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Month: February 2009
Abandoned Horses Are On The Rise
By Jeff DeLong, USA TODAY Jack Noble was pretty sure what he would see when he arrived to check out reports of horses abandoned on a rural road in Oregon’s Willamette Valley in September. Noble, field operations manager for the state’s Department of Agriculture, found 11 filthy, sickly and starving horses. “They were just let […]
MoreYahoo to Shorten Logs of User Activity to Three Months
WASHINGTON (AP) – Yahoo Inc. (YHOO) (YHOO) said Wednesday that it will shorten the amount of time that it retains data about its users’ online behavior – including Internet search records – to three months from 13 months and expand the range of data that it “anonymizes” after that period. The company’s new privacy policy […]
MoreBritish Troops Are Like: “We’re Out of Iraq, Cheerio”
(CNN) — British troops will begin leaving Iraq in May, more than six years after joining the U.S.-led invasion that ousted former dictator Saddam Hussein, Britain and Iraq announced Wednesday. The British mission will wrap up by the end of May, with the last troops withdrawing over the next two months, British Prime Minister Gordon […]
MoreBanks Keeping Mum on TARP Bailout Funds; Only Morgan Stanley Coming Clean
Morgan Stanley Is One Bank That Cites a Loan From TARP Money Other Financial Banks Including Goldman Sachs and CitiGroup Keep Mum on How They Are Using TARP Cash By CHARLES HERMAN, DAN ARNALL, LAUREN PEARLE and ZUNAIRA ZAKI ABC NEWS Dec. 17, 2008— Banks that were rescued with billions of dollars in public funds […]
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