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Hong Kong Property Deals Decline In 2008 (Nasdaq) (nasdaq.com) - January 06, 2009
(RTTNews) - In Hong Kong, the total number of sale and purchase agreements for all types of building units received for registration fell 22.2% year-on-year in 2008, a report released by the Land Regi…

Brazil Stock, Debt Issuance Plunged 30.7% In 2008 (Nasdaq) (nasdaq.com) - January 06, 2009
SAO PAULO -(Dow Jones)- Brazilian financial markets saw issuance of debt and shares plunge 30.7% in 2008 as the global credit crisis blocked capital market activity, according to data issued by the Br…

Renault Beat Inventory Goal for 2008, Pelata Says (Update1) (Bloomberg) (bloomberg.com) - January 06, 2009
Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Renault SA met its goal of reducing vehicle inventories by the end of 2008, Chief Operating Officer Patrick Pelata said.

Patterson-UTI Reports Drilling Activity for December 2008 (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) (biz.yahoo.com) - January 06, 2009
PATTERSON-UTI ENERGY, INC. today reported that for the month of December 2008, the Company had an average of 213 drilling rigs operating, including 201 rigs in the U.S. and 12 rigs in Canada.

Last Updated on Sunday, Dec 21, 2008 - 06:09:25 am CST (The Daily Iberian) (iberianet.com) - January 06, 2009
Even a couple of games into the 2008 football season it wasn’t readily apparent whether the decision to move Johnnie Cope from the defensive line to linebacker was going to be a good one for the New I…

Vessel Allocation Fourth Quarter 2008 (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance) (biz.yahoo.com) - January 06, 2009
January 6, 2009: Oslo, Norway, Petroleum Geo-Services ASA announced today that its seismic 3D vessel fleet used approximately 77 % of its total time to acquire marine contract and multi-client seismic…

MetroPCS Releases Fourth Quarter 2008 Subscriber Results (Centre Daily Times) (centredaily.com) - January 06, 2009
MetroPCS Communications, Inc. (NYSE: PCS), the nation’s leading provider of unlimited wireless communications service for an affordable flat-rate with no signed contract, today announced selected subs…

Oconto Falls man’s yarn is champion lie of 2008; entries from (The Shawano Leader) (shawanoleader.com) - January 06, 2009
A area man’s tale about a sneaky baby and dirty diapers has been named the top lie of 2008. The Burlington Liars Club bestowed the award Monday on Garth Seehawer of Oconto Falls.

2008 Legacy: Fewest IPOs in 3 Decades (redherring.com) - January 05, 2009
That’s because the fourth quarter registered another shutout for venture backed initial public offerings and the six recorded for all of 2008 were the fewest since 1971. Little relief was found in mer…

Top 10 Scientific Breakthroughs of 2008 | Wired Science from Wired.com (blog.wired.com) - January 05, 2009
Scientists had plenty of reasons to celebrate in 2008. The Large Hadron Collider fired up for the first time, a temple of science opened its doors, several companies promised cheap.

December 2008 Top 10 Truck Sales - PickupTrucks.com News (news.pickuptrucks.com) - January 05, 2009
December 2008 Top 10 Truck Sales. Posted by Mike Levine | January 5, 2009. Top 10 Pickup Sales Figures Year to Date, December 2008. No. 1: Ford F-Series 515513 -25.4% YTD December 2008: 41580. Decembe…

Amazon's Best-Selling Album Download of 2008 Was Available for ... (readwriteweb.com) - January 05, 2009
In March 2008, Trent Reznor's Nine Inch Nails released the first part of Ghosts I-IV via BitTorrent, and released all four albums under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike ...

National Geographic's International Photo Contest 2008 - Boing Boing (boingboing.net) - January 05, 2009
National Geographic posted the winners of its 2008 International Photography Contest. All of the images are breathtaking. The photo above, by Silvia Martinez Dominguez of Spain, is an honorable mentio…

2008 in Deals: The Final Tally - DealBook Blog - NYTimes.com (dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com) - January 05, 2009
There is no doubt that 2008 was a tough year for the deal-makers, but it may not be as bad as some would make it out to be. The final numbers from Dealogic show that the combined volume of global merg…

Top 10 Things Launched Into Space in 2008 | Wired Science from ... (blog.wired.com) - January 05, 2009
Space is getting crowded. The last 12 months have seen everything from a high profile space tourist, a powerful new space telescope, and everyone's favorite cuddly-looking microbes launched into space…

Best of 2008: Katia Bachko : CJR (cjr.org) - January 05, 2009
Related Articles. Best of 2008: Jane Kim Kim picks her top stories from 2008; Best of 2008: Trudy Lieberman Lieberman picks her top stories from 2008. More. —advertisement—. Blog · The Kicker last upd…

2008 Products in Review - Hop-a-razzi: A Chicago-based teaching pro with 25 years' experience retrieving balls a.. http://tinyurl.com/7fdbgz - January 06, 2009

Apple Keynote Day! Unfortunately I've restocked all my gear in 2008, so nothing to buy this year, no matter what Apple introduces today. - January 06, 2009

The top 20 most clicked links from Conservative Grapevine 4 2008 http://tinyurl.com/9h5458 - January 06, 2009

Missed it. Leopard-print Taser with mp3 player included! http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/video/2008/jan/09/ces.taser.leopard.mp3 - January 06, 2009

"We are sorry to inform you that the security slot of the 2008 Aluminum MacBook is not compatible with Kensington locks". Oh fab. Thx Apple. - January 06, 2009

@ali_in_london usernames and passwords are so 2008 ... OpenId!!! :) - January 06, 2009

More useless stats: I went wakeboarding 82 times in 2008. My average run is about 22 minutes long; therefore, I rode ca. 984 KM (622 miles). - January 06, 2009

Watch "Managing Server Core Installation in Windows Server 2008" How-To Video: In the following Microsoft How to.. http://tinyurl.com/a5bg6x - January 06, 2009

Rays sign Burrell - January 05, 2009
Pat Burrell's last swing of the bat in 2008 was a double against Tampa Bay in Game 5 of the World Series. Now, his first swing of the bat in 2009 will be as a member of those very same Rays.

Top 10 Scientific Breakthroughs of 2008 - January 05, 2009
Scientists had plenty of reasons to celebrate in 2008. After decades of work, researchers made rat stem cells, built the first memristor, and watched a language evolve like an organism. But none of th…

Mininova's Torrent Downloads Double to 7 Billion in a Year - January 05, 2009
The BitTorrent popularity surge is still underway, with more users discovering that it’s the fastest way to transfer large files online. One of the most frequently visited torrent sites, Mininova, has…

Kotaku's 2008 Games of the Year Awards - January 05, 2009
This year we decided to try something different with our Game of the Year awards: The GOTYS. We came up with categories that exemplify the areas of gaming that we think should be highlighted. Instead…

Top 5: Moments of 2008 - January 05, 2009
Wow. Hasn't 2008 flown by? It only seems like yesterday that we were tearing up tarmac in Burnout Paradise, settling into an hour long cut-scene in Metal Gear Solid 4 and putting our fists through wal…

Hollywood’s Superheroes Save the Day - January 04, 2009
As companies big and small trudge into January after a dismal 2008, the movie business is quietly celebrating solid if not spectacular results at the multiplex.

Still essential after 40 years - January 04, 2009
2008 had some fine albums, but it's unlikely they'll measure up to 1968's...Both were turbulent years with watershed presidential elections, unpopular foreign wars, and major upheaval - social then, f…

Atlanta Falcons' Mike Smith named AP's coach of year - January 04, 2009
Mike Smith of the Atlanta Falcons has edged Tony Sparano of the Miami Dolphins by one vote Sunday for The Associated Press 2008 NFL Coach of the Year award.

Babylon A. D. (2008) (moviehitlist.blogspot.com) - January 06, 2009
Babylon A.D. is a 2008 science fiction thriller film based on the novel Babylon Babies by Maurice Georges DantecA few decades in the future, a mercenary named Toorop (Vin Diesel) accepts a contract fr…

The Presets Talk Like That': 2008's Best Digital Music Campaign? (waycooljnr.com.au) - January 06, 2009
"No other Australian band came close to doing something so bold or inventive to promote their music online."

Festive medical myths -- Vreeman and Carroll 337: a2769 -- BMJ (bmj.com) - January 06, 2009

BBC NEWS | The Editors (bbc.co.uk) - January 06, 2009
"In our editorial meetings, we often discuss our Middle East coverage and how we can shed new light on what can sound a very repetitive story given that politicians and officials on both sides are so…

News Wales > Environment > Living with nuclear power (newswales.co.uk) - January 06, 2009
A failure to provide full and open public consultation on new nuclear power builds in Britain could undermine local confidence such energy sources, a new Cardiff University-led study has found. The st…

Le Personal Branding expliqué (buzzdunet.com) - January 06, 2009

Taxation and Financing for Development (somo.nl) - January 06, 2009
2008/10 - Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO), SOMO Paper, Authors: F. Weyzig & M. Kokke

Promotion of Foreign Direct Investment. What are the Costs? (somo.nl) - January 06, 2009
2008/11 - Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO), SOMO Paper, Authors: M. Vander Stichele & M. Kokke