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August 09, 2008 News and Trends

Trends & Innovations - Friday (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! News)

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:48:30 PDT
Never-married women adopt children at a far higher rate than never-married men, but overall men adopt at twice the rate that women do, a new federal survey found. That's mostly from men adopting stepchildren after marrying women with kids from a previous relationship. Also, minority women try to adopt at a higher rate than white women.

WASA Says There Was No Water Main Break

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 10:21:46 PDT
Despite what Alert DC told us all this morning, WASA says the power outage in Columbia Heights was not caused by a water main break. We weren't the only ones who reported a main break at 13th and Florida this morning, but it also wouldn't be the first time Alert DC oversimplified something that was more nuanced. "It was not a water main break on 13th street. The corporation stop (or plug) that is put in place to facilitate water testing from the main had come out and needed to be replaced. Fo

Acai #2 in the top ten flavor forecast for 2008

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:44:11 PDT
Acai will be the 2nd most popular sweet flavor trend in 2008 according to Bell Flavors and Fragrances. The company released today what it believed to be the top ten trends in sweet and savory flavors.

World News-World Infomation

Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:11:04 PDT
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No quick fix to S Ossetia conflict

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 07:11:59 PDT
News of a crisis in South Ossetia will have had plenty of people reaching for their atlases and dictionaries of pronunciation - after all, only old hands will remember the way violence flared here in the past as Georgia began to build its independence on the ruins of the old Soviet Union...

Judiciary Square Smartbike Rack Completed

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 10:21:46 PDT
Earlier in the week, we reported that bike-sharing operation SmartBike DC was finally operating, but with a few sites still under construction — Judiciary Square, Metro Center, and McPherson Square. Today we walked by the Judiciary Square rack on 4th Street NW between D and E, and it's ready, bikes and all. In case you wanted to ride from, say, the Albert Pike statue to somewhere. Or, less fun, you have to go to court.

The latest Malware Trends report (securiteam post)

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:40:35 PDT
ESET, the anti-malware company, has just published its half-yearly report on global malware trends, based on data generated by automatic threat-tracking systems.They have noticed a huge number of detections of malware that uses the Windows AutoRun facility to self-install from removable media (USB). So that's the new trend?

Warhammer Online: The Oceanic Beta is now available!

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 09:45:21 PDT
Hey, now great news for Oceanic players in warhammer online! Yeah, the Oceanic Beta is now available! Thousands from Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, and Singapore have been invited to the beta.

Antivirus Trend Micro PC-Cillin Internet Security 2008

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 01:29:12 PDT
Trend Micro Internet Security 2008, it is easy to your network to protect the personal identity and online activity. He warned against viruses, spyware and identity theft, and the Internet sites of threats of tomorrow.

Citi Trends shares fall after analyst downgrade (AP via Yahoo! Finance)

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:19:44 PDT
Shares of Citi Trends Inc. fell Thursday, as an analyst said the apparel retailer's customer is likely to remain pressured throughout the second half of the year and downgraded the stock.

Joker role could win posthumous Oscar for Brokeback star

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:14:40 PDT
Bourne Free to party come rain or shine Cloudy skies did not keep supporters away from Bournemouth's fifth annual Bourne Free Pride Festival. More than 4,000 people took part over last weekend. opinionuk-newsworld-newspoliticslawhealthfinanceentertainment COMMENT: Is Hillary setting her sights on 2012? Remaining true to her image as a tenacious fighter, Senator Hillary Clinton has dusted herself off after the bruising 2008 Democratic primary race against Barack Obama. Other posts in

CBC averts disaster (The Globe and Mail)

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:47:51 PDT
Network narrowly escaped a technical calamity during its telecast of the opening ceremony

Funny Stuff

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 08:26:57 PDT
Funny pictures on today's news


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