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Saturday, May 3, 2008 Top Stories

INTERVIEW-Russia must grab chance to beat AIDS epidemic-UN - Reuters AlertNet [Interact] [Visit Site]
INTERVIEW-Russia must grab chance to beat AIDS epidemic-UNReuters AlertNet, UK - Drug usage is high partly because of an economic collapse after the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union which cost millions of people their jobs and livelihoods ..More»
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Jobs data lifts blue chips; Nasdaq dips on Sun (Reuters via Yahoo! News) [Interact] [Visit Site]
Stocks made modest gains on Friday after jobs data that offered fresh evidence the economic slowdown is not as severe as feared, but technology shares faded on a surprise loss from Sun Microsystems Inc . ..More»
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1,000 rentals? iTunes finally makes it [Interact] [Visit Site]
Steve Jobs must have been very optimistic with the movie rental idea, as 2 months isn't really acceptable from Apple. ..More»
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InBusiness: Mad South Koreans: Economic hope - Trading Markets (press release) [Interact] [Visit Site]
InBusiness: Mad South Koreans: Economic hopeTrading Markets (press release), CA - Employers eliminated 20000 jobs in April -- not nearly as many as the 81000 in March and the fewest so far this year, the Labor Department reported. ..More»
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Dollar Rises Most Against Euro Since March on Fed, Jobs Report (Bloomberg.com) [Interact] [Visit Site]
May 3 (Bloomberg) -- The dollar rose the most against the euro since March and reached a two-month high versus the yen as traders bet the Federal Reserve will stop cutting interest rates and the U.S. lost fewer jobs in April than economists forecast. ..More»
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Dockers shut down US West Coast ports in protest at Iraq War [Interact] [Visit Site]
...and other members of the Freightliner 5, UAW members from Cleveland, N.C., who were unjustly fired from their jobs at their truck plant. ..More»
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Bush says administration ‘clear and candid' on economy - Daily Mail - Charleston [Interact] [Visit Site]
Bush says administration ‘clear and candid' on economyDaily Mail - Charleston, WV&.. Employers slashed fewer jobs in April than they had in earlier months. The unemployment rate in April also fell slightly. "No temporary setbacks can hold ..More»
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Former follower: Sect leader wanted to sleep with teenagers - Mid Columbia Tri City Herald [Interact] [Visit Site]
Former follower: Sect leader wanted to sleep with teenagersMid Columbia Tri City Herald, WA - Janet Brawley, the market's assistant manager, said some compound residents worked outside jobs, with the men doing remodeling or construction and the women ..More»
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Jobs data pushes Wall Street higher (Reuters via Yahoo! News) [Interact] [Visit Site]
Stocks made a modest gain on Friday after jobs data offered fresh evidence the economic slowdown is not as severe as feared, but technology shares faded on a surprise net loss from Sun Microsystems Inc . ..More»
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Sun may Cut 2500 Jobs! :( [Interact] [Visit Site]
...loss on a slight decline in revenue for its third quarter and announced plans to cut up to 2,500 jobs, results which departed sharply from the... ..More»
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U.S. sheds 20,000 jobs in April, less than expected (USA Today) [Interact] [Visit Site]
Employers cut jobs for a fourth month in April, though not as vigorously as feared, according to a government report Friday that also showed an unexpected improvement in the unemployment rate last month. ..More»
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Former follower: Sect leader wanted to sleep with teenagers - Belleville News Democrat [Interact] [Visit Site]
Former follower: Sect leader wanted to sleep with teenagersBelleville News Democrat,  USA - Janet Brawley, the market's assistant manager, said some compound residents worked outside jobs, with the men doing remodeling or construction and the women ..More»
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Former follower: Sect leader wanted to sleep with teenagers - MiamiHerald.com [Interact] [Visit Site]
Former follower: Sect leader wanted to sleep with teenagersMiamiHerald.. Janet Brawley, the market's assistant manager, said some compound residents worked outside jobs, with the men doing remodeling or construction and the women ..More»
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20,000 Jobs Lost In April [Interact] [Visit Site]
The American economy lost 20,000 jobs in April, the fourth consecutive month of decline, in what many economists took as powerful evidence that the ..More»
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U.S. Stocks Gain for Third Week on Jobs Report, Wrigley Buyout (Bloomberg.com) [Interact] [Visit Site]
May 3 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks rose for a third week after a better-than-forecast jobs report and the $23 billion takeover of Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. pushed the market to its longest streak of gains in seven months. ..More»
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