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07/23/2008 05:32 PM
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Digg Teams With Facebook
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On Wednesday, Digg, the social news site that recent rumors have being acquired by Google, announced details of a new Facebook-related feature called Facebook Connect....
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07/23/2008 04:26 PM
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Digg This: Google to Buy Social News Site Digg.com
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07/23/2008 04:26 PM
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Wall St. Edges up With Drops in Oil and Financial Gains
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NEW YORK July 23 (Reuters) -- U.S. stocks rose on Wednesday as financial shares climbed on hopes lawmakers will approve the rescue plan for mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the price of oil fell....
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07/23/2008 12:50 PM
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Hurricane Dolly Bears Down on Mexico and Texas Coast
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WASHINGTON (dpa) -- Grinding closer to the Mexico-Texas coast in the Gulf of Mexico Hurricane Dolly Wednesday forced residents of Brownsville, Texas to brace for the border town's first hurricane in almost a decade....
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07/23/2008 12:50 PM
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Obama: Jerusalem Must Not be 'Sliced Up'
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JERUSALEM (dpa) -- U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama said Wednesday Jerusalem should not be "sliced up," making a 30-hour visit to Israel during which he voiced strong support for the Jewish state, but also took pains to travel to the West Bank....
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07/23/2008 12:50 PM
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Bush to Sign Housing Bill
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WASHINGTON (UPI via COMTEX) -- U.S. President George Bush, saying the measure's positives outweigh the negatives, said he wouldn't veto the housing bill expected to win approval in Congress.
White House spokeswoman Dana Perino told reporters Wednesday that Bush has supported mortgage lending reforms for many years....
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07/23/2008 12:50 PM
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McCain Gives Bush Credit for Drop in Oil Price
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WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) -- Republican John McCain on Wednesday credited the recent $10-a-barrel drop in the price of oil to President Bush's lifting of a presidential ban on offshore drilling, an action he has been advocating in his presidential campaign....
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07/23/2008 11:00 AM
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Hispanic Hotel Owners Association Members Developing Rapidly
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WASHINGTON, July 23 /PRNewswire/ -- The Hispanic Hotel Owners
Association (HHOA), a rapidly growing non-profit organization that seeks
to increase Latino ownership of hotels, today announced that its members
have either acquired or began development on 48 hotels in the past 12
months....
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07/23/2008 10:14 AM
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Samsung Unveils MediaLive Adaptor
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Samsung has launched the MediaLive adaptor, which lets users view PC-content on a Samsung HDTV. It delivers digital content (including HD content) in real-time from Windows Media Centre on a PC running Windows Vista Home Premium or Windows Vista Ultimate operating systems to the big screen of a Samsung HDTV via a wireless or wired home network....
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07/23/2008 10:14 AM
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iPhone 3G Has Slew of New Applications
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When Apple and AT&T released the iPhone last summer, it kicked off the era of the cell phone as a true computing platform that rivals - and in some cases beats - the experience of using a computer. With the just-released iPhone 3G, Apple has made its multi-touch device faster, more functional and easier to use....
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07/23/2008 10:14 AM
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East Bay Immigrant Women Get Business Boost
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OAKLAND -- Dilsa Lugo learned how to cook masterfully in her Mexican hometown of Cuernavaca, but starting her own Bay Area food business was another kind of challenge.
She knew little English and had a young child to raise. In her spare time, she steamed 200 tamales a week in her West Berkeley home, selling most of them to her husband's co-workers in construction....
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07/23/2008 10:14 AM
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Goodwill Stores See Business Grow
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Ann Thompson, assistant manager of the Goodwill store in Lake Shore, Md., is used to seeing an eclectic mix of customers bargain-hunting among the racks of clothes. The clientele has been growing in her year there, but even she has been surprised to see doctors and lawyers showing up to shop....
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07/23/2008 10:14 AM
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Philly Hearing Today on Diversity in Building Trades
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When Bruce Patterson testifies tonight about diversity in the construction industry, he'll be talking about something that's neither white, nor black, but green.
Green, as in getting paid.
"It's a construction industry problem," said Patterson, the African American owner of Patterson Construction Co....
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07/23/2008 10:14 AM
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High Prices Can't Stop Demand for Gourmet Chocolates and Candy
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OXFORD, Miss. -- Some people may be eating out less often, taking shorter vacations and forgoing some guilty pleasures to deal with tighter budgets, but there's one discretionary item that many say they won't sacrifice: chocolate....
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07/23/2008 09:00 AM
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National Council of La Raza President and CEO Janet Murguia to Address Thousands of Journalists During UNITY Conference: Join the Movement to Fix Our Nation's Failing Schools
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CHICAGO, July 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Janet Murguia, national
steering committee member of Strong American Schools and President and
CEO of the National Council of La Raza, will call on more than ten
thousand journalists and media executives to support education reform
during UNITY: Journalists of Color, Inc.'s 2008 annual conference....
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