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Kitano takes oddball look at world of art (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Japanese cult director Takeshi Kitano turns his oddball gaze on what he calls the "cruel" world of art and art collecting in his latest movie, which has its premiere at the Venice film festival on Thursday.

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:50:10 GMT

Putting the Jelly in the Space Donut (SPACE.com via Yahoo! News)
The second "A" in ATA stands for array, meaning that this instrument is made of many small dishes. Although each dish is as big as a house, they are small compared to the complete telescope: ten city blocks on a side. The bigger the telescope, the more detail you see in the images. By breaking up our collecting area into hundreds of small pieces, we capture detail as if we had a telescope the ...

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:45:41 GMT

U.S. Initial Jobless Claims Fall 10,000 to 425,000 (Update2) (Bloomberg.com)
Aug. 28 (Bloomberg) -- The number of Americans collecting unemployment insurance rose to the highest level in almost five years, a sign companies remain reluctant to hire.

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:48:20 GMT

Venezuela nets 4.3 billion dollars in windfall oil profit tax (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Venezuela has raked in 4.3 billion dollars from a tax on windfall oil profits it started collecting from state-owned Petroleos de Venezuela in mid-April, President Hugo Chavez said.

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:24:36 GMT

Priest Robbed While Collecting Donation Box (NBC 6 Miami)
A 76-year-old priest is robbed at a Boston-area shrine while collecting a donation box.

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:09:59 GMT