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Clem's Chronicle: Economic Woes, Daschle, Salmonella Criminal Probe

Howdy folks-here's what's happening this evening: GDP/SHRINKING ECONOMY-Well I guess you can't call it good news but maybe we can use the term "less bad". The 5% plus drop that most economists had predicted for the 4th quarter GDP? It...

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January 30, 2009 in Clem's Chronicle | Permalink | User Comments (7)

Eight Children, After Six: Anything Wrong With That?

To some people, the news about the octuplets -- that the California woman who gave birth Monday was already a mother of six -- raises troubling questions. Medical ethicists and fertility experts want to know how she was counseled, early...

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January 30, 2009 | Permalink | User Comments (295)

Watch Out: A Bad January Doesn't Bode Well

Dan Arnal of ABC's Business Unit chimes in from New York: The first month of 2009 ended with the Dow at 8000, down 8.84 percent for the month. We've had worse months recently (see October's miserable performance), but this particular...

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January 30, 2009 in Economy | Permalink | User Comments (1)

Banker Bonuses: Any Way to Get Them Back?

ABC News' Reynolds Holding reports: President Obama called Wall Street bonuses paid by bailout recipients "the height of irresponsibility." Sen. Christopher Dodd promised to use "every possible legal means" to claw them back. Powerful politics, but legally speaking, it's tough...

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January 30, 2009 in Economy | Permalink | User Comments (15)

My Trip To Osama Bin Laden's House

ABC's Martha Raddatz -- just back from Afghanistan: I've been invited to see some rather interesting places in my travels around the world, but this one topped them all. "Would you like to see Osama bin Laden's house?" It was...

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Stocks End January With a Big Loss

ABC News’ Daniel Arnall reports: The first month of 2009 ended with the Dow at 8000, down 8.84 percent for the month. We’ve had worse months recently (see October’s miserable performance), but this particular red arrow month is worrying some...

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January 30, 2009 in Money Beat | Permalink | User Comments (3)

Veggies and Sex: the PETA Principle

ABC News' Stu Schutzman reports: The world's most visible animal rights activists are at it again. PETA(People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) has come out with a new, very controversial commercial which was headed for the Super Bowl this...

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Morning Meeting:

You know the economy's not doing that well...when economists are pleased with the worst economic production in a quarter century. The number we got this morning -- a 3.8 percent contraction in the GDP -- was awful, but better than...

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January 30, 2009 in The Morning Meeting | Permalink | User Comments (4)

Obama Brings Hope to African-Iraqis

By AADEL RASHID, ABC News Baghdad Despite the thousands of miles that separate the United States and Iraq’s port city of Basra, Iraq’s black minority eagerly celebrated the inauguration of President Barack Obama. Hundreds of African-Iraqis whose ancestors were brought...

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January 30, 2009 in World View | Permalink | User Comments (8)

With Zimbabwe's Survival at Stake, the Opposition Makes a Deal

DANA HUGHES, ABC News, Nairobi Morgan Tsvangirai, the leader of Zimbabwe’s opposition party Movement for Democratic Change today announced that even though he and his party still don’t trust President Robert Mugabe and his ruling party Zanu-PF, they will enter...

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January 30, 2009 in World View | Permalink | User Comments (0)