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Sprint Announced its 4G Plans
Thursday, 26 Mar, 2009 – 19:30 | No Comment

Sprint announced today that it is extending its lead with 4G service deployments by announcing additional cities that will receive 4G service in 2009.

If all goes as planned, the cities to be added during 2009 …

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Lindsay Lohan’s ‘Labor Pains’ Not for Theaters
Thursday, 26 Mar, 2009 – 19:24 | No Comment

Nu Image/Millennium Films, has confirmed that the comedy will premiere on ABC Family in July 2009. It will be released on DVD about a month later. Lohan plays a young woman who fakes being …

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Israel carried out Sudan ‘air strike’
Thursday, 26 Mar, 2009 – 19:15 | No Comment

The US channel CBS News reported that Israeli aircraft carried out the strike in January after Israeli intelligence discovered the trucks were intending to deliver arms through Sudan and across Egypt to be smuggled into …

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New York Times laid off 100 employees and Reduces Salaries
Thursday, 26 Mar, 2009 – 19:09 | No Comment

New York Times Co. cut 100 positions at its flagship newspaper and will reduce non-union salaries by as much as 5 percent for the rest of the year in response to the drop in advertising …

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Tejada sentenced for lying to Congress
Thursday, 26 Mar, 2009 – 19:06 | No Comment

Miguel Tejada received probation and community service for lying to Congress about performancing-enhancing drugs.
In January 2008, Congress asked the Justice Department to investigate Tejada, who told congressional staff members in 2005 that he had never …

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Circumcision Decreases Risk of Contracting STDs by 60 percent, Study Says
Thursday, 26 Mar, 2009 – 19:03 | No Comment

Circumcised heterosexual men are 35% less likely to contract human papillomavirus (HPV) and 25% less likely to catch herpes than their uncircumcised counterparts, according to the study, published in this week’s New England Journal of …

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North Korea Interrogating US Journalists
Tuesday, 24 Mar, 2009 – 18:41 | No Comment

Two American journalists arrested last week on the Chinese border have been transferred to the North Korean capital Pyongyang for interrogation, according to reports, as tension mounts over the North’s plans to test-fire a long-range …

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Obama’s Warning to Afghan President
Tuesday, 24 Mar, 2009 – 18:37 | No Comment

Mr Obama used a 60 Minutes interview on Sunday night to set out more limited objectives in Afghanistan, where he said the “central mission” was to prevent terrorists plotting violence against America. “There’s got to …

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Home prices rose according to FHFA
Tuesday, 24 Mar, 2009 – 18:22 | No Comment

On Tuesday the Federal Housing Finance Agency reported that home prices tumbled by 6.3% in January, down from the prior year, while prices unexpectedly rose on a seasonally adjusted basis 1.7% from December to January. …

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Airline Industry Expected To Lose $4.7 Billion in 2009
Tuesday, 24 Mar, 2009 – 18:17 | No Comment

For 2009, the IATA said it now expects an aggregate industry loss of $4.7 billion, compared to a loss of $2.5 billion that it forecast in December.
Reflecting the rapid deterioration in global economic conditions, IATA …

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