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That Student Loan, So Hard to Shake
More borrowers may begin to discover the harrowing consequences of reneging on student loans in the current economy.
New York Times  –  Aug 23, 2008 6:59 PM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
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Start the New Year 2009 Celebrating at World-Famous Beaches in Rio de Janeiro and Salvador da Bahia
Book early with Intelligent Leisure Solutions and the Discover Travel Group to spend an unforgettable New Year's Eve at exclusive luxury Hotels participating in one of the world's most glamorous street parties. [PR.com - August 23, 2008]
PR.com  –  Aug 23, 2008 07:07 AM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
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Young People Fucking, Opens: 08/29/2008
The Couple, Abby and Andrew, try to spice up their stale love life, only to discover that things are worse than they thought. Matt and Kris are The Friends, lifelong buddies, one lovesick and the other sick of love.
Hollywood.com  –  Aug 23, 2008 04:21 AM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
found in Entertainment: Movies

Plane crashes near Moab, 5 confirmed dead
Fire crews were called to the scene of a fire, only to discover it was actually a twin-engine plane that had gone down.
KSL.com  –  Aug 23, 2008 03:54 AM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
found in Local: Utah: Salt Lake City

Dork Talk: Stephen Fry is tickled pink by his Nintendo DS
"I Nintendo live for ever, or die trying" - Mario Marx.Poor Nintendo. Those clever little handheld games in the 80s: small, orange, plastic "Game & Watch" devices that opened up like a book. A gorilla threw barrels down at you while you leapt about a beeping LCD world. Then came the NES Game Console, followed by the highly successful Game Boy. After that, things began to go wrong: the Nintendo 64 and its successor, the GameCube, failed to penetrate what was now an enormous market. The oldest video games company of them all was in trouble: Donkey Kong and the Mario Brothers seemed destined to go the way of Atari and Sega, Pong and Sonic the Hedgehog, while the big boys would be left to slug it out with their PlayStations and Xboxes. That was Sony and Microsoft's plan, and no one doubted it would be so. Nintendo, as a games brand, was about as hot as Waddingtons.And then came its "seventh generation" offerings, the DS and the Wii (pronounced "wee"). The assumption made by Sony and Microsoft was that awesome processing power, state-of-the-art graphics, smooth animation and voluminous storage would make their big beasts market leaders. Nintendo staked all on cheaper devices that stressed a personal relationship between player and machine. The DS was all about a highly portable, stylus-driven environment, while the Wii – well, the Wii changed the rules completely.The DS and its more streamlined successor, the DS Lite, reached out to women and the middle-aged, and managed to do this without alienating the core gaming audience. Games for teenage girls, games for sudoku-playing commuters, "brain trainer" games for fortysomethings – whole new audiences were being reached, and the units sold in their millions.My DS Lite is pink. There was so much demand earlier this year that they couldn't be had for bribes, sexual favours or worse. Unless you accepted girly pink. The moment you open it, you are taken back to the old Game & Watch days but can see why the DS has succeeded so well with the middle class, the middle-aged and the Hello Kitty/My Little Strawberry Shortcake Pony set. You set up in a twinkle and then play on two screens, one of which accepts stylus input and touches. As well as being backwardly compatible with the Game Boy Advance, there are hundreds of DS-specific games to choose from, some available on all platforms, such as Lego Star Wars; others proprietary and particular, such as Mario Kart. Fashion Dogz, Hannah Montana: Music Jam and Imagine Girl Band look after the all-important little girl sector, while Call of Duty, Race Driver: Grid and endless sports implementations show that your classic boy gamer isn't left out either. He will prefer the versions on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, of course, but Nintendo's whole strategy is to encourage crossover. Adults are turned on to the joys of shoot 'em ups and RPGs, the young discover Space Invaders and Scrabble. That's the theory, and more than 100m units sold make it hard to disprove. The DS is nothing like as feature rich as the PlayStation Portable, but it isn't trying to be. The philosophy seems so counterintuitive at first blush: surely today's digital devices demand the Swiss Army knife approach? If the DS has a touch screen, speakers and controls, then it should offer USB connections, AV and HDMI in and out sockets, memory cards, MP3 and movie playback, Wi-Fi and texting. Convergence is all, no? Well, we humans can be so ornery. A simple pocket knife can be more appealing and usable than a bristling Victorinox, and a dedicated little games machine like the DS can engage us far more than the sleek power of the PSP. You can feel admiration and even awe for the big power boxes, but for the DS you feel affection - and that, in marketing terms, is worth a whole heap more.Next wiik, wii'll take a wii look at Nintendo's other phenomenally successful platform...Acronym of the weekHDMI High Definition Multimedia Interface. Says it all, really. Neat single cable attachment for HD TVs, Blu-ray players and modern gaming consoles.· stephenfry.com/blogRelated StoriesID contractor denounced over data lossGadget clinic: Bobbie Johnson on the best note-taking gadgetsSam Wollaston is confused and underwhelmed by the Mitsubishi LancerGames newsGames preview: ATV Offroad Fury Pro, PSP | Buzz! Master Quiz, PSP
The Guardian  –  Aug 22, 2008 11:07 PM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
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AccuWeather.com  –  Aug 22, 2008 5:38 PM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
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Favre, Cotchery make connection
Brett Favre has seemed to discover a burgeoning chemistry with wide receiver Jerricho Cotchery during his short time with the Jets.
Newsday.com  –  Aug 22, 2008 3:45 PM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
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Exclusive: rental car company workers discover meth in SUV
HONOLULU (KHNL) - State sheriffs took tens of thousands of dollars worth of crystal meth off Oahu's streets Thursday. You'll never guess how...
KHNL News 8  –  Aug 22, 2008 08:02 AM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
found in Local: Hawaii: Honolulu

SportsBlogNet.com Launches
SportsBlogNet.com is a website that incorporates original sports content and a network of sports blogs that puts sports fans and writers in the driver’s seat.On SportsBlogNet.com fans can Read, Write, Discover, Build, and Join.Read all the quality blogs in the networkWrite for a blog in the networkDiscover new blogsBuild a new free sports blogJoin the network as an additional revenue and traffic source for [PR.com - August 22, 2008]
PR.com  –  Aug 22, 2008 07:06 AM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
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Regulus Therapeutics And Collaborators Publish New Data On A Critical Role For MiR-21 In Brain Tumors
Regulus Therapeutics LLC, a joint venture between Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALNY) and Isis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ISIS) formed to discover, develop, and commercialize microRNA-based therapeutics, announced the publication of new research in the journal Molecular and Cellular Biology on the role of the microRNA known as miR-21 in regulating certain cancer cells (1).
Medical News Today  –  Aug 22, 2008 07:00 AM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
found in Health: Cancer