Nov 30 – Dubai’s debt troubles may not directly impact U.S. banks — but some of the state-controlled conglomerate’s high-profile U.S. holdings may be in jeopardy.

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Power company Constellation Energy said Monday that it will buy and develop a $140 million wind project in Maryland from Clipper Windpower, one of several clean energy initiatives that Constellation is planning for the state.

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Maine police say a man took a cash machine from inside a convenience store and drove off with it in the back of a stolen pickup truck.

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Donald Sutherland joins writer Ken Follett and Executive Producer Ridley Scott to talk about transforming best-selling book, ‘The Pillars Of The Earth,’ into a mini-series.

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Gone are the days when people would point at Microsoft as the big bully. Now they also point to Intel and Apple, and this story concerns Apple. It’s well-known that Apple orders tons of flash RAM whenever they are planning a new device launch, and that influence on the market means that Apple can manipulate it.

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Til death do us part? The vow would really hold true in California if a Sacramento Web designer gets his way.

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They may not have figured out how to monetize it, but they certainly have made its name iconic. The Global Language Monitor, which tracks language trends, has released its annual global survey of the English language. This includes not just the most popular words, but the most popular phrases as well. This year, the word Twitter is the Top Word of 2009.

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They may not have figured out how to monetize it, but they certainly have made its name iconic. The Global Language Monitor, which tracks language trends, has released its annual global survey of the English language. This includes not just the most popular words, but the most popular phrases as well. This year, the word Twitter is the Top Word of 2009.

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We all go on vacation to relax, experience something new, get away from it all, or maybe to just evade the police. Whatever the reason, we can all understand that it’s a good thing to have some time to ourselves in a location far-removed from our usual daily lives.

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One of Rick Warren’s (and president George W. Bush’s) longtime allies in Uganda, Martin Ssempe, is the author of a classic piece of minority-baiting legislation. Its details belong in the history of genocidal hatred:

The Ugandan penal code already criminalizes sexual relations “against the order of nature,” a characterization that is frequently used to prosecute gays. Under the proposed Anti-Homosexuality Bill of 2009, homosexual relations are specifically targeted. Anyone in a position of authority who is aware of a gay or lesbian individual has 24 hours to inform police or face jail time. Individuals found to engage in efforts to sexually stimulate another for the purpose of homosexual relations, or found touching another for that purpose, will face life in prison. Those who engage in “aggravated homosexuality” — defined as repeated homosexual relations or sexual contact with others who are HIV/AIDS infected — will face the death penalty.

This is an act of terror and murder against an already beleaguered minority, and Warren is an accessory to it. As a powerful figure in distributing AIDS funding in Uganda, he cannot bring himself to oppose a law that would condemn someone in a gay relationship to death, and imprison him or her for touching another human being, and inciting a wave of informing on family members and friends and acquaintances in order to terrify a sexual minority. This alleged man of God cannot speak out on this – except to protect his own p.r. His schtick of actually being the nice evangelical – a schtick that got him to Obama’s inauguration – is a lie. If he cannot condemn this fascist act of violence against a tiny minority of vulnerable human beings, then his position in this struggle is clear enough.

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