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Mississippi River Expected To Crest In Memphis This Weekend

Forecasters Warn of Flooding in Ark.

A sizzling summer in Malibu: a rental for $150,000 a month

That’s the peak — so far. Those who can handle a sky-high price like the proximity to stars that it buys them.

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Al Copeland, flamboyant founder of Popeyes fried chicken chain, dies at 64

Miss. River expected to top flood stage Monday in Natchez

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The Mayoral Field: It’s Early, but Here Are Some Prospects

Mo. flood fight continues as snow socks Midwest

Cordova’s Countrywood Crossing sold

Dyer County Braces for Flooding

Starbucks must pay $100m in tips

A US judge has ordered Starbucks to repay its California coffee-makers more than $100m

Investor Survey Projects Further Drop In Property Values Amid Faltering Economy

Biloxi casino site approved

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Geological Survey reported a large 7.4 magnitude earthquake at 10:33 p.m. British time on Thursday, in south-eastern China, 146 miles (234 km) SE of Hotan, Xinjiang. The depth of the quake was tentatively pegged at 20.5 miles (33 km).

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 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Geological Survey reported a large 7.4 [...]

A new Great Depression? It’s different this time

Fear is spreading with the financial system in disarray. But the global
boom is ongoing, unemployment is low and the government has new tools
to address the downturn.

Dysfunctional capital markets,
frantic central banks, stressed-out consumers, fear and uncertainty –
all are alarming echoes of the global economic cataclysm of the [...]

Report: Panic Overstates Commercial Real Estate Risk

Katrina-hit areas top list of fastest-growing counties

American auto industry bracing for ‘worst year in decade’…

Central US floods, storms kill 9

Scruggses ask that name be removed from Ole Miss building

Ping.fm, currently in private Beta, is the best new startup we have seen in a long time. It allows users to post updates to all of their social networking sites from a single form. It currently supports  Facebook, Twitter, Jaiku, Tumblr and Pownce and will be adding more sites in the future. It has a very simple and easy to use web [...]

JIM CONRAD’S NATURALIST NEWSLETTER
Written at the community of 28 de Junio and
issued from a “ciber” 8 kms to the west in
Pujiltic, Chiapas, MÉXICO

March 17, 2008

*****

WARBLER ACACIA
Last Thursday a cool front passed through (still got
into the lower 90s) so I wondered whether a birding
walk after such a front might yield more migrant
warblers than usual. That’s sometimes [...]

Fed’s Rescue Plan May Signal Turbulence Ahead

LEHMAN Profit Falls 57%…

Jaiku is having some serious server problems tonight. I have been getting an error message for quite some time now.

504 Gateway Time-out

nginx/0.5.30

China Vows to Hold Onto Tibet

The US economy is about to suffer a painful dose of reality. About time, too

So apparently JPMorgan bought Bear Stearns for less than what Spitzer paid for an hour of Cinnamon.

-gruber