SEATTLE (AP) — A Seattle man says that having Billy Idol play his 26th birthday party made for the greatest night of his life.Michael Henrichsen spent two years persuading the British rock icon to play his party, and it paid off Friday at the packed Showbox SoDo club. Idol guitarist Steve Stevens played him ‘Happy Birthday’ in the middle...
FDA finds contaminants in drug linked to meningitis
Label: Health (Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday it found “greenish black foreign matter” and other contaminants in an injectable steroid produced by the New England Compounding Center, the pharmacy at the heart of a deadly U.S. meningitis outbreak.It also found that vials from the same bin of the steroid contained what appeared to be a “white filamentous...
The Fastest (and Slowest) Growing U.S. Cities
Label: Business Bloomberg Rankings identified the 10 U.S. cities with more than 300,000 residents that had the greatest population gains and losses from 2010 to July 1, 2011. We ranked the cities (in ascending order) on their percentage change in population.The average population growth for U.S. cities with more than 300,000 residents was 1.5 percent during this period. The 10 fastest-growing...
Indonesia arrests 11 people suspected of planning terror attacks on US, Australian embassies
Label: World JAKARTA, Indonesia – Indonesian police say they have arrested 11 people suspected of planning a range of terrorist attacks on domestic and foreign targets including the U.S. and Australian embassies.National Police spokesman Maj. Gen. Suhardi Aliyus says the suspects were arrested by an anti-terror squad in raids Friday night in four provinces. He...
Obama epithet raises ire of Romney campaign
Label: Technology (Note language in paragraph 6)WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama‘s use of a barnyard epithet in what was widely interpreted as a swipe at Mitt Romney in a soon-to-be-published magazine article drew an angry response from the Republican candidate’s campaign on Thursday. Obama and Romney have traded jabs about each other’s honesty...
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In rare show of unity, CEOs call for deficit fix
Label: Health WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Chief executives of more than 80 big U.S. corporations, including Goldman Sachs, Cisco Systems and Boeing, joined forces to press Congress to reduce the federal deficit in a rare show of broad corporate unity.Though the list largely excludes the energy and technology sectors, an omission organizers say they are trying to fix, the U.S. corporate...
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