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This edition was generated on Tue Feb 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:

Soldiers of Pakistan's para military force search incoming Afghan nationals at AP
Taliban's top military commander captured AP – 2 hrs 38 mins ago

ISLAMABAD – The Taliban's top military commander has been arrested in a joint CIA-Pakistani operation in Pakistan in a major victory against the insurgents as U.S. troops push into their heartland in southern Afghanistan, officials said Tuesday. Full Story »

On the eve of the 8th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, travellers go through the passenger security screening facil
White House defends year-old stimulus AP – 2 hrs 40 mins ago
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper shakes hands with Haitian President Rene
Haiti president: 3 years needed to move rubble AP – 2 hrs 18 mins ago

Sports News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Sports:

Connecticut guard Jerome Dyson drives past a diving Villanova guard Corey Fisher AP

Connecticut stuns No. 3 Villanova 84-75

AP – Tue Feb 16, 5:16 am ET

PHILADELPHIA – Kemba Walker scored a career-high 29 points and Connecticut continued the four-day run of Big East top 10 upsets, beating No. 3 Villanova 84-75 on Monday night. Full Story »

Connecticut guard Tiffany Hayes, right, shoots in front of Oklahoma center Abi

No. 1 Huskies win 65th straight, beat Oklahoma

AP – Mon Feb 15, 11:14 pm ET
Chanel, a two-year-old whippet, wins the hound group at the Westminster Dog Show

Whippet gets fast start at America's top dog show

AP – 1 hr 58 mins ago

Business News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Business:

Simon Properties offers General Growth $10B buyout

AP – 23 mins ago

INDIANAPOLIS – Mall owner Simon Property Group said Tuesday that it made a $10 billion offer to acquire its ailing rival, General Growth Properties. Full Story »

File - In this combo made from file photos, the company logos for drugmakers

Schering-Plough purchase hikes Merck sales, profit

AP – 18 mins ago
NY Times probes reporter's lifting from other news sources

Stock futures edge higher ahead of opening

AP – 59 mins ago

Miscellaneous Daily Stuff

Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - February 16, 2010
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
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George Saunders, last words
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I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
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W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes.
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Dave Barry (1947 - ), "The Taming of the Screw"
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
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Charles Austin Beard (1874 - 1948)
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