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This edition was generated on Tue Jan 12 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:

FILE - In this Feb. 11, 2009 file photo, from left, Goldman Sachs & Co. Chief AP
AP source: Obama considers levy for rescued firms AP – 1 hr 12 mins ago

WASHINGTON – Targeting an industry whose political deafness has vexed his administration, President Barack Obama is weighing a levy aimed at recovering tax dollars from government-rescued financial institutions. Full Story »

FILE - In this June 1, 2009 file photo, AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Richard
Labor angry over Obama-backed insurance tax AP – 1 hr 50 mins ago
This undated file photo released by the semi-official Iranian Fars News Agency
Bomb kills Iran nuclear physicist tied to Mousavi AP – 57 mins ago

Sports News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Sports:

FILE - In this Sept. 8, 1998, file photo, St. Louis Cardinals' Mark McGwire hugs AP

Mark McGwire finally admits using steroids

AP – 1 hr 36 mins ago

NEW YORK – Finally willing to talk about the past, Mark McGwire sobbed and sniffled, giving the missing — and unsurprising — answer to the steroids question. Full Story »

University of Southern California football coach Pete Carroll comments on

Carroll ready for Seattle challenge

AP – Tue Jan 12, 4:14 am ET
FILE - This is a Sept. 27, 1998, file photo showing St. Louis Cardinals' Mark

Cardinals stand behind McGwire

AP – Mon Jan 11, 8:29 pm ET

Business News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Business:

November trade deficit increases to $36.4 billion

AP – 8 mins ago

WASHINGTON – The U.S. trade deficit jumped to the highest level in 10 months as an improving U.S. economy pushed up demand for imports. However, exports rose as well, boosted by a weaker dollar, supporting the view that American manufacturers will be helped by a rebounding global economy. Full Story »

KB Home posts $100.7M profit for Q4

AP – 2 mins ago
In this Dec. 17, 2009 photo, Jeff Weidenhamer, professor of chemistry at Ashland

China to look into AP report of cadmium in jewelry

AP – 20 mins ago

Miscellaneous Daily Stuff

Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - January 12, 2010
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Joseph Heller (1923 - 1999), "Catch-22"
Oregano is the spice of life.
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Henry J. Tillman
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
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Gail Godwin
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To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.
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George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
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