Record Numbers Are Receiving Food Stamps
Date: 03 August 2011
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The number of Americans receiving food stamps rose to a record 45.753 million in May, up 2.5 percent from the previous month, the Department of Agriculture said.
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Documents: The Full Results From The New York Times and CBS News Poll
Date: 04 August 2011
A New York Times and CBS News Poll shows that in wake of the debt-ceiling debate, most Americans surveyed said creating jobs should now take priority over cutting spending.
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Airline pilots using iPads; Cowon's Plenue D3 and C2 media players; Photo stitching; news
Date: 03 August 2011
The iPad as the new best friend of pilots? Bettina Edelstein chats with Alaska Airlines's director of flight standards, Jim Freeman, about pilots using the iPad as an electronic flight bag. Yes, you can recapture that big wide view from your vacation trip. J.D. Biersdorfer explains how to make photo panoramas. Pedro Rafael Rosado, who can't stay away from portable media players, checks out two new ones from Cowon: the Plenue D3 and the smaller C2. The news roundup includes Adobe's preview of an alternative to Flash for Web designers; Android malware that can intercept phone calls; Verizon Wireless phones turning into digital wallets; iTunes movies and shows streaming on Apple TV; more on the Windows XP deathwatch. J.D.'s tip of the week: how to use search engine settings to filter unsavory query results.
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Morning Buzz
Date: 04 August 2011
By Daniel E. Slotnik
Daniel Slotnik
What City Room is reading this morning, including including Mayor Bloomberg’s partly self-financed plan to aid minority youth and the Indian Point nuclear plant’s potential advertising campaign starring former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani.
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Morning Buzz
Date: 03 August 2011
By MATT FLEGENHEIMER
Matt FLEGENHEIMER
What City Room is reading this morning, including concern over a new hockey arena in Nassau County and a housing court date for Faye Dunaway.
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Morning Take-Out
Date: 04 August 2011
By Dealbook
Dealbook
Highlights from the DealBook newsletter.
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California Police Warn Against ‘Tunneling’ on Beaches
Date: 04 August 2011
By J. David Goodman
J. Goodman
The rescue of a 17-year-old buried alive for 20 minutes under sand is the latest example of the dangerous summer practice of “tunneling,” police in California say.
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Australia Gripped by Story of ‘Collar Bomb’
Date: 03 August 2011
By J. David Goodman
J. Goodman
Australian media were consumed Wednesday by a bizarre and slowly unfolding drama involving a teenager and a suspected bomb in a tony Sydney home.
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How the Poll Was Conducted
Date: 04 August 2011
The latest New York Times/CBS news poll shows that disapproval of congress reaches historic level.
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Rates of Wrath
Date: 04 August 2011
By Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman
Things fall apart, the euro cannot hold.
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