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There is an underlying, fundamental reliance on the Internet, which continues to grow in the number of users, country penetration and both fixed and wireless broadband access.-
Dow drops 778 after House nixes Wall St. bailout
It seems just about half the members of the U.S. House of Representatives have half a brain, or, if not that, then at least the commonsense God gave to individuals fiscally responsible for managing household budgets.
Barack Obama, however, is not among that crowd: he had this strange idea that the very CEOs that got the financial institutions into a mess should receive "reasonable compensation packages." Those CEOs should be paying compensation to the U.S., to the homeowners they helped defraud by giving mortgages to people who never should have qualified for them in the first place.
New Orleans escaped by a thread and prayer
With all the local, state, and federal resources – money and manpower – that were poured into Louisiana, especially New Orleans, it’s hard to think that anything more than prayer saved the city from being ravaged at least as bad, if not worse, than it was a short three years ago.
Despite all the money pumped into coordinating services and evacuations, an estimated 10,000 residents of New Orleans stayed in town despite the mandatory evacuation orders. It’s hard to imagine these people would test their luck and stay.
April 4th is one of those days with that makes history interesting
April 4 has a couple of interesting items that have made an impact on society. One that’s helped lead mankind forward digitally, the other helped lead mankind forward, somewhat, through civil rights.
April 4, 1975: Bill Gates and Paul Allen form a small software interest, though the company’s name, Micro-Soft, wouldn’t come for a few months. Initially, the company was based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, but later, doing business for the Washington state highway department, running a small company known as Traf-O-Data, and later, in 1986, moving to Redmond, Washington, where the world soon became familiar with the word: Microsoft.
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Business @ the Speed of Thought (Penguin Joint Venture Readers) by Bill GatesRead more about Business @ the Speed of Thought … |
April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr., assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, at 6:01 p.m. Years later, in 1989, one of his closest confidants, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, would write a book, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, which presented MLK in a very different light than many often saw him in public.
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And the Walls Came Tumbling Down: An Autobiography by Rev. Ralph David AbernathyRead more about And the Walls Came Tumbling Down … |
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