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This edition was generated on Sun Jul 19 08:45:01 EDT 2009

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General News Update
Sports News Update
Business News Update
Miscellaneous Daily Information
Boston Area Weather

General News Update

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-General News:

This video frame grab taken from a Taliban propaganda video released Saturday, AP
Video: Captive soldier fears he won't get home AP – 34 mins ago

WASHINGTON – The American soldier who went missing June 30 from his base in eastern Afghanistan and was later confirmed to have been captured, said in a video posted by the Taliban that he's "scared I won't be able to go home." Full Story »

File - A Mi-8 helicopter flies over the Chechen capital Grozny, Russia, in this
NATO: Helicopter crash at Afghan base kills 16 AP – 24 mins ago
This image provided by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation shows a booking
Man on porch charged after 6 slain in Tenn., Ala. AP – 40 mins ago

Sports News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Sports:

Kenichi Kuboya of Japan shelters from the rain with his caddie on the first AP

Early players put up low numbers at British Open

AP – 27 mins ago

TURNBERRY, Scotland – While Tom Watson waited to take his shot at history, several players put up low numbers early in the final round of the British Open. Full Story »

A photograph of a letter written by Amanda Rodrigues, widow of Italian-Canadian

Report: Gatti may have committed suicide

AP – Sat Jul 18, 5:16 pm ET
New York Yankees starter CC Sabathia delivers a pitch during the second inning

Sabathia beats Verlander, Yankees top Tigers 2-1

AP – Sat Jul 18, 4:03 pm ET

Business News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Business:

Banks report using govt. assistance for loans

AP – Sun Jul 19, 12:01 am ET

WASHINGTON – The internal watchdog overseeing the government's financial bailout is pressing Treasury to seek more information from banks that receive taxpayer assistance, brandishing his own bank survey as evidence that such data can be obtained. Full Story »

Assembly Speaker Karen Bass, D-Los Angeles, answers a questions while talking to

Deal possible Sunday on California budget

AP – Sat Jul 18, 3:27 pm ET

Big tech earnings week will reveal economic trends

AP – Sat Jul 18, 12:54 pm ET

  • Economy - Friday

    Investor's Business Daily – Fri Jul 17, 7:16 pm ET

    A measure of leading U.S. economic activity fell a point 15 118.1 last week, the Economic Cycle Research Institute said. But its 4-week annualized growth rate rose to 7%, the best since '04, from 6.2% a week earlier. Another stimulus is unnecessary as the "the bulk of the gov't spending is still in front of us," said Lakshman Achuthan, ECRI's managing director. He said the recession's days are numbered and he expects a smooth recovery. Full Story »

  • Mattel 2Q profit rises 82 percent on cost-cutting

    AP – Fri Jul 17, 6:27 pm ET
    In this photo made Monday, March 9, 2009, decorations are seen... AP

    EL SEGUNDO, Calif. - Light on summer-movie tie-in toys this year, Mattel Inc. said Friday its sales sank 19 percent in the fiscal second-quarter, but cost cuts and lower inventory helped it post an 82 percent jump in profit, beating analyst expectations. Full Story »

  • British Airways to raise almost $1 billion

    AP – Fri Jul 17, 7:49 am ET

    LONDON - Hard-pressed British Airways said Friday it plans to raise 600 million pounds ($980 million) to see it through the recession and financial losses, which it estimated at 100 million pounds for the three months through June. Full Story »

  • Bank of America credit losses soar, profit falls

    Reuters – Fri Jul 17, 3:27 pm ET
    Taxis pass the Bank of America branch in New York's Times... Reuters

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bank of America Corp, the largest U.S. bank, posted a quarterly profit that topped Wall Street forecasts but warned of a fresh surge in soured loans to credit card, mortgage and business customers. Full Story »

  • CIT collapse could ripple through retail industry

    AP – Fri Jul 17, 5:22 pm ET
    FILE - In this Jan. 18, 2008 file photo, rolls of fabric are... AP

    NEW YORK - The possible collapse of a key lender is sending panic through the retail industry, threatening to hang up deliveries of back-to-school clothing and other merchandise and throw holiday ordering into disarray. Full Story »

  • Ill. sheriff makes name with Craigslist, cemetery

    AP – Sat Jul 18, 3:02 pm ET
    In this photo taken Wednesday, July 15, 2009, Cook County Sheriff... AP

    CHICAGO - Sick of kicking innocent renters out of foreclosed homes, Tom Dart announced he was through carrying out evictions until lenders cleaned up their act. The Cook County sheriff then went after Craigslist for running what he said was little more than an online brothel. Full Story »

  • South Korea on path for $40 bln foreign plant orders

    Reuters – Sun Jul 19, 12:43 am ET

    SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea said on Sunday it was on track to achieve its target of winning $40 billion of overseas construction orders this year, with an expected rebound in commodity and oil prices set to revive plant-building projects. Full Story »

  • U.S. housing starts, permits jump in June

    Reuters – Fri Jul 17, 1:19 pm ET
    A worker constructs a new home in Geneva, Illinois, June 23,... Reuters

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ground-breaking for new U.S. homes jumped in June, with starts for single-family homes rising at the fastest rate in 4-1/2 years, the government said on Friday in a report that suggested the battered housing sector was beginning to stabilize. Full Story »

  • US housing construction picks up as market bottoms

    AFP – Fri Jul 17, 2:01 pm ET
    View of a construction site in Las Vegas, Nevada. US home construction... AFP/Getty Images/File

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - US home construction picked up in June after strong gains in May, the government said Friday in a report that suggested a turnaround in the moribund housing market. Full Story »

  • A New Confidence in Construction?

    BusinessWeek Online – Fri Jul 17, 8:08 am ET

    U.S. homebuilders seem to be coming out of hibernation as the gloom over the housing market begins to lift. Full Story »

Miscellaneous Daily Stuff

Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - July 19, 2009
As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
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M. Cartmill
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People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.
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Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), in a book review
Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
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Sam Brown, Washington Post, 1977
Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
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Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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