Friday, May 25, 2012

IT News Head Lines (Yahoo News) 25/05/2012





The boy who touched the president’s hair
White House.The story behind a photograph showing a 5-year-old black boy touching President Obama's hair--which has been hanging in the West Wing of the White House for more than three years--may be coming to your inbox soon.



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Obama is ahead in swing states, but his lead narrows
President Barack Obama smiles while speaking at the Fox Theater in Redwood City, Calif., Wednesday, May 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)President Barack Obama leads Mitt Romney in Florida, Ohio and Virginia, according to new polls of the key 2012 swing states, although Obama's advantage has narrowed in recent months.



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Man confesses to strangling Etan Patz
NYPD spokesman Paul Brown holds an original missing poster of Etan Patz during a news conference near a New York City apartment building, where police and FBI agents were searching a basement for clues in the boy's 1979 disappearance, in New YorkThe New York City police commissioner says a man in custody has implicated himself in the death of Etan Patz, the boy whose disappearance 33 years ago sparked the movement to put the faces of missing children on milk cartons.



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Cell phone users prefer Obama, landline users like Romney
Obama Goes After Romney's Time at BainPolitical pollsters have been under pressure to make sure their samples include Americans who rely solely on cell phones—and the latest NBC News/Marist polls of Florida, Ohio and Virginia exhibit why.



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Can Meg Whitman save Hewlett Packard?
FILE - In a Friday, March 9, 2012 file photo, Hewlett Packard CEO and President Meg Whitman speaks at a conference on the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto, Calif. HP is in the midst of a turnaround under a new chief, former eBay Inc. CEO Whitman. Hewlett-Packard Co. showed signs of recovery in the first three months of the year as it strengthened its position as the world's largest maker of personal computers and gained back some of the business it had lost while weighing whether to dump its PC division. HP's stock jumped nearly 7 percent by early afternoon Thursday, April 12, 2012, the first trading day since research groups Gartner and IDC released their quarterly PC shipment estimates. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)The former eBay executive who was hired as H-P chief last September announced the company would lay off about eight percent of its 300,000 workforce over the next two years, one of many changes that are coming to the troubled personal computer maker.



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Katie's Take: Mistakes that twentysomethings make
Katie Couric talks to a clinical psychologist about some of the mistakes recent college grads make…and how to avoid them.



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Fleet Week kicks off in NYC
Fleet Week kicks off in NYCIn this May 23, 2012 photo released by Starpix, singer Katy Perry wears a patriotic dress as she performs at a Pepsi-sponsored event at Brooklyn Pier 9A, kicking off Fleet Week in New York. (AP Photo/Starpix, Amanda Schwab)


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Santorum endorses Ted Cruz in Texas Senate race
Ted Cruz, former Texas Solicitor General, is seen during a Feb. 1, 2012 debate at the Texas Association of Business 2012 Annual Conference at the AT&T Conference, in Austin, Texas. In many ways, Ted Cruz started preparing for a U.S. Senate race almost 30 years ago, and for many Texas Republicans, he’s the candidate they’ve sought after for almost as long. (AP Photo/Austin American-Statesman, Deborah Cannon) MAGS OUT; NO SALES; INTERNET AND TV MUST CREDIT PHOTOGRAPHER AND STATESMAN.COM"Ted Cruz is spellbinding, a tremendous orator and principled," Santorum said on Glenn Beck's radio show Thursday morning, according to Santorum's staff.



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Alleged Lego scammer sold 2,100 boxes through website, cops say
Alleged Lego Scammer Sold 2,100 Boxes Through Website, Cops SayThe California software exec arrested for allegedly switching bar codes on high priced Lego sets resold them online through "TomsBrickyard."



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Photos: Rare photos from an A-Bomb test in 1955
Photos: Rare photos from an A-Bomb test in 1955


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Hillary Clinton: U.S. hacked al-Qaida sites
Secretary Hillary Clinton: We Hacked Yemen Al Qaeda SitesIn a rare glimpse into cyber warfare tactics, a top U.S. official has explicitly acknowledged that the U.S. government hacked into websites run by Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen, changing advertisements that boasted about killing Americans into advertisements that underscored the deaths of Muslim civilians...



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Presidential vote polarizes Egyptians
A woman shows her ink-stained finger after casting her vote at a polling station in CairoEgyptians, choosing their leader freely for the first time in history, voted for a second day on Thursday in an election that is a fruit of last year's popular revolt against Hosni Mubarak.



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Chen Guangcheng's brother flees China village
Blind activist Chen Guangcheng left China for the United States on May 19The older brother of a blind Chinese activist who triggered a diplomatic row between Beijing and Washington has escaped his heavily guarded home and arrived in the capital Thursday, a rights lawyer said.



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Romney’s second TV ad focuses on deficit and China trade
Mitt Romney is out with his second TV ad of the general election, a spot that continues the theme of what he would do on "day one" of his presidency. Romney's first ad, released last Friday, focused on the presumptive Republican nominee's pledges to approve the Keystone pipeline, to repeal President Barack Obama's health care [...]

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NY Senate bill seeks to end anonymous Internet posting
Anonymity is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, the United States was founded, in part, thanks to Thomas Paine's anonymously written, pro-revolution pamphlet Common Sense. On the other hand, 12-year-olds who post anonymously on the internet can be rather unpleasant … Continue reading

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McGraw to give 25 homes to members of military
FILE - In this Nov. 9, 2011 file photo, country singer Tim McGraw arrives at the 45th Annual CMA Awards in Nashville, Tenn. McGraw has signed a multi-album deal with Scott Borchetta's Big Machine Records, officially ending his acrimonious relationship with his only previous label, Curb Records. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, file)Tim McGraw will be saluting veterans in a big way while on tour this summer.



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Inside the bus during Florida drum major's fatal hazing
Inside the Bus During Drum Major Robert Champion's Fatal HazingNew documents describe a culture that considers repeated "hot seat" beatings and the final "crossing over" gauntlet that killed Robert Champion as rites of passage.



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Photos: Cheetah cubs debut at the National Zoo
Cheetah keeper Gil Myers holds a one-month-old female cheetah cub, at the National Zoo in Washington, Wednesday, May 23, 2012, that was delivered via a rare caesarian section. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)Two cheetah cubs have been transported to the Smithsonian's National Zoo May 23 to be raised by hand after a risky birth three weeks ago at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology.



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Searchers follow route where missing student was last seen
Mickey Shunick Disappearance: Searchers Follow Bike Route Where Missing Student Was Last SeenDozens of searches gathered to ride the route presumably taken by a missing Louisiana student.



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New Orleans to lose its daily newspaper
The Times-Picayune, which won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of Hurricane Katrina, announced on Thursday a plan to slash its print publication to three days a week—effectively leaving New Orleans without a daily newspaper. As part of the move, the New York Times reports that there will be "massive" layoffs at 175-year-old Times-Picayune as [...]

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Bill Clinton posed with porn stars at gala he co-hosted
Do We Really Care if Bill Clinton Posed with Porn Stars?By now you've seen the photo of Bill Clinton with the porn stars, the one that began circulating on Twitter last evening and is now in Page Six, and in various other tabloids, along with faux shocked headlines like "What will Hillary say?" Nevermind that Clinton simply posed with the women, that they were fully clothed, and that chances are, if you get your picture with a porn star, you're probably not actually going to get involved with her physically. At least, we think that would be a foolish PR move.



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