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Current Music Presents: Embedded with Ben Harper, Death Cab’s Nick Harmer and Fleet Foxes

Posted on October 29, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Ben Harper has built one of the largest and most loyal followings in the world. We get Embedded for a day in Ben's life as he introduces us to Relentless7, his new band, and takes us inside his family's music store to school us on his roots. Then Ben goes into producer mode in the studio with his Aussie prot

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Solitude contributes to a person’s imagined intimacy with a TV character

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If your best friend is a guy from “The Office” or a young doctor on “Grey's Anatomy,” you may be relying too much on TV shows to fill a social void in your life. A new study from the University of Michigan says lonely people may use television characters to cope with solitude and to feel a sense of belonging.

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Economy grew 3.5 percent in third quarter

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Pelosi To Unveil Health Care Bill This Morning–To Crowd Of Tea Partiers?

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Scholars reject Obama’s Stance on Warrantless Cellphone Recording

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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/04/scholars-reject/ The Obama administration’s position that the government can force mobile carriers to hand over cellphone tower location information on their customers without a warrant is wrong, two legal scholars say. “Because CSLI acquisition is hidden, indiscriminate and intrusive, and because it reveals information over a period of time, it should be subject to the highest level of Fourth Amendment oversight (the same procedures used for wiretapping and video surveillance),” the scholars wrote late Friday.

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Police: Up to 20 people witnessed gang rape

Posted on October 28, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

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7 Dead in attack on UN in Kabul; Taliban "This is our first attack."

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KABUL (AP) — Gunmen with automatic weapons and suicide vests stormed a guest house used by U.N.

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Greenspan: ‘If they’re too big to fail, they’re too big’

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U.S. regulators should consider breaking up large financial institutions considered “too big to fail,” former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said

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Taliban kills more than 80 people in a market in Pakistan

Posted on October 28, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

“A car bomb has exploded in a crowded market in the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing at least 80 people and wounding about 100, officials have said. A huge blaze erupted after the explosion on Wednesday, which came just hours after Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, arrived in Islamabad, the Pakistani capital, for talks with government officials

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Palin paid $1.25M for book by time she left office

Posted on October 27, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin reported that she has received at least $1.25 million for her hugely anticipated upcoming memoir “Going Rogue.” A disclosure statement released Tuesday discusses Palin's finances from Jan.

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