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POPSAsian Stocks Gain on Bank Stakes Plan; Treasuries,Yen Decline Standard & Poor's 500 Index futures gained 2.1 percent. S&P rebounded yesterday from its worst week in 75 years with an 11.6 percent advance, its steepest since 1939. Europe's Dow Jones Stoxx 600 Index rose 9.9 percent, a record gain. The Bush administration will invest about $125 billion in nine banks including Citigroup Inc., Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley, said the people. France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands and Austria have committed $1.8 trillion to guarantee bank loans and take stakes in lenders. Governments across the globe stepped up measures to support banks after global stock markets lost $7 trillion of their value last week, driving the MSCI World Index down 20 percent, on concern frozen credit markets will trigger an economic collapse.
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POPSHOMOPHOPIC AD DROPPED interesting-I'm glad people are even awaware of differences now. Sometimes political correctness goes to far, but so often not. ...at least it is open for discussion now. I didn't see the ad yet, but I guess things are working in the right way. Things usually all balance in the end, when too far one way or other. yen and yang! http://www.king5.com/business/stories/NW_072608BUB_nike_ads_KS.52cbf50.html
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POPSNASA 'wants to buy Japan's cargo spacecraft' NASA had only just started helping US companies with such a ship. Too late. A reflection of the uncertainty of funding due to the Iraq/Afghanistan invasions. Seeing all that money going to greed and corruption must really hurt scientists.
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POPSWhat the World Eats (1) What's on family dinner tables in fifteen different homes around the globe see also What the World Eats (2) http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/633A2B98-B0BE-4C2D-B5C7-19507606A388/
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POPSSega, Hasbro's A.M.P Robot A.M.P. stands for “Automated Musical Personality”. The wheeled robot can follow you around and play music wherever you go. Using the remote, you can easily manage all of his movements and cycle through five different modes: Dance, Track, Drive, Park and Follow.
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POPSDow Tumbles 395 Points On Oil Spike Stocks tanked Friday, with the Dow industrials shedding 395 points, after oil prices spiked more than $11 a barrel and the May jobs report showed a big jump in the unemployment rate. Bond prices surged, as investors sought safety in government debt, while the dollar tumbled versus the yen and euro. According to early tallies, the Dow Jones industrial average (INDU) lost 395 points, its biggest one-day point loss since February of 2007, at the start of the subprime mortgage crisis. The selloff Friday amounted to a decline of more than 3%.
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POPSTokyo customs officer 'gives away' cannabis The cannabis, which has a street value of one million yen ($9,680), was in a metal box wrapped with newspapers. Japan strictly prohibits both hard and soft drugs, with people imprisoned for possession of even small amounts of cannabis.
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