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AP – A lawyer for former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo said Thursday that neighboring Mexico did not properly approve his arrest, a move necessary under the ex-leader’s 2008 extradition from Mexico back home.
Read More: Guatemala: Mexico to decide if US gets ex-leader
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OneWorld.net – SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 28 (New America Media) – Haitians living in the United States are deeply impacted by the
devastating earthquake that hit their island homeland earlier this
month, according to a poll sponsored by New America Media.
Read More: Poll: Haitian Diaspora Grieving, Ready to Help
(OneWorld.net)
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Time.com – China grabs the headlines, but India may be the real Asian success story of the Great Recession
Read More: India vs. China: Which Economy Is Better After Recession?
(Time.com)
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AP – Skies cleared over the fabled Machu Picchu citadel Thursday, speeding the evacuation of stranded tourists, many of whom were left to eat from communal pots and sleep outdoors after weekend flooding and mudslides cut access to the area.
Read More: Hundreds airlifted from Peru site when skies clear
(AP)
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McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — Haiti’s inept government, a lack of coordination by aid organizations and a history of U.S. policy failures are hampering international efforts to rebuild the quake-stricken island nation.
Read More: Envoy: Inept government, past U.S. policy hamper Haiti relief
(McClatchy Newspapers)
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AFP – Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon announced Thursday he will attend the 14th African Union summit in Ethiopia from January 29 to 31.
Read More: Canada's FM to attend African Union summit
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AP – A frightened, shivering dog was rescued after floating at least 75 miles (120 kilometers) on an ice floe down Poland’s Vistula River and into the Baltic Sea, officials said Thursday. Now his saviors just have to figure out who really owns him.
Read More: Dog drifts 75 miles on ice, rescued in Baltic Sea
(AP)
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AP – The university at the center of a climate change dispute over stolen e-mails broke freedom of information laws by refusing to handle public requests for climate data, Britain’s data-protection watchdog said Thursday.
Read More: Watchdog: UK university hid climate data
(AP)
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AP – Lined up in sweatclothes and leotards, hundreds of sinewy dancers wait with paper numbers pinned to their chests and a singular hope within. Under gray, rainy skies, in dance shoes and bare feet, they’ve come to an open audition at a place called Center Staging with one dream: dancing on the Academy Awards program.
Read More: Dancers with Oscar dreams audition for big show
(AP)
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Fashion Wire Daily – Valentino offered a large dollop of eco modernist fashion in the house’s Spring 2010 haute couture collection, presented before huge images of swaying digital trees projected on the walls of the medieval convent hospital in Paris where the show was staged Wednesday, Jan. 27.
Read More: Valentino's Eco Modernism
(Fashion Wire Daily)
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Reuters – Cable giant Comcast and NBC Universal said on Thursday they would continue reporting news, keep broadcast television free and offer more children’s programing if the U.S. government approves Comcast’s plan to take control of the TV and movie company.
Read More: Comcast, NBC promise to keep news, free TV
(Reuters)
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AFP – J.D. Salinger, the reclusive author of “The Catcher in the Rye,” has died at 91, his agent said, raising tantalizing questions over whether the legendary writer might have left behind a hoard of unpublished works.
Read More: Reclusive US novelist J.D. Salinger dies at 91
(AFP)
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Playbill – The Denver Center Theatre Company’s world premiere of Rogelio Martinez’s When Tang Met Laika – a fanciful love story involving a Soviet space dog, the ghost of an astronaut and a famous breakfast drink – opens Jan. 28 in Colorado.
Read More: 'When Tang Met Laika' Premieres at Denver Center
(Playbill)
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AP – Sly Stone sued a former business manager and others on Thursday, claiming tens of millions of dollars in royalties were kept from the singer who now depends on Social Security to survive.
Read More: Sly Stone sues ex-manager, claiming millions kept
(AP)
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AP – Two weeks ago it was the Golden Globes. Last weekend it was the SAG Awards. Now, it’s the music world’s turn to spread a little weekend excitement around town as it celebrates the industry’s biggest event of the year — Sunday’s 52nd Annual Grammy Awards. Here’s a sampling of what’s going on:
Read More: Music world prepares for its big event of the year
(AP)
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AP – About 48 million viewers watched President Barack Obama’s first State of the Union address on 11 networks, with Fox TV drawing the biggest share.
Read More: About 48 million watch Obama's State of the Union
(AP)
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AP – Liquor works wonders for a lot of plays.
Read More: Good ol' boys talk of life, love, a lunar eclipse
(AP)
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AP – In the small New Hampshire town where recluse J.D. Salinger hid from the world, he lived in bucolic isolation in a hilltop home with commanding southerly views across the Connecticut River, Vermont’s ski resorts visible in the distance.
Read More: In NH town, Salinger's privacy is important to all
(AP)
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AP – So what about the safe?
Read More: What's in Salinger's safe?
(AP)
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AP – Barely a week after his knockout win in the Massachusetts Senate race, Scott Brown boasted Thursday that he can beat President Barack Obama.
Read More: Brown says he can beat the president at hoops
(AP)
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Reuters – Having type 2 diabetes in the family more than doubles a woman’s own risk of developing the disease, new research shows.
Read More: Family fat explains some of family diabetes risk
(Reuters)
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Reuters – Only one in 100 women with symptoms typical of ovarian cancer, such as persistent bloating or pelvic pain, actually has the disease, researchers reported on Thursday.
Read More: Pelvic symptoms unlikely to mean ovarian cancer
(Reuters)
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AP – The U.S. commercial printing company Quad/Graphics Inc. plans to buy Canadian rival World Color Press Inc., which prints magazines such as Sports Illustrated and Rolling Stone.
Read More: Quad/Graphics to buy Canadian printing rival
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Reuters – U.S. health officials have leveraged the star power of first lady Michelle Obama to roll out a new campaign against obesity, a preventable condition that drains billions of dollars from the economy.
Read More: U.S. first lady leads charge against obesity
(Reuters)
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HealthDay – THURSDAY, Jan. 28 (HealthDay News) — Children are likely to account
for about 44 percent of the estimated number of Haitians injured in the
devastating Jan. 12 earthquake — information that could be used to guide
rescuers, say U.S. researchers.
Read More: Haitian Children Need Specific Relief Efforts
(HealthDay)
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Read More: With the push of the iPad, a photograph goes global
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AP – In November, Microsoft Corp. announced that Chris Liddell, the chief financial officer credited with helping the sprawling software maker tighten its belt, would leave the company.
Read More: On the Call: Microsoft's new CFO Peter Klein
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AP – Apple Inc. is allowing iPhone owners to use Internet calling services over cellular networks.
Read More: Apple backs VoIP calls over 3G networks for iPhone
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InfoWorld – Google is amongst a group of DNS (Domain Name System) and content providers proposing an extension to the DNS protocol so that Internet requests are sent to servers in close proximity, thus boosting Internet performance.
Read More: Google seeks DNS protocol extension to boost Web performance
(InfoWorld)
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AP – Comcast Corp. and NBC Universal said the cable TV operator’s plan to take control of the NBC media empire shouldn’t raise significant antitrust concerns because the companies operate in separate and highly competitive markets.
Read More: Comcast, NBC say deal would not hurt competition
(AP)
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AP – Amazon.com Inc.’s fourth-quarter earnings skyrocketed 71 percent, as shoppers spent more than ever during a holiday season that improved over the previous year for retailers on and off the Web.
Read More: Amazon 4Q profit climbs 71 pct on strong holidays
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AFP – Heady from the success of the iPhone and iPod, Apple is getting spanked with criticism, even mockery, by pundits who expected the company to change the world anew with its iPad tablet computer.
Read More: Critics, fans weigh in on Apple's iPad
(AFP)
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PC World – Ever wonder what sort of jobs hardcore NES players get in adulthood? We’ve seen the Konami code show up on a variety of websites and games to unlock everything from secret pages to unicorn mode on ESPN.com; clearly, life follows video games. Not limiting themselves to cute Easter eggs on prominent sports sites, a few NES geeks wound up developing the software behind the Palm Pre and used their gaming experience to reveal the inner workings of the device’s firmware.
Read More: Want Root on Your Palm Pre? Enter the Konami Code
(PC World)
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AP – An executive at the background-check company Intelius Inc. who recently promoted an iPhone application for weeding out sleazy dates has been charged with lying to a Seattle grand jury when he denied engaging in sex acts at a strip club.
Read More: Intelius founder charged with lies to grand jury
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AP – You have to wonder whether there were any women in the room when the marketing geniuses at Apple decided to call the company’s new gadget the “iPad.” Because the jokes about feminine hygiene products are flying.
Read More: Shiny gadget, icky name: iPad jokes fly on Web
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AP – Google Inc.’s bid to secure the digital rights to millions of books remains under attack from rivals and other critics trying to block a revised legal settlement that would unlock a vast electronic library.
Read More: Google's digital book settlement still under fire
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 ABC News |
Mudslides Trap Hundreds Near Peruvian Ruins
New York Times By ANAHAD O'CONNOR Five days after mudslides crippled roads and rail access near the Machu Picchu ruins in the mountains of southern Peru, more than 1000 people had been evacuated by helicopter but hundreds more remained stranded and facing food and … New arrivals await airlift at Peru's Machu Picchu Peru Rescues 600 Tourists Stranded in Machu Picchu Stranded tourists battle flooding, boredom in Machu Picchu |
Read More: Mudslides Trap Hundreds Near Peruvian Ruins – New York Times
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 CANOE |
Belgium: Death Toll in Building Explosion Reaches 9
New York Times By REUTERS The death toll from a collapsed apartment block in Liège, in eastern Belgium, rose to nine on Thursday, and Belgium's interior minister, Annemie Turtelboom, said “it could rise to between 15 and 20.” A gas leak was suspected as the cause of … Collapsed flats death toll rises to 9 Building blast in Liege, Belgium, kills nine Warning that Liege toll could increase |
Read More: Belgium: Death Toll in Building Explosion Reaches 9 – New York Times
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 The Hindu |
US embraces Copenhagen pact, Senators rework bill
Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama Administration formally embraced the Copenhagen Accord on global warming on Thursday, a day after the president urged a fractious US Congress to get to work on comprehensive legislation to stem the nation's emissions. … US recommits to climate goals Factbox: Big emitters signal support for Copenhagen Accord US officially pledged c.17% cut in greenhouse gas emissions |
Read More: US embraces Copenhagen pact, Senators rework bill – Reuters
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 Washington Post |
Senators' Opposition Signals Fed Challenges
Wall Street Journal A week ago, Ben Bernanke's confirmation for a second term as chairman of the Federal Reserve appeared to be in doubt. But following strong lobbying by the White House, only 23 senators sought to block a vote on the nomination Thursday, … Instant view: Bernanke reconfirmed by Senate Obama Congratulates Bernanke on Second Fed Term Senators slam Bernanke, then confirm him to 2nd term as Fed chairman |
Read More: Senators' Opposition Signals Fed Challenges – Wall Street Journal
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 Boston Globe |
Democrats Square Off
Wall Street Journal House Democrats are complaining bitterly about being placed in political peril by a group of unlikely adversaries: Senate Democrats. The way many House Democrats see it, they took a series of tough votes last year on measures … Senate Votes Along Party Lines to Raise Debt Limit Senate backs increase in debt limit to $14.3 trillion Senate passes bill to bar abstinence-only sex ed programs |
Read More: Democrats Square Off – Wall Street Journal
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 Globe and Mail |
GOP Slams State of the Union Address for Little Attention to National Security
FOXNews Republicans are slamming President Obama for glossing over national security in his State of the Union speech, and omitting any reference to how his administration is handling terror detainees. Republicans are slamming President Obama for glossing over … Obama's latest speech seen by 48 million Americans Obama Seeks Political Boost from State of the Union Address Area town named in State of the Union reacts to monumental mention |
Read More: GOP Slams State of the Union Address for Little Attention to National Security – FOXNews
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 Reuters |
Japan Stocks Drop on US Jobs, Yen; Advantest, Nintendo Fall
BusinessWeek Jan. 29 (Bloomberg) — Japanese stocks fell, sending the Topix index toward its biggest weekly slump in almost four months, after more Americans than estimated filed claims for unemployment benefits and the yen … Nikkei slips 1.7 percent on exporters, Toyota slides Advantest Shares Fall on Wider-Than-Expected Loss Tokyo Shares End Up As US Fed Reassures, Yen Weakens |
Read More: Japan Stocks Drop on US Jobs, Yen; Advantest, Nintendo Fall – BusinessWeek
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 MiamiHerald.com |
P.&G. and Colgate Post Higher Sales in Quarter
New York Times By REUTERS The Procter & Gamble Company and the Colgate-Palmolive Company increased sales in the last quarter, as a tentative recovery in consumer spending helped both consumer goods leaders post better-than-expected results on Thursday. … Procter & Gamble signals sales rebound P&G, Colgate results beat, consumers spend more P&G Gets a Bounce |
Read More: P.&G. and Colgate Post Higher Sales in Quarter – New York Times
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 IntoMobile (blog) |
Apple Change Quietly Makes iPhone, iPad Into Web Phones
Wired News Apple updated the iPhone software development kit on Wednesday to allow internet telephony apps to work on the 3G network. The little-noticed move effectively unlocks the ability for the iPhone — and the upcoming iPad — to be used as … Apple backs VoIP calls over 3G networks for iPhone Video VoIP calls over iPhone 3G? You betcha Apple opens up VoIP over 3G, finally |
Read More: Apple Change Quietly Makes iPhone, iPad Into Web Phones – Wired News
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 Telegraph.co.uk |
AT&T boosts network investment
CNET AT&T said Thursday that it will invest an additional $2 billion in its network in 2010 to make sure it keeps up with the growing demand from new smartphones and other 3G data devices, such as the Apple iPad, on its network. … AT&T Plans To Double Wireless Network Investment AT&T profit rises 26 percent, plans more spending On the Call: AT&T on the economics of the iPad |
Read More: AT&T boosts network investment – CNET
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 Reuters |
Oracle and Apple shift the hardware game
CNET Between Apple's iPad (important but disappointing) and Oracle's explanation of how it will integrate Sun (goodbye, best of breed) this has been a big week in the technology landscape. And oddly enough, hardware, rather than software, … Oracle, Sun Face Rocky Post-Merger Road Map Oracle's Larry Being Larry (Ellison) Oracle Outlines Post Merger Roadmap |
Read More: Oracle and Apple shift the hardware game – CNET
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 Sky News |
Adobe speaks out about iPad Flash omission
CNET It looks like Apple's iPad won't support Flash, a potentially troublesome issue for consumers looking for a full-fledged Web experience on the device. And Adobe is none too happy about it. Writing in a blog post on Wednesday on the … Adobe sounds off on iPad's Flash slap Adobe: We want Flash developers on the iPad 5 reasons not to buy an iPad |
Read More: Adobe speaks out about iPad Flash omission – CNET
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 Reuters |
Drama, No Dilemma, Over iPad Name
Wall Street Journal From Internet jokes to legal rumblings, the name of Apple Inc.'s latest gadget is taking a bit of a beating. But Apple has been down this road before, and marketing experts don't expect the brouhaha to dent the new … Fujitsu Says it Owns Rights to 'iPad' Name, Not Apple Fujitsu Claims It Owns Rights to 'iPad' Name IPad? That's So 2002, Fujitsu Says |
Read More: Drama, No Dilemma, Over iPad Name – Wall Street Journal
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 TG Daily |
Report: Critical Infrastructure Under Constant Global Attack
Wired News Critical infrastructure systems around the world are the targets of repeated cyberattacks, according to a new global survey of technology executives in these industries. They believe some of the attacks are coming not just from individual … Critical Infrastructure Vulnerable To Attack Critical Infrastructure under Siege from Cyber Attacks Critical Infrastructure Security a Mixed Bag, Report Finds |
Read More: Report: Critical Infrastructure Under Constant Global Attack – Wired News
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