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This edition was generated on Thu Oct 7 08:45:02 EDT 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:

A wrecked car, washed away by a flood of toxic mud, stands in a field in the village of Kolontar, Hungary, Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010. The toxic red sludg AP
Hungary: Toxic red sludge has reached the Danube AP – 19 mins ago

KOLONTAR, Hungary – The toxic red sludge that burst out of a Hungarian factory's reservoir and inundated three villages reached the mighty Danube on Thursday after wreaking havoc on smaller rivers and creeks, an emergency official said. Full Story »

Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel literature prize AP – 58 mins ago
Unemployment claims drop for 4th time in 5 weeks AP – 11 mins ago

Sports News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Sports:

Roy Halladay, Carlos Ruiz AP

Larsen has some company after Halladay's no-hitter

AP – 1 hr 42 mins ago

PHILADELPHIA – Roy Halladay finished his warmup tosses and stood on the mound, waiting for a commercial to finish so he could resume working on his masterpiece. Full Story »

Mark Teixeira, Nick Swisher

Teixeira's homer pushes Yanks past Twins in Game 1

AP – 1 hr 43 mins ago
Cliff Lee

Lee outduels Price as Rangers beat Rays in Game 1

AP – Thu Oct 7, 4:30 am ET

Business News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Business:

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Reuters

Stock futures flat ahead of initial claims

Reuters – 35 mins ago

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stock index futures were little changed on Thursday ahead of weekly jobless claims data as investors sought insight into the strength of the economic recovery before Friday's key employment report. Full Story »

File photo of case worker Jessica Yon with unemployed people in San Francisco

Jobless claims at near three-month low

Reuters – 11 mins ago

Late back-to-school shopping lifts retail sales

Reuters – 22 mins ago

Miscellaneous Daily Stuff

Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - October 7, 2010
An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
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John Buchan (1875 - 1940)
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Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms.
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Alan Corenk
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There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?
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Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
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Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left.
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David M. Ogilvy
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