All Stories from July 30, 2011 (Change date)
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London raises bar with 2012 Olympic preparationsJul 30, 2011 6:00 am - Budget overruns, last-minute building work and a legacy of obsolete stadiums are as synonymous with the Olympic Games as the colored rings in its logo. London is poised ...
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‘Captain America’ fighting superhero fatigueJul 30, 2011 6:00 am - NEW YORK — The makers of “Captain America: The First Avenger” are in a must-win pre-emptive battle against superhero fatigue. Their not-so-secret weapon? A patriotic-the...
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Historical detectives find family tiesJul 30, 2011 6:00 am - GALESBURG — Fran Henley heard as a young child that she was related to the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Many years later she decided to dig up the truth. “I thought ...
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LinkedIn launches `Apply with LinkedIn’ buttonJul 30, 2011 6:00 am - NEW YORK — Professional networking service LinkedIn Corp. has launched a Web button that lets job applicants submit their profiles on the site to jobs that interest them...
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Study: Half of Netflix users watch via game consoleJul 30, 2011 6:00 am - NEW YORK — A new Nielsen survey finds that in the battle between screens, Netflix users are opting for TVs and Hulu users are siding with computers. Video game consoles ...
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Who’s No. 1 in music? Tech makes it hard to tellJul 30, 2011 6:00 am - In pop music, being No. 1 doesn’t always mean you’re on top. Earlier this year, the Oregon rock band the Decemberists reached the summit of the Billboard 200 albums cha...
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Olympic real estate revival fizzles in East LondonJul 30, 2011 6:00 am - Prices of homes close to London’s Olympic Park fell over the past year as signs of revitalization in one of the U.K.’s poorest areas failed to materialize and overseas b...
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Why take from Social Security?Jul 30, 2011 3:00 am - It’s outrageous that some in Washington want to cut Social Security to help balance our federal books. budget. Social Security did not contribute to our financial mess a...
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Replace legislators who don’t produceJul 30, 2011 3:00 am - There are over 400 representatives in Washington and 100 senators. Why are our policies and laws being written by the “Gang of 6” or a few legislative leaders sitting be...
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President Bush and the debt ceilingJul 30, 2011 3:00 am - Kudos to Al Godinez for inspiring me to write this letter. Says he: “ ... the GOP raised the U.S. debt ceiling seven times during the G.W. Bush administration. That was ...