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This edition was generated on Sun Aug 16 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:

In this photo released by the semi-official Iranian Fars News Agency, an AP
Iran tries more activists in post-election turmoil AP – 34 mins ago

TEHRAN, Iran – Iran on Sunday put on trial 25 more activists and opposition supporters, including a Jewish teenager, for their alleged involvement in the turmoil following the recent presidential election. Full Story »

Sports News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Sports:

Tiger Woods reacts to his birdie chip shot on the 14th hole during the third AP

Tiger claws out a 2-shot lead at the PGA

AP – 1 hr 13 mins ago

CHASKA, Minn. – The coronation of Tiger Woods turned into a contest Saturday at the PGA Championship. What had looked so inevitable — Woods with a four-shot lead on the weekend at a major — suddenly became filled with possibilities as his margin vanished along the back nine at Hazeltine. Only a late birdie by Woods and a lone bogey from Padraig Harrington gave the final major a familiar look. Full Story »

San Francisco rail, union to resume negotiations

AP – 2 hrs 47 mins ago

OAKLAND, Calif. – Negotiators for the San Francisco Bay area's commuter rail system and one of its unions have one more day to hammer out a deal before a threatened strike strangles the Monday commute. Full Story »

  • Summary Box: Consumer inflation a no-show in July

    AP – Fri Aug 14, 4:40 pm ET

    WHAT HAPPENED?: Consumer prices were unchanged in July, and over the past 12 months they have fallen 2.1 percent — the sharpest annual decline since a similar drop in the period ending in January 1950. Full Story »

  • Earnings Preview: Lowe's Cos.

    AP – Fri Aug 14, 3:13 pm ET

    NEW YORK - No. 2 home-improvement chain Lowe's Cos. reports its second-quarter earnings on Monday. The following is a summary of key developments and analyst opinion related to the period. Full Story »

  • Spain's economy shrinks, bucking eurozone trend

    AFP – Fri Aug 14, 12:48 pm ET
    A Spanish family eats on the beach in Valencia. Spain's recession-hit... AFP/File

    MADRID (AFP) - Spain's recession-hit economy shrank further in the second quarter, official data showed Friday, as a recovery underway elsewhere in the eurozone failed to reach its fourth-largest member. Full Story »

  • Auto suppliers under bankruptcy protection

    AP – Fri Aug 14, 7:20 pm ET

    Auto parts supplier Visteon Corp. has asked a Delaware bankruptcy judge for permission to cut health and life insurance benefits for thousands of current and former workers. Full Story »

  • Soros cuts some retailers, takes stake in BofA

    Reuters – Fri Aug 14, 5:44 pm ET

    BOSTON (Reuters) - Billionaire investor and philanthropist George Soros' Soros Fund Management reported holdings of $4.2 billion at the end of the second quarter after cutting its stake in a number of retailers. Full Story »

  • Motor City's commercial property market ailing

    AP – Fri Aug 14, 5:42 pm ET

    Times are tough for U.S. commercial property owners, but few have it worse than landlords in Detroit. Full Story »

  • Mexico nabs gas thieves; US refineries implicated

    AP – Fri Aug 14, 4:36 pm ET
    Bottles containing gasoline with Mexican Attorney General stickers... AP

    MEXICO CITY - They bleed the fuel lines just about anywhere, drug cartel members and other criminals, sucking millions of dollars of Mexican petroleum from makeshift taps hidden in sheds or on remote desert stretches, with thousands of gallons ending up in U.S. refineries. Full Story »

  • Visteon judge to rule on cutting retiree benefits

    AP – Fri Aug 14, 7:11 pm ET
    FILE - In this Aug. 1, 2007 file photo, a Visteon sign is shown... AP

    WILMINGTON, Del. - A Delaware bankruptcy judge is weighing whether auto parts supplier Visteon Corp. can terminate retiree health care and life insurance benefits for thousands of current and former workers. Full Story »

  • After years of decline, Cleveland aims to go green

    Reuters – Fri Aug 14, 8:12 am ET
    Mark Seifert (L), and Lindsey Sacher (R), of the non-profit group... Reuters

    CLEVELAND (Reuters) - Orchards and vineyards may soon spring from the blight of thousands of abandoned buildings in Cleveland, a city struggling to rise from years of decline and home foreclosures. Full Story »

  • GRE v. GMAT: Battle of the B-School Gatekeepers

    BusinessWeek – Fri Aug 14, 8:08 am ET

    The battle between two of the largest graduate school testing giants has been heating up recently as more business schools warm to the idea of providing students with an alternative to the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT). Now another top-ranked business school is weighing in. The University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School(Wharton Full-Time MBA Profile) plans to allow MBA applicants to submit the Graduate Record Exam (GRE), for admission in the fall of 2010, says Admissions Director J.J. Cutler. ... Full Story »

Miscellaneous Daily Stuff

Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - August 16, 2009
Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.
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Ron Nesen
I hate women because they always know where things are.
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James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?
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Artemus Ward (1834 - 1867)
By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.
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G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)

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