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This edition was generated on Sun Aug 2 08:45:01 EDT 2009

Table of Contents

General News Update
Sports News Update
Business News Update
Miscellaneous Daily Information
Boston Area Weather

General News Update

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-General News:

CLARIFYS IMAGE RELEASED BY US NAVY OCT. 11, 2002 - This image provided by the AP
Remains of pilot missing 18 years in Iraq found AP – 12 mins ago

WASHINGTON – The remains of the first American lost in the Persian Gulf War have been found in Iraq, the military said Sunday, after struggling for nearly two decades with the question of whether he was dead or alive. Full Story »

FILE -- In this Nov. 19, 2008 file photo reviewed by the U.S. Military, a
AP sources: Military-civilian terror prison eyed AP – 13 mins ago
Iran says three US nationals arrested near Iraq border
Iran state TV confirms arrest of 3 Americans AP – 44 mins ago

Sports News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Sports:

Michael Phelps of the United States reacts after winning the Men's 100m AP

Phelps sets world record, beats Cavic in 100 fly

AP – 33 mins ago

ROME – Michael Phelps beat Milorad Cavic again. No doubt about it. With a defiant performance in a supposedly inferior suit, Phelps stayed close over the outward lap and rallied on the return to become the first swimmer to break 50 seconds in the 100-meter butterfly, beating the Serbian with a time of 49.82. Full Story »

Tiger Woods hits out of the sand on the sixth hole during the third round of the

Tiger Woods' 65 gives him Buick Open lead

AP – 2 hrs 38 mins ago
Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, center, is swarmed by

Teammates say Big Ben's apology not necessary

AP – 2 hrs 37 mins ago

Business News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Business:

A house for sale si shown in Miami Springs, Fla., Thursday, July 23, 2009. The AP

Welcome to the bottom: Housing begins slow rebound

AP – Sun Aug 2, 5:26 am ET

It was — note the past tense — the worst housing recession anyone but survivors of the Great Depression can remember. Full Story »

In this photo made Thursday, June 25, 2009, Carl Rupp poses next to a tractor on

Slice of central US safe from recession shrinking

AP – Sun Aug 2, 1:28 am ET
Nissan Motor Co. CEO Carlos Ghosn poses with the automaker's new electronic

Nissan rolls out electric car at new headquarters

AP – Sun Aug 2, 3:42 am ET

  • Regulators shut down banks in five states

    AP – Fri Jul 31, 8:31 pm ET

    WASHINGTON - Regulators on Friday shut down banks in Florida, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma and Illinois, boosting to 69 the number of federally insured banks to fail this year amid the pressures of the weak economy and mounting loan defaults. Full Story »

  • NV Energy 2Q earns drop 49 percent

    AP – Fri Jul 31, 5:53 pm ET

    CARSON CITY, Nev. - NV Energy Inc., the parent firm of Nevada's two main electric utilities, said Friday earnings for the second quarter fell 49 percent because of higher costs and interest expenses related to power plant investments. Full Story »

  • International deal agreed for Ukraine gas bills: EU

    AFP – Fri Jul 31, 3:51 pm ET
    Employees at the gas-compressor station Orlovka in the Izmail... AFP/File

    BRUSSELS (AFP) - Ukraine has reached a deal with international financial bodies and the EU for payment of Russian gas bills, the European Commission said Friday, allaying fears of another winter cut-off. Full Story »

  • Illinois files bias suit against Wells Fargo

    Reuters – Fri Jul 31, 5:58 pm ET

    CHICAGO (Reuters) - Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan filed suit on Friday against Wells Fargo & Co , accusing the second-largest mortgage lender of steering blacks and Latinos into high-cost subprime loans. Full Story »

  • KKR portfolio companies' IPOs likely on horizon

    Reuters – Sat Aug 1, 1:59 am ET

    NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - Private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co is preparing for an initial public offering for discount retailer Dollar General, a source said, and others are speculated to follow as it looks to take advantage of a recent rise in equity markets. Full Story »

Miscellaneous Daily Stuff

Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - August 2, 2009
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.
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Woody Allen (1935 - )
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I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
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Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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Music is essentially useless, as life is.
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George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 4
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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.
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William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
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