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GOOD NEWS

Consumers are the winners as wireless plans get cheaper

Sprint, Nextel and Verizon are offering cheaper plans due to the competitiveness of the wireless industry.

USA Today

Donations and money pour in for Indiana flood victims

A wave of help is reaching Indiana's storm victims, courtesy of community members and a growing list of corporate donors.

Indianapolis Star

WORLD

Political thaw brings warm words between China and Taiwan

China and Taiwan agreed to set up permanent offices in each other’s territory at the first formal talks between the bitter rivals in nearly a decade.

Times Online

Tight security as protests turn violent

Spain and Malaysia tightened security to stop strikes against soaring global fuel prices turning violent, as well as snarling road networks and slowing deliveries of food and raw materials.

Reuters

Fuel shortage looms as British petrol strike begins

Telegraph.co.uk

Mugabe warns of war if defeated

Al Jazeera

BUSINESS

ExxonMobil to exit retail gas business

Exxon Mobil is getting out of the retail gasoline business, a market where profits have gotten tougher because of high crude oil prices.

MSNBC

Yahoo signs search deal with Google after Microsoft talks end

Yahoo entered an agreement to run some Google ads on its search pages after acquisition talks with Microsoft ended in failure, the web pioneer said.

Monsters and Critics

Critics of the Bud buyout are frothing

Budweiser has been marketed as the quintessential American beer, but Anheuser-Busch announced the Belgian company, InBev's $46 billion offer to buy it out.

BusinessWeek

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

A soft way to fight hard battles

A mother-and-daughter team sells exotic pillows made by village craftwomen via Pillow Dreams Project, its home-based business, and donates half of the profits to two international nonprofits.

Denver Post

The coming charity crisis

Philanthropy is tethered directly to the health of the overall economy, and in particular to the health of the upper-middle-class consumer. If the past is any guide, it's likely to be a lean year.

Newsweek

ENVIRONMENT

China increases lead as biggest emitter of carbon dioxide

China is rapidly extending its lead over the United States as the world's largest emitter of carbon dioxide according to figures released by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency.

International Herald Tribune

UN: Rich nations fail to lead climate talk

Industrialized nations are failing to lead enough at U.N. climate talks in Bonn even as developing states are showing interest in a new global warming treaty, the U.N.'s top climate official said.

Environmental News Network

EDUCATION

Princeton's Asian admissions examined

The U.S. Education Department is investigating admissions data for the class of 2010 to determine whether Princeton University discriminates against Asian applicants in violation of civil rights laws.

Google News

Credit crisis weakens relief for states' student-loan programs

The financial credit crisis is squeezing student loan programs that offer breaks to borrowers who enter critical fields such as nursing and teaching.

USA Today

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Flashy Facebook page at cost of privacy

Facebook fanatics who have covered their profiles on the popular social networking site with silly games and quirky trivia quizzes may be unknowingly giving a host of strangers an intimate peek at their lives.

MSNBC

Bruce Banner and the incredible, hulking reality of gamma rays

Gamma rays are blamed for making Bruce Banner the Incredible Hulk. But what are gamma rays and what can they really do?

LiveScience

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