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Reports: Gates to stay at Pentagon; Jones to be security adviser
Posted on November 25th, 2008 on USATODAY.com - On Deadline
Sources are telling reporters that Defense Secretary Robert Gates has accepted President-elect Obama's invitation to stay on in the new administration....

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Jury deliberating Mo. mother’s role in MySpace suicide
Posted on November 25th, 2008 on USATODAY.com - On Deadline
Lori Drew's fate is now in the hands of jurors in Los Angeles who are deciding whether the Missouri mother masterminded "cyber-bullying" that...

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Dow, S&P make slight gains amid big bailout questions
Posted on November 25th, 2008 on USATODAY.com - On Deadline
Stocks see-sawed through the day and ended mixed, as profit-taking tempered the surge from the previous two sessions. Of the Big Three, the Dow...

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Russian warships arrive off Venezuela for war games
Posted on November 25th, 2008 on USATODAY.com - On Deadline
Russian warships, greeted by a 21-gun salute, have arrived at a Venezuelan port in preparation for Moscow's first war games in the region since...

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Florida Gulf Coast University bans public Christmas decorations
Posted on November 25th, 2008 on USATODAY.com - On Deadline
USA TODAY colleague Dennis Lyons tips us to a story in the Fort Myers News-Press that Santa Claus has been barred from public places at Florida...

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Scavenger hunt stunt leaves teen in critical condition
Posted on November 25th, 2008 on USATODAY.com - On Deadline
A scavenger hunt that went wrong in a northeastern Illinois county has left one high school student critically injured, Chicago newspapers are...

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Bangkok flights canceled as protesters storm airport
Posted on November 25th, 2008 on USATODAY.com - On Deadline
Bangkok international airport cancels all departing flights as hundreds of anti-government protesters surge into terminal, the Associated Press...

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WGBH Does Story, Analysis on Spot.us., Rep J Models
Posted on November 24th, 2008 on PJNet
The Representative Journalism and Spot.us crowdfunding models got the talking-head treatment at WGBH in Boston. It is interesting to be on the r...

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Laid Off Journalist? Apply for a Free Pro Blogging Account
Posted on November 24th, 2008 on PJNet
This from yesterday’s New York Times: The TypePad Journalist Bailout Program offers recently terminated bloggers and journalists a free pro account (...

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Wall Street’s Doomsday Machine
Posted on November 23rd, 2008 on Pacific Views
Michael Lewis' The End of Wall Street's Boom traces the root of the crisis to the go-go 80's when two substantial changes occurred: 1) hedge...

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Lost Credibility
Posted on November 23rd, 2008 on Pacific Views
James Fallows writes about A fascinating document about the internet and "public opinion" in China which shows how much credibility and lose...

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