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This edition was generated on Thu Dec 16 08:45:01 EST 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:

Julian Assange AP
Judge grants bail to WikiLeaks' Julian Assange AP – 12 mins ago

LONDON – Julian Assange will be freed on bail from a British jail, a U.K. judge ruled Thursday, rejecting an appeal by prosecutors to keep the WikiLeaks founder in prison as he fights an extradition request by Sweden. Full Story »

Applications for unemployment aid drop slightly AP – 8 mins ago
US lawmakers to act on Obama tax deal
Tax package heads toward high stakes vote in House AP – 55 mins ago

Sports News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Sports:

FILE- In this Feb. 28, 1941, file photo, Cleveland Indians star pitcher Bob Feller works on his form during spring training baseball in Fort Myers, Fl AP

Hall of Famer Bob Feller dies at 92

AP – 2 hrs 25 mins ago

CLEVELAND – Teenage pitching sensation, World War II hero, outspoken Hall of Famer and local sports treasure. Bob Feller was all of them. Full Story »

Roger Goodell

Goodell hopes labor can be settled by Super Bowl

AP – Wed Dec 15, 10:11 pm ET
Amare Stoudemire, Kevin Garnett

Celtics edge Knicks on Pierce jumper with 0.4 left

AP – Wed Dec 15, 10:08 pm ET

Business News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Business:

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

Futures turn flat after FedEx results

Reuters – 20 mins ago

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stock index futures turned flat on Thursday, giving up some gains after economic bellwether FedEx reported quarterly results that missed expectations. Full Story »

William Walker, CEO of Walker & Dunlop, speaks on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange after his company's IPO

Housing starts rise in November, but permits drop

Reuters – 10 mins ago

Weekly jobless claims stuck at 420,000

Reuters – 4 mins ago

Miscellaneous Daily Stuff

Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - December 16, 2010
Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed.
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W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946), in Richard J. Anobile - "Godfrey Daniels"
In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
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Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.
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Stephen Jay Gould (1941 - 2002)
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