http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/republican_race/2008/08/30/2008-08-30_whats_in_the_palin_childrens_names_fish_.html

BY RICH SCHAPIRO
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Sunday, August 31st 2008, 12:36 AM


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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081230/ap_on_re_us/bristol_palin_baby

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The teenage daughter of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, whose quest for the vice presidency began to go downhill the day she announced the pregnancy, has given birth to a son, a magazine reported Monday. Bristol Palin, 18, gave birth to Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston on ( Read more... )

Expect these little-known Obama advisers to have outsized influence in the coming administration.

In Pictures: The 10 To Watch In Obama's Washington

http://www.forbes.com/home/2008/12/15/obama-white-house-biz-beltway-cx_bw_1215obama.html

Jan. 20, 2009 marks more than just the historic inauguration of the nation's first African-American president. It ( Read more... )

http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/106315/The-Obama-Boomtowns

by Joshua Zumbrun
Wednesday, December 17, 2008provided by

Mayors across America line up at the trough with projects ready for stimulus money.


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Mario Party DS (3.5 stars on yahoo games ( Read more... )

http://www.gamespot.com/ds/sim/mysimskingdom/review.html?om_act=convert&om_clk=gssummary&tag=summary;read-review

This is last year's unremarkable MySims game with a few changes and a new name.

The Good

• Plenty of things to customize and decorate  
• Some of the minigames are a lot of fun  
• Accessible controls make city building easy.

The Bad

• Lacks a good ( Read more... )

http://videogames.yahoo.com/ds/new-super-mario-bros/review-1073488-3

The release of New Super Mario Bros. is a fairly important one in the history of videogames. Consider this: since the release of Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins for the Game Boy in 1992, there has not been a new 2D platform game, the genre that the original Super Mario Bros. ( Read more... )

By Mike Smith

http://videogames.yahoo.com/feature/microsoft-faces-new-xbox-360-reliability-accusations/1274293

Remember last week's story about Jason Johnson, the Illinois man who sued Microsoft over his Xbox 360's alleged habit of scratching his game DVDs?

Documents unsealed in his court case revealed Microsoft discovered its Xbox 360 could scratch ( Read more... )

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081210/ap_on_go_ot/environmental_fugitives
By DINA CAPPIELLO, Associated Press Writer Dina Cappiello, Associated Press Writer - Wed Dec 10, 11:43 am ET

WASHINGTON - The government is starting a different kind of most-wanted list - for environmental fugitives accused of assaulting nature.

These fugitives allegedly smuggled ( Read more... )

At Bard, Inscrutable Directions During a Blowout in a Women’s Game

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/sports/ncaabasketball/19bard.html

By JOSHUA ROBINSON
Published: November 18, 2008

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. - It was a blowout in the consolation game of a Division III women’s preseason tournament - hardly the usual setting for emergency timeouts and ( Read more... )