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...audience was awash in data, if not necessarily in knowledge. Maybe the most addictive expression of electoporn was the Election Simulator at 270towin.com where you could press a button and get an electoral map based on probabilities from the latest polls, over and over again, different each time. Click, click, red, blue, red, blue! Like so much prognostication out there, it's less news than a video game...
...Colombia Free at Last After eight years as a prisoner of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), former Colombian lawmaker Oscar Lizcano escaped from his captors, hiking for three days with his former farc guard through the jungle before reaching an army post. His escape is the latest setback for the rebel group, weakened by defections and a daring operation earlier this year that rescued 15 hostages, including politician Ingrid Betancourt...
When it comes to the U.S. housing market, it's sensible to plan for the worst. The latest Case-Shiller Home Price Index for a 20-city composite showed that prices recorded a 1% drop in August and were down 17% for the past 12 months. Miami had a 2% monthly drop and a 28% tumble over the last year; in San Francisco it was ?4%, and ?27% for the year...
Southern Comfort. The new $570 million Raleigh-Durham International Airport opened this week, featuring 40 electronic check-in kiosks, 19 gates and 10 lanes through security with the latest and fastest security screening equipment available. Inside, there are 25 shops and restaurants, including an oyster and ale bar and an organic food market, to occupy you before your flight. Currently serving the airport: Air Canada, American Airlines, American Eagle, United and, beginning Nov. 6, Delta...
...suicide bombing that rocked Kabul on Wednesday was but the latest outrage in a fresh wave of violence that began on October 20 with the shooting death of a British charity worker, followed by the assassination of two western DHL employees less than a week later. The bomb attack on the Ministry of Culture and Information, not far from the presidential palace, appears to have targeted the ministry's foreign advisers, according to the Taliban spokesman who claimed responsibility for the attack on behalf of his organization in an interview with the Associated Press. Three attackers rushed the gate...