Alaska Judge Orders State To Preserve Sarah Palin Emails

Associated Press – A judge has ordered the state of Alaska to preserve any government-related e-mails that Gov. Sarah Palin sent from private accounts, including her recently-deleted Yahoo email addresses.
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150 Migrants Thrown In Shark-Infested Waters

Dozens of bodies washed ashore in Yemen on Friday after smugglers threw nearly 150 migrants from Somalia overboard in shark-infested waters, the latest such tragedy in one of the most lawless stretches of ocean in the world.
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Palin Claimed Dinosaurs And People Coexisted

Soon after Sarah Palin was elected mayor of the foothill town of Wasilla, Alaska, she startled a local music teacher by insisting in casual conversation that men and dinosaurs coexisted on an Earth created 6,000 years ago — about 65 million years after scientists say most dinosaurs became extinct — the teacher said.
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Markets in Europe and Asia Plunge

lobal stocks plummeted Friday after the rout Thursday on Wall Street, where the Dow Jones industrial average plummeted 7.3 percent, or 678 points, closing below the 9,000-mark for the first time since 2003.
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Market drops 107 points during Bush’s speech on the Economy

Today, President Bush gave an eight-minute speech on the economy, which was meant to reassure the markets.
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Recession Will be Very Kind to Open Source

this recession will be great for free and open source because of the shortage of cash. Last recession saw the mainstream legitimisation of open source operating systems (youngsters, take note: there was a time when it wasn’t automatically okay for an IT department to use Linux) because it was clear and away the most cost-effective [...]

Searching For a Market Bottom? Keep Looking

For those hoping that the seven-day blowout on Wall Street may have created a market bottom, there are two words to contemplate: Not yet.
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Palin, a journalism major, can’t name a single source read

Asked what newspapers and magazines she reads, Palin – a journalism major in college – could not name one publication.
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NASA Remembers 9/11 (pic)

“The world changed today. What I say or do is very minor compared to the significance of what happened to our country today when it was attacked.” So said Expedition 3 Commander Frank L. Culbertson, upon learning of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center.
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Dubai Plans The World’s Tallest Building at 1km High

Plans to construct what could become the world’s tallest building, at more than 1km high, have been unveiled. Dubai developer Nakheel said the structure will be the centre-piece of an inner-city harbour set to become the emirate’s new capital.
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