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...Jackson's This Is It will feature many of his greatest hits in their original mastered version - which means that unless you have Mozart's ears, you will not be able to hear much difference from the beat-up copy of Thriller you currently own or downloaded three months ago when the singer died. Also on the first disc are two versions of the title track. Disc 2 offers - wait for it - "previously unreleased" versions of those same hits as well as what Sony has described as a "touching spoken-word poem from Michael Jackson entitled 'Planet Earth' that...
Last week, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the recession is probably over. But that hasn't halted the Treasury Department from continuing to dole out billions of dollars to financial firms. The latest installment came two weeks ago, when the Treasury sent nearly $75 million from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to five banks. Community Bancshares of Mississippi was the largest recipient, getting $52 million in federal funds. All told, the government has spent nearly $5 billion in rescue funds in the past three months. Many of the recipients have been small banks. (See TIME's special report...
...scientific name is the Holocene Age, but climatologists like to call our current climatic phase the Long Summer. The history of Earth's climate has rarely been smooth. From the moment life began on the planet billions of years ago, the climate has swung drastically and often abruptly from one state to another - from tropical swamp to frozen ice age. Over the past 10,000 years, however, the climate has remained remarkably stable by historical standards: not too warm and not too cold, or Goldilocks weather. That stability has allowed Homo sapiens, numbering perhaps just a few million...
...three much younger candidates, all of whom promised to bring change and transparency to Boston. But Menino has thus far overwhelmed opponents using his superior campaign manpower and war chest. According to the Globe, Menino’s campaign had $939,000 to spend as of a week ago, compared to Flaherty?...
...great opportunity for Harvard to continue its momentum going into Saturday’s highly-anticipated game. In two of the past three meetings between the teams, UNH has come out on top, but the Crimson is hoping to repeat last season’s success. Exactly one year ago Harvard defeated UNH 3-1 on home turf at Ohiri Field.Akpan recognized that while the game against the Wildcats is as significant as any other, most of the attention is on the weekend game against the third best squad in the nation.“Both are important games. Wake...