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• MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines

  • Joe Biden set the stage Wednesday for Barack Obama’s historic address as the Democratic nominee by launching a heated attack tying John McCain to the Bush White House.
    
    ]]>" class="newslink">Biden joins Obama on the ticket
  • National Guard troops stood ready and batteries and water bottles sold briskly as the New Orleans area watched a storm march across the Caribbean on the eve of Hurricane Katrina's third anniversary.
    
    ]]>" class="newslink">La. declares Gustav emergency
  • McCain to reveal VP pick Friday
  • More ominous signs have scientists saying that a global warming "tipping point" in the Arctic seems to be happening before their eyes.
    
    ]]>" class="newslink">Arctic sea ice drops to 2nd lowest level
  • Study: Bankruptcies soar for senior citizens
  • Russia-U.S. nuclear deal on hold
  • Barack Obama became the first African-American ever nominated for president by a major political party after delegates to the Democratic National Convention chose him as their standard-bearer Wednesday.
    
    ]]>" class="newslink">Obama claims historic nomination
  • A virus designed to swipe passwords from online gamers has inexplicably popped up in some laptop computers aboard the international space station.
    
    ]]>" class="newslink">Computer virus hits space station
  • Bomb blast kills 8 in Pakistan
  • Union bosses in this region of rural Mississippi have long grumbled that the largest factories here hire illegal immigrants, and that the immigrants were starting to get more overtime and supervisory positions.
    
    ]]>" class="newslink">Union tip led to huge immigration raid
  • Many veterans of the March on Washington will gather at televisions Thursday night and watch an event they would have considered impossible not just in 1963, but perhaps in 1983, or 1993.
    
    ]]>" class="newslink">NYT: New hope 45 years after King's dream
  • Scientists in Israel are taking digital photographs of the Dead Sea Scrolls with the aim of making the 2,000-year-old documents available to the public and researchers on the Internet.
    
    ]]>" class="newslink">2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls to go online
  • “I don’t want her to look like she’s going into a convent school, but it’s just a little too much for a 15-year-old,” the “Project Runway” mentor told OK! magazine about Cyrus’ style.
    
    ]]>" class="newslink">Scoop: Tim Gunn calls Miley Cyrus ‘tarty’
  • The brief respite for consumers at the gasoline pump may come to an abrupt end if Tropical Storm Gustav slams into the petroleum-rich Gulf Coast and its numerous refineries, just as Americans begin packing up cars for the Labor Day weekend.
    
    ]]>" class="newslink">Gustav may hike gas before Labor Day weekend
  • Lawmakers, Obama aides prep agenda
  • Iraq is calling on companies to submit designs to build a giant Ferris wheel in Baghdad — the latest in a string of lavish proposals painting the capital as a leisure friendly city.
    
    ]]>" class="newslink">Baghdad plans giant Ferris wheel
  • Hopeful signs for women: Forbes fifth annual ranking showcases women who have beat out men for top posts this year.
    
    ]]>" class="newslink">The world’s most powerful women
  • Blogger arrested over Guns N’ Roses song leak
  • Godly or gimmick? Churches offer free gas
  • Anna Goeldi was executed for being a witch more than 220 years ago — the last witch beheaded in Europe. On Wednesday, the Swiss decided the least they could do was clear her name.
    
    ]]>" class="newslink">Swiss clear Europe's last executed witch
  • Michael Phelps and hip-hop superstar Lil’ Wayne are set to appear on the season premiere of "Saturday Night Live" on Sept. 13.
    
    ]]>" class="newslink">Michael Phelps to host ‘Saturday Night Live’
  • A federal jury recommended the death sentence for convicted child killer Joseph Edward Duncan III on charges related to the kidnapping and murder of Dylan Groene.
    
    ]]>" class="newslink">Jury: Death for child killer Duncan
  • Labor Day weekend translates to the last hurrah of summer, when sun-lovers prepare for a bittersweet farewell to the season. Enjoy summer's last gasps at one of these close-to-home locales.
    
    ]]>" class="newslink">Top 10 Labor Day escapes
  Copyright 2008 msnbc.com

• MSNBC.com: U.S. news

  • Joe Biden set the stage Wednesday for Barack Obama’s historic address as the Democratic nominee by launching a heated attack tying John McCain to the Bush White House.
    
    ]]>" class="newslink">Biden goes after McCain as he joins ticket
  • A column of people three blocks long, led by members of the Iraq Veterans Against the War, streamed from the Denver Coliseum on Wednesday in an anti-war protest march to the Pepsi Center.
    
    ]]>" class="newslink">Thousands stage anti-war protest march
  • National Guard troops stood ready and batteries and water bottles sold briskly as the New Orleans area watched a storm march across the Caribbean on the eve of Hurricane Katrina's third anniversary.
    
    ]]>" class="newslink">Big Easy faces evacuation as Gustav looms
  • A federal jury recommended the death sentence for convicted child killer Joseph Edward Duncan III on charges related to the kidnapping and murder of Dylan Groene.
    
    ]]>" class="newslink">Child killer Duncan gets death sentence
  • More ominous signs have scientists saying that a global warming "tipping point" in the Arctic seems to be happening before their eyes.
    
    ]]>" class="newslink">Arctic sea ice drops to 2nd lowest level
  • Union bosses in this region of rural Mississippi have long grumbled that the largest factories here hire illegal immigrants, and that the immigrants were starting to get more overtime and supervisory positions.
    
    ]]>" class="newslink">Factory had tension between union, immigrants
  • Bush steps up subpoena fight
  • 4 inmates accused of helping in jailbreak
  • Pioneering lesbian rights activist Del Martin, who married her lifelong partner in June on the first day that same-sex couples here gained that right, has died. She was 87.
    
    ]]>" class="newslink">Lesbian activist Del Martin dies at 87
  • Defense rests in Iraq detainee killings case
  • Law enforcement officers wanted: must work graveyard shifts alone in remote towns along the Mexican border, put in long hours and perform well in triple-digit temperatures.
    
    ]]>" class="newslink">Border Patrol struggles to keep new hires
  • The U.S. Army, eager to fill its ranks amid wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, is recruiting dropouts who only need a GED before they're ready to begin basic training.
    
    ]]>" class="newslink">Army opens prep school for dropouts
  • Six mausoleums for the unclaimed dead of Hurricane Katrina stand on what was vacant land just five weeks ago, as New Orleans scrambles to complete a memorial the storm's third anniversary.
    
    ]]>" class="newslink">Scramble to finish Katrina memorial
  • When a computer system that distributes flight plans nationwide came rolling to a halt this week because of a software glitch, so did airplanes on tarmacs from Orlando to Chicago.
    
    ]]>" class="newslink">FAA glitch underscores importance of modernizing
  • Love of her two young kids kept a 21-year-old mother alive five days in the hidden wreckage of her pickup truck, according to the man who found Amber Pennell: “With the small children, she had the will to carry on.”
    
    ]]>" class="newslink">Mom pinned in car had ‘will to live’
  • Godly or gimmick? Churches offer free gas
  Copyright 2008 msnbc.com

• MSNBC.com: Technology & Science

  • Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: The Rocket Racing League's bigger, more powerful prototype plane gets its first flight tests.
    
    ]]>" class="newslink">Cosmic Log: New rocket racer lifts off
  • A virus designed to swipe passwords from online gamers has inexplicably popped up in some laptop computers aboard the international space station.
    
    ]]>" class="newslink">Computer virus strikes space station
  • Astronomers say fresh imagery of a powerful collision of galaxy clusters supports the idea that dark matter is something totally separate from ordinary matter.
    
    ]]>" class="newslink">Dark matter detected in cosmic crash
  • A study of small galaxies circling around the Milky Way found that while they range dramatically in brightness, they all surprisingly pack about the same mass.
    
    ]]>" class="newslink">Galaxy surprise sheds light on dark matter
  • Scientists in Israel are taking digital photographs of the Dead Sea Scrolls with the aim of making the 2,000-year-old documents available to the public and researchers on the Internet.
    
    ]]>" class="newslink">2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls to go online
  • A turtle that toddled alongside the dinosaurs died just days before laying a clutch of eggs. Now, paleontologists are announcing their find of the fossilized mother-to-be.
    
    ]]>" class="newslink">Fossil of ancient turtle with her eggs discovered
  • The baby elephant appears to be in good health and its mother has begun nursing the calf in the wake of her violent initial reaction.
    
    ]]>" class="newslink">'Inconsolable' baby elephant back with mother
  • How bacteria could help power the future
  • Fans protest shutdown of ‘Mad Men’ feed
  • A new way to avoid bogus Web sites
  • Printer maker offers to help people print less
  • Pictures of an Asian factory worker found on a new iPhone sold to a British customer have generated keen discussion on the Internet about her identity — and her fate.
    
    ]]>" class="newslink">Who is the mystery 'iPhone Girl'?
  • Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: Does anyone still believe that Mars will look as big as the full moon this week? If so, this one's for you.
    
    ]]>" class="newslink">Cosmic Log: Mars hoax lasts five years
  Copyright 2008 msnbc.com

• IT Facts

  • Asia-Pacific Internet search market in April 2008
  • Global cell phone market to grow 11% in 2008
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  • Average American tips 19% at a restaurant
  • US digital camera market to reach 40 mln in 2008, 2.5 mln of them to be SLRs
  • 9.2 mln mobile users added in India in July 2008
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  • 45.7 mln Americans uninsured in 2007
  • 16.5 mln UK households are online
  • Top video sites in UK in March 2008
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  • Top iPhone-related search terms in April 2008
  • Top US search engines in June 2008

• Bankrate.com: Today's new stories

  • 5 big bills you can cut fast
  • Hybrid scorecard: The field is growing
  • Steps toward bankruptcy
  • Bank deposit taxes
  • Banks offer excess deposit insurance
  Copyright 2008, Bankrate Inc.

• Quincy News

  • Quincy police make arrest in series of residential burglaries: KHQA-TV Quincy
  • Springisms: Quotable Quotes from the Mayor of Quincy: The Quincy Pundit
  • Mill Creek Farm in Quincy, IL to Host Final University of Illinois Small Farms Tour This Year: Milling Journal
  • Quincy leaders and residents meet on Northwest side: KHQA-TV Quincy
  • Butler One Of Many Schools To Support Discussion Of Drinking Age: WBIW-AM Bedford
  • Senator Obama's decision.
    ]]>" class="newslink">Chuck Scholz reacts to Obama's VP decision: KHQA-TV Quincy
  • Parrothead Bike Night: KHQA-TV Quincy
  • Quincy man talks of his time on LST: KHQA-TV Quincy
  • Biggsville Clipper visited his brother Ross in Kramer, Ind.
    ]]>" class="newslink">January 8 & 15, 1920: Henderson County Quill
  • Illinois smoking ban in outdoor areas: KHQA-TV Quincy
  • Quincy to lease land for Amtrak parking: KHQA-TV Quincy
  • New home for Quanada Sexual Assault Program: KHQA-TV Quincy
  • West Peoria, IL, formerly of Gloversville, passed away on Tuesday, August 5, 2008, at the Illinois Veterans' Home in Quincy, IL.
    ]]>" class="newslink">John Ernest Carr: Gloversville Leader-Herald
  • Police hope to be one-step closer to end string of burglaries: KHQA-TV Quincy
  • Villa Kathrine may become "official" local landmark: KHQA-TV Quincy
  • Amtrak ridership up on Michigan- Chicago line: Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen
  • IDOT to start work at IL 104 interchange: KHQA-TV Quincy
  • Motorcycle/Scooter run supports fight against breast cancer: KHQA-TV Quincy
  • Quincy Newspapers Standardizes on Volicon Observer: TV Technology
  • Louie Demers: An inspiration for all: KHQA-TV Quincy
  Copyright 2008, Topix