Top of the Ticket : Los Angeles Times : News shocker: Ron Paul was biggest GOP fundraiser last quarter

Top of the Ticket : Los Angeles Times : News shocker: Ron Paul was biggest GOP fundraiser last quarter: "Well, it's official, ladies and gentlemen. Believe it or not, Rep. Ron Paul, the 72-year-old Texan who hardly ever gets mentioned in Republican political news and the one-time libertarian who always gets the least time on TV debates if he isn't barred completely, was, in fact, the most successful Republican fundraiser in the last three months of 2007."

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Paul for President: "The presidential fields of both parties have narrowed, and the arguments about how we should move forward are now familiar. TAC believes that only one candidate has put forth a diagnosis of America’s current ills and has a vision to turn the country off its misguided course. That is Congressman Ron Paul, whom we endorse for the Republican nomination."

Microsoft makes $49b Yahoo bid - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Microsoft makes $49b Yahoo bid - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): "Microsoft Corp offered to buy Yahoo Inc for $US44.6 billion ($49.4 billion), in a bold bid to transform two ailing internet businesses into a worthy competitor for market leader Google Inc."

2 Communication Cables in the Mediterranean Are Cut - New York Times

2 Communication Cables in the Mediterranean Are Cut - New York Times: "One cable was damaged near Alexandria, Egypt, and the other in the waters off Marseille, France, telecommunications operators said. The two cables, which are separately managed and operated, were damaged within hours of each other."

Mideast internet outages spread to India - USATODAY.com

Mideast internet outages spread to India - USATODAY.com: "In all, users in India, Pakistan, Egypt, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Bahrain were affected. Israel was unaffected by the outages because its Internet traffic is connected to Europe through a different undersea cable, and Lebanon and Iraq were also operating normally."

BBC NEWS | Health | Deep stimulation 'boosts memory'

BBC NEWS | Health | Deep stimulation 'boosts memory': "Electrical stimulation of areas deep within the brain could improve memory, early research suggests."

Egypt Has Only 40 Pct Internet After Cable Fault - New York Times

Egypt Has Only 40 Pct Internet After Cable Fault - New York Times: "CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt had only about 40 percent of its Internet capacity available on Thursday because of a disruption to an undersea cable that has also affected the Gulf region and south Asia."

Sax notes lead to off-beat boiler - Christchurch News - The Press

Sax notes lead to off-beat boiler - Christchurch News - The Press: "Inventor and saxophone player Peter Davey has come up with a device that he claims boils water in no time.

He calls it the 'sonic boiler' because he claims it uses the power of sound. How the heater actually works has confounded experts."

uwnews.org | Contact lenses with circuits, lights a possible platform for superhuman vision | University of Washington News and Information

uwnews.org | Contact lenses with circuits, lights a possible platform for superhuman vision | University of Washington News and Information: "Movie characters from the Terminator to the Bionic Woman use bionic eyes to zoom in on far-off scenes, have useful facts pop into their field of view, or create virtual crosshairs. Off the screen, virtual displays have been proposed for more practical purposes -- visual aids to help vision-impaired people, holographic driving control panels and even as a way to surf the Web on the go.

The device to make this happen may be familiar. Engineers at the University of Washington have for the first time used manufacturing techniques at microscopic scales to combine a flexible, biologically safe contact lens with an imprinted electronic circuit and lights."

IC Publications

IC Publications: "Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak held talks with Iran's parliament speaker Gholam Ali Hadad Adel on Wednesday, the first such high-level meeting since the two nations froze ties almost 30 years ago.

Hadad Adel hailed his 'very good' meeting with Mubarak, who he said had insisted on rejecting any pressure from Washington aimed at stopping the resumption of diplomatic ties.

'The fact that I'm here is proof of the improvement in relations between the Islamic republic and Egypt,' Hadad Adel told journalists."

Article | Reuters

Article | Reuters: "LONDON (Reuters) - More than one million Iraqis have died as a result of the conflict in their country since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, according to research conducted by one of Britain's leading polling groups."

The Associated Press: Poor Haitians Resort to Eating Dirt

The Associated Press: Poor Haitians Resort to Eating Dirt: "PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — It was lunchtime in one of Haiti's worst slums, and Charlene Dumas was eating mud. With food prices rising, Haiti's poorest can't afford even a daily plate of rice, and some take desperate measures to fill their bellies. Charlene, 16 with a 1-month-old son, has come to rely on a traditional Haitian remedy for hunger pangs: cookies made of dried yellow dirt from the country's central plateau."

Software Tool Strips Windows Vista To Bare Bones -- Windows Vista -- InformationWeek

Software Tool Strips Windows Vista To Bare Bones -- Windows Vista -- InformationWeek: "vLite, created by developer Dino Nuhagic, automatically removes a number of non-essential Windows Vista components in order to pare the OS's heavy footprint by half or more."

From today, feel free to download another 25 million songs - legally - Times Online

From today, feel free to download another 25 million songs - legally - Times Online: "After a decade fighting to stop illegal file-sharing, the music industry will give fans today what they have always wanted: an unlimited supply of free and legal songs.

With CD sales in free fall and legal downloads yet to fill the gap, the music industry has reluctantly embraced the file-sharing technology that threatened to destroy it. Qtrax, a digital service announced today, promises a catalogue of more than 25 million songs that users can download to keep, free and with no limit on the number of tracks."

Scientists Build First Man-Made Genome; Synthetic Life Comes Next

Scientists Build First Man-Made Genome; Synthetic Life Comes Next: "The researchers used yeast to stitch together four long strands of DNA into the genome of a bacterium called Mycoplasma genitalium. They said it's more than an order of magnitude longer than any previous synthetic DNA creation. Leading synthetic biologists said with the new work, published Thursday in the journal Science, the first synthetic life could be just months away -- if it hasn't been created already."

Iran vows to retaliate against U.S. bases in Gulf if it attacks first - Yahoo! Canada News

Iran vows to retaliate against U.S. bases in Gulf if it attacks first - Yahoo! Canada News: "CAIRO, Egypt - Iran's top military commander said Saturday that his forces would retaliate against American military bases in the Persian Gulf if they are involved in any possible future attack on Iran."

Alabama Republican Assembly Endorses Ron Paul for President: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance

Alabama Republican Assembly Endorses Ron Paul for President: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance: "ARLINGTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Alabama Republican Assembly (ALRA) has announced its endorsement of Texas Republican Congressman Ron Paul for President."