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This edition was generated on Mon May 5 08:45:01 EDT 2008

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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:

Cyclone death toll nears 4,000 in Myanmar, state radio says
AP - 2 minutes ago

YANGON, Myanmar - Almost 4,000 people were killed and nearly 3,000 others are unaccounted for in a single town after a devastating cyclone in Myanmar, a state radio station said Monday.

  • Utility workers install power lines in a tornado damaged area, Saturday, May 3, 2008, Damascus, Ark. Smoke rose from burning heaps of wreckage Saturday as residents of rural Arkansas cleaned up what was left of their homes after deadly tornadoes scoured a state that has been plagued by severe weather this year.   (AP Photo/Mike Wintroath)
    Weather service: Arkansas was swept by at least 10 tornadoes AP - 1 hour, 14 minutes ago

    LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Meteorologists were planning an aerial survey Monday of the destruction caused by at least 10 tornadoes late last week.

  • Who should MDs let die in a pandemic? Report offers answers AP - 1 hour, 10 minutes ago

    CHICAGO - Doctors know some patients needing lifesaving care won't get it in a flu pandemic or other disaster. The gut-wrenching dilemma will be deciding who to let die.

  • Aaron Neville of the Neville Brothers performs with the Wild Magnolia Tchoupatoulis Mardi Gras Indians during the 2008 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival at the New Orleans Fairgrounds Racetrack in New Orleans, Sunday, May 4, 2008. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
    New Orleans sings praise as Neville Brothers finally reunite AP - 1 hour, 12 minutes ago

    NEW ORLEANS - The Neville Brothers, who traditionally help close out the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, returned to the big stage Sunday for the first time since Hurricane Katrina flooded and wrecked their homes, along with 80 percent of the city.

  • Beauty, a rescued Alaskan bald eagle, sits in her pen at a raptor recovery center near St. Marie's, Idaho, Wednesday, April 23, 2008. A surgery in May 2008 will provide Beauty with a new artificial beak, to replace the one damaged by a gunshot wound. (AP Photo/Young Kwak)
    Idaho team readies artificial beak for wounded bald eagle AP - 2 hours, 8 minutes ago

    ST. MARIES, Idaho - She has been named Beauty, though this eagle is anything but. Part of Beauty's beak was shot off several years ago, leaving her with a stump that is useless for hunting food. A team of volunteers is working to attach an artificial beak to the disfigured bird, in an effort to keep her alive.

  • Dallas Stars forward Mike Modano (9) skates for the puck as teammate Niklas Hagman (15), of Finland, blocks San Jose Sharks Joe Pavelski (8) during the third period of Game 6 of the Western Conference semifinal playoff hockey series in Dallas, Sunday, May 4, 2008. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
    Stars beat Sharks in 4 OTs to clinch series AP - 1 hour, 14 minutes ago

    DALLAS - The Dallas Stars have finally made it back to the Western Conference finals. It took the eighth longest game in NHL history to do it. Brenden Morrow scored a power play goal 9:03 into the fourth overtime as the Stars eliminated the pesky San Jose Sharks 2-1 in a game that ended early Monday morning — the longest game in the NHL playoffs this season, and the longest in San Jose history.

  • Nearly 4,000 people were killed and thousands were missing in Myanmar's devastated cyclone regions, state television reported on Monday. (Graphics/Reuters)
    Cyclone kills nearly 4,000 in Myanmar: state TV Reuters - 31 minutes ago

    BANGKOK (Reuters) - Nearly 4,000 people were killed and thousands were missing in two of Myanmar's devastated cyclone regions, state television reported on Monday, a dramatic increase in the toll from Saturday's storm.

  • Democratic presidential candidate Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) (L) looks into the audience as she and Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) (R) arrive for their last debate before the Ohio primary in Cleveland, Ohio February 26, 2008. (Aaron Josefczyk/Reuters)
    Democrats fear divided party after nominee chosen Reuters - Mon May 5, 1:10 AM ET

    SHELBYVILLE, Indiana (Reuters) - U.S. presidential primaries often divide party loyalists, but the drawn-out battle between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama may leave some Democrats too bitter to band together against the Republicans in November.

  • Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini looks on during a joint news conference by the Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki and his Cuban counterpart Felipe Perez Roque in Tehran in this September 4, 2007 file photo. (Morteza Nikoubazl/Reuters)
    Iran rules out nuclear halt despite fresh incentives Reuters - 1 hour, 29 minutes ago

    TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran said on Monday it would not consider any incentives offered by world powers that violated its right to nuclear technology, ruling out a precondition to halt atomic work the West believes is aimed at making bombs.

  • Democratic presidential candidate Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) poses for a photograph after meeting with supporters during a campaign stop at the Andorfer Commons at Indiana Tech in Fort Wayne, Indiana, May 4, 2008. (Jeff Haynes/Reuters)
    Clinton dismisses "elite" economists on gas tax plan Reuters - Sun May 4, 9:52 PM ET

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Sunday dismissed the "elite opinion" of economists who criticized her gas tax proposal, using a term that has dogged rival Barack Obama in recent weeks.

  • U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) speaks at the Jefferson Jackson Day Dinner in Indianapolis, May 4, 2008. The Indiana Presidential Primary will be held on May 6. (Jason Reed/Reuters)
    Obama faces big tests in North Carolina, Indiana Reuters - 34 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama faces tests in the North Carolina and Indiana primaries this week that will help determine whether he has survived a rough patch and can finally defeat Hillary Clinton.

  • Civilians flee with their belongings from Somalia's capital Mogadishu April 27, 2008. (Omar Faruk/Reuters)
    Mogadishu rocked by food demonstrations Reuters - 8 minutes ago

    MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A young man was shot and killed when thousands of Somalis protested in Mogadishu on Monday over food traders' refusal to take old currency notes amid spiraling inflation, witnesses said.

  • An Austrian police handout picture released April 28, 2008 shows a man suspected of keeping his daughter prisoner and abusing her for 24 years in the basement of a house in the small Austrian village of Amstetten. (HO/Police/Reuters)
    Lawyer says Austrian incest father "a broken man" Reuters - Sun May 4, 3:56 PM ET

    VIENNA (Reuters) - The lawyer of the Austrian man who held his daughter captive and fathered her seven children said on Sunday his client was "emotionally a broken man."

  • Tibetan nuns and others pray during their 24 hours relay hunger strike in Kathmandu May 4, 2008. Sunday is the 24th day of a hunger strike organized by the Tibetans living in Nepal who are pleading for justice in Tibet. (Gopal Chitrakar/Reuters)
    China and Dalai Lama aides agreed to talk again Reuters - Mon May 5, 5:24 AM ET

    SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) - Envoys of the Dalai Lama and Chinese officials agreed to further contact during a day of talks aimed at mending fences following a wave of unrest that pushed Tibet to centre stage ahead of the 2008 Olympics.

  • This photo released by the Democratic Voice of Burma shows people looking at a downed tree in Yangon after tropical cyclone Nargis. At least 351 people were killed and nearly 100,000 left homeless when tropical cyclone Nargis tore through Myanmar, razing thousands of buildings and knocking out power lines.(AFP/HO/AFP)
    Myanmar cyclone death toll reaches 3,969: state television AFP - 53 minutes ago

    YANGON (AFP) - The death toll from the cyclone that hit Myanmar over the weekend has reached 3,969, state television said Monday, warning that thousands more could be dead.

  • File photo shows shows Tibetan envoys of the Dalai Lama, Lodi Gyaltsen Gyari (L) and Kelsang Gyaltsen in Dharamsala. China's state press accused the Dalai Lama on Monday of "monstrous crimes," a day after Chinese officials reportedly agreed with the envoys of the exiled Tibetan Buddhist to keep the door open on dialogue.(AFP/File)
    China accuses Dalai Lama of 'monstrous crimes', despite talks AFP - Mon May 5, 3:30 AM ET

    BEIJING (AFP) - China's state press on Monday accused the Dalai Lama of "monstrous crimes", keeping up its fiery rhetoric against the exiled spiritual Tibetan leader despite agreeing to maintain dialogue with him.

  • A picture released by the Israeli Government Press Office shows Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (R) shaking hands with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during a morning meeting in his Jerusalem office. Olmert and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas have met on the heels of Rice's latest bid to boost the peace process.(AFP/Moshe Milner)
    Olmert and Abbas meet after Rice bid to boost peace talks AFP - 1 hour, 51 minutes ago

    JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas met on Monday on the heels of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's latest bid to boost the Middle East peace process.

  • Police cordon-off a house in Wenden, western Germany. The bodies of three dead babies have been discovered in a freezer in the cellar of a house in Wenden.(AFP/DDP/Henning Kaiser)
    Three dead babies found in freezer in Germany: prosecutor AFP - 1 hour, 42 minutes ago

    BERLIN (AFP) - The bodies of three dead babies have been discovered in a freezer in the cellar of a house in Wenden near Bonn in western Germany, prosecutors told AFP on Monday.

  • New investigations into obesity may identify people with an inherited risk of weight gain, explain why crash diets often fail and address a danger period in childhood that leads to obesity in adult life.(AFP/Mustafa Ozer)
    Chewing the fat: New targets emerge for tackling obesity AFP - Sun May 4, 10:06 PM ET

    PARIS (AFP) - New investigations into obesity may identify people with an inherited risk of weight gain, explain why crash diets often fail and address a danger period in childhood that leads to obesity in adult life.

  • A wax figure representing a Neanderthal man on display at a museum. A new, simplified family tree of humanity has dealt a blow to those who contend that the enigmatic hominids known as Neanderthals intermingled with our forebears.(AFP/File)
    Neanderthals were separate species, new study finds AFP - 2 hours, 24 minutes ago

    PARIS (AFP) - A new, simplified family tree of humanity has dealt a blow to those who contend that the enigmatic hominids known as Neanderthals intermingled with our forebears.

  • The President of the European Central Bank Jean Claude Trichet holds a press conference at the end of the Informal meeting of European Finance Ministers of Eurogroup, April 2008. Global growth is still strong owing to the resilience of emerging markets but inflation risks are significant, European Central Bank chief and G10 spokesman Jean-Claude Trichet has said.(AFP/File/Dominique Faget)
    World growth still strong but inflationary risks significant: Trichet AFP - 39 minutes ago

    BASEL (AFP) - Global growth is still strong owing to the resilience of emerging markets but inflation risks are significant, European Central Bank chief and G10 spokesman Jean-Claude Trichet said on Monday.

Most Popular Top Stories

  • Colonel Franz Polzer, head of Lower Austria province criminal police, shows a picture of a man, suspected of keeping his daughter prisoner and abusing her for 24 years in the basement of his house, during a news conference in Amstetten in eastern Austria April 28, 2008. (Herbert Neubauer/Reuters)
    Lawyer says Austrian incest father "a broken man" Reuters - Sun May 4, 3:56 PM ET

    VIENNA (Reuters) - The lawyer of the Austrian man who held his daughter captive and fathered her seven children said on Sunday his client was "emotionally a broken man."

  • A generic picture of a computer keyboard. OFFPO (Catherine Benson CRB/Reuters)
    Computer keyboards can be dirtier than a toilet: study Reuters - Fri May 2, 12:30 AM ET

    CANBERRA (Reuters Life!) - Think twice before eating those dropped crumbs off your computer keyboard -- you might as well be eating off a toilet seat, according to a new study on the amount of germs on keyboards.

  • Neanderthals were separate species, new study finds AFP - 2 hours, 24 minutes ago

    PARIS (AFP) - A new, simplified family tree of humanity has dealt a blow to those who contend that the enigmatic hominids known as Neanderthals intermingled with our forebears.

  • Rolls Royce parked on the causeway to Dubai's Burj Al-Arab hotel. An auction for 57 special car registration plates fetched some 9.8 million dollars Friday, with the double-digit plate 50 G being sold for some 926,000 dollars, WAM official news agency reported.(AFP/File/Rabih Moghrabi)
    Car plates fetch 9.8 mln dlrs in UAE auction AFP - Fri May 2, 12:23 PM ET

    DUBAI (AFP) - An auction for 57 special car registration plates fetched some 9.8 million dollars Friday, with the double-digit plate 50 G being sold for some 926,000 dollars, WAM official news agency reported.

  • Democratic presidential hopeful US Senator Hillary Clinton attends a campaign rally at Wake Forest College Birthplace Museum in Wake Forest, North Carolina. The tiny US Pacific island of Guam relished a rare moment in the spotlight Saturday, weighing in on the raging Democratic White House battle between Clinton and Barack Obama.(AFP/Robyn Beck)
    Health care waits to ignite as campaign issue Reuters - Sun May 4, 1:16 AM ET

    DENVER (Reuters) - The sharply contrasting health care visions of Republican John McCain and his Democratic presidential rivals offer the promise of a grand campaign debate -- if the candidates find room on a crowded agenda.

Sports News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Sports:

Celtics rout Hawks in Game 7 to set up matchup with Cavs

AP - Sun May 4, 5:20 PM ET

BOSTON - Kevin Garnett took a behind-the-back pass from Paul Pierce, slammed in the dunk to make the lead three dozen points and then slashed his hand across his throat to signal what the Atlanta Hawks already knew. "It's over," he told the crowd. The game. The series. The surprising little scare Atlanta put into the NBA's best.

Business News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Business:

Yahoo shares tumble in premarket trading with Microsoft out

AP - 19 minutes ago

SAN FRANCISCO - Shares of Yahoo fell 22 percent in premarket trading as hopes for the once dominant search engine dimmed on the withdrawal of a $43.7 billion bid from Microsoft Corp. over the weekend.

Miscellaneous Daily Stuff

Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - May 5, 2008
To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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Quentin Crisp
In politics, absurdity is not a handicap.
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Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
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Helen Rowland (1876 - 1950), A Guide to Men, 1922
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
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Flannery O'Connor (1925 - 1964)

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