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| Russia, China veto U.N. draft backing Arab plan for Syria | Reuters Top News | |
| UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Russia and China vetoed on Saturday a U.N. resolution that backed an Arab plan calling on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to quit, stalling global efforts to end his bloody crackdown on unrest after hundreds were reported killed in the city of Homs. |
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| Romney takes big early lead in Nevada voting | Reuters Top News | |
| LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Republican front-runner Mitt Romney appeared headed to an easy win in Nevada on Saturday that would put him in firm command of the party's see-sawing presidential nominating race. |
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| Text Message Brands Quebec Man a Terror Suspect | Slashdot | |
| <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/v_ZLK_jnHRaD8hgPBHGh5eX9p2Y/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/v_ZLK_jnHRaD8hgPBHGh5eX9p2Y/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/v_ZLK_jnHRaD8hgPBHGh5eX9p2Y/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/v_ZLK_jnHRaD8hgPBHGh5eX9p2Y/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p>An anonymous reader writes "Saad Allami likely never expected that a simple text message of encouragement would have turned his life upside down. But as seen in a similar case of absurd overreaction by authorities, a simple text message is all it takes to have yourself branded as a terrorist. From the article: 'The Quebec man says he was arrested by provincial police while picking up his seven-year-old son at school. A team of police officers stormed into his home, telling his wife she was married to a terrorist. And his work colleagues were detained for hours at the U.S. border because of their connection to him.'"<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"> <a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Text+Message+Brands+Quebec+Man+a+Terror+Suspect%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FwX7fZB"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F04%2F2253233%2Ftext-message-brands-quebec-man-a-terror-suspect%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a> <a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/04/2253233/text-message-brands-quebec-man-a-terror-suspect?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a> </div></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/04/2253233/text-message-brands-quebec-man-a-terror-suspect?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=2654795&amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"></iframe><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/qchlpmWVo9c" height="1" width="1"/> |
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| Gordy Grundy: The Last Portrait of Artist Mike Kelley | Huffington Post | |
| The recent passing of the artist, musician and LA art hero has given a simple photo shoot a grave and life-changing significance. Read More... More on Photo Galleries |
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| Woman found stabbed to death in Arlington | FW. Star Telegram | |
| Police arrested a man on suspicion of murder on Saturday. | ||
| Michael Giffin, Bucktown Rape Suspect, Free On Bond | Huffington Post | |
A man charged in the brutal rape and strangling of a woman in Chicago's Bucktown neighborhoodwalked out of Cook County Jail Wednesday after his required $75,000 bond was posted, theChicago Sun-Timesreports. Michael Giffin, 25, allegedly raped the 26-year-old woman last Saturday after meeting her in a bar, Fox Chicago reports. Giffin allegedly went to the woman's apartment for a drink, and when she attempted to get him to leave, the attack occurred. Read More... More on Video |
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| NV Caucus Results Driven By Conservatives | Huffington Post | |
WASHINGTON— Conservatives accounted for around 4 in 5 voters Saturday as Nevada Republicans chose their presidential candidates, a poll of people entering the caucuses showed, tying Iowa as the most conservative group of GOP voters so far this year. Around 3 in 4 Nevada voters said they were tea party supporters, according to preliminary results of the survey. That was the highest proportion of the five states that have now held their GOP presidential contests. Read More... More on Nevada Caucus |
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| Cam Newton Wins 2012 Offensive Rookie Of Year | Huffington Post | |
INDIANAPOLIS— Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton has won the 2011 Associated Press NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year award. Newton is the second straight No. 1 overall draft pick to take the honor in voting by a nationwide panel of 50 media members who regularly cover the league. Rams QB Sam Bradford won it last year. Read More... More on NFL |
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| Yessian Music, Metro Detroit Company, Creates Music For Five Sup... | Huffington Post | |
The advertising agencies who create the commercials that air during the Super Bowl get plenty of publicity, and in the weeks leading up to Sunday's game, companiesreleased several advance adsto a flurry of attention. But what about the people who make the music used in the ads? Yessian Musicwas founded in 1970 in a converted bait shop in Farmington, Mich., a Detroit suburb. The company, which now has offices in L.A., New York and Germany and has upwards of 25 full-time employees, is run by original founder Dan Yessian and his two sons, Michael and Brian Yessian. This year, they've put their tunes to five Super Bowl commercials. Yessian is responsible for the soundtrack to national ads promoting Budweiser, a Hyundai TV/web project, NBC's "The Voice" and RAM. An ad for Cleveland Clinic Hospitals, which will air in the Midwest market, also uses Yessian's musical offerings. Read More... More on Super Bowl |
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| Euro zone loses patience with Greece | Reuters Top News | |
| BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Euro zone finance ministers told Greece on Saturday it could not go ahead with an agreed deal to restructure privately-held debt until it guaranteed it would implement reforms needed to secure a second financing package from the euro zone and the IMF. |
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| Man kills himself during chase on Ark. highway | FW. Star Telegram | |
| Russians stage rival protests over Putin | Reuters Top News | |
| Stock Show grand champ draws record $230,000 | FW. Star Telegram | |
| Egypt's military rulers face calls for earlier vote | Reuters Top News | |
| Apple Overturns Motorola's German iPad and iPhone Sales Bans | Slashdot | |
| Eurogroup's Juncker warns of possible Greece default | Reuters Top News | |
| Opposition angered as Venezuela's Chavez celebrates coup | Reuters Top News | |
| U.S. Army in Europe eyes greater partner training | Reuters Top News | |
| LibreOffice Developer Community Increasingly Robust | Slashdot | |
| Canada's Massive Public Traffic Surveillance System | Slashdot | |
| German Government Endorses Chrome As Most Secure Browser | Slashdot | |
| Police begin clearing Occupy DC protest site | Reuters Top News | |
| Milky Way Magnetic Fields Charted | Slashdot | |
| Special Report: Bloomberg reloads in push for gun control | Reuters Top News | |
| New Book Helps You Start Contributing To Open Source | Slashdot | |
| One dead, one injured in Fort Worth wreck | FW. Star Telegram | |
| $100,000 Prize: Prove Quantum Computers Impossible | Slashdot | |
| President By Day, High-Tech Headhunter By Night | Slashdot | |
| DFW Airport expects American Airlines to renew lease, pay $11.7 ... | FW. Star Telegram | |
| You Will Never Kill Piracy | Slashdot | |
| Fort Worth robbery suspect may be charged in companion's death | FW. Star Telegram | |
| IRS fighting identity theft, and you can too | FW. Star Telegram | |
| As Weatherford's traffic worsens, bureaucracy holds up highway p... | FW. Star Telegram | |
| TED: Mike deGruy: Hooked by an octopus - Mike deGruy (2010) | TED Talks | |
| Whatever happened to winter this year? | FW. Star Telegram | |
| Attorneys pulled over by Hurst police allege intimidation | FW. Star Telegram | |
| DCTA puts brakes on deal | Denton Record Chronicle | |
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| Blotter: Thieves target copper at well sites | Denton Record Chronicle | |
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| TED: Danny Hillis: Back to the future (of 1994) - Danny Hillis (... | TED Talks | |
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| TED: Peter van Uhm: Why I chose a gun - Peter van Uhm (2011) | TED Talks | |

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