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Slight Recovery for Asian Markets in Wake of Australia's Rate Cut
SEOUL, Sept. 7 -- Downward pressure on stocks in Asia eased slightly Tuesday, as Australia's central bank imposed the largest interest-rate cut in 16 years and Japan's new prime minister promised to prop up his country's shrinking economy with sharply…
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Homosexuals should carry warning tattoos, says London Stock Exchange chaplain
Rev Peter Mullen is chaplain to the London Stock Exchange (I don't know why a stock exchange needs a chaplain but I imagine there's lots of praying going on there right about now). He also has a blog (Google cache here), where he posts solutions to "problems" that would make the one-eye veil …
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Naked man from Spain jumps into Japan's Imperial Palace moat
Tokyo Times reports that a man took off his clothes and jumped into the Imperial Palace moat to retrieve a bag, and ended up getting into a tragicomic tussle with the police. More photos and videos at the link. Tokyo Imperial Palace pandemonium …
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Bloomberg Still Working on Ronald Lauder’s All-Important Approval
Ronald Lauder stares down unlimited terms. Photo: Getty Images Hey, remember when the people of New York gave billionaire makeup heir Ronald Lauder the power to temporarily alter laws at his whim? Neither do we. But it seems that because Lauder was the catalyst for implementing term limits in the first place, we need his consent to change the law again. …
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VeriSign sells Jamba stake to News Corp
NEW YORK (Reuters) - News Corp has taken full ownership of mobile content provider Jamba by buying VeriSign Inc's 49 percent stake for about $200 million, the two companies said on Tuesday.…
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Allies Share Uneasiness in Changing Term Limits
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Two Japanese, American win 2008 physics Nobel
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Two Japanese scientists and a Tokyo-born American shared the 2008 Nobel Prize for physics for helping to explain the behavior of subatomic particles, work that has helped shape modern physics theory, the prize committee said on Tuesd…
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