman in wheelchair flees on foot
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AP - Police say a woman who begged from a wheelchair was caught running from a crime scene on foot in Monterrey, Mexico. Police spokeswoman Sidlayin Robles says 30-year-old Ana Victoria Perez fled on foot after she and her husband allegedly threw a stone through the front window of a furniture store.
- AP source: Twins owner Pohlad dead at age 93
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AP - Carl Pohlad, a billionaire banker whose Minnesota Twins won two World Series titles during nearly his nearly quarter-century as owner, died Monday, a baseball official said. He was 93.
- Israel deaf to truce calls as Gaza battles rage on
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Reuters - Israeli troops backed by air strikes fought to seize ground from Hamas militants deep inside the Gaza Strip on Monday despite international calls for a ceasefire in a conflict that has killed more than 540 Palestinians in 10 days.
- Prosecutors seek to jail Madoff
(Reuters)
Reuters - U.S. prosecutors asked a judge to jail accused swindler Bernard Madoff on Monday, saying he sent jewelry and other items worth more than $1 million to family and friends in violation of his bail.
- Obama picks former Clinton aide Panetta for CIA
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Reuters - President-elect Barack Obama has chosen former White House chief of staff Leon Panetta to lead the CIA, which has been widely criticized for harsh interrogation of terrorism suspects, Democratic officials said on Monday.
- U.S., Germany mull tax cuts
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Reuters - The prospect of new tax cuts in the United States and Germany injected a measure of New Year cheer on Monday, even as automakers wrapped up 2008 as their worst in more than 15 years with yet another month of slumping U.S. sales.
- Obama seeks swift passage of fiscal package
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Reuters - President-elect Barack Obama pressed congressional leaders on Monday to pass his huge spending and tax-cut package amid signs the centerpiece of his economic stimulus plan may face delays.
- Hamas defiant over rocket strikes A senior Hamas official says the Gaza leadership has no intention of stopping its rocket attacks on Israel, despite claims from Palestinian sources that more than 500 have died during Israeli reprisals.
- Doctor in Gaza: Patients 'lying everywhere' Gaza's main hospital, already overloaded with Palestinians wounded in the week-long Israeli air assault, has reached critical mass, according to a Norwegian doctor volunteering at Shifa Hospital.
- Masked gunmen attack riot police in Athens Gunmen attacked a riot police unit in Athens Monday, seriously injuring an officer following weeks of violent protests sparked by the deadly police shooting of a teenager last month.
- New U.S. Embassy opens in Baghdad Just days after the U.S. military formally handed authority of Baghdad's "Green Zone" over to the Iraqis, the new American Embassy opened in Baghdad.
- Officials: Panetta, Blair picked for intel jobs Leon Panetta, chief of staff in President Clinton's White House, will be President-elect Barack Obama's choice to be director of the CIA, two Democratic officials told CNN on Monday.
- Board certifies Franken win; lawsuit looms In a move that leaves a post-election legal challenge the last hope for Republican Sen. Norm Coleman, Minnesota's high court has denied his campaign's request to consider about 650 additional rejected absentee ballots.
- Meeting to end Ukraine gas crisis European and Russian leaders are holding crisis meetings Monday to try to defuse a dispute between the Russian energy giant Gazprom and Ukraine's state-run gas company Naftogaz Ukrainy.
- India hands Mumbai attacks file to Pakistan India says it has handed evidence it says links the November massacre in Mumbai to "elements in Pakistan" over to Pakistani government officials.
- Autopsy to proceed on Travolta's son Doctors will attempt to determine Monday why actor John Travolta's teenage son died.
- German battlefield yields Roman surprises Archaeologists have found more than 600 relics from a huge battle between a Roman army and Barbarians in the third century, long after historians believed Rome had given up control of northern Germany.
- Bleak Sales in December Cap a Grim Year for Automakers Vehicle sales plunged 53 percent at Chrysler, while G.M., Ford and Toyota all reported declines of between 31 and 37 percent from December a year ago.br/br/span class="advertisement" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=ba6699eca028480181189b6a17db1074u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/06/business/06auto.html"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=ba6699eca028480181189b6a17db1074u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/06/business/06auto.html" border="0"//a/span
- Prosecutors Want Madoff’s Bail Revoked The disgraced financier Bernard L. Madoff tried to hide at least $1 million in assets from government investigators, federal prosecutors told a judge Monday.br/br/span class="advertisement" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=ba6699eca028480181189b6a17db1074u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/06/business/06madoff.html"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=ba6699eca028480181189b6a17db1074u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/06/business/06madoff.html" border="0"//a/span
- Israel Drives Deeper Into Gaza, Rebuffing Diplomatic Efforts As European diplomats sought a cease-fire, Israeli troops poured into Gaza City, expelling residents and shooting militants.br/br/span class="advertisement" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=ba6699eca028480181189b6a17db1074u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/06/world/middleeast/06mideast.html"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=ba6699eca028480181189b6a17db1074u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/06/world/middleeast/06mideast.html" border="0"//a/span
- City Room: A ‘Black Box’ for Taxicabs? The city will install windshield-mounted cameras, similar to the "black boxes" in aircraft, which will record data on vehicle use, road accidents and other information in and around cameras.br/br/span class="advertisement" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=ba6699eca028480181189b6a17db1074u=http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/05/a-black-box-for-taxicabs/index.html"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=ba6699eca028480181189b6a17db1074u=http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/05/a-black-box-for-taxicabs/index.html" border="0"//a/span
- The Fifth Down: Wild-Card Weekend A look at some of the storylines to come out of the first-round games.br/br/span class="advertisement" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=ba6699eca028480181189b6a17db1074u=http://fifthdown.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/05/trend-spotting-in-the-nfl-playoffs-wild-card-weekend/index.html"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=ba6699eca028480181189b6a17db1074u=http://fifthdown.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/05/trend-spotting-in-the-nfl-playoffs-wild-card-weekend/index.html" border="0"//a/span
- Wheels: Mars Rovers Are Alive at Five NASA expected its two Mars rovers to survive only three months in the dusty and freezing Martian conditions. But Saturday marked the five-year anniversary of the first robot's landing.br/br/span class="advertisement" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=ba6699eca028480181189b6a17db1074u=http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/05/mars-rovers-are-alive-at-five/index.html"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=ba6699eca028480181189b6a17db1074u=http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/05/mars-rovers-are-alive-at-five/index.html" border="0"//a/span
- As 9 Runs End, Hope for a Brighter Future on a Darker Broadway There is a sense of heavy reckoning on Broadway after nine productions closed on Sunday night.br/br/span class="advertisement" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=ba6699eca028480181189b6a17db1074u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/06/theater/06bway.html"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=ba6699eca028480181189b6a17db1074u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/06/theater/06bway.html" border="0"//a/span
- Defiant Burris Says Senate Seat Is His Senate leaders are challenging Roland W. Burris’s appointment, setting the stage for a showdown on Capitol Hill.br/br/span class="advertisement" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=ba6699eca028480181189b6a17db1074u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/06/us/06burris.html"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=ba6699eca028480181189b6a17db1074u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/06/us/06burris.html" border="0"//a/span
- The Caucus: Panetta to Be Named C.I.A. Director Leon E. Panetta, the former congressman and White House chief of staff, would take over an agency buffeted by criticism.br/br/span class="advertisement" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=ba6699eca028480181189b6a17db1074u=http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/05/panetta-to-be-named-cia-director/index.html"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=ba6699eca028480181189b6a17db1074u=http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/05/panetta-to-be-named-cia-director/index.html" border="0"//a/span
- Apple’s Jobs Explains His Weight Loss Steven P. Jobs said that he was being treated for a hormone imbalance but would remain in his job.br/br/span class="advertisement" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=ba6699eca028480181189b6a17db1074u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/06/technology/companies/06apple.html"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=ba6699eca028480181189b6a17db1074u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/06/technology/companies/06apple.html" border="0"//a/span
- U.S. Sending Emergency Aid to Darfur President Bush has authorized an immediate airlift of vehicles and equipment to bolster the international peace-keeping mission in the conflict-torn Darfur region of western Sudan.br/br/span class="advertisement" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=ba6699eca028480181189b6a17db1074u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/06/washington/06darfur.html"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=ba6699eca028480181189b6a17db1074u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/06/washington/06darfur.html" border="0"//a/span
- New York Housing Plan Is Delayed Tight financing has pushed back an initiative to create or preserve 165,000 residential units.br/br/span class="advertisement" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=ba6699eca028480181189b6a17db1074u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/06/nyregion/06housing.html"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=ba6699eca028480181189b6a17db1074u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/06/nyregion/06housing.html" border="0"//a/span
- Griffin Bell, Ex-Attorney General, Dies The dean of Georgia lawyers, Mr. Bell, 90, also served as a federal judge and prominent legal troubleshooter.br/br/span class="advertisement" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=ba6699eca028480181189b6a17db1074u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/06/washington/06bell.html"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=ba6699eca028480181189b6a17db1074u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/06/washington/06bell.html" border="0"//a/span
- A Top Editor Leaving Washington Post Passed over for the top job, Philip Bennett decides it is time to leave.br/br/span class="advertisement" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=ba6699eca028480181189b6a17db1074u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/06/business/media/06post.html"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=ba6699eca028480181189b6a17db1074u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/06/business/media/06post.html" border="0"//a/span
- Israel deaf to truce calls as Gaza battles rage on GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli troops backed by air strikes fought to seize ground from Hamas militants deep inside the Gaza Strip on Monday despite international calls for a ceasefire in a conflict that has killed more than 540 Palestinians in 10 days.div class="feedflare"
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- Prosecutors seek to jail Madoff NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors asked a judge to jail accused swindler Bernard Madoff on Monday, saying he sent jewelry and other items worth more than $1 million to family and friends in violation of his bail.div class="feedflare"
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- Obama picks former Clinton aide Panetta for CIA WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama has chosen former White House chief of staff Leon Panetta to lead the CIA, which has been widely criticized for harsh interrogation of terrorism suspects, Democratic officials said on Monday.div class="feedflare"
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- U.S., Germany mull tax cuts NEW YORK (Reuters) - The prospect of new tax cuts in the United States and Germany injected a measure of New Year cheer on Monday, even as automakers wrapped up 2008 as their worst in more than 15 years with yet another month of slumping U.S. sales.div class="feedflare"
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- Obama seeks swift passage of fiscal package WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama pressed congressional leaders on Monday to pass his huge spending and tax-cut package amid signs the centerpiece of his economic stimulus plan may face delays.div class="feedflare"
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- Apple's Jobs reassures investors about his health NEW YORK (Reuters) - Apple Inc Chief Executive Steve Jobs sought to soothe investor concerns about his health on Monday, saying his weight loss was caused by a hormone imbalance that is relatively simple to treat.div class="feedflare"
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- Democrat wins Minnesota Senate seat in recount MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - Democrat Al Franken beat Republican incumbent Norm Coleman to win the U.S. Senate seat from Minnesota, officials conducting a final recount said on Monday, though the loser promised to challenge the result.div class="feedflare"
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- U.S. anti-kidnap expert's vanishing spins Mexico mystery MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - The abduction of a U.S. anti-kidnap expert in northern Mexico last month remains a mystery with no clues to the man's whereabouts and no ransom demanded by his captors, police said on Monday.div class="feedflare"
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- Russia reduces gas flows to Europe via Ukraine MOSCOW/KIEV (Reuters) - Russia reduced gas flows to Europe via Ukraine on Monday, a measure it said was to stop its neighbor siphoning off fuel but which Kiev said could jeopardize supplies to European countries including Germany.div class="feedflare"
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- U.S. opens new Iraq embassy BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The United States dedicated its new embassy building in Baghdad on Monday, a step meant to symbolize its transition from occupying power to an ally of a sovereign Iraqi government.div class="feedflare"
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- Carefully Timed Jerks Could Power Space Elevator Hugh Pickens writes "BBC has an interesting article on the long-standing issue of how to power the 'climber' that would ascend a space elevator into space. Previous ideas have included delivering microwave or laser power to the climber beamed from the Earth's surface, but now European Space Agency ground station engineer Age-Raymond Riise has demonstrated a device that could provide a "lift into space" for cheaper space missions along a 100,000-km long tether anchored to the Earth. Riise demonstrated sending power mechanically by providing carefully timed jerks of the cable at its base with a broomstick to represent the cable held in tension, an electric sander to provide a rhythmic vibration to the bottom of the stick, and three brushes representing the climber with their bristles pointing downwards allowing the climber assembly to slide upward along the broomstick as it moved slightly downward, but grip it as it moved slightly upward. 'It would be possible to make a suspension system that completely decouples the cabin where the passengers are,' says Riise. 'For them it would be a linear movement with very little disturbance.' Riise says that he has been approached by commercial elevator companies, who are researching new ideas for elevators in superscrapers where the simplicity of the approach makes it attractive when compared to other ideas for powering lifts, such as compressed air."pa href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/05/230211amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/01/05/230211"/a/ppa href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/05/230211amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p
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- Employees the Next (Continuing) Big Security Risk? surely_you_cant_be_serious writes "A nationwide survey finds that most companies consider their systems vulnerable to attack. Historically, crime rates increase during recessions mdash; and some believe that cybercrime may well follow suit, especially given massive layoffs and the dim prospects many laid-off employees face in finding a new job. 'One thing companies can start doing is monitoring their networks on an ongoing basis so that they understand the normal pattern of data flow and usage, Brill said. In many cases, companies may not have the internal capability to do this, but outsourcing options are available. Kroll Ontrack, for instance, will be rolling out a 24/7 monitoring service for its global clients manned from a US location by professionals in early 2009.'"pa href="http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/05/2137202amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/01/05/2137202"/a/ppa href="http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/05/2137202amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p
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- A Hacker's Audacious Plan To Rule the Underground An anonymous reader writes "Wired has the inside story of Max Butler, a former white hat hacker who joined the underground following a jail stint for hacking the Pentagon. His most ambitious hack was a hostile takeover of the major underground carding boards where stolen credit card and identity data are bought and sold. The attack made his own site, CardersMarket, the largest crime forum in the world, with 6,000 users. But it also made the feds determined to catch him, since one of the sites he hacked, DarkMarket.ws, was secretly a sting operation run by the FBI."pa href="http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/05/2038251amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/01/05/2038251"/a/ppa href="http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/05/2038251amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p
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- Distributed "Nuclear Batteries" the New Infrastructure Answer? thepacketmaster writes "The Star reports about a new power generation model using smaller distributed power generators located closer to the consumer. This saves money on power generation lines and creates an infrastructure that can be more easily expanded with smaller incremental steps, compared to bigger centralized power generation projects. The generators in line for this are green sources, but Hyperion Power Generation, NuScale, Adams Atomic Engines (and some other companies) are offering small nuclear reactors to plug into this type of infrastructure. The generator from Hyperion is about the size of a garden shed, and uses older technology that is not capable of creating nuclear warheads, and supposedly self-regulating so it won't go critical. They envision burying reactors near the consumers for 5-10 years, digging them back up and recycling them. Since they are so low maintenance and self-contained, they are calling them nuclear batteries."pa href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/05/1954234amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/01/05/1954234"/a/ppa href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/05/1954234amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p
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- ESA Embraces Open Source With New SAR Toolbox phyr writes "The European Space Agency (ESA) has released its Next ESA SAR Toolbox (NEST) freely as GPL for Linux and Windows. It provides an integrated viewer for reading, calibrating, post-processing and analysis of ESA (ERS 1amp;2, ENVISAT) and 3rd party (Radarsat2, TerraSarX, Alos Palsar, JERS) SAR level 1 data and higher. ESA has chosen to distribute the software as fully open source to allow the remote sensing community to easily develop new readers/writers and post-processors for SAR data with their NEST Java API. The software provides both a command line interface and GUI for all features including data conversion, graph processing, coregistration, multilooking, filtering, and band arithmetic."pa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/05/1826243amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/01/05/1826243"/a/ppa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/05/1826243amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p
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- Ubuntu Kung Fu Lorin Ricker writes "Back in the dark ages of windows-based GUIs, corresponding to my own wandering VMS evangelical days, I became enamored of a series of books jauntily entitled Xxx Annoyances (from O'Reilly amp; Assocs.), where "Xxx" could be anything from "Windows 95", "Word", "Excel" or nearly piece of software which Microsoft produced. These were, if not the first, certainly among the most successful of the "tips amp; tricks" books that have become popular and useful to scads of hobbyists, ordinary users, hackers and, yes, even professionals in various IT pursuits. I was attracted, even a bit addicted, to these if only because they offered to try to make some useful sense out of the bewildering design choices, deficiencies and bugs that I'd find rampant in Windows and its application repertory. Then I found Keir Thomas, who has been writing about Linux for more than a decade. His new "tips" book entitled, Ubuntu Kung Fu mdash; Tips amp; Tools for Exploring Using, and Tuning Linux, and published by Pragmatic Bookshelf, is wonderful. Having only recently wandered into the light of Linux, open source software, and Ubuntu in particular, this book comes as a welcome infusion to my addiction." Read below for the rest of Lorin's review.pa href="http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/05/1548229amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/01/05/1548229"/a/ppa href="http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/05/1548229amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p
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- New Method To Revolutionize DNA Sequencing Anonymous Coward writes "A new method of DNA sequencing published this week in science identifies incorporation of single bases by fluorescence. This has been shown to increase read lengths from 20 bases (454 sequencing) to gt;4000 bases, with a 99.3% accuracy. Single molecule reading can reduce costs and increase the rate at which reads can be performed. 'So far, the team has built a chip housing 3000 ZMWs [waveguides], which the company hopes will hit the market in 2010. By 2013, it aims to squeeze a million ZMWs [waveguides] onto a single chip and observe DNA being assembled in each simultaneously. Company founder Stephen Turner estimates that such a chip would be able to sequence an entire human genome in under half an hour to 99.999 per cent accuracy for under $1000.'"pa href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/05/1730219amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/01/05/1730219"/a/ppa href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/05/1730219amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p
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- LG High-Def TVs To Stream Netflix Videos DJAdapt writes to tell us that LG has launched a new line of high definition TVs that will be capable of streaming Netflix videos with no additional hardware. This is just another in a long line of expansions from the once DVD rental service, which has expanded to the Roku set top box, Xbox 360, PC, Mac, and Linux platforms recently. "Piping movies directly to TV sets is the natural evolution of the video streaming service, said Reed Hastings, the chief executive of Netflix. "The TV symbolizes the ultimate destination," he said. That idea -- shared by Sony Corp., which already streams feature films and TV shows directly to its Bravia televisions -- is still in its early stages. Netflix's streaming service taps a library of 12,000 titles, while the company's DVD menu numbers more than 100,000 titles. Hastings expects that gap will "definitely narrow" over time, but he noted that DVDs maintain an advantage over streaming, which is that "they are very profitable" for film studios."pa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/05/1646257amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/01/05/1646257"/a/ppa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/05/1646257amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p
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- Do Twitter Phishing Scams Herald the End of Microblogs? An anonymous reader writes "Twitter's been hit by a big phishing scam. Culture Crash blogger Dan Tynan says this is the end Twitter's innocence. Will tweets become like email, with two out of every three just worthless spam?"pa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/05/1527243amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/01/05/1527243"/a/ppa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/05/1527243amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p
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- Microsoft Rumored To Lay Off Thousands Worldwide nandemoari writes "It seems not even Microsoft is impervious to the effects of this increasingly painful recession. According to reports, the Redmond-based company is preparing to lay off about 17 per cent of its entire workforce in the coming months. Despite its portfolio diversity mdash; including operating systems, antivirus software, and video game consoles mdash; Microsoft is clearly feeling the pressure applied by a tightening global economy. In fact, there seems to be a sense of emergency to the massive cuts (about 15,000 workers out of 90,000), which rumors suggest should be made official by January 15."pa href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/05/157243amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/01/05/157243"/a/ppa href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/05/157243amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p
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- Steve Jobs Issues Update On His Health i4u writes "Rumors about Steve Jobs' health have been flying high again after Apple announced that he will not be holding the keynote at the Macworld 2009. Today Steve Jobs issued a letter with a rather personal update on why he was losing weight in 2008. The reason for losing weight in 2008 is a hormone imbalance that has been reducing proteins. The remedy for this nutritional problem is relatively simple and straightforward according to Jobs. Steve and his doctors predict that he will have normal weight again by Spring. So stop the rumors and enjoy Macworld 2009."pa href="http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/05/1429210amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/01/05/1429210"/a/ppa href="http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/05/1429210amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p
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- Review of 'MacHeads' Documentary An anonymous reader writes "Just prior to its premiere at MacWorld later this week, CNet has a review of MacHeads, the new documentary film covering the obsessive world of Apple fanboyism. MacHeads features commentary from original Apple employees, the self-confessed Apple-obsessed and girls who claim they'll never sleep with Windows users. Summed up by CNet: 'MacHeads is a superb film that will give Apple haters a few cheap laughs, and Apple fans a few cheap thrills. But it'll entertain both equally, while educating everybody else.'"pa href="http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/05/1330217amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/01/05/1330217"/a/ppa href="http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/05/1330217amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p
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- The Perils of Simplifying Risk To a Single Number A few weeks back we discussed the perspective that the economic meltdown could be viewed as a global computer crash. In the NYTimes magazine, Joe Nocera writes in much more depth about one aspect of the over-reliance on computer models in the ongoing unpleasantness: the use of a single number to assess risk. Reader theodp writes: "Relying on Value at Risk (VaR) and other mathematical models to manage risk was a no-brainer for the Wall Street crowd, at least until it became obvious that the risks taken by the largest banks and investment firms were so excessive and foolhardy that they threatened to bring down the financial system itself. Nocera explores the age-old debate between those who assert that the best decisions are based on quantification and numbers, and those who base their decisions on more subjective degrees of belief about the uncertain future. Reliance on models created a 'false sense of security among senior managers and watchdogs,' argues Nassim Nicholas Taleb, who likens VaR to 'an air bag that works all the time, except when you have a car accident.'"pa href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/04/2253247amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/01/04/2253247"/a/ppa href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/04/2253247amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p
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- Software Development Predictions For 2009 snydeq writes "Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister lays out his development predictions for 2009. These include further struggles from Microsoft in retooling its image, a more open source mindset for Java, twilight for Sun, the Web as platform of choice, and a dearth of innovation due to dwindling economic prospects. 'When customers aren't buying, tool vendors don't innovate mdash; so don't expect many groundbreaking new technologies to debut this year,' McAllister writes, adding that smart companies will realize that 'process automation is one of the best ways to reduce costs in any business,' mak
