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Full text of Kennedy’s letter to Obama

Full text of the letter Sen. Edward M. Kennedy sent to President Barack Obama before his death.

Tips on couponing in the digital age

Put down the scissors: Coupons are increasingly available by phone, by e-mail, online and in other digital forms. Here are hints on how to stretch your budget with the latest generation of an old standby.

New generation of coupons means users clip less

Electronic coupons, arriving by cell phone, Twitter, e-mail and Facebook, are helping generate an old standby's comeback and bringing in new, younger customers.

Myanmar's frustrated generation looks abroad

Armed with a law degree from the University of East Yangon, 22-year-old Win is clear-eyed about his job prospects: Practically speaking, there are none. For him, the future lies overseas.

2 lost icons: For Generation X, a really bad day

A record-shattering vinyl album and its moonwalking maestro. A paper poster of a golden-haired beauty in a one-piece swimsuit that was gossamer and clingy in all the right places.

Today's tykes: Secure kids or rudest in history?

The little wagon abandoned.

Gen Xers get hit with double whammy

Life was sweet for Gen Xer Marc Matsumoto when he graduated from University of California, Davis, in 2000 and was inundated with job offers from tech firms.

Answer Desk: The debt legacy

This week a 13-year-old reader from Topeka wants to know: What is the government going to do about paying down the gigantic national debt? We wish we had a better answer. Another asks: What happens if investors stop buying all our debt?

Young voters: Obama's race as an asset, non-issue

For young voters, Rosa Parks' refusal to sit at the back of a bus in Montgomery, Ala., in 1955 is schoolbook history. Even the racially charged 1992 riots in Los Angeles are a distant memory.

EU targets move to longer Internet addresses

The European Commission is aiming for one-fourth of businesses, public authorities and households in the European Union to use next-generation Internet addresses by 2010 because the current system is running out of addresses.

Kosovo Focuses Young Serbs' Hopes, Anger

Bojan Mihajlovic, a 29-year-old hotel manager and father of a 7-year-old boy, watched from his seventh-floor Belgrade apartment as rioting Serb nationalists tried to trash a Western-owned supermarket.

Next-Gen Cuban Leaders to Emerge Sunday

A technocrat whose reforms are credited with saving Cuba's economy after the Soviet collapse. A former Fidel Castro aide who persuaded the U.N. to condemn Washington's embargo. The Communist Party's international relations man.

Green Ranchers Buck Cattle Industry

Seth Nitschke spent his early 20s working at large feed lots before he returned home to start a business raising beef cattle fed on the grasses of the Sierra Nevada foothills.

Toshiba Starts Selling High-Def DVD Player

Toshiba began selling the first players using the next-generation HD DVD video format Friday, beating the rival Blu-ray disc format to market in a high-stakes competition to deliver theater-quality movies to living rooms.

Toshiba Delays High-Def DVD Player Debut

Toshiba Corp. said Friday it has postponed the release of high-definition DVD players in the United States until April, a month later than planned, so that it can synchronize the sales with title releases from Hollywood studies.

Sony Pictures Price High Definition DVDs

Sony Pictures became the first studio to say how much it will charge for films released on the next-generation DVD format.

The Vine
China's General plans to conquer U.S.
Source: Jeff Rense Program

"Comrades, I'm very excited today, because the large-scale online survey sina.com that was done for us showed that our next generation is quite promising and our Party's cause will be carried on.

Solar Power
Source: National Geographic

Solar power is discussed in this nine page article from the September 2009 issue of National Geographic.

What Role does Race Play in the Vitriol Against Obama?

When I look at the decisions President Obama makes, the proposals he has championed, and the policies he has actually implemented they seem pretty centrist to me. In fact, nothing he has done, or proposed, hasn't been done before by other presidents.

Russell Simmons: 'Millennial Generation' is hardest hit by economic crisis
Source: The Huffington Post

Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons and Maya Enista, CEO of Mobilize.org, explain how The Millenial Generation is being disproportionately affected by the economic crisis in America.

Los Angeles to Stop Using Coal By 2020
Source: Alternative Energy News

The mayor of Los Angeles declared that from 2020 onwards Los Angeles will completely eliminate the use of power generated by burning coal and go for alternative energy sources such as wind and sun.

Honeywell wind turbine is a breeze to run - and a light one at that
Source: gizmag.com

The Honeywell Windgate wind turbine comes with a computerized control box, power inverter, and an interconnect switch to wire the system into a household panel.

Study: Electric Cars Not as Green as You Think
Source: CNET.com

In a best-case scenario, the WWF assumes that the 1 million electric cars or plug-in vehicles would be running on renewable electricity and used at maximum mileage. Electric vehicles do not yet have the range of regular cars.

Gangs in Delaware
Source: News Journal

Gang are formed from a generation of violence

The Solution to the Budget Deficit
Source: cepr.net

Peter Peterson is coming to get your Social Security and Medicare. Peterson was the Commerce Secretary in the Nixon administration. He then went on to make billions of dollars as one of the top executives at the Blackstone Group, a private equity fund. Mr.

Health Care Examiner: National Diabetes Month: Generation XL and a dirty neck
Source: Examiner

Generation XL. That's the new term some are giving to children in the U.S. under 12. Why? Because they are the largest, most obese, sedentary generation we have ever produced.

Congress Will Send Obama Stimulus Bill First Day, Democrats Say
Source: Bloomberg.com

Congress will send President-elect Barack Obama an economic stimulus package the day he takes office Jan. 20, two Democratic lawmakers said today. More Articles

IT Security's Next Big Threat: Young People - Studies say Generation Y user behavior could endanger security of enteprise systems
Source: darkreading.com

First, it was viruses. Then it was financially motivated hackers, followed by insider threats. And the next big danger? People who can't remember the Bee Gees.

Is YouTube the Next Google? - ReadWriteWeb
Source: Read/WriteWeb

Excerpt: During the Web 2.0 Summit recently, the Mayor of San Francisco, Gavin Newsom, pointed out that one of the reasons the world is no longer the same is YouTube. For better or worse, said Mr. Newsom, we are now always on the record.

15 Most Influential Musicians of All Time
Source: borntoredefine.com

Over the years, thousands of artists and musicians have come and gone, while only a handful seemed to have left a lasting impression on popular culture.

Worlds Apart: Documentary reveals the very different lives of two teenage girls |
Source: Guardian Unlimited

Britain has changed. A generation ago, our children knew more about each other.

Study: 'Memory improves for every generation'
Source: thelocal.se

A new Swedish study researching dementia has indicated that memories of human beings improve for every generation. Put simply children of today will remember more than their parents.

Zakaria: Obama could be another FDR :|: VIDEO :|:
Source: CNN

"I think this is the passing of an old order," CNN senior political analyst David Gergen said as the results rolled in Tuesday night and the outcome became increasingly evident. More Articles

Morning in America - Eugene Robinson - washingtonpost.com
Source: The Washington Post

I almost lost it Tuesday night when television cameras found the Rev. Jesse Jackson in the crowd at Chicago's Grant Park and I saw the tears streaming down his face. His brio and bluster were gone, replaced by what looked like awestruck humility and unrestrained joy.

It is still possible to live happily ever after in this generation?

Anyone can live happily ever after if they really wish to but what stops us from doing that are the following key reasons:

Black and white TV generation have monochrome dreams
Source: Telegraph

Do you dream in black and white? If so, the chances are you are over 55 and were brought up watching a monochrome television set. New research suggests that the type of television you watched as a child has a profound effect on the colour of your dreams.

Generation Screwed

Everyone under 30, this is our new nickname.

Is it still possible to live happily ever after in this generation?

Anyone can live happily ever after if they really wish to but what stops us from doing that are the following key reasons:

Educating Millennials - Why We're Doing it Wrong
Source: VirtualWayfarer.com

An educated populace is the cornerstone of a successful, affluent culture and a necessity if the United States wants to remain competitive. Our education system is the framework that enables and prepares America's youths to support, lead, and drive America's future.

HBO's Generation Kill Review

Once again, HBO has a hit on its hands... this gritty, tough talking show about a group of soldiers at the beginning of the Iraq war is another masterpiece provided by the cable channel which continually pushes the envelope.

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