Archive for July, 2007
Monday, July 23rd, 2007
Halliburton Co. said Monday second-quarter net income more than doubled to $1.5 billion, lifted largely by a $933 million gain from the separation of its former subsidiary, KBR Inc. The result for the April-June period, which amounted to $1.62 per share, compared with income of $591 million, or 55 cents ...
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Monday, July 23rd, 2007
Excellent piece in the NYT today: "Members of Congress should not be intimidated into thinking that they are overstepping their constitutional bounds. If the founders were looking on now, it is not Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi who would strike them as out of line, but George W. Bush, who ...
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Monday, July 23rd, 2007
According to a new American Research Group poll, just 25% of Americans approve of the way President Bush is handling his job as president and 71% disapprove. These are record lows for the survey. When it comes to Bush's handling of the economy, 23% approve and 73% disapprove.Read the full ...
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Sunday, July 22nd, 2007
A few months ago, she decided to write an opinion piece about Lebanon. She enlisted John Chambers, chief executive officer of Cisco Systems as a co-author, and they wrote about public/private partnerships and how they might be of use in rebuilding Lebanon after last summer's war. No one would publish ...
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Sunday, July 22nd, 2007
Microsoft is announcing changes to its privacy policy Monday that set a time limit on how long the company will retain data about customer queries through its search engine. The policy, seen as an attempt to distinguish itself from Google, also allows people to opt out of targeted ads by ...
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Sunday, July 22nd, 2007
'What I am saying is that if we invest in ways to reduce the birthrate - by improving contraception, education and healthcare - we will stop the world's population reaching its current estimated limit of between eight and 10 billion.Read the full story
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Sunday, July 22nd, 2007
In the film, the Oval Office is occupied by President Arnold Schwarzenegger. "We needed a president that would make people laugh," Groening told the magazine. "And Schwarzenegger was the obvious choice."Read the full story
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Sunday, July 22nd, 2007
Feingold's own party leader in the Senate showed little interest in the idea. An attempt in 2006 by Feingold to censure Bush over the warrantless spying program attracted only three co-sponsors.Read the full story
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Sunday, July 22nd, 2007
The YouTube debates could fundamentally change the dynamics of politics in America, giving a voice to the people, letting us be heard by the powerful and the public, enabling us to coalesce around our interests and needs, and even teaching reporters who are supposed to ask questions in our stead ...
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Sunday, July 22nd, 2007
Cameron Winklevoss, his twin brother Tyler and their colleague, Divya Narendra, recruited Zuckerberg to their social networking site when they were all students at Harvard University. They now claim that he deliberately stalled its progress, stole the source code, design and business plan, then set up his own rival. Facebook ...
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