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Holiday Shopping Trends Reflect Income Inequality


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U.S. Government Wins Access to Twitter Accounts of WikiLeaks Supporters

A federal judge today granted the U.S. government access to the Twitter accounts of three of WikiLeaks’s strongest supporters.  read more »

Wisconsin Union-Busting Drive Feeds Off Towns That Are Shrinking

The loss of power and people in rural and small town Wisconsin is helping fuel a showdown over government union rights and benefits.  read more »

Mexico's president opposes marijuana legalization

Prop. 19, the California measure to legalize pot, would undercut Mexico's fight against drug cartels, President Felipe Calderon says. He calls on the Obama administration to oppose the measure.  read more »

Facebook Working Hard To Avoid Google's Fate

Brick-and-motor biggie Target will start selling Facebook Credits gift cards in-stores nationwide September 5, the retail chain announced today.  read more »

Vendors Who Alerted Police Called Heroes

Even in Times Square, where little seems unusual, the Nissan Pathfinder parked just off Broadway on the south side of 45th Street — engine running, hazard lights flashing, driver nowhere to be found  read more »

The future of medicine has arrived

For the first time, the genetic cause of a disease has been revealed by sequencing the patient's genome. The consequences, says Jeremy Laurance, could be enormous.  read more »

Cars pollute even when engines are switched off

LEAVING the car at home and catching a train to work may not be as good for the environment as you think.  read more »

Eight Health Leaders Respond to Obama's Healthcare Summit

As he launched his healthcare summit Wednesday, President Obama said he hoped his televised effort to garner consensus for reform "isn't political theater, where we're just playing to the cameras and  read more »

Mussolini iPhone application is withdrawn

An iPhone application that allows users to download speeches by the former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini has been withdrawn.

Its developer says he is removing it after legal threats.  read more »

Obama Details Small Business Lending Initiatives

President Obama, who has declared creating jobs one of his top priorities for 2010, has finally unveiled details of his $30 billion plan to increase small-business lending through community banks.  read more »

Obama vows 'much tougher' stance on US-China trade

President Barack Obama says he will be much tougher with China to make sure it opens its markets to trade with the US.  read more »

What to think when the data contradicts?

Read the cnn.com article and pay close attention to the bar graphs that chart US economic indicators from 2007 through November 2009.  read more »

Malawi windmill boy with big fans

The extraordinary true story of a Malawian teenager who transformed his village by building electric windmills out of junk is the subject of a new book, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind.  read more »

Injunction by Twitter: Stopping a Web Impostor

British members of Parliament and their prospective challengers are thronging onto social-networking sites with all the enthusiasm and grace of dads getting down on the dance floor.  read more »

Wilson Taps "You Lie" Fundraising for Fellow Republicans

South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson has raised more than $1 million for his own campaign treasury since his "You lie" shout during President Obama's address to Congress two weeks ago.  read more »

French, German publishers step up campaign against Google Books

The internet giant’s project to digitize millions of books is up and running, but some in Europe’s book industry are still hoping to cut a better deal.  read more »

Energy Management Startup Hara Nabs Coke as Client

Hara, which makes software for tracking natural resources, is only about 18 months old, but Coke is rolling out the software around the world.  read more »

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