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Reuters – Icelandic negotiators may return home on Monday from London if no new meetings are called with British officials over the Icesave debt crisis, Icelandic Radio quoted a finance ministry spokesman as saying.
Read More: UK, Iceland in contact on Icesave, no new meetings
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AP – Thousands of dead fish washed up on the shores of a popular beachside lagoon in Rio over the weekend, offending joggers’ olfactory senses and leading the city to fight the stench with disinfectant.
Read More: Thousands of dead fish raise stink at Rio lagoon
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AP – The warning was ominous, its predictions dire: Oceanographers issued a bulletin telling Hawaii and other Pacific islands that a killer wave was heading their way with terrifying force and that “urgent action should be taken to protect lives and property.”
Read More: Scientists defend warning after tsunami nonevent
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AP – Israeli riot police dispersed a crowd of masked Palestinian youths throwing stones in the heart of Jerusalem’s Old City on Sunday, in a violent reminder of tensions at the holiest site in the contested city.
Read More: Israeli police, Palestinians clash at holy site
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AP – A rare documentary about Nobel Prize winning poet Wislawa Szymborska portrays a lively yet distinguished woman who savors the world’s contrasts, from 17th-century Dutch painting to boxing.
Read More: New documentary on Nobel laureate Szymborska
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AP – Heroism and banditry mingled on Chile’s shattered streets Sunday as rescuers braved aftershocks digging for survivors and the government sent soldiers to quell looting. The death toll climbed to 708 in one of the biggest earthquakes in centuries.
Read More: Chile quake death toll hits 708 as rescue ramps up
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Time.com – The Chile quake was 500 times stronger than the Haiti quake, so why did it cause so much less destruction?
Read More: Chile and Haiti: A Tale of Two Earthquakes
(Time.com)
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Reuters – Norway’s Petter Northug won the men’s 50km cross country skiing gold medal on the final day of the Winter Olympics Sunday as Vancouver braced itself for the men’s ice hockey match between Canada and the United States.
Read More: Northug wins gold as Canada braces for hockey
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AP – Fire officials say ice has broken through a glass atrium at the Sony Building in New York City and 10 people have sustained minor injuries.
Read More: Official: Ice, glass fall into NYC building atrium
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AP – Lil Wayne may be a self-professed gangsta with the gunshot wound to prove it, but he’s made plenty clear how he feels about doing time behind bars.
Read More: Lil Wayne set to test how jails handle celebs
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Reuters – A colossal 3000-year-old red granite head of Amenhotep III, the grandfather of Tutankhamun, has been discovered in Luxor, Egypt’s Culture Minister Farouk Hosni said Sunday.
Read More: King Tut's grandfather's statue head surfaces in Luxor
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Fashion Wire Daily – Recession? What recession? That felt very much the mood at Giorgio Armani’s latest runway show Saturday, Feb. 27, in Milan, when Italy’s most famous designer staged an Asian-tinted show, before the industry’s top critics and editors and a team of his executives buoyed by their booming business in China.
Read More: Giorgio Armani Looking Ever More Easterly
(Fashion Wire Daily)
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The Newsroom – Burberry has become the premiere brand to break through fashion week’s fourth wall this season by staging the world’s first-ever global 3D fashion show. (To note, the British fashion brand wasn’t the only one to engage with the technology conceived more than half-a-century ago: Los Angeles tailored menswear label Native Son’s New York Fashion Week presentation included a multi-dimensional video that required 3D glasses for viewing.)
Read More: Fashion's latest fixation: 3D
(The Newsroom)
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AP – The French film industry has showered honors on director Jacques Audiard’s Oscar-nominated “Un Prophete” (“A Prophet”), giving the movie France’s coveted Cesar award for best movie.
Read More: 'A Prophet' wins French film industry top prize
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AP – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is considering action against a producer of “The Hurt Locker” who sent multiple e-mails urging academy members to vote for his movie in the Oscar best-picture race and “not a $500 million film” — an obvious reference to close-competitor “Avatar.”
Read More: 'Lockergate'?: Producer apologizes for e-mails
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AP – Marie Osmond’s 18-year-old son Michael Blosil has died, the entertainer said Saturday.
Read More: Marie Osmond's son dies in Los Angeles
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AP – Film critic Roger Ebert says computer programmers have captured his voice from movie commentary tracks so he can type what he wants to say and listeners hear a voice that sounds like him.
Read More: Roger Ebert gets 'voice' grandkids can recognize
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Reuters – The top senator on antitrust matters has written to NBC to express concern that some of its Internet coverage of the Winter Olympics is limited to pay television subscribers.
Read More: Senator asks NBC about Olympic site pay-TV link
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AP – Mexican author and guerrilla movement scholar Carlos Montemayor died Sunday, his publisher said. He was 62.
Read More: Mexican author Carlos Montemayor dies at 62
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Reuters – With the Vancouver Olympics near an end on Sunday, Hollywood began charting its own path to glory at the Oscars, and though the film honors feature shoo-in contenders in several key races, industry watchers still expect some excitement.
Read More: Hollywood's Oscar contenders chart course for gold
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Reuters – Jay Leno returns to “The Tonight Show” on Monday, and so does his desk — a sign that struggling network NBC wants its flagship late-night TV program to return to normal after Conan O’Brien failed as its host.
Read More: Jay Leno returns to TV to regain late-night crown
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AP – The chin is coming back to late-night on NBC. So is the desk, the couch and, the network fervently hopes, the audience.
Read More: Leno returns to late night, but can he rule?
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HealthDay – SUNDAY, Feb. 28 (HealthDay News) — Mouse pups whose mothers were
exposed to a common but controversial chemical developed allergic asthma,
new research has found.
Read More: BPA May Raise Risk of Asthma in Kids
(HealthDay)
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HealthDay – SATURDAY, Feb. 27 (HealthDay News) — A blood test may help
identify children with milk allergy who can tolerate baked-milk products
and those who may have a serious allergic reaction to any form of cow’s
milk, a new study shows.
Read More: Blood Test Might Sort Out Milk Allergies
(HealthDay)
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HealthDay – (HealthDayNews) — Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy
of ClinicalConnection.com:
Read More: Clinical Trials Update: Feb. 26, 2010
(HealthDay)
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AFP – Taxing high-fat and sugary junk food is a more effective way to fight obesity than making healthy foods like fruit and vegetables more affordable, a study published Wednesday shows.
Read More: Junk food tax could help fight obesity: US study
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HealthDay – THURSDAY, Feb. 25 (HealthDay News) — Endometrial cancer patients
at medium to high risk for cancer recurrence are more likely to survive if
both the pelvic lymph nodes and para-aortic lymph nodes are removed,
rather than just the pelvic lymph nodes, say Japanese researchers.
Read More: Removing Lymph Nodes May Boost Endometrial Cancer Survival
(HealthDay)
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AP – People at risk of a stroke because of narrowed neck arteries can be safely treated with a less drastic option than the surgery done now, the largest study ever done on these treatments concludes.
Read More: Stroke study finds neck stents safe, effective
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Reuters – How quickly an HIV patient’s immune system deteriorates may not affect the outcome of the illness, a study has found, and this could help change current guidelines for treatment of the disease.
Read More: Experts recommend finetuning of HIV treatment
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AP – A U.S. military spokesman in Haiti says six American soldiers involved in the aid mission have come down with malaria.
Read More: 6 malaria cases reported for US soldiers in Haiti
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Time.com – Since cancer in one breast tends to spread to the other, healthy breast, more and more women are choosing to remove both, just to be safe. But does such preventive surgery help survival?
Read More: Breast Cancer Survival and Double Mastectomy
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HealthDay – SATURDAY, Feb. 27 (HealthDay News) — Most patients who have a
history of penicillin allergy can safely take antibiotics called
cephalosporins, U.S. researchers say.
Read More: Penicillin Allergy Might Not Include Related Antibiotic
(HealthDay)
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AP – A government panel is now recommending that virtually all Americans get a flu shot each year, starting this fall.
Read More: Panel recommends annual flu vaccinations for all
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AP – A Baltimore inmate who bluffed his way out of prison probably wouldn’t have tricked guards if they had eye-scanners such as those being installed at dozens of jails nationwide.
Read More: Iris scans may prevent mistaken release of inmates
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AFP – At one of Beijing’s many Internet cafes, near-silence reigns: headphones on, eyes glued to the screen, web users play games online en masse, helping to make China one of the industry’s top markets.
Read More: Online gaming sweeps China
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AFP – A US group that harnesses mobile phone technology to raise money for charities on Saturday launched text message campaigns to raise money for victims of the powerful quake in Chile.
Read More: US group launches text message aid drive for Chile quake
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PC World – That iPhone you adore may have been built by a child.
Read More: Apple: Underage Workers May Have Built Your iPhone
(PC World)
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AP – China’s premier says 2010 will be the most complicated year for the country’s economy, and he promises the government will fight inflation and soaring property prices.
Read More: China premier: 2010 'most complicated' for economy
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PC World – After Chile’s massive earthquake and potential Pacific Rim tsunami damage, relief organizations, government agencies, corporations and throngs of people are on Google, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other services to seek and provide information and help.
Read More: People, Groups Flock to the Web After Chile Earthquake
(PC World)
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PC World – If you’ve ever sent a text message that you’ve later regretted sending (Tiger Woods, I’m looking at you), then a new texting application just released for the iPhone could be your new best friend.
Read More: TigerText: The App for Spies and Cheaters
(PC World)
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AP – Operators of the world’s largest atom smasher restarted their massive machine Sunday in a run up to experiments probing secrets of the universe, a spokeswoman said.
Read More: Atom smasher restarts to prepare for new science
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AP – A new Web sensation called Chatroulette feels like a throwback to the early 1990s, when online chat rooms brimmed with lonely strangers looking for meaningful connections, meaningless sex, or something in between.
Read More: Hello, stranger: the ups and downs of Chatroulette
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InfoWorld – Open source database provider Ingres hopes to move the Ingres VectorWise database performance technology to a beta release phase during the next month, Ingres President/CEO Roger Burkhardt said this week.
Read More: Ingres moving forward with database booster
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AP – A Democratic senator criticized NBC on Friday for its handling of online access to the Vancouver Olympics, calling it unfair and restrictive.
Read More: Kohl critical of NBC online Olympic coverage
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 New Zealand Herald |
ETA chief arrested in France: Spain
Times of India MADRID: The presumed military chief of the armed Basque separatist organisation ETA was arrested on Sunday in France, the Spanish interior ministry announced. Ibon Gogeascoechea Arronategui, 54, who was arrested during a joint Spanish and French … Spain says ETA chief arrested in France ETA 'leader' arrested in France, Spanish officials say ETA leader arrested in France |
Read More: ETA chief arrested in France: Spain – Times of India
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 SunHerald.com (press release) |
Thai PM orders more security after bank blasts
The Associated Press BANGKOK — Thailand's prime minister ordered stepped-up security in Bangkok on Sunday after four banks were targeted with small explosive devices. The attacks Saturday night, in which no one was hurt, came a day after the Supreme Court ordered $1.4 … Grenade blast damages Thailand bank: police Bangkok Bank branch bombed Grenade explodes in Bangkok, 1 injured |
Read More: Thai PM orders more security after bank blasts – The Associated Press
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 Reuters |
PA moves cabinet meeting to Hebron to protest heritage sites
Ha’aretz Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad plans to hold his government's weekly cabinet meeting in Hebron on Monday, in an effort to raise public and international awareness about Israel's … W. Bank sealed off for Purim Building the first 'Palestinian settlement' Activists protest Hebron closures |
Read More: PA moves cabinet meeting to Hebron to protest heritage sites – Ha'aretz
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 KVOA.com |
Thousands still lack power after Northeast storm
Fort Worth Star Telegram AP Writers CONCORD, NH — Frustration turned to resignation Saturday for hundreds of thousands of people in the Northeast struggling to survive another day waiting for utility crews to restore electricity after powerful storms socked the … Thousands remain without power in Northeast More than 200K still powerless after winter storm Utility crews struggling to restore power in Northeast |
Read More: Thousands still lack power after Northeast storm – Fort Worth Star Telegram
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 Reuters |
Republicans Gird for Democrats' End Run on Health Care
FOXNews The Senate appears to be gearing up to use a rare budgetary maneuver to push through a Democratic-supported health care plan, but even the Senate Democrat's top budgeter says it can't be used for wholesale reforms. Feb. … Democrat sees votes for healthcare in House White House OK on health care with or without GOP Sunday's best: Obama allies, foes debate reconciliation |
Read More: Republicans Gird for Democrats' End Run on Health Care – FOXNews
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 The Guardian |
Joe Kennedy III rules out run for House
Boston Globe WASHINGTON — Joseph P. Kennedy III will not run for Congress this year, the assistant district attorney said in an interview today, ending speculation that he would seek the 10th District seat if Representative William … Kennedy will not run for Delahunt's seat RFK's grandson decides against run for US House No more Kennedys? Family mulls a political comeback |
Read More: Joe Kennedy III rules out run for House – Boston Globe
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