Twacker and Feinberg Meetings and More for Sunday, August 9, 2009

Video: Is stimulus money helping cities?

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China to keep credit flowing to buoy economy

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32349138/ns/business-world_business/

No Longer Jobless, But Still Struggling

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/08/07/eveningnews/main5226035.shtml

Canada lost 45,000 more jobs in July

http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2009/08/07/unemployment-july.html

Health Care Reform: How It Will Affect You

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/08/07/business/marketwatch/main5225682.shtml

Attacks on single blogger knocked out Twitter

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32336633/ns/technology_and_science-security/

Twitter hack gets everyone's attention

http://redtape.msnbc.com/2009/08/the-best-way-to-get-the-attention-of-a-classroom-full-of-rowdy-kids-is-to-turn-the-lights-off-and-the-best-way-to-get-the-at.html#posts

Twacker

http://antizendictionary.blogspot.com/2009/08/twacker.html

Twusher or Twiorger

http://antizendictionary.blogspot.com/2009/08/twusher-or-twiorger.html

Twither

http://antizendictionary.blogspot.com/2009/08/twither.html

Iraq quizzes Iran over detained U.S. hikers

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/08/09/iran.americans.detained/index.html

Plane refused landing in China after bomb threat

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/08/09/china.plane.hijacked/index.html

Why Iran's Revolutionary Guards Mercilessly Crack Down

http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=8275677&page=1

Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_of_the_Guardians_of_the_Islamic_Revolution


Pay czar quietly meets with rescued firms

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32347737/ns/business-washington_post/

Kenneth R. Feinberg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Feinberg

U.S. willing to hold direct talks with N. Korea

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32349036/ns/world_news-asiapacific/

Ministers deny torture collusion

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8191450.stm

Briton in Iraqi custody after contractor killings

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32349032/ns/world_news-conflict_in_iraq/

U.S. prosecutors set to charge Madoff's long-time CFO

http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2009/08/07/madoff-cfo-charges-ponzi.html

Frank DiPascali

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_DiPascali

Opium ravaging Afghan families

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32317823/ns/health-addictions/

Opium

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium

Afghanistan expected to cost U.S. dearly

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32346408/ns/world_news-washington_post/

Russian crew ship 'disappears'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8192350.stm

Irreversible Climate Change and Teen Hit Men and Japan Counterthreat and More For Friday, March 13, 2009

Switzerland eases banking secrecy

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7941717.stm

Researchers: 'Irreversible' climate change

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/03/12/irreversible.climate/index.html

Police: U.S. teens were hit men for Mexican cartel

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/03/12/cartel.teens/index.html


Japan threat to shoot down N. Korean satellite

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/03/13/nkorea.launch.japan/index.html

Madoff fraud investigation widens

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7941464.stm

American Adults Flunk Basic Science

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090312115133.htm

U.S. trade deficit drops to a six-year low

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29675321/

Stossel: The Bull About the Bailout

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Economy/story?id=7067596&page=1

U.S. Debt Worries China

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/13/world/main4863509.shtml

Free stimulus cash? Don't believe hype

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29643680/

Americans lost wealth at staggering rate in '08

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29671145/

NAACP says bank giants steered blacks to bad loans

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090313/ap_on_re_us/naacp_mortgage_discrimination;_ylt=AhAx1pN9k.Sc3SFaIsFhdyms0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFpbDd1ZWprBHBvcwMyNwRzZWMDYWNjb3JkaW9uX21vc3RfcG9wdWxhcgRzbGsDbmFhY3BzYXlzYmFu

Texas rejects stimulus unemployment money (When is the recall vote for the governor???)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29663725/

Congress still slated to get automatic pay hike

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29666229/

U.S., Europe at odds over fix

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29666007/

'High risk' of plane fault repeat

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7941137.stm

Hospital Mobile Phones 'Superbug' Scare

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090305204324.htm

MRSA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRSA

Masks in smoggy cities a good idea, study says

http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/03/13/masks-pollution.html

Drone 'kills 24 Pakistan Taleban'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7940921.stm

Taliban

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taleban

G20 meets to tackle world crisis

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7941382.stm

G20

http://www.g20.org/

China 'can boost stimulus plan'


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7941081.stm

Sony Workers Hold Execs Hostage Over Pay

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/13/business/main4863577.shtml

Chavez takes over transport links

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7941110.stm

Madagascar mutineers 'move tanks'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7941238.stm

UN fears Sri Lanka 'war crimes'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7942051.stm

Alaska volcano simmers down

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/03/12/alaska.volcano/index.html

Doubt over German gunman warning

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7939528.stm

Recalled foods still making people sick

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29619415/

Nation’s first E. coli vaccine for cattle approved

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29665562/

E. Coli 0157:H7

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._coli_0157_H7

High IQ Linked To Reduced Risk Of Death

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090312140009.htm

FDA hazy on e-cigarettes' safety

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/03/13/ecigarettes.smoking/index.html

Spotless Mind? Human Fear Memories Weakened

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090311103611.htm

Propanolol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propanolol

Aspirin Improves Survival In Women With Stable Heart Disease, According To Study

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090312092440.htm

Microbicide Promising As HIV Prevention Method For Women, Clinical Trial Suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090305121735.htm

Biomarkers Detected For Chikungunya Fever

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090304131222.htm

Chikungunya

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chikungunya_fever

How Cranberry Products Prevent Urinary Tract Infections

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090309121937.htm

Vaccinium

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cranberry

New List Of HIV Mutations Vital To Tracking AIDS Epidemic

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090305204330.htm

Intensive care errors 'frequent'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7938320.stm

Climate scenarios 'being realised'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7940532.stm

Deep water fish decline concerns

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7935733.stm

How Mosquitoes Could Teach Us A Trick In The Fight Against Malaria

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090305141641.htm

Malaria

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaria

Dust Deposited In Oceans May Carry Elements Toxic To Marine Algae

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090309191457.htm

Solar Water Heating Pays For Itself Five Times Over

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090309105021.htm

Simple Upgrades In Rural Sanitation Could Save 1.2 Million Lives Annually

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090309223207.htm

New ‘Pollution Radar’ Developed To Provide Unprecedented Picture Of Urban Smog

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090309122159.htm

Australia declares oil spill a disaster zone

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29656572/

Swire Group

http://www.swire.com/

Facebook in Arabic and Hebrew

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7939375.stm

Junk alert for space station crew

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7940431.stm

International Space Station

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station

KO: Most Agree Stewart Stomped Cramer

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/Television/story?id=7075368&page=1