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		<title>Homeowners urge GOP to back Democrats&#8217; plan / Hardest-hit areas seek better deal for housing rescue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(04-30) 04:00 PDT Washington &#8212; 
The Democrats&#8217; housing rescue plan is picking up converts among Republicans who are shrugging off White House objections after getting an earful from voters struggling to stave off foreclosure. 
The GOP support is coming from regions hardest hit by the housing crisis, a sign that battle lines over how to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mridan.com/homeowners-urge-gop-to-back-democrats-plan-hardest-hit-areas-seek-better-deal-for-housing-rescue/</link>
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		<title>Regional growth will keep Asia on track</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(04-30) 03:54 PDT SINGAPORE, (AP) &#8212; 
The economic engines of India and China will help keep Asia-Pacific economies on track amid a global slowdown, but a protracted U.S. slump and rising inflation pose possible hazards, a report said Wednesday. 
The most significant threat to the region&#8217;s macroeconomic stability is inflation, in particular the recent surge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EU bails out German bank for $7.8 billion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(04-30) 04:09 PDT BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) &#8212; 
The European Union has approved a $7.8 billion bailout for Germany&#8217;s regional WestLB bank, which was rattled by it&#8217;s exposure bad U.S. debt. 
The German regional bank had a net loss of 1.6 billion euros ($2.5 billion) last year, significantly higher than predicted because of the crisis. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mridan.com/eu-bails-out-german-bank-for-78-billion/</link>
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		<title>Small Schools&#8217; Big Tech Dreams</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Call them the littler schools that could. 
That&#8217;s the theme of a just-released study on technology transfer that looked at the surprising tech transfer results of a number of smaller colleges and universities whose research and development budgets fell far short of the funds expended by tech development superstars such as MIT and Stanford. 
The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mridan.com/small-schools-big-tech-dreams/</link>
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		<title>The Post-Bubble Curriculum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Educators call them &#8220;teachable moments,&#8221; and whether the students are in third grade or grad school the idea is the same&#8212;to draw lessons from real-world events. The subprime mortgage meltdown and the ongoing shocks to the global economy have created a multibillion-dollar teachable moment in business schools, where students dissect exactly what happened and the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mridan.com/the-post-bubble-curriculum/</link>
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		<title>Housing bargains?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Chronicle is interested in speaking with people who are now seeking or have just bought residential property in the nine-county Bay Area. We&#8217;re particularly interested in talking with first-time home buyers who think the real estate slump makes homes more affordable to them, as well as investors who see this as a good buying [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mridan.com/housing-bargains/</link>
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		<title>InSound&#8217;s new hearing aid hidden inside ear</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Barbara Rosenberg is an early adopter when it comes to hearing aids - her vanity, she says, keeps her on the cutting edge. 
When she first needed help hearing about 10 years ago, the San Francisco resident opted for the latest, most discreet technology, a device that nested in the ear canal. Now, she&#8217;s moved [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mridan.com/insounds-new-hearing-aid-hidden-inside-ear/</link>
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		<title>Airline boss has new deal in mind / US Airways&#8217; CEO eyes United before last merger is done</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(04-30) 04:00 PDT Phoenix &#8212; 
Although he&#8217;s still merging workforces from his last airline deal, US Airways CEO Doug Parker hasn&#8217;t stopped eyeing other carriers and thinking of the possibilities. 
He tried to woo Delta Air Lines last year, offering $9.8 billion in a hostile bid that eventually failed. Now, US Airways is in serious [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mridan.com/airline-boss-has-new-deal-in-mind-us-airways-ceo-eyes-united-before-last-merger-is-done/</link>
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		<title>U.S. consumer confidence slips as home prices drop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Americans confidence in the economy continued to plunge this month as their homes lost value at the fastest rate in two decades, according to reports released on Tuesday. 
The data suggested that the housing slump was far from a recovery and the job market might continue to weaken, ratcheting up pressure on the Federal Reserve, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mridan.com/us-consumer-confidence-slips-as-home-prices-drop/</link>
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		<title>ONLINE HOLIDAY SALES SLOW</title>
		<description><![CDATA[December 15, 2007 &#8212; Growth in holiday shopping online has slowed sharply this year, stoking worries that Internet retailers like Amazon.com and eBay may be in for a lackluster season. 
Internet sales rose 19 percent during the period beginning Nov. 1 through Tuesday of this week - well short of the 26 percent gain seen [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mridan.com/online-holiday-sales-slow-2/</link>
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		<title>Novato company hopes DVDs, digital downloads can combine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With all the recent talk about online downloads of movies and television shows, you would think digital distribution and old-fashioned DVDs were incompatible. But there&#8217;s no reason the two can&#8217;t work together to give people another way to enjoy their favorite video content. 
So says Sonic Solutions of Novato, which announced last week it is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mridan.com/novato-company-hopes-dvds-digital-downloads-can-combine-2/</link>
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		<title>Shortages threaten farmers&#8217; key tool: Fertilizer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[XUAN CANH, Vietnam: Truong Thi Nha stands just four and a half feet tall. Her three grown children tower over her, just as many young people in this village outside Hanoi dwarf their parents. 
The biggest reason the children are so robust: fertilizer. 
Nha, her face weathered beyond its 51 years, said her growth was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mridan.com/shortages-threaten-farmers-key-tool-fertilizer/</link>
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		<title>Bush says pain from economy defies easy fix</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON: With consumer confidence slipping and gasoline and food prices soaring, President George W. Bush delivered an unusually dark assessment of the economy on Tuesday, saying the nation was in &#8220;very difficult times, very difficult.&#8221; 
There are no quick fixes, Bush said, to ease the pain Americans feel. Bush used a Rose Garden news conference [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mridan.com/bush-says-pain-from-economy-defies-easy-fix/</link>
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		<title>Housing Glut Could Help War Wounded</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(01-03) 21:54 PST Cibolo, Texas (AP) &#8212; 
The glut of unsold houses pocking the nation&#8217;s newer neighborhoods may be just what the doctor ordered for thousands of wounded servicemembers facing homelessness and serious financial hardships since returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan, advocates say. 
Operation Homefront, a nonprofit that aids the families of deployed and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mridan.com/housing-glut-could-help-war-wounded-3/</link>
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		<title>Patent battle in Congress hinges on equitable conduct</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON: A huge fight has erupted in the U.S. Congress over whether drug makers and other companies should be allowed to keep patents they obtained by misrepresentation or cheating. 
The issue has emerged as one of the most contentious points in legislation to overhaul U.S. patent laws. In a number of cases, courts have voided [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mridan.com/patent-battle-in-congress-hinges-on-equitable-conduct-4/</link>
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