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This edition was generated on Wed Dec 29 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:

While most residents had cleared yards and sidewalks, many streets remained unplowed in the Sunset Park section of Brooklyn, N.Y., Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2 AP
Airlines play huge game of catch-up in NYC area AP – 1 hr 25 mins ago

NEW YORK – Airports trying to shepherd a backlog of planes churned snow plows through the night, kept snack bars open late and scrubbed teeming terminals ceaselessly in an effort to return thousands of passengers stranded by a weekend snowstorm to their homes. Full Story »

Members of the U.S. Marine Honor Guard carry the casket of Lance Cpl. Jose Maldonado to waiting hearse on Tuesday, Dec 28, 2010 after he arrived at th
US troops clash with Taliban in east Afghanistan AP – 59 mins ago
FILE - In this April 21, 2010, file photo, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig burns in the Gulf of Mexico. As the Gulf oil spill gushed out of control this
BP's spill costs look manageable 8 months later AP – 55 mins ago

Sports News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Sports:

Joe Webb, Antoine Winfield AP

Webb, Peterson help Vikings upset Eagles 24-14

AP – Wed Dec 29, 1:14 am ET

PHILADELPHIA – Considering everything else the Minnesota Vikings have endured this season, it was silly to think two extra days sitting around a hotel room would bring 'em down. Full Story »

Tiago Splitter, Andrew Bynum

NBA-best Spurs rout Bryant and reeling Lakers

AP – Wed Dec 29, 12:24 am ET

Ohio State players apologize for NCAA problems

AP – Tue Dec 28, 5:21 pm ET

Business News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Business:

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

Futures higher as year-end rally set to continue

Reuters – 34 mins ago

NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stocks index futures rose on Wednesday, indicating stocks were poised to extend a December rally as investors remained optimistic the global economic rebound will continue in 2011. Full Story »

A worker shovels cast-off tailings out of a channel underneath a pipeline that transports crushed mineral ore containing rare earths to a disposal dam

China's rare earths export cut raises trade concerns

Reuters – 47 mins ago

Microsoft co-founder relaunches tech patent suit

Reuters – 1 hr 38 mins ago

Miscellaneous Daily Stuff

Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - December 29, 2010
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
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Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976)
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
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A. A. Milne (1882 - 1956)
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
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Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
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Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963), Vedanta for the Western World, 1945
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