The Font War: Ikea Fans Fume over Switch to Verdana - Yahoo! News on Yahoo! News

Seeded on Sat Aug 29, 2009 6:26 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)

Must be a real slow news week at Time. in any event, Verdana is an infinite improvement over the previous font used by Ikea.

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US senator to leave Myanmar with convicted American - Yahoo! News on Yahoo! News

Seeded on Sat Aug 15, 2009 12:31 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

While I'm sure that John Yettah and his relatives are grateful for Senator Webb's intervention, this was a disgraceful waste of resources and influence.

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Obama's Mexico Mission: Keep Guns in El Norte - Yahoo! News on Yahoo! News

Seeded on Mon Aug 10, 2009 10:41 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)

Once again, the ONE is in search of something to apologize for. Forget the fact that the source of only 5% of all the weapons confiscated in the Mexican Drug war can be traced to a point of origin and keep the spot light on the statistic that of that 5%, 95% came from the U.S.

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Adversity Index

Seeded on Wed Aug 5, 2009 2:39 PM EDT (msnbc.com)

The adversity Index tracks the economic activity, employment (or recently unemployment) activity, and housing starts for all 50 States over the last decade.

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FBI investigates Marine impostor in Colorado

Seeded on Thu May 21, 2009 7:28 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)

To bad they didn't bother to investigate him when he made his claims during the Obama campaign.

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