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This edition was generated on Fri Apr 23 08:45:02 EDT 2010

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General News Update

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-General News:

Fire boat response crews battle the blazing remnants of the off shore oil rig Deepwater Horizon, off Louisiana

Reuters

Oil rig blast prompts environmental concerns AP – 43 mins ago

NEW ORLEANS – As the Coast Guard searched for 11 crew members missing after a drilling rig exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico, authorities turned their focus to controlling an oil spill that could threaten the fragile ecosystem of the Louisiana and Mississippi coasts. Full Story »

Slideshow: Oil rig explodes off Louisiana coast

A man carries an injured girl after a series of parked car bombs exploded in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, April 23, 20

Bombs target Iraqi cleric's office, killing 25 AP – 16 mins ago

An aircraft passes the moon over Frankfurt, central Germany, Thursday, April 22, 2010, as German air traffic went back to normality following the airs

Ash crisis accelerates work on seamless EU sky AP – 1 hr 14 mins ago

Slideshow: Iceland volcano erupts

Sports News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Sports:

Bradford, Tebow and the Big 12 lead NFL draft

AP – 2 hrs 44 mins ago

NEW YORK – Heismans and hoopla accompanied Sam Bradford and Tim Tebow during their college careers. Now, the quarterbacks share something else heading into the NFL: first-round status in the draft. Full Story »

Slideshow: NFL Draft

Durant's surge lifts Thunder in home playoff debut

AP – Fri Apr 23, 1:56 am ET

Bulls hang on to beat Cavaliers 108-106

AP – Thu Apr 22, 11:42 pm ET

Business News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Business:

New orders for durable goods drop sharply

AP – 9 mins ago

WASHINGTON – New orders for big-ticket manufactured goods dropped sharply last month due to a plunge in demand for commercial aircraft. But excluding the volatile transportation category, orders rose by the most since the recession began. Full Story »

Stock price tickers flash green, indicating gains, at the Athens stock exchange on Friday, April 23, 2010. Shortly later, Prime Minister George Papand

There are more of them than us.: Herb Caen
In the fight between you and the world, back the world.: Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.: Art Spander
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We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

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