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This edition was generated on Wed Feb 16 08:45:01 EST 2011

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:

John Larson, Tom Rooney, Chellie Pingree, Tim Griffin, Lynn Westmoreland, Robert Dold AP
$3 billion battle over fighter jet engine heats up AP – 2 mins ago

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration's campaign against a costly alternative engine for the Pentagon's next-generation fighter jet faces a critical vote in the GOP-controlled House, its fate to be decided by more than 90 freshmen lawmakers who previously haven't had to choose sides between two major defense companies. Full Story »

A demonstrator waves a Bahraini flag on a highway overpass overlooking the Pearl Monument centered on a main square in Manama, Bahrain, Tuesday Feb. 1
Bahrain protesters urge more pressure on rulers AP – 1 hr 14 mins ago
FILE - In this Feb. 11, 2011 file photo, Borders Group, a chain of 674 bookstores, including this one in Glen Mills, Pa., may file for bankruptcy, acc
Borders files for Ch. 11 bankruptcy protection AP – 2 mins ago

Sports News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Sports:

Lance Armstrong speaks during an interview in Austin, Texas, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Thao Nguyen) AP

Armstrong officially off bike — 'Retirement 2.0'

AP – 1 hr 47 mins ago

Lance Armstrong is calling this one "Retirement 2.0." Full Story »

Turkey lifts provisional doping ban on Taurasi

AP – 37 mins ago
Hickory

Scottish deerhound is best in show at Westminster

AP – 2 hrs 13 mins ago

Business News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Business:

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

M&A, Dell earnings lift stock futures

Reuters – 44 mins ago

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stock index futures rose on Wednesday after estimate-beating results from Dell and a deal for Sanofi-Aventis to buy Genzyme for $20.1 billion in cash. Full Story »

A sign points the way to the headquarters of Genzyme in Cambridge

Sanofi to buy Genzyme for over $20 billion

Reuters – 32 mins ago
A customer is seen through the window of a Borders book store in New York

Borders files for bankruptcy, to close stores

Reuters – 52 mins ago

Miscellaneous Daily Stuff

Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - February 16, 2011
Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.
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Ed Gardner
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Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
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Jef Raskin, interviewed in Doctor Dobb's Journal
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Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.
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Dr. Martin Henry Fischer
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If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised.
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Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
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