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Out There: Billions and Billions of Habitable Planets (Robin Lloyd)
Feb. 19, 2009 (Space.com) -- There are about ten thousand billion billion habitable planets in the observable universe, and some of these Earth-like worlds could be found by a mission set to launch ...
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Roubini Says Europe’s Banking Risks ‘More Severe’ (Timothy R. Homan and Erik Schatzker)
Feb. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Europe’s banking system faces growing risks that may require a region-wide effort to stabilize financial markets, said New York University economist Nouriel Roubini.
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Gold Tops $1,000, First Time Since March as Recession Deepens (Nicholas Larkin)
Feb. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Gold rose to more than $1,000 an ounce in New York for the first time in almost a year as investors, spooked by plunging stocks and a deepening recession, sought to protect ...
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Stocks Drop Worldwide on Recession Concern, Earnings (Adria Cimino)
Feb. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Stocks tumbled, sending the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index to its biggest weekly drop since November, Europe’s Dow Jones Stoxx 600 Index to a five-year low, and Japan’s Topix ...
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Mystery of Billionaire Stanford's Whereabouts Ends in Virginia (Justin Blum, Alison Fitzgerald)
Story Updated Feb. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Billionaire R. Allen Stanford, who disappeared after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission accused him of running a “massive, ongoing fraud,” has been ...
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Social collapse best practices (Dmitry Orlov)
If you still have a job, or if you still have some savings, what do you do with all the money? The obvious answer is, build up inventory.
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U.S. Jobless Benefit Rolls Reach Record 4.99 Million (Bob Willis)
Feb. 19 (Bloomberg) -- The number of Americans collecting unemployment benefits jumped to 4.99 million two weeks ago, breaking a record for a fourth straight time, signaling the job market is still ...
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Obama embraces Bush Torture/civil rights rules? (William Chirolas)
The New York Times is beginning to join the Wall Street Journal and others in noticing that President Barrack Obama and George W. Bush are not that far apart -- at least as to security concepts. ...
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News Analysis: Obama Housing Plan (William Chirolas)
The Obama administration estimates that the plan will keep 7 million-9 million people from foreclosure
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ANALYSIS: Outline Of Obama Housing Plan Revealed (William Chirolas)
Obama plans to package $75 Billion cost with $50 billion coming from the remaining $350 billion in Troubled Asset Relief Program funds, and $25 billion coming from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, all ...
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