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This edition was generated on Sun Aug 26 08:45:01 EDT 2007

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


General News Update

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-General News:

100,000-plus without power in Midwest
AP - 2 hours, 19 minutes ago

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Hundreds of thousands of people were without power after their homes were battered by fierce winds and flooding rainstorms that slammed the rain-soaked Midwest.

60 MINUTES ON YAHOO! NEWS

New kind of surfing

Hovering above the water with an unusual surfboard.

PEOPLE OF THE WEB

Sleazy business?

A breast-implant matchmaker reaps Web rewards but stirs controversy.

THE WEEK IN PHOTOS

Images of the week

Passengers escape a plane on fire, flooding in the midwest, and more.

YAHOO! NEWS INTERACTIVE

Courting the gay vote

Gay voters weigh in after Democratic candidates answer tough questions.

  • Colin King, center, a lawyer for several of the families of the trapped miners, talks to a family member outside  the Desert Edge Christian Chapel after  mine officials delivered the news of the sixth bore hole on the Crandall Canyon Mine in Huntington, Utah, Saturday, August 25, 2007. At left is Sonny Olsen, local attorney and family spokesperson. The latest holed drilled into the collapsed mine where six men are trapped broke through an area too small for the men to survive, King said. Sanchez is the sister of Manual Sanchez, one of the trapped miners. (AP Photo/Deseret Morning News, August Miller)
    Hole apparently finds no sign of miners AP - 1 hour, 20 minutes ago

    HUNTINGTON, Utah - What next? That was the question remaining after a drill punched a sixth hole through a mine shaft and found no sign of six miners last seen before a massive collapse nearly three weeks ago.

  • $100 bill to get high-tech face lift AP - 1 hour, 18 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON - After six decades in which the venerable greenback never changed its look, the U.S. currency has undergone a slew of makeovers. The most amazing is yet to come.

  • A volunteer of German technical aid organization THW fumigates the hygiene sluice at a farm near Erlangen, southern Germany, Sunday Aug. 26, 2007. Tests have determined that birds at the poultry farm died of the H5N1 strain of bird flu, and some 160,000 birds were being slaughtered as a precaution, authorities said Saturday Aug. 25, 2007. (AP Photo/Udo Dreier)
    Bird flu found at German poultry farm AP - 1 hour, 26 minutes ago

    BERLIN - Tests have found that birds at a poultry farm in southern Germany died of the H5N1 strain of bird flu, and some 160,000 birds were being slaughtered as a precaution, authorities said.

  • Argentinian couple Fernando Gracia and Natalia  Tonelli hug each other after winning the stage category finals  of  the 5th Tango Dance World Championship,  in Buenos Aires, Saturday, Aug. 25, 2007.  (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
    Argentines win World Tango Championships AP - Sun Aug 26, 5:35 AM ET

    BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - An Argentine couple captured the stage category at the World Tango Championships on Saturday, followed by Chilean and Japanese pairs.

  • New York Yankees' Johnny Damon, right, is congratulated by teammate Derek Jeter after hitting a solo home run off of Detroit Tigers starter Jeremy Bonderman in the third inning of a baseball game Saturday, Aug. 25, 2007, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Duane Burleson)
    Wang and Damon carry Yankees past Tigers AP - 1 hour, 50 minutes ago

    DETROIT - The Yankees sure didn't look like a team suffering from a lack of sleep. Johnny Damon homered and tripled, Melky Cabrera added a three-run triple and Chien-Ming Wang delivered eight effective innings, leading New York to a 7-2 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Saturday night.

  • A villager struggles to battle a blaze with a branch in the village of Leprio in south Peloponnese, about 350km (217 miles) of Athens, August 26, 2007. Greece declared a nationwide state of emergency after the country's worst forest fires in decades killed at least 47 people and trapped many more in villages surrounded by flames. (John Kolesidis/Reuters)
    Greek fires kill 51 and threaten Olympia Reuters - 1 hour, 20 minutes ago

    ZACHARO, Greece (Reuters) - EU firefighters and planes joined the battle on Sunday against the fires raging in Greece for three days, killing 51 people and threatening areas near ancient Olympia, historic site of the first Olympic games.

  • U.S. President George W. Bush delivers remarks to the Veterans of Foreign Wars National Convention in Kansas City, Missouri, August 22, 2007. Bush, faced with growing calls to start withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq, pleaded with Americans on Saturday for patience and cited progress in the past two months. (Jim Young/Reuters)
    Bush pleads for more patience for Iraq war Reuters - Sat Aug 25, 11:59 PM ET

    CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - President George W. Bush, faced with growing calls to start withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq, pleaded with Americans on Saturday for patience and cited progress in the past two months.

  • Afghan police try to douse fire after a suicide attack on a convoy of Western troops in Kabul August 25, 2007. (Desmond Boylan/Reuters)
    Foreign raid kills dozens of Afghans: residents Reuters - Sun Aug 26, 3:16 AM ET

    LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Residents of a Taliban-controlled town in southern Afghanistan said on Sunday dozens of civilians including women and children had been killed in aerial bombing.

  • A relief worker gives money to a flood victim in Digrirchar at Rajbari district, 130 km (81 miles) from Dhaka, August 12, 2007. Flood victims in eastern India were eating raw wheat flour to survive as devastating monsoon flooding in South Asia continued to spread misery among millions. (Rafiqur Rahman/Reuters)
    Toll rises in South Asia floods Reuters - 2 hours, 5 minutes ago

    PATNA, India (Reuters) - Flood victims in eastern India were eating raw wheat flour to survive as devastating monsoon flooding in South Asia continued to spread misery among millions.

  • The coal-burning Mount Piper Power station located in the Central West region of New South Wales, around 150km (93 miles) west of Sydney, is seen April 27, 2007. The United Nations says momentum is building for tougher long-term action to fight global warming beyond the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol and a climate meeting starting in Vienna on Monday will be a crucial part of the process. (David Gray/Reuters)
    "Momentum building" for new climate deal: U.N. Reuters - Sun Aug 26, 4:53 AM ET

    VIENNA (Reuters) - The United Nations says momentum is building for tougher long-term action to fight global warming beyond the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol and a climate meeting starting in Vienna on Monday will be a crucial part of the process.

  • Medics move a person injured in a bomb blast on a stretcher, at a hospital in Lumbini Park in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad August 25, 2007. (Krishnendu Halder/Reuters)
    Security forces sent to India state Reuters - Sun Aug 26, 1:06 AM ET

    HYDERABAD, India (Reuters) - Officials sent extra police and special bomb detection equipment to an Indian state after bombs packed with metal pellets killed 43 people at a packed street food-stall and an amusement park.

  • Pigeons crowd Saint Mark's Square in Venice in this October 18, 2005 photo. Two movies about the Iraq war and its impact on Americans back home are among 22 competition entries at the Venice Film Festival this year, lending political weight to a cinema showcase laden with Hollywood productions. (Michele Crosera/Files/Reuters)
    Iraq war looms over Venice Film Festival Reuters - 2 hours, 59 minutes ago

    LONDON (Reuters) - Two movies about the Iraq war and its impact on Americans back home are among 22 competition entries at the Venice Film Festival this year, lending political weight to a cinema showcase laden with Hollywood productions.

  • Two school children die in Mogadishu bomb blast Reuters - 1 hour, 30 minutes ago

    MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A roadside bomb apparently targeting Somali government soldiers killed two children outside a school in Mogadishu on Sunday, a witness said.

  • Local residents try to estinguish a burning house in Smerna village, in the Zacharo area of Peloponnese peninsula. Forest fires are raging unabated on the Peloponnese peninsula of southern Greece, killing at least 51 people in an inferno that officials called an unprecedented disaster not yet under control.(AFP/Louisa Gouliamaki)
    Fires engulf southern Greece, at least 51 dead AFP - 18 minutes ago

    ATHENS (AFP) - Forest fires raged unabated Sunday on the Peloponnese peninsula of southern Greece, killing at least 51 people in an inferno that officials called an unprecedented disaster not yet under control.

  • A person injured in one of two blasts which hit the city is treated in a hospital in Hyderabad. Indian security forces have launched a manhunt for those behind twin bombings in the southern city of Hyderabad that killed 42 people, with officials pinning the blame on Islamic militants.(AFP)
    India blames 'terrorists' as blasts kill 42 AFP - 1 hour, 42 minutes ago

    HYDERABAD, India (AFP) - Indian security forces launched a manhunt Sunday for those behind twin bombings in the southern city of Hyderabad that killed 42 people, with officials pinning the blame on Islamic militants.

  • Pakistani pro-Taliban militants shout slogans as they stand inside a shrine in Lakaro village in the lawless Mohmand tribal district bordering Afghanistan, some 60 kilometers (37 miles) northwest of Peshawar, end of July. US and Afghan troops killed more than a dozen militants who were attacking from positions in eastern Afghanistan and across the border in Pakistan, the US-led coalition said in a statement Sunday(AFP/File/S.H. Khan)
    Militants killed along Afghan-Pakistan border AFP - Sun Aug 26, 4:12 AM ET

    KABUL (AFP) - US and Afghan troops killed more than a dozen militants who were attacking from positions in eastern Afghanistan and across the border in Pakistan, the US-led coalition said in a statement Sunday.

  • Bangladeshi President Fakhruddin Ahmed (C) is assisted by soldiers during a ceremony in Dhaka, in May. The military-backed administration took charge of the country a day after the emergency was imposed and elections cancelled, following months of violence over vote-rigging allegations.(AFP/File/Farjana K. Godhuly)
    Bangladesh army chief sees politicians behind riots AFP - Sun Aug 26, 3:11 AM ET

    DHAKA, Aug 26, 2007 (AFP) - Bangladesh's army chief has accused politicians ousted by the military-backed government of instigating riots that prompted a curfew, official media said on Sunday.

  • A Somali man walks by a policeman on duty in southern Mogadishu in June 2007. A series of explosions have rocked Mogadishu, killing two children and wounding five other people as relentless violence cast a pall over peace efforts in the shattered Horn of Africa nation.(AFP/File)
    Children killed in explosions threatening Mogadishu peace push AFP - 40 minutes ago

    MOGADISHU (AFP) - A series of explosions rocked Mogadishu on Sunday, killing two children and wounding five other people as relentless violence cast a pall over peace efforts in the shattered Horn of Africa nation.

  • A man gazes at a share prices chart in Tokyo, 24 Aug. After fleeing over the past few weeks to the bond markets due to the crisis in the subprime sector in the United States, investors last week cautiously started returning to shares(AFP/File/Yoshikazu Tsuno)
    Investors trickle back to shares AFP - Sun Aug 26, 2:06 AM ET

    PARIS (AFP) - After fleeing over the past few weeks to the bond markets due to the crisis in the subprime sector in the United States, investors last week cautiously started returning to shares.

  • Workers cut siding for a new home 16 Aug in San Ramon, California. An increasingly fragile US economy is facing growing risks from the meltdown in the property market, which threatens to spill over into other sectors as credit markets freeze, analysts say(AFP/Getty Images/File/David Paul Morris)
    Analysts mull contagion from US property market woes AFP - Sun Aug 26, 2:39 AM ET

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - An increasingly fragile US economy is facing growing risks from the meltdown in the property market, which threatens to spill over into other sectors as credit markets freeze, analysts say.

Most Popular Top Stories

  • Morning-after pill sales jump as U.S. access eases Reuters - Fri Aug 24, 2:24 PM ET

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sales of the Plan B "morning-after pill" nearly doubled in the past year, exceeding expectations after the U.S. government allowed adults to buy the emergency contraceptive without a prescription.

  • A Nigerian health official tries to drop a polio vaccine into the mouth of a child in Kaiama, Nigeria. Nigeria has been frantically struggling to stamp out the highly infectious disease that mainly hits children.(AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei)
    In Nigeria, victims spearhead polio vaccination campaign AFP - Fri Aug 24, 10:41 AM ET

    KANO, Nigeria (AFP) - Resting his withered legs on his four-wheeler motorbike, polio victim Aminu Ahmed spoke persuasively to a woman breastfeeding her one-year-old daughter in front of the family's mud house.

  • Smoke and flames from a forest fire are seen near the village of Krounoi in south Peloponnese, about 350 km (217 miles) from Athens, August 25, 2007. Greece's government declared a nationwide state of emergency on Saturday after the country's worst forest fires in decades killed at least 47 people and trapped many more in villages surrounded by flames. (John Kolesidis/Reuters)
    Greece declares emergency after fires kill 47 Reuters - Sat Aug 25, 5:52 PM ET

    ZACHARO, Greece (Reuters) - Greece declared a nationwide state of emergency on Saturday after the country's worst forest fires in decades killed at least 47 people and trapped many more in villages surrounded by flames.

Sports News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Sports:

Wang and Damon carry Yankees past Tigers

AP - 1 hour, 50 minutes ago

DETROIT - The Yankees sure didn't look like a team suffering from a lack of sleep. Johnny Damon homered and tripled, Melky Cabrera added a three-run triple and Chien-Ming Wang delivered eight effective innings, leading New York to a 7-2 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Saturday night.

Business News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Business:

$100 bill to get high-tech face lift

AP - 1 hour, 18 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - After six decades in which the venerable greenback never changed its look, the U.S. currency has undergone a slew of makeovers. The most amazing is yet to come.

Miscellaneous Daily Stuff

Lateshow Top Ten List

Top Ten Good Things About Being Elected To The National Baseball Hall Of Fame Presented By Tony Gwynn And Cal Ripken, Jr.

10. While traveling the country, I can shower with any team I choose

9. Can now advertise my garage sales as "Hall of Fame garage sales"

8. George Steinbrenner just offered me $20 million to play again

7. On Bobblehead Day, guess who gets two bobbleheads?

6. At any moment, there's a good chance Bob Costas is boring someone with stories about me

5. It's nice to be mentioned in the same breath as Arky Vaughan, Burleigh Grimes, and Gabby Hartnett

4. Free chalupa from Taco Bell if I mention them in my induction speech

3. Made all those years playing in southern California's lousy climate worth it

2. I can now admit I broke my streak in 1998 because I had tickets to "Les Mis"

1. Get to be on national television-- even if it is this show

Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - August 26, 2007
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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Irv Kupcinet
People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.
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Bob Hope (1903 - 2003)
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
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Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)

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