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This edition was generated on Wed Aug 18 08:45:02 EDT 2010

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:

Barack Obama AP
AP Poll: Obama at new low for handling economy AP – 2 hrs 20 mins ago

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama earned his lowest marks ever on his handling of the economy in a new Associated Press-GfK poll, which also found that an overwhelming majority of Americans now describe the nation's financial outlook as poor. Full Story »

Rod Blagojevich
Jurors were close to convicting Rod Blagojevich AP – 2 hrs 19 mins ago
Patty Murray, Marcelas Owens
Pivotal Senate primary in Washington decided AP – 2 hrs 20 mins ago

Sports News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Sports:

Fans wait outside the Minnesota Vikings' NFL football facility in Eden Prairie, Minn., on Tuesday Aug. 17, 2010. Quarterback Brett Favre arrived Tuesd AP

Brett Favre is back in Minnesota

AP – 2 hrs 23 mins ago

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. – Brett Favre's latest summer of indecision finally appears to be over. Full Story »

FILE - This Oct. 3, 1951, file photo shows Bobby Thomson of the New York Giants hitting a home run, to win the national League pennant against the Bro

Famed home run hitter Bobby Thomson dead at 86

AP – Tue Aug 17, 7:26 pm ET
Francisco Rodriguez

Mets withhold K-Rod's salary, put him on DQ list

AP – Tue Aug 17, 11:44 pm ET

Business News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Business:

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

Stock futures edge up as technical levels eyed

Reuters – 18 mins ago

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stocks index futures edged higher on Wednesday as the S&P 500 struggled to make a sustained move above a key technical level amid continued concerns about the health of the economy. Full Story »

Kloppers, Chief Executive of BHP Billiton Ltd/Plc, gives a speech to The Lowy Institute in Sydney

BHP goes hostile on $39 billion Potash Corp bid

Reuters – Wed Aug 18, 4:30 am ET

Deere profit tops expectations

Reuters – 7 mins ago

Miscellaneous Daily Stuff

Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - August 18, 2010
Barnum was wrong - it's more like every 30 seconds.
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For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news.
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Gloria Borger
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
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Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
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I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
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Peter De Vries
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