Aaron's Daily WWW Newspaper

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  Stevens unplugged: a defiant, salty health nut AP - 53 minutes ago

  WASHINGTON - Even when he thought no one was listening but his old friend Bill Allen, Sen. Ted Stevens repeatedly proclaimed his innocence in an Alaskan corruption investigation in between lectures on staying healthy and keeping out of prison on obstruction of justice charges.

• Fan use linked to lower risk of sudden baby death AP - 1 hour, 4 minutes ago

  CHICAGO - Using a fan to circulate air seemed to lower the risk of sudden infant death syndrome in a study of nearly 500 babies, researchers reported Monday. Placing babies on their backs to sleep is the best advice for preventing SIDS, a still mysterious cause of death.

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  Misty May-Treanor out of 'Dancing with the Stars' AP - 1 hour, 4 minutes ago

  LOS ANGELES - Misty May-Treanor is too hurt to keep dancing. The 31-year-old "Dancing with the Stars" contestant and Olympic gold medalist volleyball player appeared at the conclusion of Monday's show on crutches and with a cast on her left leg to announce that she's out of the popular ABC dancing competition after injuring herself while rehearsing Friday.

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  Penguins ride air force jet to South Atlantic AP - Mon Oct 6, 8:55 PM ET

  SAO PAULO, Brazil - More than 370 penguins that mysteriously washed up on Brazil's equatorial beaches were flown south on a huge air force cargo plane and released closer to the frigid waters they call home, animal advocates said Monday.

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  Red Sox and Rays advance to AL Championship Series AP - 1 hour, 6 minutes ago

  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - The American League Championship Series will be an all-East Division affair. The Boston Red Sox and Tampa Bay Rays closed out their respective division series in four games Monday and will square off beginning Friday in St. Petersburg. The National League Championship Series between the Philadelphia Phillies and the Los Angeles Dodgers starts Thursday in Philadelphia.

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  Obama has 3-point national lead on McCain Reuters - 2 hours, 57 minutes ago

  NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama has a narrow 3-point lead in the U.S. presidential race on Republican John McCain less than a month before the election, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Tuesday.

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  Russia and Iceland move to stem banking crisis Reuters - 11 minutes ago

  REYKJAVIK/LONDON (Reuters) - Iceland sought an emergency bailout from Russia on Tuesday and the Russians unveiled an aid package for their own banks in the latest piecemeal responses to the global financial crisis.

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  UK banks in government funding talks as crisis grips Reuters - 5 minutes ago

  LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will hold more talks with banks this week over a possible multi-billion pound injection of public funds, an industry source said as the credit crisis tightened its grip on Europe's main financial center.

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  Two Japanese and American win physics Nobel Reuters - 34 minutes ago

  STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Two Japanese scientists and a Tokyo-born American shared the 2008 Nobel Prize for physics for discoveries in sub-atomic particles, the prize committee said on Tuesday.

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  Australia rate cut stuns, markets thirst for more Reuters - 1 hour, 5 minutes ago

  SYDNEY/TOKYO (Reuters) - Australia stunned markets with its steepest interest cut in 16 years Tuesday and investors expected that other central banks would follow suit in a coordinated move to combat the global credit crisis.

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  Palin warns Florida voters of "rough" campaigning Reuters - 2 hours, 49 minutes ago

  CLEARWATER, Florida (Reuters) - Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin told Florida's voters on Monday to expect "rough" campaigning as she seeks to halt a slide in opinion polls in a state that could make or break Sen. John McCain's White House bid.

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  South Korea dismisses North's nuclear "ultimatum" Reuters - 1 hour, 33 minutes ago

  SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's foreign minister played down on Tuesday the notion that North Korea delivered an ultimatum when it held talks last week with a visiting U.S. envoy who was trying to save a floundering nuclear disarmament deal.

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  U.S. says Afghan war comments "defeatist" Reuters - 20 minutes ago

  KABUL (Reuters) - Britain's military commander and ambassador in Afghanistan are being "defeatist" by thinking the war cannot be won, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said, as Washington seeks more troops for the conflict that started exactly seven years ago.

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  World stocks markets steady despite bank woes AFP - 1 hour, 18 minutes ago

  LONDON (AFP) - World stock markets stabilised Tuesday despite a tumbling banking sector across Europe, as Asia pulled back from the brink on the prospect of cuts to global interest rates, dealers said.

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  Attacks get personal ahead of second US presidential debate AFP - Tue Oct 7, 4:04 AM ET

  NASHVILLE, Tennessee, (AFP) - Republican John McCain questioned Barack Obama's character, and the Democrat pressed his foe's alleged weakness on economic issues, as tempers escalated ahead of Tuesday's presidential debate.

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  Thai police fire tear gas at protesters AFP - Tue Oct 7, 4:13 AM ET

  BANGKOK (AFP) - Thai police fired tear gas Tuesday to try to disperse anti-government protesters blocking parliament, injuring 116 people as months of political turmoil boiled over, police and medics said.

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  Biofuel boom threatens food security, UN agency warns AFP - 25 minutes ago

  ROME (AFP) - The UN food agency cast doubt Tuesday on the potential of biofuels to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions while warning that their development threatens food security.

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  Japanese duo, US scientist win Nobel for particle physics AFP - 9 minutes ago

  STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa of Japan and Yoichiro Nambu of the United States won the 2008 Nobel Physics Prize Tuesday for groundbreaking theoretical work in fundamental particles.

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  Iceland takes control of second largest bank AFP - 21 minutes ago

  REYKJAVIK (AFP) - The Icelandic government said Tuesday it had taken control of the country's second largest bank, Landsbanki, as the island's financial sector tottered on the verge of collapse.

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  Japan's central bank wary of coordinated rate cuts AFP - 1 hour, 29 minutes ago

  TOKYO (AFP) - The financial crisis will delay Japan's economic recovery but coordinated global interest rate cuts are not the answer, the country's top central banker said Tuesday.

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  Gene discovery may help hunt for blindness cure Reuters - Tue Oct 7, 3:27 AM ET

  LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have discovered a gene mutation linked to the most common cause of blindness in the developed world, holding out the prospect of better treatments and perhaps eventually a cure.

• Russia and Iceland move to stem banking crisis Reuters - 11 minutes ago

  REYKJAVIK/LONDON (Reuters) - Iceland sought an emergency bailout from Russia on Tuesday and the Russians unveiled an aid package for their own banks in the latest piecemeal responses to the global financial crisis.

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  BofA earnings tumble, cuts dividend Reuters - Mon Oct 6, 7:40 PM ET

  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bank of America Corp, citing "recessionary conditions," on Monday halved its dividend and said it would sell at least $10 billion in new common stock to bolster its capital to offset rising loan losses.