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'Dukes' come up smelling like Daisies
New York Daily News - 6 hours ago By DAVID HINCKLEY. Yee-haw! "The Dukes of Hazzard" - the big-screen reincarnation of the 1980s TV series about two good ol' boys, one good ol' car and two shapely legs - left everything else eating dust at the box office this weekend.

E-Trade to Buy HarrisDirect for $700M
eWeek - 46 minutes ago By Reuters. NEW YORK (Reuters)�Online broker E-Trade Financial Corp. said on Monday it will buy US rival Harrisdirect from BMO Financial Group for $700 million in cash to strengthen its position in the consolidating online brokerage industry.

Mars Orbiter to Launch This Week
Los Angeles Times - 7 hours ago A year and a half after twin robot rovers thrilled space fans with their high jinks on Mars, NASA is heading there again. A fourth Mars orbiter is to blast off Wednesday from Florida, carrying some of the

Cuban Legend Ibrahim Ferrer Dies
Billboard - 58 minutes ago By Howell Llewellyn, Madrid. Cuban singer Ibrahim Ferrer, one of the stars of the 1990s Buena Vista Social Club CD series, died Saturday (Aug. 6) in Havana at the age of 78. The artist had returned three days

Despite the lessons of the Kursk, Russia still has a lot to learn
Telegraph.co.uk - 15 hours ago By Marcus Warren. 'Those in peril on the sea" in need of shelter "from rock and tempest, fire and foe", as the old hymn has it, clearly come in two categories. Landlubbers, weekend yachtsmen and career mariners

South African Gold Strike in Second Day as Talks Fail (Update1)
Bloomberg - 9 hours ago Aug. 8 (Bloomberg) -- South African gold-mining workers entered the second day of a strike after pay talks failed, halting production at companies including Gold Fields Ltd. in the industry's biggest work stoppage since 1987.