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'Horton' does the joyful justice

Movies – First the good news: As the lead character in "Horton Hears a Who!", Jim Carrey does not parade around in an elephant costume. Horton is a big-hearted, small-brained, happy-go-lucky elephant whose huge ears pick up a whisper from a tiny passing speck.

View Story Discuss (0) (bnize.com) 108 days ago by pre2master

Voted for on March 22, 2008 10:34am

Financial market turmoil raises worries
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Financial market turmoil raises worries

Money – No less an authority than former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan wrote this week that "the current financial crisis in the U.S. is likely to be judged as the most wrenching" since the end of World War II.

View Story Discuss (5) (news.yahoo.com) 109 days ago by STONERS

Voted for on March 22, 2008 10:20am

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MIT aims to search for Earth-like planets with Google's help

Science – MIT scientists are designing a satellite-based observatory that they say could for the first time provide a sensitive survey of the entire sky to search for planets outside the solar system that appear to cross in front of bright stars. The system could rapidly discover hundreds of planets similar to the Earth.

View Story Discuss (0) (web.mit.edu) 109 days ago by DiffeeOnline

Voted for on March 22, 2008 10:20am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 27 votes / 2 sinks

DiCaprio, Scott high on "Low Dwellers"

Celebrities – Ridley Scott and Leonardo DiCaprio will re-team for a dark thriller titled "The Low Dwellers."

View Story Discuss (0) (news.yahoo.com) 109 days ago by Shannonyork

Voted for on March 22, 2008 10:20am

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Analyst: Banking Crisis Is Ending

Money – Although he's known to change his mind overnight, banking analyst Richard Bove is now saying just what Wall Street wants to hear - that the banking crisis is over.

View Story Discuss (0) (nypost.com) 109 days ago by MyWayOnNow

Voted for on March 22, 2008 10:20am

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5 travel traps lurking in the fine print

Travel – Your cruise ship may not be seaworthy. Your airline isn't responsible for your checked luggage and if something's stolen from your room, good luck getting the hotel to cover your losses.

View Story Discuss (0) (cnn.com) 109 days ago by Shay

Voted for on March 22, 2008 10:20am

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Music fans prefer Wikipedia to MySpace

Gadgets & Tech – Search for an artist on any of the popular search engines, and the top three results are practically guaranteed: the artist's official Web site, Wikipedia entry and MySpace page -- often in that order.

View Story Discuss (0) (news.yahoo.com) 109 days ago by jeremytoday

Voted for on March 22, 2008 10:20am

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USPS Offers Free Electronics Recycling Through the Mail

Gadgets & Tech – Imagine a world where trash is so valuable that, instead of throwing it away, the post man comes and picks it up from your doorstep and whisks it off to some exotic location to be re-used, re-purposed or recycled.

View Story Discuss (0) (arstechnica.com) 109 days ago by Neophile

Voted for on March 22, 2008 10:20am

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Why Games and Music Need Each Other

Video Games – In his latest Save The Robot column, journalist Chris Dahlen imagines a brighter future for both the music and games industries if the two worlds can come together, giving a run down of his synergistic suggestions including more licensing, more fantasy, and above all, more innovation.

View Story Discuss (0) (gamasutra.com) 109 days ago by Neophile

Voted for on March 22, 2008 10:20am

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Where Are All the Clean, Green Jobs?

Do No Evil – The promise of the green economy and the clean-tech revolution is that they will bring a new wave of job opportunities productive and respectable jobs at every part of the economic spectrum, from line workers to senior managers.

View Story Discuss (1) (worldchanging.com) 109 days ago by Digidave

Voted for on March 22, 2008 10:20am

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Viral videos win big at second YouTube Awards

Gadgets & Tech – Tay Zonday morphed from an unknown musician to an Internet superstar who got booked on national TV shows after his song "Chocolate Rain" -- an amateur clip of his baritone crooning -- went viral last year. Now he's among the 12 winners of the second annual YouTube Video Awards, recognizing the top user-created videos of 2007.

View Story Discuss (1) (edition.cnn.com) 109 days ago by Shannonyork

Voted for on March 22, 2008 10:20am

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A third of patients on transplant list not eligible

Health & Fitness – The list of patients waiting for organ transplants, which is widely used to promote organ donations, includes thousands who are ineligible for the operations, according to statistics kept by the national network that manages the allocation of organs.

View Story Discuss (2) (msnbc.msn.com) 109 days ago by TechnologyExpert

Voted for on March 22, 2008 10:20am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 23 votes / 3 sinks

In the Shadowlands: Listening to the War Coming Home

Politics – As I watched the Feds come galloping in to rescue Wall Street's burning house this week, with their fire hoses sloshing 30 billion dollars of our money on the charred heap of Bear Stearns, and then listened to Tarpley, I couldn't help remembering a scene in Dumb and Dumber

View Story Discuss (2) (dissidentvoice.org) 109 days ago by populist

Voted for on March 22, 2008 10:20am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 24 votes / No sinks

Fox's Chris Wallace Takes Fox And Friends 'To Task' For 'Two Hours Of Obama Bashing'

Politics – On Fox and Friends this morning, hosts Steve Doocy, Brian Kilmeade, and Gretchen Carlson spent multiple segments sensationalizing a comment Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) made yesterday, in which he referred to his grandmother as "a typical white person

View Story Discuss (12) (thinkprogress.org) 109 days ago by TimALoftis

Voted for on March 22, 2008 10:20am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 28 votes / 1 sink

Crowds build in anticipation of Obama's Portland speech

Politics – His Portland visit was announced Tuesday evening. By noon Wednesday, all 11,000 online tickets for Obama's Portland visit were snatched up,

View Story Discuss (1) (kgw.com) 109 days ago by tehranchik

Voted for on March 22, 2008 10:20am