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This edition was generated on Thu Sep 2 08:45:01 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 window is boarded up with a message at the Buxton Beach Motel in Buxton, N.C., Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010 as Hurricane Earl approaches North Carolina' AP
Some dig in, others flee coast as Earl nears US AP – 52 mins ago

BUXTON, N.C. – Hurricane Earl blew toward the Eastern Seaboard on Thursday as a major storm with winds of around 145 mph as forecasters tried to pinpoint exactly how close the strongest gales and heaviest surge would get to North Carolina's fragile chain of barrier islands. Full Story »

Unemployment claims drop for second straight week AP – 5 mins ago
US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates speaks during the US Forces-Iraq change of command ceremony in Baghdad, Wednesday Sept. 1, 2010, as a new US mil
Gates in Afghanistan to meet with Karzai, Petraeus AP – 1 hr 20 mins ago

Sports News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Sports:

Ben Roethlisberger, Maurkice Pouncey AP

Roethlisberger to meet with Goodell

AP – Thu Sep 2, 3:16 am ET

NEW YORK – Ben Roethlisberger's six-game suspension likely will be shortened to four games by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell after the two meet in New York on Friday. Full Story »

Preseason in college football? Why not?

AP – Thu Sep 2, 5:09 am ET
Bob Stoops

Agent oversight continues to vex college sports

AP – Thu Sep 2, 5:06 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 jobless, housing data

Reuters – 31 mins ago

NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stock index futures were little changed on Thursday after Wall Street's best day in eight weeks and ahead of jobless claims and pending home sales data. Full Story »

House prices fall for second month in row: survey

Jobless claims fell 6,000 last week

Reuters – 9 mins ago

Retailers' August sales beat estimates

Reuters – 22 mins ago

Miscellaneous Daily Stuff

Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - September 2, 2010
It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.
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Darrin Weinberg
I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS.
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Robert Bakker, paleontologist
Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.
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Eric Sevareid
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Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
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J. Bartlett Brebner
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