Aaron's Daily WWW Newspaper

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This edition was generated on Sat Aug 7 08:45:02 EDT 2010

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General News Update

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-General News:

Dirk Frans, director of the International Assistance Mission,talks to the Associated Press at their office, Saturday, Aug. 7, 2010 in Kabul, Afghanist

6 Americans on medical team killed in Afghanistan AP – 5 mins ago

KABUL, Afghanistan – Ten members of a medical team, including six Americans, were shot and killed by militants as they were returning from providing eye treatment and other health care in remote villages in northern Afghanistan, a spokesman for the team said Saturday. Full Story »

Slideshow: Afghanistan

Mark Hurd testifies in the Hewlett Packard hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington

Disgraced HP CEO to get nearly $28 million AP – 1 hr 38 mins ago

A worker cleans oil boom used for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill with a pressure washer in Lafitte, La., Friday, Aug. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbe

Responders to Gulf oil spill wrap up defining week AP – 1 hr 38 mins ago

Slideshow: Gulf Coast Oil Spill

Sports News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Sports:

AP Sources: Volunteers coaches interviewed by NCAA

AP – 1 hr 37 mins ago

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – The NCAA has interviewed several current and former Tennessee coaches and recruits regarding an investigation into possible recruiting violations, people with knowledge of the probe have told The Associated Press. Full Story »

Goosen leads Mickelson by 1 shot at Firestone

AP – Sat Aug 7, 5:07 am ET

Lochte upsets Phelps in 200 IM at US nationals

AP – Sat Aug 7, 5:20 am ET

Business News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Business:

House lawmaker calls for probe of Fannie Mae allegations

Reuters – Sat Aug 7, 12:38 am ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The top Republican on the House Financial Services Committee called on Friday for an investigation into charges that mortgage finance giant Fannie Mae pushed borrowers into a mortgage aid program so it could receive incentive payments from the U.S. government. Full Story »

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?: Charles De Gaulle (1890 - 1970), in "Les Mots du General", 1962
I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to.: Dave Barry (1947 - )
Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone.: Tommy Cooper
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I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.: Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)

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