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This edition was generated on Thu Mar 17 08:45:02 EDT 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:

Japan's Self-Defense Forces's helicopter heads to the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant to dump water on the stricken reactor in Okumamachi Thurs AP
Japanese choppers dump water on stricken reactor AP – 6 mins ago

ZAO, Japan – Japan tried high-pressure water cannons, fire trucks and even helicopters that dropped batches of seawater in increasingly frantic attempts Thursday to cool an overheated nuclear complex as U.S. officials warned the situation was deteriorating. Full Story »

In this photo released by the U.S. Navy, Japanese citizens move food and water out of an HH-60H Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to the Black Knights of H
US authorizes American evacuations out of Japan AP – 1 hr 16 mins ago
Libya
Official: 30 killed in fight for key Libyan city AP – 33 mins ago

Sports News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Sports:

Melvin Johnson III AP

Johnson's shooting, VCU's balance keys to wins

AP – 1 hr 13 mins ago

DAYTON, Ohio – The individual best performance in the "First Four" came from a guard who insists he's in a shooting slump. Full Story »

NFL to judge: Don't unseal TV contract case info

AP – Thu Mar 17, 5:04 am ET

Rain forces cancellation of World Cup finals races

AP – Thu Mar 17, 4:47 am ET

Business News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Business:

Specialist works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York after Federal Reserve left Fed Fund Rates unchanged Reuters

Stock futures gain but volatility seen on Japan fears

Reuters – 48 mins ago

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stock index futures bounced on Thursday, a day after Wall Street wiped out much of its gains for the year, but news on Japan's nuclear crisis was set to drive trading in another volatile day for markets. Full Story »

February consumer price rise biggest in 1-1/2 years

Reuters – 9 mins ago

Fedex sees higher revenue; shares jump

Reuters – 12 mins ago

Miscellaneous Daily Stuff

Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - March 17, 2011
Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
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Alan Dean Foster, "To the Vanishing Point"
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The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
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Umberto Eco (1932 - ), Travels in Hyperreality (Harcourt)
Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
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Heywood Broun (1888 - 1939)
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In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.
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Ellen Goodman (1941 - )
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