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BUSINESS
• IMF Chief Warns Of 'Tough Times'
• AIG May Get $37.8 Billion From Fed For More Liquidity
• Citi, Wells Fargo Extend Cease-Fire Over Wachovia


HEALTH
• German Doing Well After Double Arm Transplant


HUMOR
• Raw Video: Gaffe At McCain -- I Mean, Biden -- Rally
• The Late Show - Monologue, 10.8


MOVIES
• Guy Richie On 'Rocknrolla' Film
• Acclaimed Graphic Album "Batman: Black & White" And Graphic Novel "Superman: Red Son" To Be Developed Into Motion Comics
• New Watchmen Footage Raises New Questions
• Movie Tells Tale Of A Young Billy Graham
• Forest Whitaker To Direct And Star In Satchmo Biopic


MUSIC
• Philadelphia Orchestra And Conductor, Going Steady


PARANORMAL
• On Parched Farms, Using Intuition To Find Water


POLITICS
• McCain Proposes $300 Billion Mortgage Plan
• Son Of Tenn. Democrat Indicted In Palin Hacking
• Accused Palin Hacker Has A History Of Intrusion
• Second 2008 Presidential Debate (Full Video)
• ACORN Drawing Even More Criticism
• McCain's Missing K-O Punch
• McCain Casts Rival As Wrong Man For The Job
• Imagine Sarah Palin As President Of The Senate
• The Obama-Ayers Connection
• Opinion: It's Time To Think Big On Tax Cuts
• John McCain And Barack Obama Become Comic Book Heroes


SCIENCE
• 2006 Transit Of Mercury: A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words.


SPORTS
• High-Scoring Cowboys, Cardinals In NFC Matchup


TECHNOLOGY
• Wall Street Meltdown Linked To 'Outsourcing' Of Regulation To Private Code


TELEVISION
• The Sarah Jane Adventures: Interview With Elisabeth Sladen


U.S.
• Appeals Panel Issues Stay Of Order Freeing Detainees
• Mom Finds Beheaded Son, Calmly Calls 911
• After 86 Years, Masonic Temple Still 'Square, Level And Plumb'


WORLD
• IMF: World Wide Recession Looms
• Germany A Step Closer To Ratifying Lisbon Treaty
• Coalition Kills Two, Captures 17 In Iraq Operations
• Does Ahmadinejad Speak For Iran?
• North Korea Prepares Mass Missile Launches
• OPEC Anxiety On The Rise As Oil Prices Drop
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IMF Chief Warns Of 'Tough Times'

BBC News (UK)

 (6:22) The chief economist of the International Monetary Fund has welcomed a cut in interest rates ...

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AIG May Get $37.8 Billion From Fed For More Liquidity

Scott Lanman and Hugh Son -- Bloomberg News

Chief Executive Officer Edward Liddy, appointed by the U.S. to run the firm, has been trying to sell units to repay the original loan, which he had said was big enough. AIG, running short on cash after three quarterly losses of more than $18 billion, agreed Sept. 16 to a government takeover in which the U.S. received a 79.9 percent stake ...

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Citi, Wells Fargo Extend Cease-Fire Over Wachovia

Dan Wilchins -- Reuters

A person familiar with the matter said on Tuesday that Citigroup and Wells Fargo were leaning toward a geographical division of Wachovia's branches, with Citigroup taking Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic branches and Wachovia taking Western and Southeastern branches ...

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Wall Street Meltdown Linked To 'Outsourcing' Of Regulation To Private Code

Patrick Thibodeau --Computerworld

As capability and power of the technology increased, so did the complexity of the investments, such as with mortgage securities. Regulator confidence increased in these tools so much so that the SEC made a fundamental change in how to regulate financial services. On April, 28, 2004, the SEC -- at the insistence of financial services firms -- loosened its capital rules, agreeing to rely on financial services' computer models in assessing risk. ...

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The order, from a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, made clear that it was intended to give the appeals court time to review the government's request for a longer stay of the order from a federal district court judge in Washington, Ricardo M. Urbina. On Tuesday, Judge Urbina had directed that 17 men, members of the Uighur Muslim minority in western China, be brought from the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to his courtroom where they were to be freed ...

 An Ohio mother discovered her son's decapitated body in his trailer home last weekend. A neighbor has been arrested for allegedly vandalizing the trailer. But police haven't charged him with the killing ...

Two weeks ago, there was a rare opportunity in Binghamton to witness an ancient craft -- the formal dedication of a building by the Free and Accepted Masons. It took place at the Castle, originally known as the New York State Inebriate Asylum, at the Greater Binghamton Health Center. Prior to that event, a Masonic dedication ceremony had not been seen in this area for decades ...

 The International Monetary Fund lowered its global growth forecast, warning the global economy is facing a recession led by the downturn in the U.S. ...

Germany has moved a step closer to ratifying the Lisbon Treaty, which would reshape the European Union, with German President Horst Koehler saying through a spokesman Wednesday he has approved the document ...

The troops were targeting a suspected al-Qaida in Iraq foreign facilitator in the area when a man confronted the group, officials said. Despite repeated warnings to back away, the man continued to approach and reached for a coalition member's weapon. Perceiving hostile intent, coalition forces opened fire, killing the man. At a second location in Mosul, forces surrounded a building and called for its occupants to surrender, officials said. A man appeared from the building and proceeded toward coalition troops, they said. After repeated warnings, the man continued his advance and was killed by coalition forces who perceived hostile intent. ...

This is an interview conducted by Adam Zagorin with Hooman Majd, author of "The Ayatollah Begs to Differ." Zagorin has an unusual background: His father had been a diplomat for the Shah of Iran, and his family fled the country to escape the Islamic revolution. His grandfather, however, was a noted Ayatollah, and taught some of Iran's leading clerics. Majd, who became a U.S. citizen a decade-and-a-half ago, has been a frequent visitor to Tehran in recent years; he knows and has written widely about the country and its leadership. (He recently served as a translator for a U.N. address by President Mahmoud Ahmedinajad.) ...

North Korea is preparing up to 10 more short-range missiles for a mass test-launch, South Korean news reports said Thursday, two days after the North fired at least one missile into the sea ...

After crude prices sank from a record $147 a barrel in early July to around $100, OPEC members agreed to cut production by 500,000 barrels a day. But as the financial crisis deepened, it has become clear that petroleum demand is falling more sharply than was anticipated only a few weeks ago. "I think the cuts have to happen," said David Kirsch, analyst with PFC Energy, a risk management group based in Washington, D.C. ...

 AND TEXT.  Twelve years ago in Berlin I picked up - of all the things to pick up in Berlin - an ancient travel guide to London, replete with advertisements for corset stays, temperance hotels and liver pills. It instantly became one of my most treas ured possessions, and not once have I considered putting it on eBay, instead planning fantasy journeys around town in taximeter motorcabs, omni buses, trams and the "two-penny Tube" ...

Stephen Cass -- Discover Magazine

Sarah Jane Smith is one of the most enduring figures in the Doctor Who universe, appearing as a regular companion to two incarnations of the Doctor (Jon Pertee's third Doctor and Tom Baker's fourth Doctor) between 1973 and '76 and occasionally popping up ever since. The character currently has her own spin-off show, The Sarah Jane Adventures that is nominally intended for children. BBC America has just released the first season of The Sarah Jane Adventures - The Complete First Season on DVD (look for Science Not Fiction's review tomorrow), and so I got to talk to the woman behind Sarah Jane, actress Elisabeth Sladen, about playing such a popular character and other things Who ...

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Raw Video: Gaffe At McCain -- I Mean, Biden -- Rally

Associated Press

 The man who introduced Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Joe Biden on Wednesday in Tampa, Fla., mistakenly called him John McCain ...

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Kingston Trio Founder Nick Reynolds Dies At 75

Blanca Gonzalez -- San Diego Union-Tribune
Longtime friend and music journalist Bill Bush of Florida was collaborating with Mr. Reynolds on a book about the Kingston Trio. "They changed everything about popular music," Bush said. "Part of their charm and appeal was the accessibility of their music. ... They were role models; they looked like the boy next door." ...

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McCain Ad: "Folks"

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Obama Ad: "The Results Are In!"

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Guy Richie On 'Rocknrolla' Film

Sheila MacVicar -- CBS News

 Director Guy Richie discusses his new film 'RocknRolla' as well as his upcoming big-screen adaptation of Sherlock Holmes ...

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Acclaimed Graphic Album "Batman: Black & White" And Graphic Novel "Superman: Red Son" To Be Developed Into Motion Comics

Business Wire

"Working with Warner Premiere on the creation of the Watchmen Motion Comics has been great," said Dave Gibbons, the original illustrator of the critically acclaimed series. "The level of care and detail the team is putting into the animation is amazing. I think fans will be very pleased." ...

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New Watchmen Footage Raises New Questions

Thomas Leupp -- ReelzChannel

Last week, director Zack Snyder unveiled about 25 minutes of new footage from his highly anticipated film, providing select members of the press with the most-revealing look yet at his vision for a movie that many thought could never be made. It's clear that he's done as much as possible to please devoted Watchmen fans, while still endeavoring to make Moore's intellectually daunting source material accessible to a wider movie-going audience ...

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Movie Tells Tale Of A Young Billy Graham

Martha Waggoner -- Associated Press

"Billy: The Early Years" focuses on Graham's life as a teenager growing up on a dairy farm in Charlotte through his years as a young man, when he became a super-evangelist, drawing hundreds of thousands of people to his preaching tour "crusades." The film premieres in theaters Friday in more than a dozen Southern states ...

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Forest Whitaker To Direct And Star In Satchmo Biopic

Ben Child -- Guardian (UK)

Whitaker, who also played the jazz great Charlie Parker in 1988's Bird, will work with Oscar Cohen, executive of the Armstrong estate and the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation, on the project, the latter taking on an executive producer's role. The film is being made by France's Legende, the company behind last year's Oscar-winning Edith Piaf biopic, La Vie en Rose. ...

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German Doing Well After Double Arm Transplant

Associated Press

 A German farmer who received the world's first complete double arm transplant is recovering well and able to perform some basic tasks, though doctors said Wednesday it still could take up to two years before he relearns how to use his hands ...

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2006 Transit Of Mercury: A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words.

NASA

From a vantage point one million miles out in space the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft captured images of the planet Mercury passing directly in front the Sun of the transit. Good views could also be seen from Americas, Hawaii, Australia, along the Pacific Rim ...

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Anti-Obama Book Author Thrown Out Of Kenya

Associated Press
 The American author of a controversial book, "The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media's Favorite Candidate," accusing Barack Obama of seething with "black rage" and of being unfit for the U.S. presidency was kicked out of Kenya ...

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Dying Of The Light

Garrison Keillor -- New York Times
"Nothing to Be Frightened Of" By Julian Barnes (244 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $24.95.)
   "I don't believe in God, but I miss Him," the book begins. Julian Barnes, an atheist turned agnostic, has decided at the age of 62 to address his fear of death - why should an agnostic fear death who has no faith in an afterlife? How can you be frightened of Nothing? On this simple question Barnes has hung an elegant memoir and meditation, a deep seismic tremor of a book that keeps rumbling and grumbling in the mind for weeks thereafter ...

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Attractions And Dangers Of Nostalgia

Hayden Carruth -- Powells.com
In many respects Annie Dillard's book, "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Harper Perrennial Modern Classics)," is so ingratiating that even readers who find themselves in fundamental disagreement with it may take pleasure from it, a good deal of pleasure. Of course confirmed city-dwellers, who want no more of nature than a Sunday stroll in the park, will find it a bore. But to armchair naturalists everywhere, and certainly to those who live in the country and seek a good part of their sense of reality in the natural world, her book offers much that is delightful, percipient, and informative. ...

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An Atkinson Mystery Is Always Good News

Mary Ann Gwinn -- Seattle Times
A review of "When Will There Be Good News?: A Novel" (Hardcover: 400 pages; Publisher: Little, Brown and Company) ...

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Conspiracy Theories Blossom In Tumultuous Times

Tom Spears -- Canwest News Service
Last week's collapse of Washington Mutual spread its own conspiracy theory: That the U.S. government made the huge bank go bust in order to persuade people a massive financial bailout is needed ...

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On Parched Farms, Using Intuition To Find Water

Jesse McKinley -- New York Times

Phil Stine is not crazy, or possessed, or even that special, he says. He has no idea how he does what he does. From most accounts, he does it very well. Mr. Stine, you see, is a "water witch," one of a small band of believers for whom the ancient art of dowsing is alive and well ...

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UFOs Exist And Have Been Here Since 1947, According To A British Expert

Chris Irvine -- Telegraph (UK)
"Us Brits really have beaten the Americans at their own game and it is really great that we have done that. It really is revolutionary for the UFO world." ...

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UFO Close Encounter Between Burns Lake And Houston, British Columbia

Brian Vike -- American Chronicle
 AND TEXT. Looking down the highway and up into the sky they noticed a light which appeared to look rather odd. In the seconds as they watched, the light grew closer to them and grew in size and brightness until it was hovering just over highway 16 and in front of their vehicle. Lawrence had already slowed the vehicle down due to watching the light coming so quickly in their direction. Both men sat stunned, not to mention being frightened at what they were seeing and weren't about to make a dash in the vehicle and try to drive underneath the craft. The fellows had no idea of what may happen to them ...

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A List of Blogs Worth Reading

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Atlas Shrugs
Barack Obama's Blog
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Chuck McCann and the Paul Ashley Puppets
Colbert Nation
Conspiracy to Keep You Poor and Stupid Blog
Corner on National Review
Democratic Underground
Dharma Study Group
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First Read
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Hillary Clinton's Blog
Hometown Conservative
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