| Hug Obama close, Mr McCain, and you’ll beat him
How do you solve a problem like Obama? I refer to the immense difficulty of running against him. Senator Hillary Clinton has found that out the hard way. She clearly assumed as recently as Christmas that it would be relatively easy. And you can see why. She had all the party machinery, all the chits accumulated over two decades, the biggest brand name in Democratic politics, a former president actively campaigning for her, a majority of the black vote, the women’s vote, the Hispanic vote – and a set of policy positions that were almost identical to the black freshman senator with a funny name that sounds like Bin Laden. Only last December she predicted it would all be over by February 5. And yet on every score she has been bested so thoroughly she barely knows even now what hit her.
Braves bullish on Morton
Lake Buena Vista, Fla. — He threw harder and had a better breaking ball than many pitchers who surpassed him on the Braves' organizational ladder. But Charlie Morton couldn't seem to embrace that fact. Not until late last summer, when the right-hander improved his delivery and began striking out twice as many hitters as he walked. He started to believe, at least to a degree, what so many had been telling him: That he could be good. Really good. .
SPAMfighter: Global Economic Troubles Trigger Phishing Attacks ...
Phishing is when a scammer sends a fake e-mail, linking to a fake site where they in turn ask for personal information from the e-mail recipient. This information is usually bank information, which is then used to hack into their personal bank account. Phishing is very hard for a user to detect as both the e-mail and the site they are redirected to look very legitimate. All e-mail users are at risk of becoming a victim of financial e-mail scams and identity theft, which is one of the biggest threats in the United States today. Nevertheless, protecting your e-mail account with the proper program could avoid and lower the risk of falling victim to this scam, says, Alix Aranza, Managing Director for SPAMfighter in North America. The amount of attention on the global economic crisis has caused consumers to be more attentive to their financial assets, and in turn, an easy target for phishers.
Discover Portsmouth's best kept secret
Small restaurants and bars line a wide roadway. Sand collects against the curbing and you know it was not deposited by highway trucks. A long walkway separates Park Avenue from Grinnell's Beach. The surf is tame and parking is easy. In the summer, parents with children fill the beach. In the winter, dog walkers have it to themselves. Even in the dead of winter, it is easy to drive along the strip and imagine a more sandy, carefree life of beach boys and girls and top-down cars. Inside the Beach House, surfboards hang on the walls. There is a big wrap-around bar and a bump in the wall — a cave-like stage for live music. There is a big dance floor. Motorcycles line the curb on both sides of Park Avenue on warm summer nights. The neighborhood is clearly ready for fun. Small, well-tended cottages crowd narrow streets in the low land between the Sakonnet River and The Cove — a small pond more than a half-mile wide.
Political Bulletin
When you look at Democrat versus Republican, we Republicans got out work cut out for us, and get back to the principles that made us the majority party." Some Conservative Leaders Giving McCain A Second Look The New York Times says McCain "has long aroused almost unanimous opposition from the leaders of the right." However, since he "emerged this week as the party's front-runner," his possible victory "is causing anguish to the right. Some, including James C. Dobson and Rush Limbaugh, say it is far too late for forgiveness." Meanwhile, "others, faced with the prospect of either a Democrat sitting in the White House or a Republican elected without them, are beginning to look at Mr. McCain's record in a new light." Those giving McCain a second look including anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist and Christian conservatives Tony Perkins and Richard Land.
2007 Christmas gadget countdown - the people's choice
Every year in the run-up to Christmas, Nigel Harris, executive peripherals editor of BusinessZone's sister website AccountingWEB, chooses the 12 objects that most deeply stimulate his electronic desires. This year we also asked online community members for their suggestions. The Nintendo Wii games console (pictured above, left) has been crowned Gadget of the Year in this year's Christmas countdown. Adding to the products cachet, the Nintendo Wii has been notoriously difficult to find in the shops in the run-up to Christmas. .
Meat safety activists say public getting a bum steer
Most people would rather not think about what happens between when they see a cow munching on grass in a pristine pasture to when they chow down a cheeseburger. Maybe they should. Local supermarket chains insist the meat they sell is safe, with the state's top food supply safety official adding that consumers should feel confident about what they eat. But public safety advocates say that the current meat inspection system, while better than for some other products, fails to optimally serve consumers — pointing to a fragmented food safety bureaucracy and a dearth of inspectors. With meat increasingly packaged and ground before hitting stores, they say lack of refrigeration regulations and in-store inspections are also real concerns.
Making baby 'extra special'
Considering the calendar-correction oddity only comes once every four years, Elizabeth defied 1,461 to 1 odds to become the talk of the family. "Every baby is special, but this just makes her extra special," Andrea Thomas said. Elizabeth wasn't supposed to be a Leap Day baby. In fact, she wasn't supposed to be a February baby at all. Her original due date was March 26, but that was later moved up to March 19. Since she was going to miss out on a spring birth anyway, Elizabeth decided to speed things up a bit and take a shot at making Thomas family history. Neither Andrea nor her husband, Bill, have Leap Day births in their families. "Everyone I work with thought it would be a Leap Day baby. They said I was ornery enough to have one," Andrea said. Andrea started having contractions eight days before she gave birth and made two false alarm trips to Fort Madison Community Hospital over the past week.
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