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Bird flu strikes poultry in Tibet, man dies in Viet Nam
Chinese authorities have confirmed another bird flu outbreak in Tibet this year, the country's second in 2008.

Job is done in southern Iraq: Houston
The job of Australian troops in southern Iraq is done and they can come home mid-year, defence head Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston says.

News without the fear
Ticker Tape is an internet radio for people who suffer from Euphobia, "a persistent, abnormal and unwanted fear of hearing good news". Designed by Will Carey, it was exhibited at the work in progress show of the RCA in London a few ...

Meanwhile, Hadoop News
Check out the news today: Yahoo! recently launched what we believe is the worlds largest Apache Hadoop production application. The Yahoo! Search Webmap is a Hadoop application that runs on a more than... (Go to Searchblog Main)

News Corp’s Bancroft - ain’t no dummy
Natalie Bancroft, handpicked by News Corp to represent Dow Jones’s Bancroft family on its board, is more than qualified. So says News Corp, her dad and well, Natalie herself. The 27-year-old opera singer in training breaks her silence ...

New ARRL Section Managers in San Diego, Louisiana and Virginia
In the only contested Section Manager race this winter, Steve Early, AD6VI, was elected ARRL San Diego Section Manager with 332 votes; his opponent, Pat Bunsold, WA6MHZ, received 264 votes. Election ballots were counted today at ARRL ...

Comment: Managing – and protecting – your reputation - 02-20-08 ...
Benjamin Franklin once said, “Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never well mended.” An increasing number of college athletics departments today have crisis-management plans, but few have addressed the issue of ...

Sunstein to join Harvard Law School faculty
... Dean Elena Kagan '86 announced today. Sunstein, currently a tenured professor at the University of Chicago Law School, will begin teaching at HLS in the fall. He will also become director of the new Program on Risk Regulation.

Top ten tax deductions for homeowners
Attention homeowners: Your home may be brimming with tax advantages. Do you know about all the breaks you are entitled to?

New World of Warcraft Wallpaper
We just added a new wallpaper to our World of Warcraft wallpapers section. This wallpaper features some amazing artwork from the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game. Head over to the Upper Deck Entertainment website now to learn more ...